11 Weeks +One Day

Mama has been falling down on the job the last few weeks in getting pictures taken of Amelia. But this week she was determined to get the job done. She took over 300 pictures of Amelia and they were perfect and beautiful....but there wasn't a card in the camera so we can't share any of those with you. And she didn't figure this out until after everyone was in bed. Mama is still heartbroken over the lost pictures - but she did her best to redo her shoot with Ms Mia. As always, there would be some stellar shots here if I had the time/energy/patience for editing. But, I don't. Maybe in another 20 years.

Note that I had to correct her age sign with the +1 day at the bottom corner.

At the end, William woke up from his nap, so we got some pictures of the two of them too...

Mama's boys

And finally, look what Amelia started doing the day she turned 11 weeks old!

New Tricks over the Weekend

We're all working hard around here to learn new things. Mama is working on running a house with two kids, Daddy is working on getting to bed earlier, William is working on learning to pedal the trike, and Amelia is learning how much fun hands can be.

Look! Hands can grab things that you can put in your mouth! Although I'm not very happy when I pull things over my eyes!
She almost always has one hand pulling on her clothes.

When I put her down, she was in the middle of the play mat...what happened?

Rolling to the side is lots of fun! I don't think it will be long before she can roll from back to front.

She is really pushing up during tummy time now! It seems like overnight she has gone from laying on her belly and just hanging out to this! Amazing!

William and Amelia do tummy time together! Whenever William sees Amelia on her tummy, he usually drops what he is doing and comes running to join her in some belly fun.

Amelia is working working working at figuring out those hands. She alternates eating them and grabbing her clothing. In the video she also demonstrates one of my favorite things: smiling with her whole body!

He hasn't had any practice this spring with Amelia's arrival. He has been working SO hard the last week at figuring out how to pedal like the neighbor kid. Watch him go!

Here is Amelia making herself cross eyed while checking out her hands!

This Just in

Breaking News this evening:

Further evidence:

Now, I'm sure I will hear about this for at least the next ten years if the Grandma breaking a diaper is any indication!

The Lost Pictures from the last week

We've been busy with low key stuff and I didn't really think I had anything new to post. Turns out there was a bunch of stuff from just a few weekends ago that I forgot about! So, let's start with our family trip to the zoo at the end of May!

Daddy & William
Checking out a snake in the Children's Zoo. This was as close as he wanted to be (fine with me!). The woman offered to help him pet it and he took one giant step back and said "No thank you, no thank you".
Will & Mia (funny how their nicknames can spell out his name....okay, not really that funny to anyone but me!) ride the frogs!
VERY uncooperative inside the hippo's mouth. I saw all the other kids take GREAT pictures inside this guys mouth. I was so excited for our turn until I realized how stubborn William was feeling that day!
Petting the goats in the petting zoo. This was as close as he wanted to get - again, fine by me!
The animals Amelia looked at: a ladybug and a cardinal from her baby gym mat.
After dinner, we decided to try out a family game: Candyland!
Amelia was too busy working out to play with us it looks like. This is about as close as we were going to get to playing this game. While he has all the necessary intellectual skills (knows colors, can count, etc) he is lacking in the patience and taking turns skills. So, we'll try this one again in another month. We did get a few rousing rounds of Memory played together though!
Amelia!

Father Daughter Dance

I love watching the relationship between John and his daughter grow. Nothing is more special than a bond a little girl has with her daddy. Right Daddio? I caught these two dancing away in the kitchen after tucking in William.

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Yes! It is true! My daddy is 30!

John and the kids. William only has eyes for cake. Nothing will get him to look at me. He was so excited about having birthday cake! He took one look at the cake and candles and demanded: BIRTHDAY HATS! So, we dug out the birthday hats and had ourselves a real party!

Blowing out the candles - holding William back

William talks about cake

Amelia talks about cake

It appears that my blogger is posting on Pacific time. So, when I posted at precisely midnight on June 10, it was time stamped at 10pm on June 9th.

Grandma Broke a Diaper

And, now for more about this big boy!

1. He is full on into mimicking us all the time. Here he is whistling with Daddy after dinner:

2. And copying Grandpa's facial expressions (and laughing his head off). This video is from before Memorial Day weekend.

3. This one is hard to hear in the video because I wasn't close enough to him. But, sometimes that is the way things go when you are feeding a baby girl. But, the way he says scissors melts me into a huge puddle on the floor with the cuteness of it all. The unfortunate thing is he has now corrected himself and doesn't pronounce it "lizzars" anymore. Sadness all around.

4. Grandma broke a diaper
-Explanation: In February, Grandma and Grandpa were here to celebrate my birthday. My mom took pity on my poor hugely pregnant self and gave William a bath one night (Thanks Ma!) While she was getting him dressed, the tape on his diaper broke off. It was no big deal. We got a different diaper moved on. No one was upset and it was really not a big deal. At almost every single diaper change, he reports to me conversationally, "Grandma broke a diaper". So, for at least 4 diaper changes a day for the last 3 months, I have heard about Grandma breaking the diaper. The story never changes, it doesn't get longer or shorter. Grandma broke the diaper and that's it.


5. Fingersnails
-Explanation: This is what William calls the hard growths at the end of your fingers. You know, the part you cut periodically.

Speaking of which, I don't know if he is going through a growth spurt or what, but his are growing like CRAZY. I am probably cutting them every 4 days. Crazy.

6. I busy Mama, busy.
-Reported to me after spinning himself around the room in circles and falling down.