After Amelia’s bath this morning, I decided to give her some crazy hair.  Here is the end result:

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Amelia and I went to the park yesterday. We went on the swings and down the slide and played in the wood chips and back to the swing and had a generally fun time.
It’s rather impossible to hold a child and a video camera as you go down a slide, so we’ve only got [...]

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I thought I would give an update of what Amelia is doing now, developmentally.
Mentally:
-says consistently: “mama”, “dada”, “bye-bye”
-says mostly consistently: “book”, “baby”, “that”, “what”
-says when she feels like it: “up, please”, “all done”, “down”
She also says “lahdalahdalah” for water. Water is what she means, and she uses the word frequently and appropriately. I don’t know [...]

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OK, first a little back story.  I gave Amelia a few forkfuls of cake at her party.  She sucked on the frosting on the fork, but wasn’t really that interested in it.  The next day, I was eating my own piece of cake, in a normal corell bowl.  She was grabbing for it, like she [...]

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That’s a lot of information to put into one post!  Amelia celebrated her first birthday last week.  I can’t believe she is already a year old.  The time has gone by so quickly.  We didn’t do anything on her actual birthday…it was just a normal day.  Last weekend, we went to my parents’ house and [...]

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Yes, we bribe our child with boxes.
This week’s password is ’steps’.

Steps, steps, steps from Wes Garrison on Vimeo.

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