Last month

We have been busy this month. Amelia is growing and having fun. She is talking a lot more and is always doing silly things. She loves being wrapped up in her "cankie" even though it is still hot here all the time.
You can see my cheeks are getting fatter.

She got this baby from Nana for Christmas, but has just recently started taking care of her.

We finally got her swimmies and then our pool closed. I can't understand why they would close the pool with the hot weather still here.

I can't believe in four months she'll be two and she'll be a big sister!

Ultrasound

Here he is! Now we just need a name.

The technician typed that on the picture, not me.

They said everything looked good!

That's a foot, if you can't tell.

Trail Dust Town

There's this place close to where we live called Trail Dust Town. I think it used to be like a movie set for westerns or something. So you can walk around and see all the little shops and there's a restaurant that mainly serves steak. They also have a little train you can ride around and a carousel. We had a great time!

We went on a Monday night and there weren't very many people there. The carousel cost $1 and the guy let us ride forever! Ricky finally asked him how long it was and the guy said as long as we wanted not bad for a buck.

My camera is very slow on the action shots, but you can kind of see the excitement on her face.

On the train.

Ricky and Amelia in jail.

Zoom in if you can, she has some funny expressions.

Zoo and other things

Steamroller action shots.

18 months

Amelia turned 18 months this past Wednesday! She is such a big girl. She is talking a lot and loves to copy what I say. I accidentally called her a psycho the other day and now she walks around saying "psycho, psycho, psycho." She loves to swim and play in the water, do puzzles, help clean up and do laundry. Today was her first day in nursery and she could have cared less that we were gone and didn't want to leave at the end. She did have a small battle wound on the top of her head, but it was really nice to hear a lesson in church. God bless those nursery leaders. Here are a few pictures of her in her new strawberry dress. I wish you could see her hair better, she has cute red bows in her pigtails. She loves to give hugs and kisses and every night after scriptures she sits down on the floor and folds her arms for family prayer. She then proceeds to sit on my lap and then switches to Ricky's lap, and on and on until the prayer is over. If you ask her where the baby is she points to her stomach. She is a nut most of the time and we love her so much!

Bye

One day last week, Amelia grabbed a hat, one shoe, a bag and headed for the door. She kept trying to open the door by squeezing her fingers between the door and frame and saying "Bye" over and over again. I'm not sure where her shirt was.

She's grabbing her belly in case you didn't notice how big it was.

We got this hat from Millie and it's a little tight, but Amelia insists on wearing it.

Needless to say, we did not go out until she was fully clothed and hat both shoes.

Splash Park

We found this new little splash park that's close to our house and Amelia loves it. We went early in the morning on a Monday and there was no one there at first. She was a little scared of some of the things, especially after she got a bucket of water dumped on her, but by the end she was running through everything. The water was so cold and it felt so good in the heat. We would live there if we had the car everyday.