Amelia is 13 months

Isn't she hilarious?

As soon as Mia learned to walk, she's been literally running all around keeping us chasing after her.

We are so impressed with how fast she picked up walking.

Her new trick is to do a funny yoga pose and get us to giggle at her. Clever. There is nothing better than seeing a baby shake her little bum in the air.

For her 13 month celebration we went for a drive.

Can you believe she's picked up driving, too?!?

Just kidding.

Dad was out shooting guns with friends, so we had a little shopping, dinner and frozen yogurt date.

The girl can eat her weight in French fries.

And holy cow...frozen yogurt is the best thing ever.

Now that she is much more mobile, we really enjoy going to our neighborhood playground.

Amelia has no fear and climbs right up the stairs the the highest slide.

It terrifies me.

But the giggle going down the big kids slide is well worth it.

 

She's also picked up skateboarding with Dad.

Again, I'm terrified. But she loves it.

She also loves to read. Her favorite book is The Little Blue Truck. I'm pretty sure I've got that one memorized. She picks it out of her book bin every night before bedtime.

But she also loves this one page of Hop on Pop (Dr. Seuss).

She thinks this lion creature is a dog and basically it's the best thing ever that they are biting each other.

Him

Jim

Jim is after Him.

Ya, know. Hilarious stuff. Completely profound.

 

Anything with a dog these days keeps her attention. Every animal is a dog. And there is lots of pointing involved.

Her current favorite words are:

• Dog
• Dad
• Done (as in "all done")
• Uh-oh
• Ohhhhh!! (while pointing with a nice oval shaped mouth)
• No (while shaking her head)
• Mamamamaaa (usually when she's tired or wants me)
• She sometimes says other words too, but won't ever repeat them more than once or twice. Like tonight she said "hot" to her dinner. But she's hardly says it. Or "down".....she really likes her "D" words. :)
• She understands a lot of words too, like: bye-bye, night-night, hi, outside, Amelia/Mia/Millie, play, milk, dinner, and more.

We just can't believe how wonderful it is to be her mom and dad. We love just staring at her and all the neat things she does. She makes it so easy to be her parents. She's so sensitive when we tell her no or uh-oh. It's kinda funny. She doesn't like getting in trouble (not that she ever does...) Although, lately I have seen her throw her little body back in tantrum mode when she wants to go somewhere or do something that we just can do. We might be in for real trouble later.

But her dancing is the best. I wish I could get video of it, but I'm just too busy laughing and giggling along with her.

And she sometimes just crinkles up her nose and giggles at us. For no reason other to make us laugh. She loves to pretend laugh or copy other people laughing. Funny girl.

It's going to be a wonderful summer!

 

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