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Eeeep a whole month has come and gone and I have not made a single post.  Although it may seem like I have given up on this site it is not the case, it is just that I have been so busy at work that the thought of getting home and sitting back down at a computer makes my eyes water.

Anyways, the other benefit of not having written for a month is I have lots of backlog, so now where to begin….

The one thing I kept meaning to write about but keep forgetting is Amelia’s obsession with her Princess/Cinderella Beauty Purse. Amelia has always been into purses and awhile ago Jeff’s Aunt Cindy got her this lovely pink purse all over her own.  She has always loved this purse but in the last month she has become obsessed. The purse goes EVERYWHERE with Amelia, she tells use she needs it to carry her “Stuff”, yup that’s right her STUFF. Her stuff usually is composed of her cell phone (old phone of John and Denise’s that have been donated to Amelia’s cause), her MardiGras beads care of Heather and usually a few puzzles pieces or blocks… Amelia will not leave home without her purse but I will say she does know now that she must always leave her purse in the car when we get wherever we are going, so it isn’t too bad. We do find rather interesting things in our little pack rats purse, I have found our WORKING cell phone, a fair amount of change and Jeff’s client card… At least we know where to look now.

Amelia is also really into her books.  Other than her purse and the occasional My Little Pony reference she isn’t in to one particular marketing type thing which suits me fine but she has recently really gotten into few lines of books, Charlie and Lola (the home fav), Skippy John Jones and Moldy Locks (the two daycare favs). Amelia now likes to quote these books, I can pick up on the Charlie and Lola references but the other two we are left clueless on sometimes. The funniest are the Skippy John Jones references cause Skippy is a Siamese cat who wants to be a Chihuahua and Heather reads the books in a Spanish accent. On Sat morning, we were at the bank and we were talking to the personal banker guy and Jeff was bugging Amelia and she turned to him and said “Your killin’ me, Dude”… my eyes widened and I think I saw the banks eyebrows raise a fraction of an inch… It was a Skippy John Jones quote.  

Amelia has been pretty good these days, although potty training goes in fits and bursts and she has her hellion days for the most part she is pretty happy. She is also starting to catch on to cause and affect which Jeff and I have been trying to instil in her. Recently we have been giving her juice in the morning as a treat (she refers to it as her “sweets and treats”), last week though she didn’t get her juice cause she was being very naughty while was trying to get her dressed, she got mad at us for a couple seconds then calmed down and told us that she would be good tomorrow morning and she would get her juice, and she was. This morning she was putting up a fuss about putting on her socks, she didn’t want them on she got mad at me and we agreed to discuss it further when we got downstairs, once she was up on Jeff’s lap eating her morning snack and saw the glass of juice she turned to me and said “I get good now Mommy, can I have my socks on please…” I put them on then sure enough she asked for some juice.

For Halloween this year Amelia was a yellow fairy princess, it was a costume that my friend Kath gave to Liv’s daughter Emma a few years ago them Amelia got it. I decided it would make a good Halloween costume for Amelia, Amelia was pretty set on being (her words) “a princess with a purse on my arm, like this…” By the time Halloween rolled around we managed to convince her that it would be cool to be a fairy princess with a purse on her arm. She had a good Halloween, though she was very shy at times once we hooked up with her friend Ronan, who’s Halloween spirit was infectious, she perked up.

Amelia is also showing much more interest in our cats these days, she likes giving them love and like to pet them, I must say she is pretty gentle with them.

All else has been good, Jeff and I have both been extremely busy at work so we are abit dead in the evenings, Amelia however has been a ball of energy and even if we put her to bed at 8pm she frequently stays up singing in her bed or looking at her books until 9/9:30 ish… I think we are at the end of the naps, eep how I will miss them…