Here are some random pictures that we've taken this month of our funny girl. She's starting to figure out that when the camera comes out she needs to smile (or at least open her mouth wide). Thanks to Aunt Tara and Uncle Shane for all of the cute Australian clothes! We love her whale jammies.

Amelia took her first trip on a plane this month. We headed to Chicago for our friend Kristina's wedding. In fact she had her first ride on a plane, the "L", a bus, the Metra, and several cab rides. Surprisingly (at least to me) Amelia did fantastic. Amelia did great on both plane rides and I think she enjoyed the attention she was receiving from our fellow passengers. I do think she got a bit airsick though since she decided to puke all over baggage claim. We got to spend time with the Nielsen clan and Nicole and Kris (who are expecting a baby girl of their own this December!!). It was a great trip and Amelia didn't start to show signs of fatigue until our last day there. I think it had something to do with the fact that she was sleeping in the bathroom, which wasn't well ventilated and so she wasn't sleeping well. We spent some time playing tourists and Zach finally got to go to Buckingham fountain. We took some pics of Amelia at a little garden by the fountain and Kris and Nicole got in on the action. She also pitched her first fit while we were in Chicago. It was quite cute actually. She really wanted to play with Zach's big, red water bottle, but he took it away. She started pounding her feet and screaming a bit while flailing her arms. It only lasted a second or two since she was immediately distracted by something else. It was a small glimpse into our future. I thought I had this parenting thing under control, but I quickly realized that I have no idea what I'm doing. I had no idea how to handle the situation. I guess I need to do some more reading. Thank you Mom and Dad for making the trip with us!

This will teach me to never nap in the morning. Amelia decided to wake up one morning at 6:30 and after 30 minutes of wrestling with her in our bed she finally went back to sleep for about an hour or so. I was exhausted when she woke up and so my sweet husband decided to taker her for a walk so I could get a few more minutes of sleep. He also decided to dress her with a onesie he found in the bottom of her drawer. I really liked this onesie when we bought it (about a year before we even got pregnant), but when I realized that he put it on our daughter I all of the sudden didn't like it anymore. Needless to say, I think she looks like a little boy in these pics and I've made a note to self to not let Zach dress her on school picture days. I'm having flashbacks to when my dad dressed me for my 2nd grade school picture. I wasn't showered, hair hardly combed, and I too looked like a little boy.

So Amelia has a problem... she likes to claw the crap out of the left side of her face. Actually she likes to rub her left eye when she's tired and somehow that ends up with her clawing her face. She usually has a small scab on the left side of her face at any given time and even has a scar from when she was about 8 weeks old where she put a big gash in her cheek. Part of the problem is that I let her nails get too long. So after being harassed by Zach to cut her nails I did. I did a great job cutting off her daggers, but I also managed to cut a little piece of her thumb off as well. I couldn't stop the bleeding and the only thing I could think to do was put a band-aid on it. Well as soon as I put the band-aid on it she started sucking on the band-aid. So I grabbed a sock and put a sock on her hand. At first she was obsessed with the sock, but after a few hours she acted like the sock was her new hand. I snapped these funny pictures right after the incident. She's not crying because of her finger, but because she was ready for a nap, promise.

After a visit to the pediatrician this month for some poop related issues he insisted that rice cereal will solve the problem. So I did some research and found what I thought was the "best" rice cereal to try. I guess just because it's the "best" doesn't mean that Amelia will like it. Here are some shots I took from her first encounter with something other than breast milk. She enjoyed sucking on the spoon, but preferred the spoon when it didn't have cereal on it. For the past few weeks we've given her cereal almost every day just for practice so that in a few weeks when she can eat real food she knows what to do. I've already stocked up on some good organic fruits and veggies to puree and freeze. Should be fun.