Amelie- 10 months

At 10 months, Amelie says "hi" and "Dada".  The "hi" sounds like "hi" or "hey," and I'm pretty sure it means that.  The "Dada" might just be babbling, but I'm giving her credit for it.  She loves her Daddy, and gets a huge grin every time she sees him, so its no surprise that that's her first word.  (Although Kenny's pretty sure it would have been Kenny, if Kenny weren't such a hard sound for babies.) Still no crawling, but she's getting closer, often getting on to all fours or at least 2 hands and one knee as she stretches to reach things.  She wants to get into everything.  She has no teeth but manages to eat most things anyways. Her best trick is clapping... we're working on waving hello and goodbye. She thinks peekaboo is hilarious.  She likes hiking in the backpack and swinging in the backyard. She sleeps through the night, most nights. Her nicknames are Pea, Little and A.

Happy Easter!

A at the MOPS egg hunt. They put on a nice egg hunt at Marshdale park down the road from us on Saturday.  There were a million eggs just laying on the ground and around the playsets.  Logan was very choosy-- he only picked green, yellow or purple ones.  There was candy in some eggs, and in others certificates for books, stuffed animals, or toys.  A got a giraffe.

Dying eggs, round 2.  Round 1 was eaten.

 

Amelie & Logan with their Easter loot.  I took this picture about 30 times and this is the best I got.  Logan makes the wierdest faces in pictures now.

Amelie and Ginny chatting

Fashionable ladies

We had friends over for Easter brunch & an egg hunt. 

On the hunt.

Logan would only pick up the ball eggs (they looked like basketballs, baseballs, soccer balls).  He passed by all the regular colored ones.

Our attempt at a group shot

Easter baseball. 

Wagon rides- Lucian, Arbor, Logan

Sharon, A, Jac

Spring

Grandma Z got Logan an Easter egg dying kit about 2 months before Easter.  We tried waiting but broke down about a month before Easter and made some early Easter eggs.  I guess we can always do another round. 

Logan decided to ride his brake-less Strider bike down our steep driveway.  I came out of the house as he was hurtling down the driveway yelling Mommy!  I tried to catch him but I think I just made him wipe out. This is the post wipe-out cleanup operation... medicating with lollipops.

My cousin Tracey and her daughter Courtney came to visit for a couple days. We went out to dinner at Hacienda Colorado.  Restaurants are difficult to choose these days... has to be the right mix of nice enough for visitors and not so nice that my children will bother everyone.  When Logan started doing handstands next to other tables we decided it was time to leave.

Family pic outside the restaurant

Mark's been doing lots of hard climbing in Clear Creek, and has gotten some nice publicity on the climbs and on his & Mike's book. Climbing at this level can require a lot of sacrifice-- particularly in the cookie department.  For a while he was starving himself to get extra light for his route and we were all miserable.  Logan asked him about 5 times a day if he was mad, because when you're starving, you look mad all the time.  But then he sent his hardest route ever and we welcomed the cookies back home, so everyone's happy now... at least until next season:).

The book is here!  We have spent many hours signing, stuffing, sealing, postage-sticking, and baking cookies to keep the mailman pacified.  

Amelie and her bud Levi.  They're 8 days apart. 

Amelie has a bunch of hand-me-down summer dresses that she's about to outgrow before summer arrives, so we played dress up one morning.  She was very enthusiastic at first, but after the 4th or 5th one was over it.

Mom, why am I wearing this dumb hat?

We had a beautiful 70 degree day today and went for a hike at 3 Sisters.  Logan walked the whole ~2-3 miles by himself... I think that's a first. It was nice to get a warm day outside before the predicted 8-16" of snow arrives tomorrow.