Mommy..Finally!

"Uh oh Dada" was her first ever utterance.

Then came 'Daddy!'

Next was signing 'dad'.

Now she FINALLY recognizes me! You'd think she wouldl learn all the ways to say mom first, since I'm with her all the time, refer to myself in the 3rd person, and she screams every time her daddy picks her up when I'm around, or even if he hugs me....but it's taken this long for her to get it.

Finally though, and all in one night, I got her to sign 'mom' and say 'mommy'. It sounds more like she's saying 'mee-mee', but I know ;)

We were playing Xbox in separate rooms and I (naturally) was completely ignoring her as I was deeply involved in my little gaming world, and the next thing I know Amaia has crawled onto the couch (also another recent discovery) and is climbing into my lap, all up in my face, pulled off my headphones, giving me a HUGE bear hug, and going 'mee-mee, mee-mee'. I about cried. Of course I dropped everything and hugged her and covered her in kisses (probably too many for her liking). We managed to get her to do it again later in the night-video follows:

Creations

Here are some of the things I've 'created'. Not in any particular order:

gel pen :)

yes I made her :) but I'm actually showing off the dress she's wearing that I made for my sister's wedding

I traced this, so I don't know how much it counts, but I improvised a little on the decor

This was also a pattern

colored pencil. I don't necessarily think this is a good drawing, but I like the idea of it....

a scrapbook page I made. I took a picture of it instead of scanning it, that's why it looks all crooked

Trip to the Park

Friday we went to the park to play. We had a blast, even though Amaia ended up with a total of 10 fire ant bites. She never complained about them. She had leaned over into the grass and came up with her hand covered, which I promptly cleaned off, but they had already gotten her. She was wearing shoes and long jeans, so I never thought to check her feet even after she was walking around in the grass, but her shoes didn't cover the top of her foot and the ants must have gotten under her jeans because she ended up with 8 bites on her left foot.

strolling with Joseph

splashing around

last time we put her in this swing she freaked out-she loved it this time

she headbutted him and cut her gums where a new tooth is just about to pop out, but she was still up for giving baby Joseph a hug

hello?

finally a hug that we got on the camera

my favorite

chatting on the phone

Dallas Trip

Here are some pictures from our trip to Dallas. Justin Amaia and I drove up Saturday morning to babysit for the Hales while they went to the BYU vs OU football game. On Monday we all went to the Botanic Gardens and then on a sweet train ride (that we ended up driving on a one way street for just to find the darn place!). I apologize to the people who we took pictures for on the trip-I have all your pictures on my computer but I didn't add any of them to this post. On the way there and on the way home, about 3 1/2 hours into the trip, Amaia got carsick and vomited more milk (it seemed like) than she could have possibly drunk. It was her first time in the forward facing carseat and we think she just got carsick, but it was still pretty nasty. We ended up getting the inside of our car detailed when we got back-it was that bad!

amaia ripped off the paper table cloth and tried to color on the cloth one after she ate all my noodles and made a mess of herself


Justin and Amaia on the train

on the train

this spider web went all the way across the path up in the trees-the spider is almost about as big as the dragonfly it caught and was in the process of wrapping up

some family pictures. Too bad we didn't match at all

Amaia is trying to hug baby Adalynn

playing in the suitcase

talking on the hotel phone

this is a really cute face until you realize it's her pooping face

giving teddy a 'big bear hug'

amaia sharing her goldfish with me

relaxing

goofy faces

sort of blurry, but cute nonetheless

she was sticking her hand through a hole in this thing and then washing her face. and no that's not justin's arm

Shooting Videos

Ok, here are some videos from the times we've gone shooting. Some of these are from back in March/May, and others are from just a month or so ago. I didn't watch these to make sure I'm not making any funny faces or anything, so I apologize in advance :)

August 2009

Ok well I've officially caught up. Sorry-there are a lot of videos on this one! Hope you enjoy them :)

on the swing with mommy

the play room. now all we need is the futon and it will be complete

we had to rig the handles so amaia couldn't turn on the water anymore

shooting some variation of an AK

sniper rifle

i shot all the ones around the chest area

the finished hammock-i had to rig it so the weaves would stay together and not spread apart. if you open the picture larger you can see the x's i made all over it

giving kisses to daddy

the top of my cookie jar

side 1

side 2

side 3-my favorite

side 4

amaia and i fell asleep in the ball pit

pirate stuff