Miss Amelia Ann is 1!

Yesterday, our little Meli-girl turned the big "1". She is learning and growing a little more each day.

She has lots of different "names" - 

o  Evie couldn't say "Amelia"  right away, so she called her "Mae-Mae" and it stuck. She also used to refer to her as "Mia", and now calls her "My Baby".
o  Jared and I generally call her "Amelia" or "Meli".
o  Reagan calls her "Meli", "Amelia", or even "Melia".

Things she can do -
o  She is crawling proficiently now, and on all fours vs. the combo army/caterpillar crawl she used to do.
o  She can pull herself to a standing position.
o  She walks around furniture and when holding someone's hand, and she pushes Reagan and Evie around the house on the walking toys.

o  She says a few words: Daddy, Momma, nanna (banana), na-na (no-no), daw (she says this every time she sees a dog), dat (that), bmpa (Grandpa), du (duck), go-go, baba (bottle), and num-num (she says this almost the entire time she is eating).
o  She claps and waves all the time, and gives kisses. :o)

Her Favorite Things
o  Her thumb (which we are trying to get her not to like)
o  Her favorite game is "peek-a-boo" but she also like playing "hide and seek".
o  Her favorite toys are stuffed animals (her monkey especially) and books.
o  Walking (with help), she loves to walk but can't do it on her own so she will follow us around the house until we stop. Then she will climb up our legs and try to grab our hands so we can walk her around the room.
o  Food - pretty much anything as long as she can do it herself.

Amelia is really starting to exert her independence. She has started wanting to feed herself using utensils and sometimes refuses to eat unless she is allowed to do it herself. She now has 4 teeth and I think she's working on 2 more. Her hair has some definite redish/orangish tints to it and we're looking forward to finding out exactly what color it will end up being. It's hard to tell exactly which side of the family she looks more like as I think she's a good mix of both. She loves to follow Reagan and Evie around the house, and they really do entertain her.

She's a very content little girl and we've really enjoyed having her around this last year. :o)