Category: Home Life

I am so thankful for Amelie. We get to know a little more of her personality with each passing day as she grows more comfortable with us. It’s definitely been different this time around adding a toddler to our family instead of an infant. Here’s a two month update:

• She can understand most commands which shows that her receptive learning is doing great.
• She can do somersaults already.
• She LOVES music. Loves to dance and sing.
• The cast doesn’t slow her down. She has some frustration, but basically she is just adapting to it.
• She loves to make everything a game.
• Her laugh is adorable.
• We are seeing her smile more and more as she becomes more content with us.
• She has learned not to pinch or hit in frustration. She still wants to some days, but she mostly has it trained out of her now.
• She sleeps all night and we are so grateful.
• She will let us read books to her now. In the beginning she would get angry and try to slam the book shut.
• She is getting good with a spoon and fork. We try to practice every day.

Here are a few things she can say (or at least we understand her):

• “Hi Dada!” (her only sentence and it’s crystal clear. Also said with great excitement when he gets home from the gym or work)
• More
• Eat
• issue  (for tissue)
• Baa boo (diaper)
• Jie Jie (big sister)
• Yo yo ( for yogurt)
• Up (sounds like puh)
• Help (sounds like Up, but she uses a different hand motion)
• “bess you” (bless you – she does it to herself after she sneezes)
• Thank you
• Down
• fuf fuf (crawling around like a dog, mimicking her sister)
• Chic (for cheek)
• Turtle
• Rub Rub (she does this when I put mederma on a scar each day)
• Foot
• Ga ge (for again; most often said when she wants to read a book or be tickled again)
• Tree
• Wa wa (water)
• See see…see see…see see See SEE (she constantly says “see” now to get you to look at random things, and it will get louder until you look)
• She doesn’t say “yes” or “no”, but nod or shakes her head instead.
• Mmm Mmm Mmm (said sometimes while she’s eating)
• Bubble (crytal clear, but I don’t think she knows what it means)
• Uh oh! (said sometimes when she has an accident or drops something)
• Whoa! (said sometimes when she falls down)
• She says various things along with us while we read her stories, like “moo”, “faster faster”, “baa”, and so on.
• Ma Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaa (usually when she needs me to comfort her)

Cade and Amelie.

We met our friends Brooke, Eli and Cade at the science and history museum for our last playdate with them before their move. It was also Amelie’s first visit and after about 15 minutes she entered into the “overwhelmed and what is going on here” state.  She was looking every direction and at all the kids. I took her over to see what Nadia was up to in the grocery store area and then she really started to have fun.

She really liked pushing the buttons on the cash register.

Amelie had fun playing with the trains and looking at the animals in glass cases at her eye level. Overall she was moving way too fast and almost all the photos were blurry. Eli and Nadia got a good look at a bearded lizard, tarantula and boa constrictor.

Nadia and Eli walking along. So cute.

Here are all the kids right before we left.

Then the little kids were done with the photos and just the big kids were left.