Tuesday, July 1, 2008

T shirt o' the day

"Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good."
Friedrich Nietzsche


while boys play mariokart

Amelia went to bed pretty early tonight. I think she is using a lot more energy now that she is crawling consistently. I changed her diaper after we ate dinner, and she was still fussy. It had been barely an hour since her last bottle, and she had some corn puffs and juice while we ate dinner, so surely she wasn't hungry. So we tried the teething ring, we tried walking around, standing and rocking, crawling after the dog, singing, still ....

"WAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!"
Baby Translation: I am so mad! Why don't you guys understand? You are ruining my life! This is terrible. I am in distress. Do you not know what wah means?

Enter bottle, and sweet contentment for the 5 minutes it takes her to chug the formula. Some extra calories are required to triple your size in a year.

I might be temperamental if I had teeth poking through my baby gums, too. Other than these fussy times, though, the munchkin has proven herself to be pretty easygoing and smiley. As we approach her 9-month birthday this week (which happens to be the same day another candle is added to my cake) I am floored by how fast this year has gone. I hope we can continue to make time for fun together like we did this weekend.

Rick & I took her to Crown Center on Saturday. While we munched tasty sandwiches at Streetcar, Amelia watched the people stroll by and ate her corn puffs. Rick tore up some pieces of his french fries for her(sans salt or ketchup). Oh, Amelia, we've only just begun. French fries are a mere speck in the vast junk food universe. She seemed pleased. We will definitely be back so she can frolic in the Crown Center square fountain. Got some pretty cute pictures of letting her dip her toes or fingers in one of the geysers. By next year, she just might be out there running through the spray with the other kids.
This girl wins the awesome T-shirt contest:
That's right, it says I heart tater tots.

Good times.