Amy keeps us laughing

Amy loves to be dragged around the house in the laundry basket. She always looks to cute, reclined and comfy when you do it. She gets more personality and spunk every day and keeps us laughing all the time.

For example, yesterday I gave her some cheerios to eat while I was cooking dinner. She was eating them, until she realized if she put them on the floor they'd crunch as she walked over them. I quickly rounded up as many as I could get, but then she wined like she was hungry so I gave her one solitary cheerio. She carefully placed it on the floor, and then backed up, preparing to stomp it, but I rescued it. :)
I used up all the flour yesterday making something, and the empty bucket was a novelty to Amy. She turned it on its side and kept crawling into it, trying to taste the flour. I personally think plain flour isn't so yummy, but she'd lick her finger and put it in the remaining flour and say "Nummy nummy nummy!"

Also, while I was cooking dinner, she pulled the little magnet mirror off the fridge and was doing push-ups down to it to give herself a kiss. I've just recently managed to teach her to give kisses, but she'll only give them to me... and only if she's feeling gracious. :)

She continues to LOVE olives. She won't just pop them in her mouth either -- she has to get her finger in the whole and then she'll hold her lil' finger up triumphantly and THEN pop it in her mouth. She's also still obsessed with her teddy bear -- she bit it so much with glee that his nose came undone and I (quite proud of myself) sewed on a new nose, smile and eyes . She always grabs him when she is going to have her bottle, shoving him over her eyes as she drinks it. What a stinkin' cutie! We love her SO much!!

Some more photos

Amy continues to make us laugh on a daily basis... I find myself saying all the time to Ryan, "she's just so stinkin' cute!". We feel we've been very blessed with this little munchkimina.

Looking bored while eating her grub

Recently she's taken to running around the house with her favorite blanky on her head... since it has small holes she can still see and it pretty tickled with herself. She's our friendly ghost.
This is probably the only photo you'll see of this cute dress a friend's Mom crocheted for Amy... she gets her toes stuck in it, so it's not very practical now, but it was too big earlier. I don't know what we'll do with it, 'cause it's so cute... but we've got a real mover here. Amy's always in perpetual motion, which means her attire has to be able to roll with the punches more-so.

BABY ANIMAL DAYS

We took Amy to Baby Animal Days, where she saw baby bunnies and ponies, piglets, bear cubs, calves, ducklings, chicks, lambs, and more. We had a really good time going around.

Isn't this bear cub so cute?

We'd tried taking her in the morning with her auntie Katelyn, but I had issues with my wallet which prevented us. At least we saw some chicks, a camel, zebra, and clydesdales at Petersen's seed shop. Here's her not-so-excited reaction to a duckling... we were shocked she wasn't more enthused. She did like the pigmy goats this time around though.

Awwww...

She wasn't so sure about petting the piglet... in fact, the only animals she did touch were a duckling and a calf, and a pigmy goat.

But she liked looking at them.

This little calf just slept, but another one we petted licked her hand...

Isn't this just too snuggly and cute looking?

Granoooooolllllaaa!

So, when I'm pregnant, I tend to make things a bit difficult in the eats department, especially for my poor hubby, Ryan. I just don't cook... much of anything, or if I do cook, I cook too much of one thing I think sounds super tasty and then ask Ryan to finish off the left-overs so I don't feel guilty for wasting food.

That's been the pos-ish for the past 2 months. Well, I got to feeling bad that I'm not a better "making yummy food" wifey, and that Ryan was having to scrounge for breakfast items and then make his own dinner when he got home, and that Amy was eating too many graham crackers (I'm ashamed). Nausea or not, I was going to make us some food we WOULD eat for breakfast.

1- I made up a pot of oat groats and we ate some every day with frozen berries, milk and a pinch of sugar (Amy loved it).

2- Thanks to Progressive Pioneer, a blog on the right side of my page here, I found a recipe for home-made granola that sounded good and not too complicated, so I made some. I'd include a photo, but we've been eating it too fast. This is what I did:
Her recipe was: 6-8 c. dry ingredients, 1/4-1/2 c. oil, 1/2-3/4 c. sweetner

I used:
5 c. oatmeal
1/2 c. semi-finely chopped almonds
1 1/2 c. Total cereal, smooshed
1 c. coconut flakes

1/4 c. oil
1/2 c. honey
1/4 c. brown sugar, karo syrup, or sugar so that you have a full cup combined of all this oil and sweetner stuff.
1 tsp vanilla
1 pinch salt

Mix all together, thoroughly. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes, stir around, bake another 20 minutes, stir around. Let cool, and add 1 c. craisins and raisins mixed. Amy likes to munch on the big chunks. I was impressed with how easy it was. Granola from the store can sometimes be SO expensive... why not make your own breakfast cereal? I'm happy to report that at least for the past few days, Ryan, Amy and I have eaten breakfast.

Easter weekend

We spent General Conference and Easter visiting family. It was so much fun! Here's a photo I'm stealing from my Mom's blog though, since she took it with her camera. Amy just adores my Dad -- thinks he's the bee's knees. She always wanted to sit on his lap, have him carry her or walk her around... even over Ryan. Crazy! But it was so cute to see them as little buddies.