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What a Mess
Freya & Amelia
Amelia Sophia is our friends Jamie and Travis's daughter. She's about 3 weeks older than Freya. I'm hoping these two will be best friends just like Shire and Liam (also 3 weeks apart in age).
Eating fresh Nutella cupcakes from Jamie. Awesome!
18-Month Stat Shot
Name: Freya Anduin Williams
Nicknames: Doodlebug, Doodle, Frey, Frey-Frey, Frey-Free, Frey-Fee, Foo-Fee, Foof, Foof-a-doodle, Schnoodle, Walder
Height: ~29.5 inches
Weight: ~19 pounds
Hair: fancy light blonde wavy mullet
Eyes: light blue
Teeth: 3 on top, 4(ish) on bottom
Sleep: ~12 hours at night with 1-2 naps (1-2 hours long)
Words:
Mama, Dada, Shire, dog, book, bye-bye, hi, hello, nana (=food), milk, thank you, no, down, bath, KK (=Kelsey), hippo, nigh-nigh, blankie, baby, walk, peak-a-boo, chicken, cat, hot, nose, teeth, eyes, belly, ah-kee (=yucky), uh-oh, oh-no, poo-poo, diaper, hungry, bite? (=give me a bite of that), 'side (=outside)
Favorite foods:
pasta, cheese, yogurt, ice cream, strawberries, beans, basically anything
Favorite things:
hippo (her lovey), Penny, bath time, music/dancing climbing, anything Shire has
Least favorite thing:
Car wash (too scary!)
Talents:
walking (staggering) up to 10 steps, climbing into her highchair, singing pitches and rhythms, flirting
Bad habits:
Pulling Shire's hair, taking dad's glasses, spitting (eww)
Now with bi-ped action!
Also, in case you were wondering...
Tonsils, Adenoids, and Half-Birthdays
Quick update: Shire had surgery this morning (pre-scheduled, not an emergency) to have her (large) tonsils and (extra-large) adenoid removed. Hopefully this is going to help her a lot with her breathing, sleeping, eating...um, life in general? Yeah. So we have about a week of recovering ahead of us. Luckily she's such a low-key gal, I don't have to worry about her lifestyle being interrupted. We just have to make sure she's drinking a lot of fluids to keep the area from drying out (and therefore becoming more irritated than it already is).
In other news, today is Freya's 18-month birthday! So happy 1.5 birthday baby sister!
A post not about Children
So this is just a little photo evidence for you to laugh at involving me doing stupid athletic things with some of my more athletic associates. This one was called the Rugged Maniac, and it's a 5k course with 18 different obstacles (a lot of climbing and crawling. A little mud, water, and fire as well). As of this point, Stewart has made the excellent decision not to participate in this kind of mass sado-masochist activity, but he might be convinced to do the next Zombie run with us next year. We'll see.
So I went to Wilmont, WI with Chuck, Katie, Galen, Beth, Chris, and Liam this weekend. Chris and Liam were just there as spectators (obviously, since Liam is 3). As far as I remember, I finished the race in around 54 minutes.
Here we are, being rock stars before the race. Can you tell how hot and sunny it was already at 8:30 am?
Showing off the backs of our shirts, which I made. They're supposed to be funny/awesome (that is, if you get the Magic: the Gathering reference...which nobody did other than the dorky guy working the front desk at the hotel).
At the starting line, waiting to go. Surrounding by other hot, nervous people.
Look at me: I'm trotting! And totally about to pass that 55-year-old lady. Rock on.
Here I am going over one (of many) obstacles like this. Lots of climbing.
The next time the camera (Chris) saw me was after the 3-mile mark. Here I am after crawling through this tiny underground tunnel for what seemed like 20 minutes (dude, I'm completely clausterphobic for the record...)
Here we are after the race, under a tiny patch of shade, 80% passed out. Apparently I was the only person that had cleaned up at this point. And that was my weekend. I have a ton of bruises/scratches and every muscle in my body is sore, but it was a fun experience nonetheless.