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.