Amelie's Day

5 months and 1 week old
7:30am ~ Awake & nurses in bed
7:45am ~ New diaper time
8:00am ~ Play gym rolling around time
8:45am ~ Walking around the house time
8:55am ~ Back on the mat
9:05am ~ Starting to get a little unreasonable
9:10am ~ Nurses
9:20am ~ Swaddled, pacified, patted on back
9:25am ~ Incredibly offended at being put down for a nap
9:26am ~ Nurses again
9:40am ~ Naptime for real
12:15pm ~ Hey! How long have you been awake? Smiling and happy.
12:20pm ~ New diaper
12:30pm ~ Nurses
12:50pm ~ Doing housework with Mom in the Moby Wrap, plus a trip outside to take out the compost. (Here's an old picture of the baby in the Moby, just for reference.)

1:10pm ~ Playing in the exersaucer, banging toys together, spinning the lady, staring at the dog.

*Notice the books stacked up so that her feet can touch.
1:20pm ~ Making loud noises
1:30pm ~ Rubbing her eyes and starting to fuss. Could she be tired already? Takes a trip outside to check on the mail (not here yet)
1:35pm ~ Back in the Moby, still acting a little tired, but she loves going up and down the stairs
1:45pm ~ A little naked time, then all lotioned up
2:00pm ~ Nurses
2:30pm ~ Down for her afternoon nap
4:00pm ~ Awake and gets a new diaper from Aunt Holly. Hey! When did you get here? Where did Mom go?
4:15pm ~ Takes a 4 ounce bottle
4:45pm ~ Exersaucer, take two
5:15pm ~ Tired of that, moves to the bouncy chair

5:35pm ~ Hanging out on the mat again
6:20pm ~ Bottle time, this time from Dad
7:00pm ~ Bouncy chair
7:30pm ~ New diaper and then back on the mat. Don't you people ever hold the baby?
7:45pm ~ Fussy and swaddle and bottle
8:00pm ~ Asleep in the bouncy chair
8:15pm ~ Successfully transferred asleep in the crib
9:20pm ~ Half-awake to nurse one last time in the glider, right back to the crib
12:00midnight ~ Back awake already, eats in the bed
6:00am ~ Fussing, eats, hangs out in bed with Dad
8:00am ~ Awake for the day

Amelie Chews on Things

Like her favorite ring ...


And the potato masher ...


She contemplates chewing on her toy ...


But looks at the camera instead ...


Huh? (Look at those eyelashes!)


Amelie loves her mama :)

Happy Halloween!

Amelie helped pass out candy to the trick-or-treaters in the neighborhood tonight wearing a Halloween holiday party dress made by my friend Liz Lawinger.



She is perhaps just a little smaller than a pumpkin. Even though ...


Earlier today, she modeled a pumpkin onesie from Aunt Juli & Cousin Rylee.

Rolling over and over

In this video, Amelie shows that she can roll over easier and more often than she was last month. There are 8 and a half rolls in the 3 and a half minutes of the video, so about one roll every 25 seconds. At the end, she's reaching under the coffee table for the ring Sam threw there earlier.



*She has rolled to the left before, but it doesn't happen very often.

** And sorry about the lighting; it looks like the only light on was the lamp on our end table.

Grandma & Grandpa Buffaloe Visit

Amelie's Grandma & Grandpa Buffaloe were able to come visit this week to meet baby Eleanor and got to stay with us.


Grandpa playing peek-a-boo with the baby:



Amelie's trying to break free, but she looks happy about it.

Froggy Jammies (thank you, Sally Deckard!)

Having a chat:


Cousins :)

Things Amelie Likes to Do

Amelie is a baby of simple pleasures.

She likes to play with her mobile (well, really anything she can reach).


She likes to roll around on the bed (and also the floor).



She likes to read books with Dad.


She likes to take a nap (under very specific conditions).


She likes to sit in the bumbo chair on the table (for a little while).


She likes to get a bath.


She likes to go for walks and see the sights in the neighborhood.


She likes to meet new friends.

Amelie and Charlie Junkel.


Amelie's cousin, Eleanor!

Pacifier

Here's a video I took tonight after dinner. Does this mean that Amelie's getting too old for the pacifer? In any case, Sam and I think we have a super-genius 4.5 month old :)

Computer Is Fixed!

So, we had technological difficulties at the Buffaloe household once again, but the computer is now fixed! Yea! Probably the only other theme these pictures have in common is that Amelie looks just a little surprised/confused in all of them.

Some overdue photos:

Who's the toughest baby on the block?


Why did you put red pants on me with this pink shirt?


Why is this toy so close to my face?


What's that thing you have in front of your face? Can I have it?


Whoa! What just happened?


Also, about half of the Baby Buffaloe Blog's readership knows this already, but Amelie is now a cousin! Maybe there'll be a few pictures of them together up on here soon!

Baby's First Reception

So my friend Cabell put up some pictures of us from her Missouri wedding reception, and I thought it would be better to have all of them together, so I created a new post.

Here we are, all ready to go at Nana Jana's house.


Here we all are again, this time at the Rose Bed Inn, enjoying the festivities. Amelie had quite a time at the reception in her ring sling. (Thanks, Amanda!) She enjoyed bouncing around to the band, which you can see behind us.




Oh, and here's a closer picture showing off the pirate pacifier that Cabell and Don brought back for her from Las Vegas -- she was born on the day they got married!

Rolling Over

Amelie has been rolling over from front to back for ages now, and she started the more difficult business of rolling back to front a little more recently. Woe of woes, I’ve never been able to catch any of said rolling on camera. Mostly, she’d do the rolling in the minute when I’d stepped out of the room, or would wait patiently until the camera battery ran out before she’d comply.

Right before this video starts rolling, Amelie neatly rolled from her back where I’d laid her to her front. That’s when I picked up the camera and started shooting. After a bit, I flop her back over to see if she’ll do it again.

Daddy and Me

Here Sam demonstrates how to rock a baby and do homework at the same time:


Video time!

Doctor's Visit

Amelie had her four-month checkup today. Here are those vital statistics:

Weight 13 pounds, 7 ounces (around the 50th percentile)
Length 24 inches (around the 50th percentile)
Head Circumference 44 centimeters (95th percentile)
Shots 3

Professional Pictures

These pictures are being posted a little late, just because I didn't want to ruin the surprise for Amelie's grandparents and great-grandparents when they got the photos in the mail. If anyone would like a specific picture, just let me know and I'll make a copy in whatever size you'd like. (We purchased the copyright to the photos and so can re-post them here without worrying about legal stuff, and we can make inexpensive copies easily.)










The photographers at JC Penny's kept trying to sell us photoshopped options, some of which were pretty funny. Sam likes this one:


And, if you wanted to go back and take a look, here are the newborn photos.