18 month talkin' fool

Amelie turned 18 months old yesterday… crazy how time flies. I know I say that all the time, but it's true. And you really don't understand it until you have kids. It goes by SO fast. I'm trying to soak in every second, but it's difficult to stop and bask in every second. This blog is a way we will be able to look back years later and enjoy the big moments and some small ones, too. Even though I haven't been that great at blogging consistently like I wanted to, at least I have the major events documented. 

Amelie is a HAM! She has the funniest personality. We are constantly laughing at the things she does and says. She's so sweet and cuddly and smiley and giggly and wiggly and dancey and many, many more things. She LOVES to eat (you can tell by the size of her belly!), play in the water, take baths, play with clothes (random, but true), play with her cousins, climb all over mama and daddy, DANCE!, read books, etc… She is a TALKING FOOL. She will talk your ear off. No clue what she's saying most of the time, but her vocab is starting to flourish BIG time! She says so many words, ah-like so:

And there are many more things that video didn't cover. Personally, I think she's a genius to be talking at such a young age, but I'm her mama, so I'm kinda biased.

WOOK!

Amelie and I went to Michael's the other night. We were walking through all the isles and all of the sudden I heard her saying something new and it took me a minute to figure out what it was that she was trying to say. She would point and then I hear, "HUUUAWWWHHHH (big gasp)… WOOK!" (LOOK!) She was so excited to see so many cool things (especially artificial flowers and ribbon) that she just had to make sure that I was seeing everything. She said it over and over and I got the biggest kick out of it.

It's so awesome to get to see things through her fresh, innocent eyes. It reminds me not to take things for granted and to appreciate the small things in life (even if they are artificial flowers).

She is my joy and I thank God for letting me be her mom every day :)

 

Aren't you loving the nakey hiney, one knappy santa slipper on, one off look? I am!

air jordans and a bike ride

We took a trip to Atlanta for our 1st anniversary when I was 7 months pregnant. We have some good friends up there who have a hook-up at a great consignment. Ant found a pair of gray and lime green high top air jordans and it was love at first sight. We had no idea if we were having a boy or a girl at that point, but the exact words that came out of my mouth were, "you better bet if we have a girl, she's wearing those!" So we got em (at a REALLY great price, along with all kinds of goodies… thank you Lynda and Kevin!) They are size 5. Amie is just now fitting into them and they are stinkin' cute!

 

Ok, so it's not the greatest picture of Amelie, but you have to admit, the shoes are pretty awesome… especially with her sweet skinny jeans.

On a totally unrelated note, we FINALLY got to take my new bike for a spin! Ant got it for me for Christmas and mom and dad got a nifty little seat for Amelie to ride with me. She absolutely loves it! I am quite fond of this seat because she is in front of me and if I happen to fall, I feel much more comfortable knowing that I can try to protect her with her being in front instead of behind me.

 

Again, not the greatest picture of Amie, but she was distracted by the creepy man on the street trying to strike up conversation.

With spring coming up, I know we are going to be doing LOTS of bike riding!!

15 months

Amelie is 15 months old today. Wow! She's getting so big and soaking EVERYTHING in. We are amazed how much she is learning every day. She is an awesome communicator… she tells us when she's hungry (which is pretty much all the time), when she wants to go night-night, when she wants milk, etc. She LOVES to dance!! This is her gettin' down to her favorite video:

 

I'm pretty sure she got her dance moves from her:

Here are some of her recent milestones: (i'm recording all this mostly for my memory, so bare with me)


• walking and running
• "jumping"
• talking A LOT
• signing and communicating really well
• eating A LOT (pretty sure she's a bored eater)
• sleeping for 11-12 hours a night and still taking 2 naps during the day
• 2 teeth on top, 4 on the bottom and 1 starting to poke through toward the back (not sure if it's a molar)
• "reading" lots of books (she constantly wants to read!)


spoken words:
her favorite: HI!
mama
dada
go
no
momo
up
dog ("daw")
more ("moe")
night-night ("nie-nie")
cow
moo
duck ("duh")
quack-quack ("kah-kah")
nose ("nooooh")
mouth ("mow")
roar ("RARW!")
baby
water ("wahwah")
me
uh-oh
good girl ("goo gurrrr")

signs:
more
please
cat
dog
bath
eat/hungry
milk
apple
baby
all done
flower
ouch

associations:
eyes
hair
nose
mouth
ears
belly
lion
cat
dog
hippo
bath
night night
dance
jump
milk
put your boppy (paci) in your bed
shoes
feet/foot
hands
hat
water
last bite
… there's really too many of these to keep going!

greatest show on earth!

Our amazing friends, Todd & Timi, were so generous and got us a sweet deal on some circus tickets. We were really excited… a lot for ourselves, but mostly for Amelie! We went with our friends, Ginny and Bob and their 3 kiddos and had GREAT seats. Turns out, Amie could care less about the circus.

The first 10 minutes of the show she would look at the all the action and then look back at me with the most worried look on her face, like, "help me, mama!," but after she realized we were no, in fact, in harms way, she seemed to kind of enjoy the show a little. Every now and then she would look at a lion or an elephant and point and say something, but the rest of the time she spent trying to talk to Rush (one of our friend's kids) and just going back and forth between our laps… she really got a kick out of that. At intermission, Ant went to get some cotton candy. I was so excited cause I just KNEW she was gonna love it. Ha! She was actually quite terrified of the cotton candy. We would hold it up to her mouth and she would brush it away and turn her head in fear. Then she just got a kick out of feeding it to us… so we ate a lot of cotton candy. I was actually pretty ok with that :)

 

ready to go to the circus!

 

not really sure what to think…

 

still not sure, but trying to enjoy it!

 

pretty :)

 

ginny + bob + hawk + stella + rush = one awesome family!

 

like i said… terrified.