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The 4th of July with the Gettings

You talkin’ to me?

Little Cinderella

DCC picnic

Bath-time fun

Messy boy

Swimming with friends

Alice’s secret hiding place

Sweet Matoes family time

Fun at “Donalds”

(A note from Mommy: We decided we need more room now that there are going to be 5 in our family, so we are getting our house ready to put on the market. Bye bye 2 bedrooms, hello more space.)

(A note from Mommy: OK I feel like I’ve been such a slacker since there were no posts between April and when Amelia was born! I hope to keep things a little more updated now.)

Post by Liam:

1. Alice spent the night at Gram and Poppy’s and wore chopsticks in her hair.

2. Gram, Stacey, Grandma Sue and Mommy taught knitting at MOPS.

3. I took a bath and was so cute.

4. Nanny and Grandpa Tom sent a gift basket and Alice helped open it.

5. I fell asleep in the car and we went to “sweet matoes.”

6. Alice got a towel on her head like Mommy.

7. We went to the zoo with friends.

8. I like playing with toys in the bucket.

9. I can also scoot really fast with Alice!

10. Gram showed Alice a bracelet with animals on it.

11. I learned how to crawl up the stairs.

12. We fed some ducks on a walk with Mommy and Gram.

13. Alice was really diggin’ the end of a jar of Nutella.

14. We planted new flowers outside our house. Alice wanted to plant a peanut butter and jelly tree.

15. Mommy and Daddy went to Alice’s school for parent’s day.

15 1/2. Alice and Daddy danced with the stars!

16. We celebrated Mother’s day in the park.

17. Alice had field day at school

18. Alice played outside in the sand and found some candy in the pantry at Gram’s house.

19. We drove a long, long way in the car and got to eat junk food. Mommy said she never would have let Alice do that when she wasn’t even 1 yet.

20. We got to see Alyssa and Alex in Kansas City and had fun playing with them.

21. Aunt Stacey came with us too and we got to hang out with her and play.

22. We went to MO and got to see Nanny and Grandpa Tom.

23. We went back to Kansas City and played some more with Alyssa and Alex.

24. We went to the children’s museum.

25. We went to the homestead farm.

26. Alice and Alyssa went swimming in a freezing cold little pool.

27. I joined in the fun.

Then we went home in the car a long, long way again. We had fun and that brings us to the end of May.

One of Papa’s friends made me this awesome quilt with fish and ocean stuff on it. I love to lay on it and play with my play-gym. Mommy says I look like Daddy when I give a little smirk! Ooh, I’m cute.

I really mean visit the zoo, but whatever. I got to go to the zoo today with Alyssa, my cousin from MO.

She and her parents were out here for a meeting about camp and we had fun together with our parents at the Denver Zoo.

We rode a little train with our Daddies and played on a covered wagon.

I wore my zoo hat, which is the only time I will wear a hat. In the parking lot when we were done I played in all the leaves.

It was a good day.

8/26/06
Today is a rainy day. It is one of the first rainy days of my almost two-month-old life. So, our family decided to relax at home this morning. My big sister Alice wanted to watch her favorite movie, Cinderella, so Daddy, Alice and I settled in on the couch to watch it. Alice is really loving toward me; she is always giving me hugs and kisses. Today she wanted to hold me on her lap, so Daddy helped her do that.

Later, we went out to a birthday party for one of Alice’s friends, Kalena. We went to a park; luckily it had stopped raining by then. I didn’t have too much fun at the park because I’m too little to play on anything. But when we got home, I got to do one of my favorite things – swing. I like to look at the little giraffe on the side of the swing best. I always get wide-eyed when I look at it! It is one of the more exciting things in life these days.

Today is my actual birthday and Aunt Stacey came by this morning to give me presents. She gave me a Little Mermaid Ariel and Beauty and the Beast Belle Polly-pocket-type dolls. I love them. Thanks so much Stacey. Then we went out to breakfast for pancakes. I wore a crown, because it’s so fun to be a princess.

After we left Nanny and Grandpa Tom’s house we came to Kansas City to visit my cousin Alyssa. When we got here, I couldn’t believe that she had a pool too.

The cool thing about her pool is that it has a slide on the side. I

I’m so excited to play with her!

Today I got to go see a friend of Mommy’s named Joy and her son James. James is 11 weeks older than me, can you tell?

We went down to their house for a 4th of July Barbeque. Alice was really excited to go because she loves Joy’s fish tank. She has some fish that look like Nemo.

She also had a really good time running around in the big bouncy thing that was in the back yard. This is a picture of Mommy’s friends Joy and Karina in the bouncy thing. We didn’t stay too long, but had fun while we were there. Mommy said her friends thought she was nuts, but it just made her feel normal to get out!

Today is national knit in public day and Gram and Stacey spent time with some of their knitting friends doing just that.

I, on the other hand, went to the pool this morning with Mommy, her friend Joy, Joy’s baby James (who is only 7 weeks old and very tiny), and Karina. We had fun and I got to play with a bigger girl and a little girl in the little pool. It was nice because they had pool toys too, so there was lots of fun stuff to play with! After the pool we came back to the house for lunch and I took a nap while Mommy hung out with Joy and the baby. Soon we’re going to have a little baby like that in our house. That’s gonna be weird!

The most fun part of the day for me was when I got to go out to Grandma Sue’s house and have dinner at the Paradise Asian Cafe. I love eating rice and soy sauce almost more than anything else in the whole world.

While I waited for my food I got to draw on the place-mats. There are great pictures of animals on there and Daddy helped me by drawing more animals for me to color.

Stacey and her knitting friends were there too, but they had to sit at a different table than us, because there were too many people for one table. I had fun saying hi to Cyn Cyn, Michelle, Thomas and Aunt Stacey from my table. I love Saturdays, they’re so fun.

Today Mommy was home with me. We started the day by going by her office where I spent some time with Aunt Stacey, Suzy and Stephen. I also did some pretty serious coloring, That is my one of my favorite things to do lately. I will sometimes spend 30 minutes coloring in my coloring books at home. I sit and concentrate really hard while I color the smallest pebble or a characters eyes and nose. Even though I’m not totally inside the lines, Mommy thinks its pretty impressive.

Mommy would even admit, we stayed too long at the office. I was grumpy and hungry and was not wanting to do much of anything except for what I wanted (and not even I knew what that was). When I got home and got a drink and snack I was a little better, but I wasn’t totally fine until I got to watch a show. Mommy and I chilled and watched Nemo and then I got lunch and after my nap was a whole new girl.

After work Daddy got a ride home from Aunt Stacey and when they got there I was spending some quality time with my kitty cat, Cyrano. Stacey stayed with me while Mommy and Daddy went on a date. We ate dinner and had fun playing. Too bad Cyrano didn’t want to play with us too, but someday I know he’ll come around and love me as much as I love him. He is getting more and more friendly toward me all the time though, so I’m really encouraged!