stinkin cute

Cheese!

IPOD fan

Amelia is an IPOD fan, or maybe she is an IPOD junkie. She sees her daddy's IPOD and immediatly wants to listen to it. she calls it his "hi". she tells Darrin all the time "listen daddy's hi". Darrin will turn it on and give her an earphone. she listens and dances around, loving every minute. She definalty loves her music. One of her favorites she listens to is Liz Phair's extraordinary. she likes that one a lot.

the great outdoors

here are some random pics of Amelia playing outside! enjoy!

Here she is taking her puppy for a walk!

amelia's book club, #2

For Amelia's second book review, she is recommending:

The Gossie series by: Olivier Dunrea

The synopsis: We have 3 of the gossie books and they are quite popular with Amelia. We have: Gossie, Gossie and Gertie and Ollie the Stomper. Gossie features a little goose who loves wearing her bright red boots everywhere. One morning, they are missing. Searching everywhere, Gossie becomes increasingly distressed until she finds her boots on the feet of another, slightly smaller gosling. The last page shows the duo walking together, each wearing one red boot. In Gossie & Gertie, Gossie in her red boots and Gertie in blue ones are inseparable companions. Gossie, who expects Gertie to follow her lead, is increasingly annoyed when Gertie follows her own path. Ollie the Stomper is a follow-up to Gossie and Gertie series. Ollie is the younger brother to the older goslings. And like younger brothers everywhere, he follows the bigger kids around. You see, "Gossie wears bright red boots" and "Gertie wears bright blue boots." Ollie stomps around after them, wanting boots, too, as the bigger kids have adventures. Finally Ollie takes a stand, standing up on an overturned bucket and demanding: "I want boots!"

These books are some of Amelia's favorites. She likes to point out the ducks or "balks" as she calls them. I like that we can practice our colors too! Along with under this and over that. Ollie the stomper is too cute, especially since we have Mia the stomper living with us. These also get Amelia's five sticky finger seal of approval!

Happy Father's Day

Every year on father's day, we have a family reunion. My mom is one of many! There are 11 brothers and sisters left! We rent a pavillion and everyone brings food. this year was our 40th reunion, so we made it a big celebration! There was a ton of mexican food to be had, along with pinata's, attendance prizes and lots of fun! Amelia had a great time - she even went swimming for awhile.

the brothers and sisters

the cousins

2nd cousins

amelia and pawpaw swinging

how cute am I?

Me and my poppa!

blowing bubbles

more bubbles

the shirt says it all

I am one Sassy girl! This shirt was made for Mia! These were taken when she insisted that she wanted to swing or as she calls it "weee". so i took her. come to find out, she really wanted to sit in her swing ans play with the buckles. Amelia is obsessed with buckles or as she calls them "bupples". Buckles fasicinate her and she will sit and play with them for a good while. Whatever makes her happy!!

lions and tigers and bears....

and we saw them all!! We took a trip to St. Louis Zoo this week. We met our friends Lexi and Bre there, along with their mommy, Tina. We had a great time - we saw the turtles, the monkeys, the lions and tigers, some bears and the sea lion show! It was so much fun! And it was a beautiful day - here are some pics!

the beautiful blue sky

look momma, turtles!

Bre telling Mia about bugs!

the sea lion show

a momma and her baby snuggle up

a favorite in our house - the giraffes!

this one was so pretty!

it was all too exciting for Miss Mia!

the penguins!

Mia shares a cookie with a "seal"

vintage amelia, the countdown to 2

We have about five weeks until amelia turns 2, a mere 5 weeks!! I remember when we had 5 weeks left till she was born! I forgot how jandice she was! Here are some vintage pics of her! enjoy!!

More about baby...

I was out shopping over mother's day weekend and saw the 3d-4d ultrasound representitive. They were having a give away for a free ultrasound, so naturally i entered. I was so excited to find out that i won! I never win! So tonight was the big night. We did get some great shots of him looking right at us! he even looked like he was smiling in a few! As for hair, they couldn't really tell. So for that we will have to wait. But here he is, looking quite cute! and a little like amelia too!

curious george

as some of you may know, i don't like cartoon clothing. it is just not my thing. I know amelia will eventually fall in love with some crazy colored character and beg for everthing from shirts to shoes that are covered in their tacky image, but for right now she likes 2 characters - clifford the big red dog and curious george. So I broke my own rule and got her these super cute jammies, to which she exclamied "ooo ooo aaaa aaaa" when she saw them. I think she likes them. and they are only jammies so no one will really see them! and look how happy they made her - that's all that really matters, right?

Mia, where is george? I think he's over there?
nooo, here he is!