This weekend was pretty laid back. Amelia and I got to spend Saturday morning together. We made a shopping trip to Walmart to get her some more milk, then we played. She loves the kitchen we got her. She is always cooking something and answering her phone. She has a shopping cart and today we played grocery store. She got to pick things out and pay for them, then put everything away in her kitchen. I think her favorite was putting the coins in her pocket. She thought that was pretty awesome
She is really starting to put words together lately. It is impressive. Her favorite phrase to start out with is, "Mommy, I wanna..." After we played grocery store she went to her bag of blocks and said, "Mommy, I wanna buy blocks." She had to put a few blocks in her shopping cart and then take some money out of her pocket... only to put it right back in. Last night she was playing with her kitchen on her own. She turned to face the living room and clear as day said, "Mommy, I want my goat." She went over to her toy farm and we found her little goat. It was so random. It always catches you off guard when she makes a sentence that you can totally understand. But asking for a goat seemed so strange I thought for sure I had heard her wrong.
Amelia had her 18 month checkup at the doctor this week. She is still small. She is in the 10th percentile for weight and head size, but she has moved up to the 25th percentile for height. So, she is getting bigger at least. When we were at the doctor they were asking about her speech, and if she could say any words yet. She was sitting on my lap facing me and right after the doctor asked about the words she busted out with, "Mommy, Daddy has buttons." I was so proud. I'm pretty sure she is a genius. Of course the last time I thought she was a genius I caught her trying to eat the wing of the Styrofoam airplane we bought her.
Yesterday after Amanda got home from work she took Amelia swimming with some friends and I went for a bike ride. I haven't ridden much at all this year and when I do it just reminds me how out of shape I am. The 90° weather felt pretty good compared to the 105° we had the week before. I rode 25 miles then came home and mowed the grass. It has been so dry this summer that the grass hasn't grown. The last time I mowed was the end of June.
I don't know if it was the mowing, the change in weather, or allergies... but this morning I woke up with a really bad sore throat. Amelia hasn't been feeling great either. She is getting both of her incisors and I think that is a lot of it. She hasn't been eating or sleeping well, and she's been moodier than normal. Hopefully they pop through and we get our sweet little girl back.
