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Bye Bye Paci! An update on Amelia

Posted In: Amelia — August 12, 2008 @ 12:56 am — Stephanie

It’s been two weeks now since Amelia said goodbye to her pacifier. I tossed them and decided we’d do this thing cold turkey. The first night was tough, the second and third were less so, and the fourth was easy peasy. Since then, she has had a little more bedtime anxiety, but we’re working on that, too.

Other updates:

*No accidents in over a month! Goooo Mia!
*Is a counting maniac! She counts everything!
*Identifies her written name
*Composes/performs songs and plays for us and “sells” us tickets to her performances
*Loves her school and has developed good friendships there
*Is really into dinosaurs, monkeys, elephants, and fish
*Says her favorite color is blue
*Favorite foods: orange pineapple banana juice, cashews, chick-free nuggets, and chocolate
*Most uttered phrases: “I can’t!” - “I don’t like it!” - “What happened?”
*Loves to swim! We hope to get her in lessons soon, because she loves the water so much.

We’re having such a wonderful time with her this summer. We go swimming and to the zoo weekly, and either park or walk to the park every night after dinner. The weather has been wonderful the past few nights here in Denver, and we’re taking full advantage of the cooler temps the rain has brought. Amelia would play outside sunup to sundown if we let her.

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First Day of School!

Posted In: Amelia, Academic, Everyday life — April 7, 2008 @ 11:49 pm — Stephanie

Today marked yet another milestone Amelia has reached–her first day of school and her first time ever left with someone who isn’t family. Although her school is walking distance from our house, policy for the first week dictates we drive so that we have a quick exit in case there is separation anxiety. And there was plenty of that—but not on Amelia’s part. Nope, it was Mama who was in tears as we pulled away from the school. Amelia? She ran straight into the schoolyard with her teachers and classmates and never looked back. One of her teachers, seeing my obvious anxiety, was sweet enough to give me a call of reassurance. Mia was doing great, playing independently and was in good spirits. Such a relief to hear!

While I was thrilled she was doing so well, let’s just say that my eyes never strayed too far from the clock. Was she missing me? Calling for me at the door? At 4:30, it was time to pick her up. We get there and we don’t even get as much as a hello! In fact, she straight up refused to come with us. She was busy playing with this darling little blond boy. We had to stay until his mom came to pick him up and then little stinker followed him towards his car. So much for her desperately missing Mommy! :/

She stayed dry and used the potty like a pro. Absolutely NO problems. She had a blast, and I feel a lot better about her going again tomorrow. Maybe tomorrow I’ll even do something with my free time other than stay home, clutching my mobile phone, with my eyes firmly trained on the clock…

Without further ado, here’s our little schoolgirl!

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It’s potty time!

Posted In: Amelia — February 1, 2008 @ 12:31 pm — Stephanie

Little Miss finally decided to use the potty! For the last couple of days, she’s been pee pee-ing in the potty like a pro. Amelia will run to the potty, but in her little potty insert and climb on up. The only thing she wants mama to do is to help pull her undies down and hand her some TP. She’s really proud of her accomplishments and gets super excited, even cheering for herself. Mia adores her “Big Girl Underwear”. She grabs them out of her drawer, brings them to me, and then lays down on the floor for me to put them on her.

She’s finally starting to get it and seems to enjoy the whole process of preparing to pee, peeing, wiping, washing her hands, and then insists (every time!) on brushing her teeth. What can I say? My girl loves to be clean!

As proud as I am of my darling, it’s painful on the heart to admit that my girl is growing up.

Next up: mastering the poopie and switching to a big girl bed.

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D Note baby boogie

Posted In: Video, Amelia — January 21, 2008 @ 12:57 am — Peter

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day with my girl

Posted In: Amelia, Everyday life — January 12, 2008 @ 11:15 pm — Peter

Since Stephanie was so wonderful to put up with me being out of the house the entire day in order to attend important meetings and the company holiday party, I gave her some peace and quiet with Amelia and Iris out of the house this morning/afternoon. Iris had to be dropped off after our first outing since she’d be hard to pass off as a toddler at the kiddie gym

Here was our itinerary for the day:

6am: Amelia begins calling for Dada letting me know she is ready to get out of bed. Our morning routine consists of having a bowl of cereal together and watching an episode of one of her favorite cartoons.

8:15am: Met coworker David for a coffee at Cafe Europa and then walked around Washington Park. David is on my biggest loser team at work and we’re committed to working together to shed a few pounds since we live near each other. Hopefully he is up for another one of these outings. I’m afraid my hyperactive demanding dog may have scared him off. Amelia also insisted he carry her for the final stretch of the walk. Thanks for being a good sport David!

10:30am: Drop off Iris and prepare for the next outing, Kangaroo Kingdom. I had to fight with my MacBook get directions printed to Lafayette. It seems all my printer configurations were lost when I upgraded to OS X - Leopard. After getting the printer working, Amelia and I were off to the far northwestern burbs to seek the Kingdom. As usual, I made a couple wrong turns and chipped away and precious play time. We got there with about 1 hour and 15 minutes to play. First impression, the space seemed small, but was packed with fun stuff to play with. It took Amelia about 10 minutes to warm up and then she was running all over like a wild child. There were very few kids for Amelia to play with since we arrived near the end of open play hours. For the last 30 minutes, we had the place to ourselves. Although it was a small space, the toys and props were high quality and Amelia had a great time!

12:30pm: Got directions from the attendant at Kangaroo Kingdom to Boulder. It was a scenic 15 minute drive west into central Boulder to our lunch spot, VG Burgers. I had the classic burger and Amelia had a dog and fries. After lunch, it was time to head home and see what Mama was up to.

I definitely plan to do morning/afternoons like this more often. Not only did Amelia and I get valuable time together, Stephanie was able recuperate from a busy week and curl up with a good book for a few hours.

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