Some videos

Amelynne is such a confident toddler – she’s always pushing the boundaries of what she knows her body can do.

The other day she got the idea of tapdancing from Playschool:

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And she dances at any opportunity – music or not:

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I’m loving watching her try new things and be active.

Here we go 'round the ottoman

Last night Amelynne conquered the ottoman! Over the week she has been slowly increasing in confidence and skill, shuffling and moving along the ottoman and then the other day she managed to turn a corner, hooray! Well last night she completed a full lap around the ottoman with much grunting, frustration, and stopping to dance and bob, and with much encouragement from her cheer squad. Here are some photos of the feat in progress:

Then this morning she wanted to get straight to it again (while in her pyjamas and who can resist a bobbing, stepping bottom in a wondersuit :)) so I whipped out the camera again and got some video. So here she is cruising (well wobbling) all on her own…ta dah!

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PS If you sing the song she will without fail stop to dance along :).

Mar 22

Catch up post

I’m really sorry that I haven’t been able to update for the last month or two. So to make up for it I thought that I would cram everything into one big catch up post. So here are the videos, photos and developments from the last two months.

Solid Foods

Amelynne is getting better and better and more enthusiastic about solid food. She is very good at helping and will most of the time refuse to have it unless she is holding and guiding the spoon as well (hmm I think she may have a bit of me in her). Here is a photo of her very first try of food (I told you it was old).

Gorgeous photos

These are just a couple of gorgeous photos that we managed to take in which Amelynne actually smiled rather than giving her classic stunned I’m-having-a-photo-taken face.

You can always tell by her hairstyle when Nana has just given her a bath :).

Playing and learning

Amelynne has learnt so many new skills when it comes to playing, including putting things in other things. Usually this is blocks etc in containers but sometimes it can be putting things in Daddy’s mouth…

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(Once again it’s very dark because I didn’t want to interrupt the game by turning on more lights).

We also tried to capture some video of general playing. It’s very hard though because no matter how much I try to hide the camera it always gets spotted and all playing and chatting dries up. Ah well she’s still cute though.

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Jan 23

Learning and learning

The last week or two has been an amazing time of growing and learning, with huge jumps in skills and developments. It is amazing all that Amelynne is learning. First of all…

Drum roll…

Ta dah she sits!!

On Monday she sat for ten seconds on her own. By last night she was sitting longer and self correcting more (that’s when this photo was taken). This morning (Friday) she is just sitting and playing and chatting all at once for really long stretches as though she has been doing it for weeks. The progression is amazing! It’s so exciting!

There is also new skills on the floor. Amelynne has been pushing her whole tummy off the floor on straight arms for about a week and this also means that she is shuffling backwards and swinging around as well. So she is covering a lot more area on her mat and sometimes moving right off it.