Our Little Helper

Ami is wanting to get more involved in everyday household chores, in a useful way. Of course it takes longer to get things done, but she gets so happy with herself when she knows she is helping. She tries to help with dishes and laundry. So, I figured I would use her new skills to my benefit. If she can do those things, she can bring me a diaper. That's what we have started working on. I can see now that she is going to help with the new baby as much she possibly can. Hopefully we have taught her to be soft by having animals. She sure is going up right before our eyes.

The Explorer

A couple days before this picture was taken Scott and I were talking about how maybe we are too strict about not letting Ami get into stuff to "explore." Well, if you let her she definitely will get into whatever she really shouldn't. I'm glad she didn't get in the top drawer where the steak knives are. I showed Scott this picture when he got home and told him now you see why we don't let her get into stuff. Really I need to let go some but it is going to take some patience.

Hide and Go Seek

Earlier this week I noticed that our Wii Fit game was missing. Ami opens the entertainment center and pushes buttons until disc come out of the Wii and DVD player whenever I lock her out of the room I'm in. I usually hear her and catch her in the act. Well, this time I didn't. I called Scott to at work to inform him that our daughter had lost the game. When he got home he inquired if I had found it. Nope. He proceeded to tear the house apart. Then, he started questioning me like I was losing my mind and I had misplaced or was pulling a joke on him. Yesterday we went through the trash for the week. Oh, what fun. Later in the day Scott decided to watch a movie and low and behold there was the Wii Fit game. Ami had managed to put it in the DVD player well enough that it would close but not well enough for it to read that there was a disc, so the display said, "No Disc." Scotts reply after finding it, "I can't believe I dug through trash."

Trade Off

Baby #2 is already giving me headaches. It's not even out of the womb yet!! No, I know that it is normal, but I didn't get a daily dose of them with Ami. I also have felt a lot more nausous with this one. My doctor tried comforting me by telling me that most subsequent pregnancies are more uncomfortable, but the trade off is that I won't have to go through 40 hours of labor. I'm thinking how is that a good trade off. I suffer for several weeks instead of just 40 hours. Thankfully the first trimester will be over in about three weeks and hopefully I will be back normal.



I feel like such a wimp with this one. Last time I went to work everyday without complaining and this one I a have hard time getting normal chores done. As Lisa would say, "Pull up your big girl panties!!"

Ami Setting New Fashion Trends

Saturday we were going to run some errands, so I asked Scott to get Ami dressed while I finished doing a couple of things. Both him and Ami went to her room and when they came out Scott told me this is what she wanted to wear. I gave him a strange look thinking how can a 16 month old pick out what she wants to wear. Then, he rephrased it. This is what she grabbed out of the drawer. That sounds about right.



If she sees any article of clothing around she wants you to put it on her. She gets mad at you if you don't oblige. It doesn't matter if it doesn't make sense. Last week she had two pair of pants on because that's what she wanted. (We didn't go anywhere that way, but.....you get the idea.)

Fun With Grandmas

I tried to do this yesterday but the computer ate my entry. Last week Ami and I went to Grama's house to visit Scott's family. I talked Michelle into going in order to be able to distribute the wailing and crying to somebody other than myself. Actually all the kids did well surprisingly. We had a good time relaxing and getting fed with someone else's cooking. (Thank you Grama.) Scott's mom is stubborn and won't let you help.



I took the Wii up and we played around with it one evening. I thought Ryan would get a kick out of watching his parents flaying their arms around. I didn't think we would get Grandma Jones to play, but she stepped right up. She tried the tennis and bowling.

A day or so later she had a doctors appointment about her knees. The doctor was looking at the x-rays seeing how bad a shape her knees were in. Some how it came up that she was the State Champion Tennis player two years in a row. Then, she proceeded to tell him that she had played tennis the night before. He gave her strange look with knowing how bad her knees are. She told him have you ever heard of that game Wii, W-i-i-. He hadn't but the tech had. She got the biggest kick out of it and told Grandpa Jones that he needed to get her one.