22 Months

This past month has been so fun. She's gotten so much better at using my phone...technology is incredible and she figures it out so fast. She loves to sit on my lap (or anywhere else) and learn to use it. Melissa's iPad has become quite the hit too, although sharing it gets a little tricky.





Thanksgiving was so fun for her too. We were able to see both of our families - first with Mark's family at Nanny's house and then with mine at my cute sister Ally's house. We are indeed thankful for all of them. Amelia especially liked having her own little private dining table with Savannah. It was adorable.








Her blankie has now become her other appendage. Tuck wonders what the big deal is sometimes. She goes everywhere with it and I think it's the cutest thing. Even if I have to turn around on the freeway because she left it (ok, I left it) in my car and she needs it at home for a nap... ;0





We also took her to see the lights at Temple Square. She wasn't super impressed, but at least she had her blankie.





This year she has figured out all the fuss with Christmas. She is way into looking at the tree and all the decor. We were at one of my family parties and she was a little freaked out by the Nutcrackers, but my cute cousin Jason was sweet enough to teach her all about them. It was darling.






Amelia cracks me up. That's really all there is to say about the past month. Full of laughter and awe about how she is growing and changing so incredibly fast. Just look at that face!

21 Months

21 months, but I feel like I have a five year old - I said that at 20 months but this time I really mean it! This kid is something else. She now knows how to unlock my phone, swipe the screen to find her games, start the game, and hold it perfectly still. Among many other things like reminding me to put my glasses on as I head out the door for work, telling me when she poops, requesting a Lady Antebellum song every time we get in the car, and making sure that I wash her blanket every time I do a load of laundry. She is so vocal about everything she is doing, seeing and thinking. She amazes me daily. And I'm oh so grateful for her. The time seems to be going even faster the older she gets. I was watching her sleep the other night and I welled with tears thinking, "where did my baby go?" And as you see in these pics, the baby has been replaced with a thriving toddler. She had her first trip to "Build A Bear" where my sweet sister bought her a cute little perfect brown bear. She wasn't quite sure about the whole process when we were there, but now she sleeps with it every night. And she has become a fan of my office and thinks she is really doing important work when she sits with me at the computer. She loves to perch herself up in the window sill every morning waiting to wave at our friends as they drive by. Her new obsession is anything to do with moons and stars. We have to look for them every night and she points them out on everything she sees. It's adorable. Lastly, poor Tuck has become her new favorite toy - she will chase him down until she can cover him up with her blanket and give him a good snuggle. He's so good with her. So as always, a bunch of random pics to see how she's changing.

Fall Festivities

I can't help but post a thousand pictures of Amelia every time I sit down to blog about her. I know it's not very creative, and that the blog reads more like a picture album, but she is just so dang cute and we have so much fun with her, that I just have to include all of my favorite pics of her. We've had a great time this fall with the leaves changing and the weather cooling. We've taken her a few times to see the leaves and tried to get some Kodak moment shots of our little family. But she is increasingly becoming more wiggly and squirmy, so it's almost impossible to get all 3 of us looking normal. But we'll take what we can get! She went on her first real canyon adventure with a campfire and all. She loved it! Maybe it's because of all the Dr. Pepper she was being freely given. ;) She loved being with our best friends and loved being able to run free. We also took her again to Wheeler Farm and she had a blast. She thought the animals were hilarious this time and even got to see a cow pee...and she yelled, "PEEEEEE!" We almost peed laughing at her. And man, get her on an open road and that kid can run! And lastly, we've tried several different times to get her to sit still long enough with the pumpkins on the porch, and well, you'll see by her face in the last pic that she finally had enough! I don't blame her.

"Enough pictures already Mommy!!!"

A Birthday Far Away

So...my dear friend Lisa rudely left our quiet little neighborhood to go live in Honduras while her husband is selfishly helping to build a temple there. How could anyone want to help build temples for the church in a part of the world where it's needed?! (Please note my sarcasm.) Anyway, it's her big 30th birthday today, and I don't trust the mail delivery, so she gets a little gift here on my blog. Not really a gift as much as it is a little insight into how much she is missed. Since my blog is really "all things Amelia", how could she not be a part of this post? This is Amelia's new thing to do...climb up to the computer EVERY morning and say, "Lisa, Connor, Caden...Skype?" Yes, my 20 month old says "Skype." I have it on video but there is too much to edit around it and I have a deadline here to post this today. She also loves to look at pics on my phone of Caden and Connor, so that fills up a lot of our quiet time on the couch. And now that I have a new phone, she also asks for "Skype" on my phone too. Oh boy, I've created a technology monster. So here are a few pics to show how she patiently sits and waits...she even monkeys with the mouse and knows how to adjust the volume just in case we call. And for some reason she seems to always be in her purple jammies when I snap the pics. Lastly, just for Lisa, just to rub it in, the pic of her and Amelia the night before she left for Honduras. Lisa came over around 10:30pm and I had to pull Amelia out of bed to say goodbye. We love you "eyeglass!" Happy 30th Birthday!!!