Happy 2nd Birthday!

Our dear Amelia,

We wish you the absolute happiest of birthday's today! Every day we are further amazed and delighted by you and your charming, cheerful little self. You come up with such funny things and are such a big girl that it completely blows us away. We see ourselves in you, but we also see an independent, smart, brave little person and we are astounded at how well you have turned out so far! We hope we are doing something right! We know you will continue to grow and change, and challenge us this year and we hope we can keep up with you. You make us want to be better parents and people and I guess that is what this is all about. We love you so very much. Happy Birthday Sweet Girl!

All our love,

Mommy and Daddy

And now, back by popular demand (well, Grandparents liked it last year....), the Amelia highlight video! Enjoy:)

Photos for You!

Grandpa W and Grandma Sharon flew down in the new plane for a quick visit! It was Grandpa's birthday and Mia got lots of practice singing the birthday song to him :)


Testing the controls :)

This is fun!

Another (better fated) Amelia aviator ?

Coloring with Zach and Maddie

Being goofy!

Happy Fourth of July on the Battleship Wisconsin

I love the Crepe Myrtles in Norfolk! We have 3 beautiful trees in front of our house in full bloom.

Que pasa?

Long time no blog again. I've had the longest lasting cold of my life and haven't felt like doing too much. Of course, we have still been very busy--places to go, people to see, birthday parties to plan! For now, I just want to document a few of the cute (and not so cute) things my Mia has been doing lately. My mom always suggest that I write them down because I'll forget, and I couldn't agree more!

1) Cute Sayings: Some of her favorite foods are "mac and cheese-a-roni" and "pop-is-cools" (popsicles). I just love how she pronounces these! She is also fond of saying "Have a good day" and "Thank you so much". So polite :)

2) 2-year old behavior: We've started doing the "time-out" chair in response to certain behavior (hitting mommy!, running away down the driveway!). I don't really think she gets it yet. She will pinch me on the arm and then say "time out chair"! Like it is a fun place. Hmmmm, need to re-think this.

3) Singing: She's such a singer! I told her that her birthday was coming up and she loves to sing the Happy Birthday song. My dad was here for a quick visit (on his birthday) and we made cupcakes. Amelia sang him the birthday song about 25 times :)

She's also practicing the tricycle and loves her gym class! She'll grab hold of the uneven bars and swing like a monkey all day long if we let her.

I have some fun photos of Grandpa W and Grandma Sharon's visit along with various other events. Look for them soon!