Potty time!

On Friday morning, Amelia was running around avoiding getting ready for school.  Then she went in and sat down on the potty we bought for her a few months ago - fully clothed of course.  A few minutes later we noticed she was still sitting there and concentrating pretty hard.  When she got up, we noticed she had pooped in her diaper!  Holy crap - she knew that to go sit on the potty to go poo-poo!  Martin and I thought this was pretty amazing but chalked it up to coincidental.  Then, that evening, Amelia was running around naked avoiding taking a bath when she went and sat on her potty again.  A minute or two later when she stood up we noticed there was pee-pee in the potty!!!  Immediately we got so excited and began to praise Amelia.  Seriously - you would have thought she just won the lottery!  It pretty much confirms the thought that we have a genius!  Yes, we're biased, but I don't care.  We haven't been trying to get her to go "pee-pee in the potty" but we encourage her to sit on it with her diaper on just to get used to it.  


Wait, there's more!  Then, on Saturday night, she was staying with the grandparents and all my sisters and brother were over at their house while Martin and I went to a wedding in Houston.  My sister sent me an emergency text: "Amelia went pee-pee in the big toilet!"  Unbelievable!  I called to find out the details and apparently she told my sister "pee-pee" and pointed to the toilet.  So, my sister took off her diaper and put her on the toilet.  Sure enough, she went pee-pee!


I'm not going to get ahead of myself on this one, but it is pretty awesome that she's already understanding when she has to "go".  Definitely a proud moment for Martin and I:)

The Brat Pack

If you've read my earlier posts, you will know that there were 9 kids born in the same year at my office.  Yes - 9!  And we've always done monthly playdates to get the kids together.  One of my co-workers nicknamed them the "Brat Pack" which I think is perfect so I will steal her label for my blog.  The kids are getting so big and the play dates are getting a bit more intense.  One of the mom's travels with her bouncy castle which works out great for us.  Whoever hosts usually allows use of their home.  And that is very gracious since we are talking about 9 running, climbing and screaming kids along with their screaming parents.  Not really though - we're all pretty relaxed.  Here are the photos from the latest play date.  Amelia had fun and played well with little altercation.  She is now the smallest of the 9 kids even though she is the 2nd to the oldest (the first oldest being the set of quads) so technically she's 5th oldest?  I'm not sure how that works.

Sweet Perrine!

Ava with Sophia keeping a watchful eye.

Amelia with her goldfish

Amelia & Ava

Chelsi & Remy

Laura & Jack the heartbreaker

Saoirse, Amelia and Jack

Saoirse and Amelia

Lovin' the juice box

The whole gang - this is a challenging photo to take.

Parent - Teacher Conference

The other day Martin and I had our first Parent - Teacher conference.  Yes, Amelia is only one year old, but apparently this is standard.  It was a quick chat about Amelia's progress at school, what she learns and how she interacts with the other kids.  She's gotten a lot better since her first couple of weeks at the new school.  She no longer cries when we drop her off and she's almost always in a good mood when we pick her up.  They're still working with her on being nice to other kids.  Now we work on saying things like "my space" which is how they keep the kids from scratching and hitting each other and "gentle touches" which is what they say when the kids are being aggressive and scratching or hitting.  "Gentle touches" also includes us petting the face to let her know how to play nice with her friends. It works pretty good with the dogs too.  Poor Buggy has tolerated some serious abuse from Amelia.  She likes to pull his fur, poke his eyes and ears and use him as a chair.  Overall the meeting went well and all is good.  We like her school and her teachers and they seem to love her.  

Snow Day - February 4th, 2011

Who knew it would snow our first winter in Austin?  Seriously - we got more than two inches I think and it was so nice!  We're still living in the apartment so we can't just go outside and play in our yard.  But it's a big, hilly property with a big field next to it.  As soon as Amelia was awake we bundled her up and took her outside.  At first she was put off by the fact the snow was getting on her boots.  It definitely took some getting used to.  But she walked around and liked it for a few minutes.  Then wanted to go inside, which was fine with me because it was flippin' cold!  I feel bad for all of our Houston friends who's kids really wanted to see snow - no snow in Houston even though the evil weather man said it would.  

Dog prints:)

First Haircut

Technically, this was not her first cut.  I did trim her bangs a while back.  But this is the first time we paid for her cut.  We went to Birds Barbershop which is a hip and cool Austin establishment.  I looked into going to one of the "kids" cuts places but it was like a circus and I couldn't handle.  So we went the way of tattooed hairstylists and good music - naturally.  It was very cute and she enjoyed the attention.  She got a bang trim and her mullet cropped.  We got some cute photos and that's all that matters:)