Green Beans

Remember when Amelia first had green beans and she gagged?  She absolutely hated them.

Now she loves them!  Out of the mixed veggie bag she will pick those first to eat.

So I bought a bag of just green beans.  She wouldn't eat them and the only reason I can fathom is because the were french cut.  Hum... sounds like someone else we know and love.  Lucas will only eat french cut canned green beans.

Of course if there is a carb option available (pancakes, bread, toast, tortilla) she'll choose that first.  She gets that from her mama.

Christmas at Grandpa's

We went to grandpa John's over the weekend to celebrate Christmas.  It was Amelia's first time opening presents.  She loved it! 

She crawled right up on the box banging on it as if saying get it out!  I need to play! 
Daddy got a 1972 Gran Torino hubcab clock.  We have a '74 Gran Torino and it was our getaway car for our wedding so this was a pretty neat gift.  He also really needs a clock in the garage, so now there are no more excuses for coming in late!

 Athena is getting to be a big kid!  She helped Kait make pumpkin breaded pudding which was delicious.  She also made a treat for her aunts and uncles all by herself!  It was the pretzels with rolos melted in them. Yum!

3 and 1

Amelia has finally chosen a favorite finger combination. 

She loves to be challenged!

Bubbles

Last week Amelia learned how to drink through a straw and blow bubbles through a straw.  It's a great time I tell you!

She also figured out how to shake her head no.  I'm not sure she knows what it means but has used it to make very funny situations, such as shaking her head no when the baby sign language dvd was talking about sleeping and going to bed. 

She can also stand up next to almost anything. 

Daddy also put the latches on the doors just in time because the next day I found her doing this.

I may be a fool but I've been helping her learn how to climb up the stairs.  She's gotten very good and we're just about ready to learn how to climb down.  We do have gates and I'm in a good habit of locking them when need be but I'd feel better knowing that she understands how to work those stairs and hopefully avoid injuries.  It's my right as a mother to have that dream.  :-)

Santa

ECFE had a Christmas party and we just had to go see Santa!  Amelia was really not sure about Santa.  She didn't cry but she looked concerned. 

There were also lots of different craft things to make but Amelia was still too young for most everything. 

Mom and I helped Millie and Kirsten while Zach kept Amelia entertained.  She did get a book from the pocket lady and then we had cookies and milk.  (Amelia had cereal puffs, I'm still not ready for her to have that much sugar!) 

Shhhh...

Amelia has been going to play with Aunt Kait a couple of hours each Thursday morning while I go to work. 

They play hard!

She didn't wake up when the camera flashed or when she dropped the bottle. 

Look out World!

She figured out how to sit up!

Comments

Hey readers!  I'm still fairly new to this blogging thing and I'm not sure I have the comments part set up correctly.  I've been told it doesn't allow people to comment and I'm just seeing now, several months later, that I have a couple of comments that I didn't know about.  Would you do me a favor and try to comment so I can see if I've got it working yet?

Retreat!

It's a retreat weekend!  Tomorrow I get to spend the whole day sewing and I'm very excited.  When thinking of the projects to work on I felt really guilty that I hadn't finished several of my Christmas presents (more than half...)  I knew I should bring those projects to work on but honestly I didn't really want to.  I don't get sewing days like this very often anymore and I have a whole room full of projects waiting to be worked on.  So in order to not feel really really guilty about not bringing Christmas presents I worked hard this week to finish most of them.  I only have two sewing projects and a couple of computer projects left!  Amelia also has something in the works but we need Daddy's help with that one.  Yay! 

I can't share pictures of what I've been working on yet because I'm finding out more and more of the family is actually reading this thing so in order to be safe I'll share after Christmas.

I can share the snowflake we made at school this week.  Amelia is getting to be a pro at stamping her hand.

In addition to crawling and rolling everywhere she's also working very hard at standing. 

Her Godmother Hilary came to visit on Sunday and we went to a new friend's birthday party so of course she had to wear a party dress.

I decided to work on the interior of our house again.  A project I had started before being pregnant which quickly halted once that happened.  I'd like to paint the living room and had several simple furniture items I wanted Lucas to make.  We went to price out everything and then chose a few projects to start with.  He's been pretty busy fixing cars and snow blowers so I realized that these projects most likely wouldn't happen before Christmas and I was fine with that.  Apparently my father doesn't have enough to do this week.  After 4 days just about everything is done and being painted now.  :-)  So to thank my dad Amelia and I had him over for coffee and homemade doughnuts this morning.  I used this recipe. Yum! 

I'm off to start packing!