Amelia’s Moments

I’ve never seen such joy.  It’s like she knew… she knew how much sugar was in that basket before her.  The joy on her face was one of entitlement.  She has been sick yet she has been so good… and she knew it!  Pace yourself Meeli!

Life is good and smiles are big… no matter how long the day is at work, when you come home to this smile, nothing else matters!

Going to somebody else’s birthday party can be so much fun… especially when you are only one!

Sometimes, you’re just too tired to even eat pizza!!!!

Miss Meeli loves to read….. she sees her sister reading princess stories and she wants to do the exact same thing!  Cute how she chimes in and pretends to read… now if only daddy was as intersted in the princess book AND the camera!

One year already – how did that happen?

We celebrated Amelia’s first birthday this week. Maddie counted the days down on the calendar and she helped me choose the type of cake we would make for the celebration. Maddie and I rushed home after school so that we could get started on the cake. Maddie actually did everything for the preparation. She was so intent on making Amelia’s cake perfect. She measured and added all of the ingredients, mixed the batter by hand and even set the timer on the oven. Maddie’s favorite part was making the pink icing and then decorating Amelia’s cake.

Amelia simply giggled the entire night. We sang happy birthday, took some pretty pictures and then BLAM! Amelia practically jumped into the cake. Both hands flew into the icing first and then into the cake part! We had so much fun with her!!

Happy Birthday Miss Meeli Mabel!!!

I can’t really remember when babies start to speak their first words…  I remember with Maddie that it seemed like babbling and she kind of fell into saying ma-ma.  Amelia is probably going to say da-da first though and she may be saying it right now.  When Andy walks in the door, Amelia immediately scammers over to him as fast as she can and says da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.  When she bonks her head on something she looks up at him and says da-da-da-da-da-da-da.

She loves her dad!!!!!!!

Amelia is having fun hanging out with her brothers… they are just like jungle gyms!

Our good friends Todd and Tonya visited us in Portland this week because of a conference.  Bauer joined them so Amelia had a pint size buddy for a week.  These two are going to be great friends this coming school year.  They are old enough to make each other laugh and just five weeks apart.  I see many, many more glorious messes in our future!

She’s just cute – I can’t help it! I was trying out my dad’s new camera that let you take photo on top of photo on top of photo. The girl was in a camera shoot!!!! Crawling around on Grandpa’s carpet from Saudi Arabia offered the perfect spot to chill out…