Summer Fun

The other night Matt and I were looking at some older blog posts on here. And it hit me how much I enjoyed some of the posts that we actually wrote, rather than just a montage of pictures.

So here I am, trying again to actually write something, rather than just take the lazy way out of just posting pictures and videos. Though we will keep doing that as well.

I think for this one, I can only write about one thing, Amelia and how darn cute she is. It seems like everyday she does something new, and there are times when I just look at her and love her even more and more. So here are some of the highlights.

First off, she is a little chatterbox! Just over the last two weeks or so, she's really, really found her voice. She's always been vocal, but now she really chatters. To me, to Matt, to her books, toys and TV. She also loves to sing. She's always been into music. I remember when I was pregnant with her, anytime music came on, she'd start to wiggle. She's still the same. She loves watching Cbeebies in the morning and the 'birthday song' is one of her favorites. When I put her down for naps, I often hear her chatter and sing to herself. It's so stinking cute.

She's also showing her British roots by still doing 'cheers'. Over a month ago, one night at dinner I taught her out to touch our cups and say 'cheers'. Now she does it every single time she has her sippy. She is happy if we don't have a cup, she'll let us use our hand or whatever is nearby. I've even caught her tapping her cup against the wall and her various toys and stuffed animals. She even sounds like she's saying 'cheers' though it sounds like she's saying 'deers'. But that's a huge improvement on 'duh' which is what it used to be.

We've had so much fun this summer. Every day that's nice, Amelia and I try to go out and do something. We're so lucky in that we've got several parks close by. We sometimes head to the zoo, or we go feed the ducks at Regent's Park. Or we'll head to the playground at Wellington Park, off the high street. Or we'll head to the fountains in Swiss Cottage or go to the Hyde Park Lido. It's awesome. We have some friends who live nearby and we often go with them. In fact today started out (and still is) bright and sunny (yesterday was pouring rain all day). So we met up with two other mums and their kids at the playground and had some fun. All the other kids are older than Amelia, and it's fun to see her want to keep up with the big kids. She does a pretty good job. And luckily the older kids are really good with her (well the boy Oliver can take or leave her, he's just two though and teaches her how to handle being picked on...much like a big brother). After we were through with the park, we walked up to the high street and ate some yummy gelato. And after having authentic gelato in Italy, I know for a fact that this stuff is yummy.

It surprises me all the time how much Amelia picks up on and understands. She will get her shoes for me, if I ask her to. Of course she'll also bring me my shoes and Matt's shoes, even if we hadn't asked. She also will get her foot/soccer ball when asked (it's her favorite toy we take it with us all the time when we go to the park). If I start to hum the William Tell Overture aka the Lone Ranger theme song, Amelia will go and climb on her rocking horse so she can rock in style. Also, if you hum the 'Skippy the Bush Kangaroo' theme song (it's an old TV show from Oz, where Skippy helps solves crimes with the help of a plucky little boy...not unlike Flipper and/or Lassie). She'll get one of her stuffed kangaroos and start it hopping along, just like Matt always does with it.

And about 80% of the time if I say to her "Mia, let's change your bum" she'll go and lay down on her changing mat. Such a clever girl.

At dinner time, she's started to blow on the food we put on her tray (she sees us doing it) and she's also started trying to 'feed' one of the little toys that are attached to the tray (they are a giraffe and a zebra). She'll blow on the food and then give it to the giraffe to eat, she puts it right at the mouth.

There's just so much that she does. I really need to be better at writing it down.

That's pretty much it from here. We need to really think about packing for Denmark, we leave on Friday! Luckily it's only a 2 hour plane ride and only about another 30 minutes or so on the metro to our hotel. We're excited about this hotel we're staying in, it's supposedly 4 stars, but we got it for an excellent rate. It's got a breakfast buffet included as well as free wireless internet. So we're bringing a laptop and will most likely post about our adventures while in Denmark, rather than when we get home.

We're very excited to go and in very much need of a nice relaxing holiday!