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The classic baby walker. She’s a size almost-3, extra wide. Square. And tiny.

I pondered the wisdom of laces, but it was the most supportive shoe in her (small) size.  So she got some lace traps, too.  With jingle bells, she will love them!

Finally, Daphne in her glasses! And with an appropriate bib. She grabs the glasses off her face as fast as she grabs our glasses off our faces.

Amelia the monkey got up there all by herself!

Catriona and Amelia made us dinner on Sunday! Good job, girls.

Daphne says “I da” when she waves, I am pretty sure she is saying “Hi Daphne” because that is what we always say to her.  That’s my only story about her because she’s been under the weather for a while now.  We’re looking forward to having cheerful Daphne back soon, after starting some antibiotic today.

We are working on Amelia’s inside voice. Her teacher wrote a comment last week “Amelia still doesn’t talk much but when she does, it’s informative.”

They are doing a good job of teaching the kids to be more polite. We get spontaneous thank yous now, “I prefer” rather than “I want” and she told me about learning “Yes, mam” today. Coming soon…Amelia’s big girl bed. She and I went mattress shopping (click) tonight for her new bed, for her third birthday! Amelia got dressed in her pajamas and slippers and took pink to the mattress stores. She was very cute and we had a lot of fun.

Amelia and her Grannie Annie & Grampy Ray walking in the city. We went to the roof of City Hall with Pete, a.k.a. Fafa, to see the view.

The sisters. I’ve been talking to Amelia for a while about how I’m a big sister and I have a little sister, just like her. Maybe she knows a little more about that now since my sister visited!

Cousin of Tawbubby Jackson turned one this weekend. Here are the one-year old cousins.

He (and we) had a great time at his party. He was the messiest post-birthday cake one-year old ever!

We made sushi for dinner on Saturday night.

Amelia enjoyed eating the steamed veggies. Can you see where she gets her blue-blue eyes? Wow, Aunt Melissa has blue eyes.

We had a great weekend and appreciate the travel marathons of our visitors.  Amelia was pretty demanding of our attention, realizing some of it was diverted from her, but kept it relatively in check the whole weekend!

Amelia loves the TON of art supplies that Aunt Melissa brought her- stamp set, stamp markers, glitter crayons, clay, lots of other markers and crayons.  Art may be coming soon to a mailbox near you.   And she gave her a DVD of Schoolhouse Rock.  She asked all night to watch it, and we managed to let her watch only 15 minutes of it tonight before bed.

Daphne’s getting over The Worst Diaper Rash Ever.  The doctor said “no diaper, no rash”, but doesn’t come over to wash the towels that, oops, get dirty in the process of drying out the bum.  The rash is apparently from teeth numbers 9 and 10, upper molars.

We’re ready for fall.  The wardrobes are officially switched out.   Fittingly, Amelia jumped on Daphne’s pile of (fallen) summer clothes on the floor and squealed “It’s leaves!”.

She’s gonna get it!

Daphne crawling  (Click for video)

She started basically dragging herself a short distance across the floor on Sunday, and has progressed to elbows and propped up on hands. She will go across the room for something, too.

Here she is relaxing in the ball pit at daycare.

But the near-perfect ordering of these cookies was all Amelia. She ordered them herself, and I asked her to pose for the pic. I wonder how often she does stuff like this and we don’t notice?

A & D plus their friend Catriona got traced on the street today.

Daphne is one, Catriona is two, and Amelia is a month shy of three.  You can really see the difference in their size.

I think it is a really cool picture.

Hooray for Daphne and Amelia in the bike trailer. We took a spin around the neighborhood last weekend.  Amelia was such a nice big sister and kept her arm around Daphne the whole time “to keep her safe”. For a while the two of them were just laughing and laughing together.  Daphne waved her pot in the air most of the ride.

This is an image that has been in my head and my heart since before I was even pregnant with our second child. Amelia and a sibling riding around in that thing. Amelia cried the first few times we tried to get her in the trailer, and Daphne just loved it from the beginning. Maybe having her big sister there made it all o.k.?

We got a new toy for Daphne last weekend- her very own pair of glasses.  (The only pic we took of Daphne in the glasses is blurry.)  But Amelia was playing with them tonight and hamming it up. 

We were actually getting good exercise from laughing hysterically about the scenerio of me taking Daphne to her next eyedoctor’s appointment (Nov), and sticking the (fake) glasses on her face just before the doctor walks into the room, and how confused he would be.  “Wait, I didn’t prescribe her any glasses yet…”, fumbling to check the chart, heehee wouldn’t that be fun! Here is Amelia enjoying all the laughing.

I left Daphne laying in one of the concave sections of the green piece, I even believe her head might have been in the other direction.  We have no idea how she got where she is, in maybe a minute.  She’s never moved that far before unless she was rolling (sideways movement), which doesn’t seem likely in this case. 

She waaaaaaaants to crawl, she just can’t do it quite yet.  Who knows, maybe she did, or maybe she pushed herself on her back?  Her teacher told Ethan today that they think she can scoot on her bottom because sometimes she isn’t where they put her down when they go back.   Apparently the clever girl only moves when no one is watching!

Daphne got this vinyl-covered foam thing for her birthday, to give her interesting things to scramble around and get strong on.

Everyone loves it, actually.  We all prop ourselves on it to play on the floor, read books, etc.  She can pull herself up to standing where she is in this picture (she’s on her knees), and reach over to a different section and get a toy. Don’t tell Amelia that Daphne played with Amelia’s matching game while Amelia napped.  That hand clapper and the shape sorter are probably her favorite toys recently.  They both make a good bit of noise when she shakes them around.

She is feeling much better today, as you can see from her smile.  Maybe an ear infection?  No goopy-ness, but we started some antibiotic on Friday and it has helped a lot.

We went to the Metro Richmond Zoo on Friday. You can feed a lot of animals. Giraffes have very long, slimy tongues.

The goats were about Daphne’s height. She petted this one’s nose.  And tried to eat a pellet of the food.  Ick!
The dirtiest animal in the zoo was Amelia after her chocolate icecream!