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Potty training - Check!!!

I can hardly believe it, Amelia is potty trained. I hadn't really worried too much about a timeline for this. Of course we had talked about it, and watched Elmo's Potty Training numerous times, now that's interesting watching, especially when I find myself singing the songs at work.

Anyway, Amelia's daycare really helped us, and just about three weeks ago, Amelia had her first "victory on the throne". Since then, she has done wonderfully and for the last few days, has been able to wear her knickers, panties, big girl underwear, whatever you want to call them, all the time.

There's nothing like the big grin on her face, or celebratory high five, after our girl's trip to the loo. Not to mention the invitation both Matthew and I get to see her success.

Kidding aside, her daddy and I are so proud of her.

These are pictures of her taken this weekend, the first time she went out for the whole day without a diaper on, I know you can't see a difference really, but to me, she looks even more adorable.

We love you Amelia, great job!

(now please stop growing up so fast)

"Momma, a Ladybug!"

Yesterday was one of the, if not the hottest day of the year here in Oregon, and we chose to spend our time working in the front garden, planting, removing an ugly ground cover plant and spreading four yards of bark-chips. We were pretty sensible and didn't work out there during the hottest part of the day, but come late afternoon/early evening we headed back outside to finish what we'd started.

Of course, Amelia loved being out there, especially when she found a ladybird. She screamed out "momma, a ladybug!", it was cute to watch her try to figure out how to get the tiny insect onto her cute hand, but after persisting for a short while, she was able to hold the little critter. She watched, fascinated, as it walked over her hand, and giggled as it made it's way up her arm "it tickles!" she kept saying. Her curiousity is infectious, I love seeing things from her point view.

I am happy to say, we finished the garden and it looks beautiful -

perhaps I'll share photo's in my next post!

Time Out

Normally I post photo's of Amelia smiling or having fun, however, I recently took photo's of our dear little girl in a "time-out" and just had to share them. The time-out rule is she has to sit on the chair and if she gets down or her feet touch the floor before the timer goes off, the time starts over again. Although her time-outs are only two minutes long, you would think she was told to sit there for hours. These are not necessarily the most sulky photo's I have of my girl, but you get the general idea.




After a few minutes of tantrums and pouts, daddy ends the time out and a kiss makes everything better again.

Although parenting is often the hardest and most challenging thing I've ever done in my life, I love it and the rewards far outweigh the tantrums.

I wouldn't change a thing!

Photo of the Week

This weekend Matthew, Amelia and I went shopping for the garden. We got up early and after a morning treat from Jamba Juice, we had a lot of fun visiting various nurseries and garden centers. As you can see, Amelia had a blast being driven around on the carts that were really for the plants and flowers.

Isn't she just adorable? and look how big daddy's hands are around her cute little face!