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6 week Smiles

Music to Our Ears

This past weekend we took Amelia and Bryce to listen to the All Jakarta Honor Orchestra.  We watched this group of incredible middle school strings players rehearse for their evening concert.  This was a great option for us because the actual performance fell right during our bath/bed time so we would not have been able to go.  Instead we had the auditorium to ourselves to enjoy beautiful music.  For those of you that know me - strings are my least favorite instrument and for me to say the sound was lovely is really incredible!

Daddy and Amelia watching intensely

Bryce slept through the entire thing on mommy.  He is a sling sleeper!

What's New with Our Two...

Amelia is such a loving mother to her baby from grandma Mary Ann.  She reads to her, nurses her and takes her for mornings strolls.  It is priceless the way she looks after her.  

Bryce is all smiles now!  It is great to see his whole face light up with a heart melting grin! His first smile was in response to Amelia, which is pretty cool.  He just loves her! 

It is great being home on maternity leave and being able to spend more time with Amelia, too!  We made some crafts to hang in the window for Halloween.  Amelia enjoyed decorating some "ghosties" with her dot art pens.

 Amelia and Bryce love each other!  Here they are reading together.

 Amelia and some of her playmates love our neighbors fish pond.  

I am not sure how much the fish loves it though!

 Bryce is starting to shake, rattle and roll during his wakeful periods:)

Amelia and her buddy Zack at KidSpace in the water exploration area.  

Bryce got a cradle and sway swing last week.  It has been MAGICAL for all of us.  It turns out that he needs motion to have solid naps.  I have been wearing him in a sling because he wakes up in his crib after 25 or so minutes.  It seemed like the whole day I was trying to help him get more rest.  Now I just put him in the swing, turn on his sleep music and pull the curtains and he drifts off into dreamland for nice long stretches.  Why didn't we have one of these with Amelia?

Splish Splash...Amelia's Birthday Bash!

Happy 2nd Birthday to Amelia!  

To celebrate Amelia's special day we had a water fun party at our community pool.  We set up water tables, kiddie pools and had a ton of toys for pouring, floating, squirting, etc.  (Actually, Jim set it all up as I was at home busy nursing Bryce and  entertaining Amelia!  So you can imagine that it was all very organized and enticing.)  Amelia's toddler group took over the pool for a very fun, but hot, morning together.

Here is a link to photos from the party:
https://picasaweb.google.com/101138092122610509246/AmeliaS2ndBirthday


We had a lot of fun getting things ready this year.  Amelia understood that it was her birthday and we were going to have a party to celebrate.  She was super excited to eat cake and so knowing this I decorated it with her favorite character...Elmo!  She had a lot of practice blowing out "candles" in the sand cakes we have been making at the playground, so when the time came to do the real thing she knew just what to do.  It was priceless.