Amelia Badelia is a whole 17 months old today! It's so hard to believe it. She is such an amazing little girl. She's starting to talk more and more every day. Her main words now are mom/mama, dada, grandma, grandpa, purple (seriously, clear as day, it's a pretty strange one), milk, more, baby, bowl and blue. She knows where we keep just about everything, and communicates what she wants so well now days. She is still the sweetest little thing in the world, but she definitely doesn't take much crap. She can defend herself pretty well, that's for sure. Her appetite still seems to come and go...some days she can't eat enough, other days I'm not sure how she survives. She is wearing 12-18 month clothing, which are actually getting a little short on her, so she just may move up a size when she is "supposed" to. She's in Size 4 diapers now, which look HUGE on her, but they give her more protection, and less irritation.
It's so amazing watching her grow, and seeing the relationship between the girls change as they both get older. They get very competitive and jealous of each other, but they are also SO in love with each other. When they are apart, Olivia asks about "sissy" non-stop. She's always worried about what Amelia is doing, how she is doing, who she is with. It's so cute. And, Amelia just thinks Olivia is amazing. If she gets a snack or a toy, she always asks for a second and brings it to Olivia. She never wants to leave Olivia out. They have been doing much better with sharing. We're trying to get Olivia into the mode of "if you want something, you have to ask to "switch" and give them something else in return". She's doing better. It will take some time, but I don't see Amelia having any issues sharing, so that might help.
Other than that, it was a fairly quiet day. Christian had to work, today was my Holiday, so it was just me and the girls. I took them to Perkins for breakfast with some of my Christmas cash, then we stopped into Target. I wanted to pick up some Christmas lights to expand our display next year...but they were ALREADY sold out, at 10:00AM! I couldn't believe it! Then, it was home to play for a bit. We checked out some of the new toys and did a little craft project my stepmom sent home with the girls. Then, NAP TIME. I took it easy during nap time, and just relaxed with the computer and the DVR. You are never going to believe this...but, I am 100% caught up on the DVR now! There is not a single recording on it! I don't think that has ever happened to be before. It feels strange. LOL
After naps and a quick dinner, I got the girls ready, and we were off on another Holiday adventure! We picked Christian up from work, then headed into the cities for the "Holiday Lights in the Park" display. It's a really cool light display in St. Paul, that you just drive through and check out all of the displays from your car. It's normally $8 or $10 a car, but I won a "ticket" on facebook last week, so it was FREE (of course). The girls LOVED it. Amelia is so small, and rear facing, so she couldn't see much. We ended up taking them out of their car seats and Christian held them so they could see. I mean, we were in a park, going 0-2MPH, so if anybody wants to give us flack for that, so be it. I'm really glad we made it this year, definitely a new tradition!
Finally, we were home tonight. We arrived home to another mysterious "disaster"...one of our potted "trees" in front of the garage was knocked over. So now we've had the cut string of lights, the mailbox destruction and this. Seriously, can this all really be a coincidence?? Strange.
Bedtime came soon after arriving home. It's hard to believe the long weekend has come to an end. It's never a good thing.
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