Happy 1st Birthday Amelia!

I'm not sure why these are displaying in the reverse order I uploaded them. I guess you can see the 1st birthday cupcake fun in reverse time series. :) Amelia was more interested in eating the frosting and then dropping the rest of her cupcake on the floor. She loves to drop all of her food from every meal on the floor. I've never been so glad that we eat in the kitchen....

Lots of fun today, and I'll post winter wonderland pictures later. Amelia of course didn't quite get the concept of opening gifts, but Camila and her friends Lily and Audrey were more than willing to help. (Thank goodness, or we would have been there for hours.)

Happy Halloween

Halloween Lady Bug

I still need to get a picture of Amelia sitting still in her cow costume, but here's Camila in her ladybug outfit. I'm hoping it actually fits OVER her winter coat, since it sounds like Sunday will be cold!

Giggling fun

I'm not sure what made this game so fun and exciting, but it had both girls screeching/screaming/laughing as loud as they could. I think when one laughs or shouts, the other does too, just for good measure. Amelia is definitely learning a bad inside screaming habit from Camila. We're trying to cure both of them of it, with some limited success. :)

Reading books

The other morning I was cleaning up in the kitchen and realized the girls were being quiet. Of course I had to investigate to make sure they weren't quietly tearing something out of the wall. I found them both in Camila's room, reading books. It was great to see them quietly playing together, because it will probably never happen again. :)

Lazy day

Just a few random pictures of a lazy day hanging out at home.






Amelia puts up with a lot from Camila. Sometimes she pulls Camila's hair, but it's hard to tell if Camila starts it or if Amelia is the instigator. From this picture, I'm thinking Camila better keep her hair out of reach from now on.

Camila's 3rd Birthday

A few pictures from Camila's 3rd birthday party. It was so much fun this year, because she's old enough to get excited. She'd been talking about her birthday party for a couple of weeks, about how she was going to help make her cake, eat her cake, open presents, etc. Thankfully she seemed to understand that it's only a one day thing, because when she ate the last piece of her birthday cake, she never asked for more. On the other hand, she knows that my dad and Amelia both have birthdays in November, so there will be no shortage of birthday cake.


She started the morning with a call from Fabricio's parents.


Here she is getting ready to blow out the candles on her cake that she helped decorate. (I think she enjoys that almost as much as eating it!)


Her friends Lily and Audrey


Kayla observing the present opening fun


Her dress up outfit from Aunt Melissa


I didn't realize this would be such a big hit. I got her a copy of The Very Hungry Catapiller since she loves reading it, but it's now turned into her favorite book. She even "reads" it to us now.