Now we are three

We think Amelia may be teething. What do you think? Mmmm Daddy’s thumb is delicious.

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I generally don’t buy Ian anything techno-geeky for presents since he knows better than I what is out there and what is good/bad. Nonetheless, I thought it might be cool to surprise him with an easy-to-use, portable video camera so we could film Amelia’s “firsts.” I ended up ordering the Flip Mino HD (Amazon.com was [...]

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Amelia just figured out how to suck her thumb. While she has gotten her hands to her mouth and her fingers in her mouth for some time, today was the first time she actually sucked her thumb with her lips sealed around it. She seemed so happy to do it.

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Daddy and Amelia catching some zzzzz in Amelia’s bedroom in the new glider. It is so comfortable you just want to sit in it all day.

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Well, today we mostly worked on the ground floor, with plenty of help from Amelia’s grandparents. The bookshelves are up, couches in place and the floors vacuumed and washed.
Ian’s stuff is all unpacked in the master bedroom and mine is piled in boxes in my walk-in closet, waiting to be sorted through. The kitchen as [...]

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Amelia does not seem to mind the change to a new house. The cat also did well, wandering around her new space quite soon after she was transported over here.
Here is Amelia on her first morning at the new house. She figured out how to make a farting sound with her mouth yesterday. It is [...]

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When I was young (9-10 years), I wanted to be a boy. My best friend and I cut our hair short and asked people to call us by boy names (Mark and…David, if I remember correctly). I can’t exactly remember why we wanted to be boys so badly. We also called ourselves “grils” or maybe [...]

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Packing with a baby is not that easy! I am just trying to get as much done as we can before the movers come on Thursday. Even though Amelia is very happy and well behaved, I can only leave her to play by herself for so long.
The dog had a tough time on Sunday night [...]

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I posted some more photos to picasa. Some are from the Iphone so the resolution is not great. Others were taken with the real camera without a flash, so the light isn’t perfect. In any event, there are some silly & cute ones. Enjoy!

Amelia under 3 months

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Once your child settles into a routine, it throws you off when they change the pattern. Usually Amelia gets a bath and then feeds, and by the time she finishes she’s half asleep and falls asleep right after being burped. This isn’t necessarily true for daytime naps but has been the case for some time [...]

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