Pictures

We just got some pictures done with our lovely photographer this last Saturday!!!

Check out the link:

http://photographybyamy.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/its-spring/

Playing catch up

So it's been too long since we've blogged. Just have a few stories to post on things Amelia has said/done.

**Indroducing her baby brother to the neighbor boys down the street a few weeks ago:
Amelia: "This is my baby brother. He's the 'rugliest, tugliest' little boy I know!"

**The other night she wanted to watch a movie before bed, so I told her I would set a timer so she could watch it until the timer went off. I told her when it beeped, she had to turn it off and go to bed.
Amelia: "Make it a long timer, this is a long movie!!"

**She's been working on the bowl of jelly beans we have sitting out. She had a bunch of them last weekend when Luke told her no more. She grabbed a couple more, and he said... "Put them back!" She walked toward the bowl, reached like she was putting them back, did a half-turn away from us and stuck the jelly beans in her mouth during the turn. So smooth lemme tell you. Sneaky little turkey.

And so the sibling rivalry starts early...

So this past weekend Beth was having a scrapbooking weekend away with a friend so I was Mr. Mom all weekend. We had a great time together!

However, one of the funniest things that happened this weekend was when Amelia was playing very nicely by herself. Pierson was asleep in his swing, looking very peaceful. All of the sudden, out of nowhere Amelia shoots a grumpy glance at Pierson and says, very sternly "Don't touch MY stickers, Pierson!"

I about fell out of my chair laughing...

-L

Mommy and Pierson

Here are pics comparing P and I at the same age.... (I'm the one in the dress.)

Thanks!

Coloring with Amelia this morning....

Amelia: "You're doing a great job, Mom!!"

I love any kind of encouragement I can get--I'm not gonna lie...

You make me laugh!!!

I have Amelia in the bath right now. And during her bath, I'll sit at the computer while she plays with her toys--its where I can sit and see her in the tub at the same time. But sometimes I'll walk away for a brief moment where I can't see her. So I'll say, "Amelia, what are you doing?" Just to make sure she's okay. Because if she answers, obviously she's doing fine!

Tonight I walked to the living room area to show Jaymi something. So I said, "Amelia, what are you doing?" She said, "Why do you always ask me that?" Then she says, "You ask a lot of questions...."

Maybe I've said that to her a couple of times??

Amelia-isms on death and time-out

~While we were in Kansas last week, Amelia asked my mother where her mother was. Grandma died a couple of years ago, so I attempted to explain where she is. I told Amelia that Grammy's mom died. She got a wide-eyed freaked out look on her face. I told her that grandma was very old and died so she could live in heaven with Jesus. She said, "Like when Jaymi's fish died. She flushed him down the toilet, and now he's in fish heaven. Like your mom is in mom heaven (to my mother)." Yeah, close enough....

The next day, she was playing with a stuffed bunny in a dress. She told my mom "Grammy, this bunny can be your mom, since your mom is in mom heaven."

*sigh* These life lessons are great, eh?

~Amelia was just put into time-out a bit ago for not listening. Pierson was very cranky today and it took some time to get him to sleep. He was sleeping when Amelia got home from daycare. She had been bugging him since she walked in the door. We told her many times to leave him be. But alas, she didn't listen, so off to time-out for Millie!

She was sitting in the corner (yes, her nose goes in the corner--it's what works right now) crying a little. Then about 2 1/2 minutes into her time-out, we hear, "Come on....beep." She knows she's released from time-out when the timer goes off. Luke and I had to hide our laughter!!