Trick-or-Treating

This year Philip took Amelia trick-or-treating and I stayed home and handed out candy. Amelia came back with a pretty good haul. She was excited because Grandma Patty even went with them.


My little dalmation

The after picture

Patience

October's character trait in Amelia's school is patience. I know I could use a lesson in this sometimes. Here is their little saying they learned.

Pumpkins

This year Amelia could not decide between painting and carving a pumpkin, so since pumpkins are cheap and pumpkin seeds are delicious, she got to do both. They only spooky thing I can vaguely draw is a ghost (although help from a preschooler makes that decidedly more difficult) so one is a ghost and the other is a scary pumpkin. Although the scary carved pumpkin has a heart shaped nose, so I don't know how frightening he actually is. Amelia is looking forward to trick-or-treating with her Daddy on Saturday and I am looking forward to staying home and handing out the candy. She is going to be a dalmation and it is a pretty cute costume. Amelia also gets to have a pumpkin party at school and wear her costume and they trick-or-treat around the church offices. She is pretty excited about that.


Amelia's 1st "scary face"


Amelia's 2nd "scary face"

Saturday Fun

Saturday morning Amelia and I woke up and drove to Cripple Creek to meet Rammy. Amelia loved Rammy and now all she talks about is when she is getting a "baby puppy". Lodie gave Amelia a little teaset when we went to visit her. Amelia then convinced Grandma Kitty to have about 100 tea parties and go on a bear hunt. Amelia was so tired after playing with Rammy, she fell asleep in the car, which is a very rare event.

After visiting Cripple Creek, we went to a birthday party for Amelia's best friend's little brother. My friend Kathryn even offered to let Amelia stay after the party so Philip and I could celebrate our anniversary.

Philip and I went out to dinner at Red Lobster. We were having a nice meal when suddenly a waitress walks by and gets bumped by another waiter and spilled 4 drinks right down Philip's back. I laughed until I had tears streaming down my face. In fact, everytime I think about it now I still laugh. I just wish I would have remembered that I had my camera and take a picture. It was the best anniversary present I could have hoped for.


Amelia with Grandma Lodie


Playing tug-o-war with Rammy



Finally, Rammy is calm (it lasted about 2 minutes)

Tea Party with Grandma Kitty

On a bear hunt (pouring tea on a bear keeps you safe)

We Are Proud of You

I have not been very good about keeping up with my blog lately so I am just going to jam everything into one post. Today we had parent teacher conference with Amelia's teacher, Mrs. Bradley. She had nothing but good things to say about Amelia. She is doing very well in class. Their grades are 1, 2, or 3. She mostly 3's, which mean she consistently does the task that is being measured. She got some 2's and only a couple of 1's. She needs to work on drawing shapes counting objects to make sure she is counting each one and arriving at the correct number. Mrs. Bradley said Amelia has the academic part of school down and is progressing very quickly in the social development. In fact, she said when she starts teaching patterns, Amelia is going to be her helper because she was one of the only kids who understood patterns. She also complimented Amelia's speech, which is no shock since she has been talking this way since she was 18 months old. She is doing great in school and we are very proud of her.

In other news, Amelia is also doing great in swimming lessons. She has moved up to the 3rd level in the Preschool group. This is really the last level until the Youth group and she has to be 6 to do that. Hopefully, we will be able to put her in it even if she is too young because she will probably be ready when she is 4. She can swim 20 feet doing the front crawl. She can also back stroke for 20 feet. ALL BY HERSELF. She is doing an amazing job in swimming and we are very proud of her.

Philip and I are very lucky to be the parents of such a smart, beautiful, kind, and funny little girl. Here are some pictures that really have nothing to do with this post, other than that I have not posted any in a while and they are cute.

Swimming

I am a little behind on my blogging so I don't have any pictures today, soon though. But I am so proud of Amelia I had to post this. Amelia can swim 20 feet unassisted, without floaties or teacher helping!

WHOO-HOO AMELIA!

P.S. She can also spell her name all by herself now, next task is writing her name.