.A Southerner at heart?.

It started two weeks ago, Amelia has inexplicably developed a Southern accent. We don't know how or why but Homegirl can now be heard saying the following:

Hay-at = hat
Hay-yer = hair
Bay-ack = back
Gonna go down stay-ers = Going downstairs


There are others but these are the ones I've heard in the last ten minutes and therefore the freshest in my memory...however, she now has a general Southern accent. Bless her heart.

 

.Photo dump.

I was cleaning off my camera and ended up with these few photos of our Hazelnut being a little ham.

 

.Month 2.

Alice turned two months old last week. I'm a tad late putting up her monthly stats since I took last week off from blogging to visit with my Granny. Better late than never though!

Height: 22 inches {35 percentile}
Weight: 8 pounds 5 ounces {4th percentile}
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: A mix of dark and light brown

Notes: Alice is looking and acting more like a person every day and her little personality is coming through - she's a super cuddly and happy little girl that makes all of us laugh.
She made her first *real* {as in not gas} smile to her "auntie" Meegan in the last week of September and hasn't stopped since.



 

The best time of year.

It's my very very favorite time of year {Autumn & early Winter} and to me Halloween {just a few days away} kicks off the holiday season {the time of year when I spaz out with festiveness}. I'm already getting ready and have the girls Christmas shopping done {I usually do that in August and September so that I don't have to deal with holiday shoppers} and their Christmas dresses ready for photos and visiting Santa. Check it....

.Alice's ensemble. 

.Amelia's ensemble. 

 

.Pumpkin Patch 2012.

This year's trip to the pumpkin patch took place over the weekend and we had a ton of fun. Unlike years past we forgo Sauvie's Island Pumpkin Patch for Bi-Zi Farms up in Washington which is a longer drive but worth it since Amelia had a fantastic time despite a cold and short nap.
We had a big group of friends {continuing the tradition of going with The God-Parents, David & Abigail} as well as my Granny which made it both festive and totally chaotic {what better way to start off the holiday season?}.
Amelia got to ride on her first pony and had her first hot cocoa {she now wants nothing more in life than to ride on ponies and drink cocoa}. She also got to pet and feed farm animals, play in a pit of corn {best thing ever} and most important she picked her very own pumpkin.
Pumpkin patch success!

.Climbing the hay pyramid.

.Feeding goats with Granny.

.This is Amelia & Kylie. Their grandmas {Sherri & Cinda} were childhood friends, their mothers {Nichole & Nicole} were  childhood friends, and now it would seem so are they. I love this.

.We thought she might be scared up on the pony all by herself....we we wring. VERY wrong.

.When I was in kindergarten we went on a field trip to another students farm and we got to play in a grain bin full of corn kernels, it was so great that 25 years later I still think about it at least once a week. Amelia seems to have the same love of "Scrouge McDuck-ing" in corn. 

.Hot cocoa? Check. Servant Grandmother? Check. Let's go get a pumpkin!

.It wouldn't be a trip to the pumpkin Patch in the Pacific Northwest without some gnarly clouds overhead.