Note to self

When Amelia is 14, crawl into her bed at 5:30am. Put your ice cold feet on her legs and then proceed to recite the pledge of allegiance in your most patriotic voice over and over again.

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Bye bye

Gemma says bye bye in the video- she is SO SO adorable I can hardly stand it. She says bye bye and I can't resist scooping her up and covering her day cheeks with kisses. So adorable.

Kind of helps erase the fact she brought a bouncy ball into the grocery store in her hand and then let it looked in the crowded cracker aisle. While I chased it up and down the aisle, she took the opportunity to unload the cart onto the floor. All somehow managed while she was buckled in.

5 Month Appointment

We had Gemma's 15 month appointment this morning. We were in and out as there just wasn't much to discuss.

Current stats:
Height:32.75 inches (off the charts, over 100%ile for kids in her age group)
Weight: 24lbs 4 oz (85%ile for kids in her age group)
Head: 18.74 inches (90%ile for her age group)

In general, there weren't any real concerns about her growth and development, although I had to giggle when he warned me about the molars she would start cutting "any day now". She has had those molars for the last 3-4 months or perhaps longer. Gemma had her 3 shots and took it like a champ - she cried during but quit right away. She quit crying immediately and then continued to send very dirty looks towards the nurse.

The biggest issue we had was waiting for the appointment. Gemma had 2 tasks on her agenda:

1. Lick all the toys in the sick waiting area. Then the floor.
2. Crawl/wiggle behind the giant fish task in the waiting room. Then play with the wires. Or attempt to climb into the tank itself.

You'll be shocked to find I wasn't on board with her plans and thwarted her at every turn. Or tried at least. The secretaries behind the counter did their best, but at one point both of them were laughing out loud at her antics while she was trying to climb out of my arms with little regard for her own safety.

During her running, I noticed her poor little toenail fell off :( Poor baby! You'll all be glad to know I did not collect the nail for her baby book. Your welcome Gemma. No gross toenail legacy for you.

Uh oh....

Walked into William and Amelia's room and this is what I found. She got up there all by herself.

William's hair

I was trying to convince Amelia to let me put her hair up in a special way to celebrate being student of the week. She wasn't buying it, but William was. He came running and said " I want my hair spiky mom!"

I tried to talk him out of it because his hair is uncooperative. It is super thick and in its current long stat, I don't think it will stay up. It's just too long.

He was not convinced, so we gave it a try. He kept telling me it wasn't right and I went to comb it down when he finally said "yes!!!!! Just like that!" So we went with a spiky spike look. Or whatever you'd call this.

Gemma does laundry

Here is Gemma helping me with more laundry yesterday. She is such a good helper! Highlights include Amelia reading to herself in the background and Gemma's signature "silly face" partway through (watch for the scrunched up face).

Student of the week

Amelia is student of the week this week at school. Her teacher requested a special book to read to the class and a little poster about her to share. I don't know why it is upside down, but here is what the 2 of us came up with!