Update

Amelia has been keeping herself very busy lately.  I already shared how she was walking but here are some of the other things we've been up to. 

Someone from church let us borrow this baby sled.  We've only went out once and she wasn't sure she liked it.  After she flipped and ended up face first in the snow she decided that it definitely was not for her.  Maybe with warmer days in the forecast we'll try it again.  

She now has two bottom teeth, which she is showing you here.  She had one top tooth break through tonight and I'm thinking three more on the top are trying to pop through.

We like to go to Panera for coffee with Grandma and Papa after picking up our monthly stock of meat from Painted Hill Farm.  There are always a lot of things to look at and people to admire her.

 She is very much into discovering her surroundings and the way things work as well as trying to copy what we do.  She will try to copy actions - placing items where we place them, or opening doors.  She copies faces we make at her - the current favorites are to scrunch her nose and sniff loudly and making an "O" face.  She also tries to copy sounds - she likes to say hi, mama, dada, whastha (what's that), and pupu.

 This is "pupu."  He is her absolute favorite thing to snuggle.  She gives him kisses and hugs and loves it when we also kiss and hug him.  We call him puppy but she can only say pupu, so he might end up being pup pup one day.  I have caught her snuggling him in her sleep several times.  So cute!  She has also started throwing him out of the crib when she wakes up so she can haul him around the house with her. 

Puppy might be the ticket for her to get over her "mommy is leaving me here?" anxiety at Aunt Kait's house.  She had begun crying when I dropped her off Thursday mornings so a couple of weeks ago I brought puppy with us and the drop off seemed to go much smoother.

I'm finally able to put her hair in a very small ponytail this week.  So I've been having fun putting clips and bows in her hair.  I haven't been able to do that much lately as she figured out how to take her headbands off.  This flower clip came from Grandma as a Valentine's Day present.

I had her all decked out for school this week and she ended up being dressed the same as her friend Allie.  The funny thing is that they followed each other around that day.  Of course it was the only week I haven't brought my camera to school so I didn't get a picture.  

I did manage to get a picture of my new haircut.  It feels so nice to get rid of some of the weight!  Now I'm adjusting to styling shorter hair.