Amelia’s Moments

Bauer was born exactly five weeks before Amelia and Fiona was born exactly three days before Amelia.  These three kids are the best of friends.  They go to Thursday art classes together, they play over at the clubhouse together, they eat lunches together, the explore SAS together… they love each other.  The newest thing is that all of people around school love to see Amelia and Bauer kiss.  Amelia kisses Bauer on command and Bauer actually likes it!  We printed the picture off of Amelia kissing Bauer and she has been carrying it around the house for days.  Meelie loves Bauer…  we’ll have to connect them later on in life if we aren’t in the same region!

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Amelia is very jealous that Jie Jie gets to go to school so when we got back from Christmas vacation, we decided to sign Amelia up for her own art class.  Every Thursday for 90 minutes she heads into JinQiao with Ms. Zhou, Bauer and Bauer’s ayi for an art class.  I don’t know much about what she does, but I do know that Ms. Zhou comes back happy as a lark and quite proud that Amelia is the star (in her words).  “Amelia no cry.  Amelia happy.”  After her third art class, she brought home something special and she could not wait to show us.  As soon as I walked in the door from school, Amelia started screaming.  She usually just runs to me but this time she ran around the corner, got something and then ran up to me with her new something.  She painted a dog house complete with a bone that had velcro on it.

Amelia was so proud.  Seriously. I’ve never seen anything like it.  I kept saying, “Amelia, it’s beautiful!” and she just kept on saying, “Thank you much Mommy!”  So cute…

Art class was a very, very, very good investment!

She really does know how to fly… plug in and sit back!

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

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

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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!

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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…

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Amelia is downright gifted in getting me to make the most interesting faces. One of the newest things is pulling my hair. When she was smaller, the tugs were light and it was cute, but now…. not so much! Of course, my reactions only egg her on which gets her sister in absolute stitches!

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Amelia has a reputation at school.  Faculty and staff are starting to schedule their coffee breaks around 12:15 so that they can see Amelia cruising down the hallways with Ms. Zhou.  They come to see her smile.

This child smiles all of the time.  When she’s tired – smiles.  When she’s happy – she smiles.  When she’s hanging out – she smiles.  It’s just what she does…

Last night we had the final Gourmet Geeks episode and she was brilliant the entire night.  She smiled a lot and let me eat too!  Not too shabby!!! 

We love you Meeli Mabel.

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Amelia loves this yellow duck. The duck is actually a puppet of sorts and you can activate it’s quacky songs with her your hands. I think I’ve forgotten the words to Old MacDonald, but I’m pretty sure I could quack it for ya. Notice the jammies that Amelia has on. Amelia is almost 8 months… Maddie wore these pajamas when she was nearly a year and a half old!!!

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