Where's the time gone...

I don't know how it's been so long since I posted.  I know I keep locking myself out of this account by changing the password and then forgetting what I changed it too.  But lately, since Amelia naps so well, I feel like I'm becoming more myself again, and more able to spend a few minutes doing something for me.  I know I am probably not going to tell too many people that I have this blog, but if they find it on their own, yeah! 
First off, Amelia is over a year (akkkk!) and WALKING, everywhere, it's really nice.  I don't have to ALWAYS carry her, just sometimes.  Today, we went to the store, and I set her down so I could use both hands, and she quietly (for about 2 minutes) looked at stuff on her own, I loved it.  She is becoming more clingy though, and comes and hugs our legs!  So cute.  Everyone told us we would be missing the days of crawling, but neither of us have, we've both made comments about how nice it is to have her walk.  And it's so cute too!
Secondly, we've decided that I won't go back to work anytime soon.  And that was really stressing me out, I missed working and I didn't feel like myself without it.  I've realized lately that I do enjoy staying home with Miss A.  I've been contemplating a part time thing, but am probably not going to do it.  We'll see.  But each time David and I talk about me working, he gets more business.  And if he's working longer hours, it becomes harder for me to leave the house at 6 to go work a couple hours.  It's almost like someone is telling us that I should stay home....
It's already Amelia's second summer, and I realized this summer will be a lot more fun.  She is pretty good on car trips lately, helps that they are only 2-3 hours usually.  But she's so interactive now, she loves going to our park, and visiting people....  and I'm trying out things with her.  We've gone to OMSI, and the aquarium. Today, we're having our first soft serve ice cream!  It's the little things in life, people! I wanted to take her to the zoo recently, but David was feeling left out, since he's never around during the day to play with us, so we'll wait for a Saturday for that one.

Peek-a-boo

Yesterday I was reminded what a happy baby we have.  At church we sat out in the lobby, as Amelia still has a lingering cough from our colds last week, and we didn't want other parents thinking we were exposing their babes to illnesses...  we picked up Amelia halfway through the sermon cause the car seat wasn't cutting it anymore, and she starts giggling and wiggling.  What the...  I look over and there is a woman standing by the coffee pots and she's smiling and peeking at Amelia.  And Amelia is just loving it.  The woman would hide behind the pots and jums out, Amelia just thought it was hilarious!

I also went to my old job (which I left three years ago) today for lunch and everyone passed Amelia around, she just loved the attention.  Didn't matter who was holding her, if someone would look her way, she was a happy girl!  Everyone kept commenting on how fun and smiley she is :)

So glad our baby loves people and is generally happy.  Makes us glad to see other people enjoying her!

August

This month has flown by!  Not sure where the time has gone....  We've had a few exciting things happening.  Amelia and I went to Hood River to visit Renee and Mylee again, and Amelia went swimming for the first time!  She loved it :)

We stayed in the baby pool for a bit, but went into the 3' deep pool and bobbed around, which she liked even more, we'll definitely need to do this again soon!

And we went to Cannon Beach, again.  This time we went with the Higginbothams, and Amelia was much more interested in the sand. 

We did go to Bend just last week and had lots of play time with the cousins.  We didn't really get many photos, but Amelia had fun!  David's sister also passed along a lot of toys!  We need to invest in more storage boxes because there is not enough space in Amelia's room for everything.

We finally got photos of Amelia taken, and they turned out great!  We've been hoping to do these a lot more often, but so glad we finally got some taken!

 

 

The craziest thing and pretty exciting is that Amelia is sitting up now, not completely on her own, but she is catching herself when she tips occasionally.... and yesterday I was playing a video of a 4 year old family member playing drums (really well), and Amelia started scooting toward the video!  Holy moly she's trying to crawl!!!  5.5 months.... ugh! We are in for it!  We'll see how long til she gets better at crawling in some way or other.... she's still more mobile now then we'd like.  But it's definitely fun to watch her try to move!

Baby Soren is here!

See?  Much better title!!  So, little Soren was born on July 25th, the day before Katie and Rob's 4th anniversary!  He was 2 weeks late, poor Katie! 
Here are a few of the pictures we took while visiting them in the hospital:

Happy Rob!

New family

Mummi and Ukki and the grandbabies

This was just us holding babies so Amelia could see Soren.  She giggled at him.  :)

So sweet!  Momma and Soren

(Day after Soren was born, Katie looks so good!)

Cute little family! 

These photos were in the order taken, not in the order of priority!  These last two photos are my favorite :)

Misc. Pictures

So, my post titles aren't very interesting right now....  but I have a good one for my next post!  Stay tuned!

Pirate Amelia!  This was for Katie's baby shower back in June, and I couldn't resist dressing Amelia up in baby jeggings, a stripped onesie and a head scarf!  And yes, to top it off, a pirate parrot on her shoulder!  (She loves that parrot!! One of her favorite toys right now)  David and I put this outfit together nearly a month before the shower and we were so excited to surprise Katie with the live decoration!

Just a couple weeks ago, we got together with a few friends, this is Melissa, me and Renee and our girls- Sadie, Amelia and Mylee.  (Just a note, we are missing Melissa's Parker and Becca with Elise and her baby girl bump!)  We went to a little water park in Wilsonville and let the kiddies splash around.  I must say, Amelia prefered the ocean to the water park.  We'll just have to work on her to get her to love this too!

Our last random picture today is Miss Amelia and cousin Ethan!  This picture (minus Amelia's shocked face) is especially sweet!  Ethan was born premature and with a heart that just wasn't working for him.  He has spent a lot of his life in the NICU and has had heart surgery and then a heart transplant in his short little life.  If you can't tell, he is 8 months old.... yeah Amelia is just a little larger then him....  (only 2 lbs, but it looks like a lot)  Having these to meet was so cute, they grabbed at each other and then Amelia decided to grab at his face.  Poor guy!  We had a whole bunch of David's family together on this day.  It was nice for us to meet Ethan and see two cousins, aunts and grandparents. 

June

June has flown by for us!  Our first weekend was spent with David experiencing vertigo, poor guy!  He was sick and couldn't drive for 4 days.  We had planned on heading to Bend for the weekend, but that was postponed for us, instead we went to the ER for David.

We did go to Bend the next weekend and got to enjoy some time with the family.  It was a warm, nice weekend except for one tiny 12 pound baby!  Miss Amelia decided that she did not want to sleep at R&R's house at all.  Which ment there were no naps and she stayed up til midnight both nights!  Seriously...  that was a rough weekend with her.  But, David and I learned that when we are trying to get her to take a nap or sleep not at home, then we need to bring her monkey or elephant security blankets, a sound machine, and a sheet for the pack n play.  HA HA, new parent mistakes....

We also got to help celebrate our newest nephew's baby shower- and Amelia dressed as a pirate!  (I'll post a picture soon!)  We cannot wait til the little man is here, one more week! Unless, of course, he is late like Amelia was....  I hope for Katie's sake he comes right on time.

David and his dad got to enjoy two weekends in Eugene for the Olympic Track and Field Trials!  I was a single mom for a week, hats off to any single mom, it was hard.  I love my daughter, but I just needed a little break once in a while....  (Tho, Grandma, Mummi and Ukki gave me some relief!)  And while David was gone I actually dropped Miss A off in the nursery at church one day.  YEAH!  She is now old enough to go to the nursery- by our choice, not our church's.  We didn't want to inflict an itty bitty on unsuspectings at church.  Glad to have David back this week, just in time for teh 4th of July!

More posts and pics to come this week!

Memorial Day

I've been a little lax in posting, so I'll just do a quick recap of the last few weeks.

On the 17 Day Diet, Hubband and I have done well, for the most part....  we have been a bit lazy about it lately, but he lost 13 pounds and I've lost 9.  Currently I am 8 pounds below my pre-pregnancy weight!  I still have a goal to lose 10ish more pounds to get down to my pre-stomach surgery weight... but we're both really happy with our progress so far!  The family events lately have slowed us down, but we haven't gone backward, so it's fine by us!  We're heading to Bend this weekend, so we'll get serious about losing more next week and just being good this week.

On Easter weekend Amelia met her cousins Zachary and Jacob for the first time!  This weekend they'll get to play a little more.... (not sure how exciting it'll be for the boys, but I'm sure Amelia will be entertained!)

This was Mother's Day at my parent's house, it was the first family photo we've taken... yes, we're a bit behind the times.

After most everyone had left, the parents and I sat out back entertaining this one!  She had fun getting all the attention :)

Last weekend we went to Hood River to visit my friend Renee and her husband and baby.  This is the third time the girls have met and the first time Amelia is alert enough to realize that she and Mylee are similar in size.  Amelia could not get enough of her!

David, me, Amelia, Renee, Mylee and Abe.  And, yes, we did dress the girls in the matching outfits!

We went out for a lovely walk down to the Columbia River and around to a coffee shop, and this was Renee's and my view most of the time!

Today is Memorial Day and D and I went on our first family wine trip sans baby.... Auntie Katie watched her! Yeah, practice for when our little nephew comes :)