Who Wore it Best - Seeing triple

OK, I may not have been willing to stop and pose, but it is my turn to get in on this ancient version of Who Wore it Best?

Mom - 1978/9

Amelia - 2012                                                                                        or ME - 2014

Is there a doctor in the house?

It may have been a while since we updated you, but we are still around and keeping busy or entertained at least.  This was our first weekend as long as I can remember that we didn't have guests or were not traveling.  So one would think it was going to be nice, relaxing alone time.  Well....wrong.  Guess who visited?  The flu or some stupid stomach bug!  I was the only apparently is strong enough to ward off germs.  Come on people!  Mom says I should thank her.  Whatever.  Count yourself lucky, sis.  It was not cool laying in a pool of puke, nor taking baths in the middle of the night.  (I don't think dad was too thrilled with it either).  The good news is, we have all muddled through and come out the other side ok.  And the appetites are back!
 

what this isn't juice?

 Here are some updates since last post....

Doctors!  I had my first trip to the dentist.  Let me tell you, I have been counting down the days to go.  And it was everything I imagined.  They had super cool tools they used to clean and take pictures of my teeth.  And I got stickers, balloon, and ice cream!  Can't wait to go back!

More!!

Mom picked me up during my lunch at school because I had my 15 month check up with Dr. Martin.  It was pretty run of the mill.  She read about my trip to the hospital and she said that she has been a doctor for 20+ years and NEVER known a kid to have to get stitches (because the tongue heals that quick).  Hopefully other record breaking things I do are a bit more to my benefit.  You know, first girl to win the Masters, or first Nobel Peace Prize winner from Overland Park....  I was told that it is healing nicely.  I just have a small white line/regrowth going on, apparently in another 6 months or so, no one will know the difference!  I got my stats (21 lbs, 29.5 inch - keeping myself in the 25 percentile range - and the exact same weight and a 1/2 inch TALLER than Amelia at my age....so take that!), I also got 4 - count them FOUR - shots.  Seriously...was that necessary??  I immediately defriended the nurses after that fiasco.  Needless to say I needed some ibuprofen to get me through.  Man, I love that stuff.  

Visitors.  Elmo came up for a visit, Nala stayed at her house after we were there for Christmas to play with Sadie, so she brought her back home....looking like a completely different dog.  She got a big haircut.  Apparently, along with feeding her I need to make sure she stays brushed, because she got all matted up and they had to basically shave her.  Better to see her cute face I see.  I missed her a lot, so it is nice she is home.  We had fun playing with Grandma Elmo while she was here...I continued to impress with my art skills as always.  And she kept telling me how much bigger I had got - it is crazy what a difference a couple weeks can make! 

Yeah, I am really getting good at stacking

Guess who else came for a visit?  My BFF Ava!  When dad told me I was so excited, and I continued to discuss her coming for the next few days....any opportunity I had.  I couldn't wait to show her our playhouse, play, and have her sleep with me.  Well we had a blast together, just like old times.... the sleeping situation didn't work as I had planned.  Apparently, she doesn't like to sleep as much as I do.  We tried, but she wanted to play with Nala instead so she eventually went downstairs to sleep with her mommy and daddy.  But don't worry, she came upstairs to wake me up in the AM.  Which I was totally cool with!  We had so much fun together.  Her little sister Vivian also came of course.  She is almost 1, but you wouldn't know as she definitely has a size advantage on Heidi.  Yeah, yeah....who doesn't?  I am petite!  
I did introduce mommy and Viv's mommy to a new word upon 'playing' with her.  "Mine"...that's right.  I share enough with Amelia, I wanted to make sure she knew what she could play with and what was mine.  What else...they even came to church with us, so we got to play there just like old times.  I wasn't ready to say goodbye so we all went out to lunch too.  Needless to say, I was VERY sad when we had to actually say goodbye.  Ava tried to sneak in our van so she could come home with us, but the parents all said no.  I can't wait for her to come visit again...or maybe I can talk mom and dad into a visit there way!  I wonder if it is warmer there?  This winter business is for the birds!  Or is it?


Until next time, Amelia OUT!


Mom let me try some juice, and I
quickly learned where they put it,
so as soon as the fridge opened, I
snagged it and started carrying it around!

I am learning Ameia's love of coloring!

We have a new routine before bath time where we jump/fall on the bed.  It makes undressing for bath way more fun!

Some crazy holidays!

Happy New Year!  It has been a long time since last blogging, the craziness of the holidays can do that to you.  Last time, I shared that I am on the move.  Well, it is a good thing because December was a crazy month.  I had lots of people to show my skills to.  Here goes nothing....we will try to keep it short, but we have the gift of gab - so that won't happen. 

We left off all ready for the holiday season...so we started with a service project.  By helping to pack 295K meals to go to Haiti.  Heidi and I packed and colored boxes, it was a lot of fun!

We even got some snow so got to do a first run of sledding.  It was Heidi's first time and she liked it as much as me.  So did Nala, she ran up and down with us.  One time we knocked her over...ooops!   We then had 1 more day of school to get in before a week vacation...and well, let's just say that Heidi threw a wrench in those plans.

Hey, this is my story.  It's true.  I did not make school.  The morning of the 23rd, we were moving around like usual - I was watching Amelia go potty (privacy is not a known word in our house), and given I had only been walking a week or 2, I slipped.  Not that abnormal, but the fact that I like to stick my tongue out and there was a big porcelain bath tub right there - didn't mesh well and the next thing I know there was blood everywhere.  Needless to say I let mom know it really hurt.  Once I started playing with this thing hanging off of my tongue, mom realized we had to go to the hospital.  It was all a bit of a blur, I remember Amelia sitting in the backseat telling me it was all OK, while mom was freaking out in the car.  Lucky for us, daddy was there waiting for us.  The docs came and checked me out and said that they were going to have to stitch up my tongue laceration, but since I ate such a big breakfast (umm....little do they know that cheerios, a waffle, and yogurt are nothing!), I had to wait THREE hours till surgery.  Can you give a girl a painkiller or something?  I do have half my tongue just dangling in my mouth.  (p.s.  the answer to that is no....)  So instead we sat and waited and attempted to play with toys.  I will say that Childrens Mercy was a very nice place to be, probably could have been worse.  After a while 3 nurses came in, 1 to hold me down, 1 to distract with an ipad, and 1 to stick a big needle in my hand for the IV. I preferred to watch the latter, oddly it was relaxing.  (Dad on the other hand, was looking a little green)...it was so relaxing that I took a nap, I kind of remember them putting things all over me, but the next thing I remember is mom trying to wake me up with a cold soda can (apparently they were getting antsy that I wasn't going to come out of it).  I was a bit woozy and wasn't nearly as strong as I thought I was...but after the full day there they finally let me leave...with 3 stitches in my tongue (thanks a lot!).  although, I am told that is better than the alternative.  As it has now been 11 days since the incident, I am back to normal.  I am not going to lie, the whole 'soft foods' thing was the toughest on me.  And...getting a glimpse of people's reactions when they saw my tongue.  Not cool.  I am pretty much all healed up, I have a big white scar/line down it - but mom says that is scar tissue and will probably go away.  I also have a slight v on the side (better than middle, I guess)...I am still a bit self conscious, so there aren't many pictures.  
This is the only one I could kind of find.


It was drama filled, and I am happy to recount the morning to you anytime.  I also remind mom to not get blood all over shirt all the time.  To not be outdone completely, I did successfully wake up on Christmas Eve with pink eye.  That was awesome, but I got started on medicine right away, not soon enough to keep Heidi free of it though (yeah, thanks sis - as if I didn't deal with enough).  I suffered through a bit, and somehow passed to Will (sorry cuz..), but it was nothing. 


Amidst all that we had a nice Christmas Eve.  We got dressed up in our fancy garb and went to church.  We even sat in big church with mom and dad.  Well, Heidi walked around the foyer with dad.  I am so glad that I got to go with them though...because guess what?  At the end, they turned off all the lights, gave us all candles to light and we sang....wait for it... SILENT NIGHT!  Needless to say, I sang my heart out.  Sometimes they were a bit too slow for me so I got ahead, but it was AWESOME!  I reinacted my abilities to the whole Steffen clan at nana and papas house over Skype.  I am THAT good.  

We had a yummy dinner (which I got none of) and then opened presents.  It was lots of fun.  We had to get to bed though as it was getting late and Santa was going to come!!  We left him some milk & cookies (totally forgot about the poor reindeer!) and went off to dreamland.  

I am pretty sure I heard them on top of the roof.  When we finally woke up in the AM (yeah, no rushing to get out of bed for the Steffen sisters)....we went downstairs to find our new very own playhouse!!  It is pretty sweet.  We spent some of the morning playing with it, while mom and dad got us ready for our trip to Elmo's house! 

Just some sister wrestling...

Our time in Lincoln was awesome.  Thanks to an uneventful drive, we got to Elmo's pretty early and had time to open ALL of our presents.  Yeah, she got lots of fun stuff for us.  Lots of books...which I always like.  She made us a yummy dinner, and I quickly let it be known that I was so tired of this 'no solid food' diet, so they gave in and at least let me have my favorite...green beans!  We had lots of fun with Elmo and got to see other people while we were in Lincoln too.  The next day we got to see Papa McLain.  We checked out his new apartment,  it is very cool.  I need to paint him some pictures to put on the wall though! He gave me and Heidi some real cool toys too!!  We sure are lucky to be loved by so many people.  This Christmas thing rocks!  

We also saw my godfather, BJ!  We went over to his house and played and ate some yummy food.  I had a lot of fun playing with the girls downstairs (Abby & Ella P. came over too!) they were all so nice and fun to play with.  I wish we could see them more.  I tried talking them all into making another trip down to Worlds of Fun when it gets warm! 







Serious time

Now Silly!

Our last day in Lincoln we got to meet mom's friend Sarah's NEW twin girls.  That is right she already has twins around my age (but they were at school...bummer).  So the babies (Piper & Rose) came to Elmos for a visit.  Boy were they tiny, they were cute.  But I'm not all that into babies.  I, on the other hand, was not very thrilled when mom tried to hold them.  She is my mommy!  Maybe I'll be more friendly next time we see them.  Yeah, I hear they have a new big house with a great play area to check out!  After our visit we headed north for our next round of Christmas fun. 

We made our 1st stop for some basketball fun as our cousins Bailey and Ryan were playing in Wayne.  Not going to lie, didn't spend much time watching the game, but had a lot of fun seeing everyone.  The next few days were full of excitement.  

we loved playing with this kitchen, and talked them
into letting us take it home to our playhouse.  It fits perfectly!

Rachelle had a uh-oh!!  Lasagna off the
oven still tastes good too!

We played a lot with nana, papa, & Rachelle...and also fit in some time to make gingerbread house with Will & Jay and a trip to the farm!





And a nap or two!







We had a blast at Christmas.  Everyone was there.  So needless to say, neither one of us had to do much walking.  We had fun playing all kinds of games (no it was by no means quiet), eating, and of course opening presents.  I got a super cool art easel from my godfather Eric.  It was nice seeing him again and getting to know his girlfriend, Kaitlin.  She was really nice too.  

Gabby hooked me up with some clothes.  How perfect is this shirt for me?



I scored big too as my pretty godmother Danielle gave me some fun toys and Bailey got me some sweet  shoes and hat.  I loved them both so much that I wore them pretty much all night and have even learned to say both words.  So now you can add shoes and hat to my list of now....four words.  I have a feeling by next blog that list will have doubled or more!  Oh, and not to forget.  I got my first haircut.  I can see now and people can see my pretty eyes now that I am rockin' my bangs.  Thanks Aunt Brenda for helping make me pretty (and mom and dad too!).


I think Will & Jay liked our presents for them.  I suppose we should find out how they are doing with them, now > a week later.


A couple of videos to see how wired I was after the Christmas fun.
Happy Birthday Jesus!

Reading to Papa



We had a great time as always seeing everyone, but we had to make it back home to clean up and get ready for our party.  Party you say?  Yes, we had our 2nd annual NYE bash.  Lots of friends came to play (I think our playhouse was a hit!), eat, and ring in the new year.  Ok, we didn't stay up till midnight...I guess we did our countdown a little early so we could all enjoy it with jumping on bubbles (that sounded just like fireworks!), we also blew our horns, and did some party poppers.  Needless to say it was a bit loud.  I'm sure glad they were all able to come.

Been a while since Davis and I have posed together for a photo op!

I introduce Davis to the fun of slides.  Your welcome Auntie Steph

check out Avery's ups!

Evan's mom & dad brought Fun Dip.  Yeah, you heard me
right.  Can't go wrong with using sugar to eat more sugar!

As I did good during our travels (even with all the issues/owies), that hopefully mom & dad will let us venture up to Nebraska again soon!  Until then.....Heidi & Amelia OUT!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

 Here is a late edition video from my school Christmas party.  yeah, we all have some "dance" moves.  And proof that I did actually end up talking to Santa.  I figured once everyone else did it at school, I could try!