Finally! An update!

My apologies to everyone who regularly checks this blog, hoping to find the latest pics and news about Amelia. I've been kind of slacking, but rest assured, I've added a whole bunch of new entries this time. I'll try to do better about updating this more often, but until then , hopefully this will hold you over. I'm going to try to post more videos soon. but my video camera has been acting up.

Making Mommy's Birthday card

I asked Amelia to "sign" a birthday card for Nicole. At that point, Amelia decided to take it upon herself to use the next 20 minutes adding her "artistic touch" to card.



The end result can be seen below. Quite the artist. Grandpa K would be proud.

Amelia the Flower Girl...almost

Nicole's cousins. Stacey and Trisha Nakano recently had a joint wedding and asked Amelia to be one of the flower girls. Of course Mommy and Daddy willingly agreed, knowing that Amelia would probably love the attention of walking down the aisle. All the flower girls were given the same beautiful dresses to wear. Our little Amelia however decided long before the wedding that this gown was not something she wanted to wear. Over the next few weeks before the wedding day, we tried repeatedly to have her try it on, and she refused, kicking and screaming. Our last hope was that she would see the other flower girls and realize how pretty it was to wear. In the dressing room, with the other girls, Amelia put her gown on, but then realized what she was wearing and proceeded to try to rip it off. Luckily, we brought a "backup" dress which became our saving grace. As you can see, it's not quite the same, but I'm sure the brides preferred a different dress over a screaming flower girl.

Monkeying around at the zoo

Amelia recently took a trip to the Santa Ana zoo. However, she seemed to take more of interest in the statues of animals rather than the "live" ones. Probably because she prefers to get up close and personal with things.

Speaking of monkeying around...

Here's Amelia's costume for Halloween this year. Funny b/c she willingly put this monkey suit on, but refused to wear the flower girl wedding gown. Again, proof that she may be more of a ham like daddy than we thought.

One lucky Grandchild.

Being the only grandaughter of both sides of the family, there's no shortage of hugs and kisses.

Wrestling with Grammy K!

Amelia has a blast when she goes to a party where there's an inflatable "bounce house" And it's even more of a blast when Grandma K joins in. People think I still act like a kid sometimes. As you can see, it's inevitably in the genes.

Amelia meets her new cousin, Colin

Amelia recently had to give up her title of "baby" of Kawaguchi family and pass the torch onto her new cousin, Colin Kyoshi Cheung. Colin becomes son #2 for my sister, Robbyn. Amelia had a chance to meet her new cousin and lovingly refers to him as "baybeee".

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Picture Day at Daycare!

I've been meaning to post these. The beach theme seems kind of irrelevant now that it's the middle of November, but cuteness definitely lasts all year long.

Come back here!

Amelia actually took her first steps a while ago. Since then, she has officially made "catch me if you can" her new favorite game. She gets pretty fast on those little feet. Kinda makes me worried about what kind of driver she'll be.

Amelia's first haircut!

As much pride as we have in Amelia's beautiful locks, once it started impairing her vision, we had to take action. As you can see, she was not a happy camper, but luckily, just like Daddy, she is easily distracted.

Table Manners

Amelia has pretty much mastered the art of picking up food with her hands to eat. In fact she's even better at picking it up and throwing it. Learning to use utensils is now the challenge. Here we have Amelia learning to use her "big girl" training spoon. She may not get alot with each scoop, but she's certainly getting the hang of it.

1 Birthday, 3 Parties!

Talk about spoiled! Amelia was lucky enough to celebrate her first birthday with three different parties: First, at her daycare where she had her first taste of a cupcake. Then the Inouye family gathered at the local park for party #2. The next weekend, we took the trip up to San Francisco where the Kawaguchi family participated in the spoiling session #3. Thank you everyone for all the gifts and wishes.

Daycare Party





Inouye Party






Kawaguchi Party

Buddy Bosley

As you can see, even if we tried to keep Amelia away from Bosley, it wouldn't work. And as of lately Bosley has become multi-functional. Other than being a dog, he's become a snuggle toy, a sturdy support for a baby learning to walk, and a big furry baby bodyguard. He has become especially fond of Amelia now that she has given him the new role of "Cherrios Catcher" under her high chair.

Walk and Roll!

Ever since Amelia has gone mobile, she loves anything that can make her go quicker and faster . Case in point, her convertible walker/car. We may have created a monster.



Here she is in action. Listen closely and you can hear her starting to talk a little too.

There she goes!

Things have been happening so rapidly that just by missing a month or two of posting updates, Amelia has gone from sitting up to crawling to speed crawling, and now walking with assistance. But we can't skip to walking without documenting the early stages. Here she is right after learning to crawl. She was like the little engine that could.

Easter!

Amelia has no idea what Easter is yet, but if it's an excuse for Mommy to dress her up and for Daddy to take pictures, we're all over it. Of course of the 150 pictures we took, here are the four that turned out.

Making daddy proud

It's good to see that Amelia has already learned the art of fending off males who try to put the moves on her. Here we have sweet little Matthew Chow, he never knew what hit him. Play the movie and watch, it's a series of still photos, so there's no sound.

Cutie Patootie

Daddy got a new camera. I can't figure out if it's the camera or the subject, but I think Amelia may be ready for Vogue.

Great Grandma Love

The Great Grandmas may think they're lucky to have such a cute great granddaughter, but Amelia is the lucky one to have so much love from all of them.