New Amelia Pictures and SNOW!!!

This is the ice that arrived before the snow- it is pretty but sure makes things more complicated!

Mia- playing in the snow and loving it!

A view of the ice on my favorite tree in our front yard

Ice and snow in our front yard

This is a close up picture of Amelia watching the snow from the kitchen window
Such a big girl!
Okay- I really have to explain this picture.... Grandpa Pat (Patrick's Dad) sent her a "Billy Bob" pacifier- it really looks funny !!
After bath time- Patrick and I attempting to put a diaper on her!
Such a sweet girl!!!

Can I just say I LOVE the snow-it reminds me of Colorado and good times! Patrick is in heaven with all the snow! It will be a lot more fun when I can take Amelia out to play in it but stuffing her in her snowsuit for something she doesn't even understand yet just sounded exhausting today. Just dressing her most days takes a lot out of me- she is like a little monkey and I have to chase her around and do one arm/leg at a time....Don't get me started on how hard it is to change her diaper now. It usually takes both Patrick and I at night after her bath and she SCREAMS until we let her get up to play! I am afraid that she already has a very strong personality...she must have gotten that from Patrick......

So instead, I went out in the snow to get the mail when she was napping so Mia could play around in the snow. Mia LOVES the snow and had a blast.

Here are some pictures of the snow and some really recent pictures of Miss Amelia. She is getting so big!!

Amelia is getting so big!!

All worn out- a rare site! Sleeping in her big girl carseat

Amelia discovered the toilet paper and it is now a favorite pass time of hers to play with it

I literally turned around to put away a fork and she was STANDING on the door or the dishwasher!!

Helping with the laundry- she could do this for hours!

Okay- so it has been over a month since I last posted anything. Sorry! However, I now have to follow Miss Amelia around the house while she opens cabinets and drawers and have little free time. Amelia is "cruising" (walking from place to place by holding onto furniture, walls, etc) at a fast pace. She has stood a couple of times without holding onto anything but she never realizes it-if she did she would sit down and probably start to cry. At the rate she is going, she will probably be walking by her 1st birthday.
Amelia has become quite a little helper by helping me unload the dishwasher, washing machine, and unrolling our toilet paper rolls (not really too helpful). She is busy all the time and some days only sleeps for about an hour or two....Here are some new pictures of our little busy body.

Amelia updates

Well we had to go to the ER for the first time with little miss Amelia. She cried for about 3 1/2 straight on Sunday night and nothing we were doing would soothe her. We finally loaded her up about 1:30 AM and didn't get back home until 4:00 AM. Turns out she had a really bad ear infection and some upper respiratory congestion. They gave her some Tylenol with codeine which helped her sleep and relieve the pain. We couldn't fill the RX until the next morning. Who knew that the Walgreen's pharmacy is only open until 12:00 but the store is 24 hours. Not really helpful when you have to fill a prescription at 4:00 AM. Anyway- her fever got up to 104.5 yesterday morning which was really scary. Luckily we brought it back down fairly quickly, thanks to great advice from the nurse at our pediatric clinic. Amelia slept most of the day yesterday to make up for her 4 hours of sleep from 4:00 AM-8:00 AM on Monday morning. She is doing much better today but still not quite back to her old self.

In light of Christmas being right around the corner and all that we have to be thankful for- I am attaching some pictures that my good friend Kyle Reynolds took for us. They turned out really good and I wanted to share a few of my favorites. Merry Christmas!!!

Amelia's new tricks

Well, little Miss Amelia has sure been up to a lot since l last posted! She now offically pulls up on any and everything. I came in to get her up from a nap one day and she was standing in her crib waiting for me smiliing. We had to drop the mattress down another level that night so she couldn't climb out. Ever since that day, she has been getting more and more brave. She has had a couple of tumbles but nothing too bad yet. She does almost give me a little heart attack daily though! Here are some pictures of her new tricks and moves.
Surfing with her carseat

This is Amelia crawling through our coffee table

Any good toys in here?

Look at me!!!

First time standing up in her crib!

Thanksgiving

Grandpa Pat, Patrick, and Amelia

First time in a swing

Great Grandpa, Amelia, Daddy, and Grandpa

Great Grandpa and Amelia-it was hard to get this picture!!

Amelia and Mimi

Dylan and Amelia playing with the remote

How cute are they?

Pat, Kelly, and Patrick waiting on dinner

Look at all the food!!

Dining room table before dinner

We went to Phoenix for Thanksgiving to see Patrick's Grandpa and Grandma Barbara. This was Amelia's first time to meet her great grandparents and she loved them! Patrick's grandpa is a gourmet cook and made us quite the feast! The weather was so beautiful and warm- it was high 70's low 80's. We arrived on Wednesday afternoon and left on Friday afternoon. It was a short trip but a ton of fun. Luckily Grandpa and Barbara have all of the needed baby items- high chair, pack and play, toys, bathtub, walker, etc. for their other grand kids so this made our life much easier!!! We even had Amelia test out some toys that she might be getting from Santa for Christmas.

Lights of the Ozarks

Look at Sam checking out Amelia!

Amelia & Sam going to the parade-Sam looked surprised in every picture!

We took Amelia and our good friends Sam, Jenn, and Darren to the Lights of the Ozarks. They do a parade and officially light the lights on our downtown square. Sam is just 10 days older than Amelia so they make quite the pair. They both did really well but only because we had plenty of Mum Mums and Puffs to keep them occupied. Amelia really seemed to like all of the lights but she really liked being around all the people.

Sam cried on the way to the parade in the car and Ameila cried on the way home. We came back to our house and ate some food from Loafin Joe's. Amelia went to sleep right away but Sam woke back up and joined in the party. Sam had to borrow some of Amelia's pajamas and luckily she had a pair of plain yellow pjs that fit him otherwise he would have been wearing some serious pink! We had a great time and here are some pictures from the event.

Denver Revisited

Patrick after the race

Sarah and Amelia with our marathon runner!

Amelia taking a bath in the Deets sink!

Corn Maze family picture

All the kiddos watching a video-look how cute and focused Amelia is!

Sweet Tyler playing with Amelia at the cabin

Rebekah, Taylor, Patrick, and Amelia

Amelia in a high chair for the first time at a restaurant

So we were in Denver again in October for Patrick to run in the Denver Marathon. Patrick did awesome- he ran the marathon in 3 hours 50 mins and met his goal of not walking throughout the race. He is already talking about when he does the next one and how he can improve his time and train more!

We also spent some time with our good friends the Williams and the Deets at the Williams cabin in the mountains in Alma (outside of Breckenridge/Dillon area). We had such a wonderful time. We did a corn maze (halfway through because it was getting cold, dark, and the kids were getting restless!) We also had an adults only night out with the Deets and went to White Chocolate Grill by Park Meadows mall- we had such a fun time and good food. The kids had a babysitter and slept the whole time.

We also got to spend some time with Andy and Liz. Liz ran in the half marathon so they were there to help Amelia and me cheer Patrick onto the finish line. They also helped me take care of Patrick after the race and drive him back home before lunch. We then ate lunch downtown at one of our favorites Ted Montana Grill and Amelia sat in a highchair for the first time!

We miss Colorado and all of our friends there so much. Thankfully, we are lucky to be able to have the opportunity to go back and visit frequently.

Razorback game #3

Amelia leaving the game- asleep!

sitting on top of the hog statue

Stella fast asleep during the middle of the game!

Patrick, Amelia, Tommy, and Stella before the game

How funny is this view from behind?

Well this was Amelia's 3rd Razorback football game and she did pretty well. We made it through about 30 minutes of the 1st quarter before we had to let her go inside and crawl around. Amelia is getting into more and more things though. Her new favorite thing to do is go through her diaper bag and throw everything out. She got a hold of her formula holder which is a plastic container that hold her powder formula in 3 dividers. She managed to open this and dumped out the powder on the blanket. Then somehow she also got a hold of one of my ketchup packets from my corn dog and got ketchup on the back of her outfit and on the blanket.....

Then magically right before half time (and right before we were about to lose it!) my parents came and whisked her away to the box they were sitting in. Patrick and I actually had a chance to watch the game!

We took our friends Tom and Sydney and their little girl Stella who is 13 months. Stella did awesome and even took a little nap right in the middle of the game! Amelia went to sleep towards the end of the game and my was asleep when my mom was carrying her out of the stadium. Here are some pictures from the big day.