Amelia's 2 Months Old!

It's amazing how quickly the time passes with Amelia.  Yesterday she turned 2 months old and my how she has changed since her birthday 2 months ago.  The biggest change is in her personality.  She smiles a lot these days and is quickly figuring out who her mommy and daddy are.  I'm afraid the attachment phase is starting to settle in.  She use to go to anyone and now she's starting to get a little apprehensive around strangers.  I suppose this means we'll need to start getting out a little more so that Amelia learns that being shy is not an option in this family!  

Another milestone is Amelia's ability to hold her head up for longer periods of time.  She's always been strong, but she is now able to spend more and more time in her bumbo without getting upset.  Unfortunately she is still not a fan of tummy time.  We're building on our tummy stamina everyday, but not making a ton of progress.  If anyone has any tricks to making tummy time more enjoyable please let us know.

Another unfortunate milestone this month was Amelia's first funeral.  My great aunt passed away a week ago today.  Although it's never fun to lose a relative I think we all would agree that Auntie Fat's passing was a blessing.  Her husband died over 10 years ago and since then she hasn't been the same.  Being with him again is what she wanted and we're pretty sure that's where she is.  To help ease the pain Amelia became quite the "happy" distraction.  My grandma "my aunt's sister" needed the distraction the most and Amelia was happy to be there.

On a side note my grandma has taken to calling Amelia "Amy Jo".  My grandma has a track record of creating nicknames that end in "y".  For example she's always called me Krissy much to my mom's dissatisfaction 27 years ago.  Lia is what we like to call Amelia for short, so Amy unfortunately won't be on our list.  However, I figure if you make it to 89 you should get to call your great-grandaughter whatever you want.  So Grandma Sweetheart you can call her Amy Jo if you want.  

Lastly, today marks the day I was suppose to go back to work.  Two weeks ago I came to the conclusion that leaving Amelia was just not something I was ready to do.  Staying home with her was the easy decision, but letting my principal, colleagues and students down was the hard one.  Lone Hill is an amazing school with an awesome principal and great teachers.  In accepting the job this summer I had promised my principal I would be back in March and had every intention in keeping that promise.  Breaking that promise was extremely difficult.  I've never had a principal that I felt truly appreciated me like Kenny and I hope and pray that I haven't ruined our relationship.  He was very understanding of my decision, almost too understanding, and has even allowed me to take a leave until the end of this year so that I can still come back next year if I want too.  Talk about amazing!!!  I also had an amazing teaching partner, that made my job so much easier.  I never thought I would find a teaching partner like Jason after leaving all my amazing friends and colleagues at Green Gables and so leaving him for the rest of the year was also hard.   However, he too was extremely understanding and so happy for me that I was able to stay home with Amelia.  So although the decision was hard to make, I feel blessed that the decision went as smoothly as it did.

So now I try a dose of "stay at home mommy".  I'll keep you posted as to how it goes.  With a face like the above I don't why I would ever want to leave.  But then again teaching is my passion and if I could find a way to balance both, I think I might just be the happiest person alive!