Amelia's birthday celebration

On the Sunday after Amelia's birthday, we had a party with our family & friends to celebrate. Since our house is too tiny to fit everyone in, my parents were kind enough to let us have the party at their place.

 

4th of July

We started off our 4th of July by getting up extra early and hiking the Y. We wanted to get up there early so we could have an awesome view of the hot air balloons. Both the girls hiked really well. Ellie hiked the whole time and Millie walked as much as we would let her. (She was too slow to not have in the baby backpack.)

After the hot air balloons, we went home and took naps.

Then we headed to my Uncle Eric's house for a pool party & BBQ.

Wagon Train

After that we head to my Uncle Alan's house for dessert, games, and fireworks. They live pretty close to the Stadium, so we have a great view of the fireworks. 

 Amanda and Ellie had more fun playing with the glow sticks than watching the fireworks.

My Uncle has a waterfall fountain that Millie is always climbing on and playing in.

We ran to the car the second the fireworks were over to beat the traffic. Luckily we made it home without too much delay. Both the girls fell asleep, which is always nice.

Amelia's 2nd Birthday Update!

I can't believe my baby is already TWO!

In some ways it feels like she has been around much longer than two years, but it also seems like she was just born.

Millie defiantly has her own wild personality.

She seriously has no fear. She is always climbing as high as she can get, jumping off of everything, and getting into everything possible. I really can't leave the room without her doing something crazy. I am really am not sure how she hasn't broken a bone or had to get stitches yet. 

She calls Ellie, EE. (Which is what Ellie called herself as a baby)

She calls Mika, Babe Mika or Dad. (I guess I really need to work on calling him Dad too)

Millie will get mad at Ellie and say, "Naughty, Naughty", and shake her little finger at her.

When someone knocks on the door she yells, "Come in!" But it sounds more like, "Um in!"

When she wakes up from her naps, she will yell out for someone to come and get her. She starts out with "Mom, mom", and if I don't go in immediately, she will yell "EE, EE", and she doesn't go in, she starts yelling "Mika, dad". It's pretty funny, she is determined to get someone in there to get her out of the crib.

She is very observant while we are driving and points out everything she sees. If she sees a horse, she yells out "Neigh!" and then will say, "Mom, Neigh" over and over again until I say something like Wow or Oh yeah, a horse? And then she will do this to every person in the car, until she is certain everyone knows what she saw.

Millie is also the queen of dancing. She has the craziest and weirdest dance moves. (I really need to upload a video of them)

Her favorite books are Hand hand finger thumb and You are my Cupcake. Every time I read it afterwards she says, "Again, Again".

 Nine days old

 First Birthday

Two years old!