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Our big girl!

Posted In: Amelia — January 15, 2007 @ 11:08 pm — Stephanie

These thirteen months have just flown by… When I close my eyes, I can still vividly see my tiny little baby girl swaddled snugly in her little white blanket, watching me with quiet concentration. We used to have staring contests then, matching each look of wonderment with one of my own. Nowadays, my girl doesn’t sit still long enough for such things. Nope. Instead, her mission is to DESTROY the house! She ransacks whatever her little hands can reach, routinely seeks out the cats and Iris for ‘affection’, fine tunes our stereo and television for us, sorts our clothes for us (who cares if it’s already sorted, folded, and placed carefully in a drawer?), takes every single book off the bookshelves, and plays hide-and-seek with the remote, my mobile phone, and my keys.

Stuff she can do now:

*Gives kisses (and will often go back and forth from me to Peter giving kisses when we ask for them)
*Gives eskimo kisses (Daddy taught her this)
*Gives 5
*Shakes hands
*Pretends to blow her nose (she puts the tissue to her nose and blows with her mouth)
*Waves and says “hi” and “bye”
*Claps her hands when you ask her if she’s happy
*Points at things and says “Op?” We assume she’s asking what it is, so we tell her. heh.
*Insists on feeding herself (very, very messy)

Vocabulary:
“hi”, “bye”, “mumma”, “daddy”, “kitty cat”, “dog”, and the oft-repeated “uh-oh!”

We have such a good time together–the tickle sessions, reading books, singing silly songs, and the mad cuddling that goes on…. I am so lucky to be her “Mumma”!

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