Corn Dog

Amelia sports her new corn dog onese, a gift from her west coast auntie Steph. Steph is known for her frequent and colorful ameliarose.blogspot comments. Keep up the good work Steph.

Fabulous Flying Baby

Watch Me Grow 8/04

Amelia has been busy the past few months. From left to right these pictures were taken around 6/15, 7/15 and 8/15/04. That doll just gets smaller and smaller. Click on the picture to enlarge it for a better view.

Cat and the Fiddle

Amelia debuts more of her extensive wardrobe in today's post. This cat and the fiddle outfit complete with kimono style top and cat ears hat was a gift from Mike and Lynn - thanks guys. The first picture demonstrates an immutable law of kids clothes, any outfit including animal appendages (ears and tails especially) will be extremely cute.

Amelia sports her new shades. I think we have an Elton John fan on our hands.

Amelia enjoys a surprisingly mild Oklahoma August. Out-of-town visitors to this blog familiar with Oklahoma weather would be very surprised at the low temperatures Amelia has ushered in for her first summer.

PS: In our opinion Amelia looks especially radiant in purple. Thanks to Aunt Alee for making this beautiful couture gown.

Aunt Alee

Amelia's aunt Alee came to visit this weekend. Alee has all the artistic ability in the family and hopefully some of that was passed on to Amelia. Dad snapped the amateurish shot above as Amelia posed for what will certainly be some classic b/w pics taken by her aunt. We now have a whole series of Amelia sans pantaloons that she will certainly detest for most of her adolescence. Friends and family get your orders in now. The more well distributed the images are the less likely she will be able to free herself from them by simply deleting them from dad's hard drive.

Baby's Got a New Pair of Shoes

Amelia took her first 'step' toward shoe wearing with some fine fashon mary jane socks. These dickies for your feet come in six colors from trumpette.com Thanks Jane (Traci Quick's Mom). Doesn't she look great in them?

Rufus and Baby Sister

Ruf checks out his baby sister.

Remember this guy, Rufus. Before Amelia came along he took center stage. He even had his own blog. He gets by alright these days. Sneaking in naps after being woken up for night time feedings. He even gets to clean up after some spit ups. We still love you Ruf.