Halloween, Part I

Amelia and Michael on Halloween '08: A pumpkin and her superman

Amelia and Michael Halloween 09: Curious George & his ladybug.

I am loving this chocolate covered strawberry! (mommy liked hers, too!)

I don't like being away from my ookie...even on Halloween.

I am off...

See ya later!!!
Hopefully more Halloween pictures tomorrow...

The reasons behind our lack of blog posts:
1. We lost our camera battery charger. After a few weeks of this nonsense, I (Heidi) bought another one. We took a lot of pictures and when I went to upload them to the computer, we realized that we also...
2. Lost our uploader cord!!!!

Our l'il pumpkin

She finally has enough hair for pig tails!!!!!!!

Leaf Hang

Amelia enjoys a mini cupcake in the leaves. Notice that her security blanket "Ookie" is just in front of her.

Mmmmmm. That frosting is good. She wound up not eating very much of the cake. Just like her dad.

After a few minutes she noticed that I had place her in the leaves. She looked around for a bit and then went back to her eating.

Cupcake done? Why not relax?

Closing Lake George

Everything packed into Perk's Shop. Don't worry Scott--that chair was placed very carefully :)

Hiking the ridge behind the cabin.

Riding on the Mine-Ha-Ha.

Family picture on the ridge.

This weekend our friends Boyd and Christy and their kids Caitlin, Liam and Molly came to help us close up Lake George.

We hiked up the ridge behind the house, rode on a 1 hour cruise of the lake and they all helped us pick the place up. We had a lot of fun and were glad to have their help.

I already can't wait for Memorial Day and the return to the lake.

Amelia at school

This should make up for the lack of recent pictures. Amelia's teacher sent us some pictures of her at school and there are so many cute ones that I just couldn't decide what to leave out. Basically I left out the ones that had other kids...otherwise, I included them all!

"I have important raking to attend to; it's a special method of raking with the handle."

"I have a future in outdoor material management."

Amelia loved the parachute - don't we all remembering loving this as kids?

Painting with pine cones...
Amelia and the saga of the bicycle. She is determined to ride it; HOWEVER, her little legs don't reach the pedals.
...but she tries every day no matter what....
don't know how to get rid of the second picture here... so they are both here!

"See ya later!"

Sunset

We don't have any recent pictures for you because we can't find our camera charger (again) and the pictures we do take are on Tom's new iPhone and for the life of me I can't figure out how to deal with that...

So, we hope this sunset picture I took this summer at Lake George does the trick for you (I know, not as cute as L'il A). We are at Lake George this weekend to close up shop for the winter and I am always very sad when we do it. I love being here in the Fall - and winter always flies by - but it's hard to leave knowing we won't be back for 8 months or so. But for now, it's beautiful Fall weather, there are lots of colorful leaves, and there hasn't been a boat in sight since we got here. We'll enjoy it while we can (and give a special shout out to our Californian Lake George family who aren't here and without whom it is never the same...)

Today Amelia had her 18 mo. check up with Dr. Tessa and she had definitely taken her cute pills before the visit. She was talking and playing all over the place and showing off her MAD SKILZ. When the nurse came to get us for her weigh in, we said, "Amelia we're going for a walk." She then marched out of the room saying "walk? walk? walk? walk?" all the way down the hallway - but not before running back into the room chanting "ookie ookie ookie" and grabbing her beloved lovey, ookie. She weighed in at 24 1/2 pounds and is 31 inches tall. She did not like her shots but was a brave girl - and my heart broke as I held her down on the table and she just laid there happily looking at me, and then when the shot came she looked up at me like, "WHATTTTT IS WRONG WITH YOU MOMMMY???????" But, as usual, thanks to our super nurse it was very quick and we cuddled together afterwards (me and Amelia, that is, not me and the nurse).

Hopefully we will have some fun pictures from this weekend (take from the iPhone, of course...) ... maybe I'll go old school and go buy a disposable camera :)

Grandpa Jones & Heath visit Amelia (oh yeah, and the rest of us, too).

Last weekend Amelia had a special visit from her Grandpa Jones and Heath. She was showered with gifts - almost all of which are pictured below. The big hit was the stroller for her baby, Emma, and the red Dorothy shoes.

L'il A loved pushing her stroller around. She tried to push it on a long walk to a parade - and we had to take a detour and drop baby Emma off for a playdate in our friend's driveway, because she kept off-roading the stroller, getting frustrated, and screaming. Fortunately, we remembered to pick Emma up again after the parade.

Amelia is saying, "Mommy, why are you so far away from me?"

We walked down to the CHS Homecoming Parade. I'm not sure what Tom has around his shoulder, but he'd probably like it if you said that he looked like Indiana Jones.

Grandpa and his girls.

Grandpa and Heath and their girls.