Return of the Monthday!

Well, not really. But Amalia and I did just go to the doctor for her 2 and a half year check up (a month and a half late-oops!) so we have another stat sheet to put up. And I also took some more pictures of the blizzard that ate the back yard.
School is back open tomorrow, and Chris and I are assisting, and taking the bus so that should be interesting. Amalia and I took the train to the doctor's office today, and so she is officially a city-kid. She had no problem and people were really nice and gave us a seat on the super crowded train on the way back.
Amalia is doing great. Once again she's still a giant among babies, but she's coming back down to earth particularly in the weight category. I think the hideous cold she had and her less than usually enormous appetite these last few days may have helped a bit though!
Weight: 34lbs (90%)
Height: 38.5 inches (95%)
Head Circ: 20.25(>95%)
BMI: 16.25 (50-75%)
The doctor was really impressed with how verbal and social Amalia is. She went through a bunch of the ages and stages stuff with her, and she is doing all of the things she would have expected a much older kid to be doing, talking in complete and complex sentences, knowing her colors, shapes, upper case letters(she spelled the word HONEY on a coloring page in the waiting room) and some of her numbers(I asked her to press the elevator button number 4 and she got it right away), she jumps and kicks a ball and can stand on one foot, I don't exactly know why that's on the list but she can do it! So the doctor said, just to keep doing more of the same, and to work on letters and numbers. The only thing she will not do is speak in Spanish for heaven's sake! It makes me cukoo, but I know that she understands most of what is said to her, we just have to keep trying.
I remember a little over a year ago I was concerned because she just wasn't talking anywhere near as much as Domingo at her age, and now she is just such a chatterbox! The first thing she said when the Dr. came in the room was "Hi, I'm Amalia, I'm going to be a doctor like you when I grow up!" The doctor was like "whoa! fantastic!" This whole, "be a doctor" thing is totally and completely her invention. I'm sure that since there are loads and loads of MDs in the family, it's only natural for her to hear about it and say that's what she wants to do, but she's taken it to a whole other level of play (and I really can't say that I mind, I'd LOVE it! So long as she never says, "I want to be a lawyer when I grow up!") she makes me wait in the waiting room, she takes my temperature and then gives me a shot and says "Don't cry, now you can get a sticker!" at least she doesn't charge me a $20.00 co-pay!
She was so great in the appointment today, I was by myself and a little worried about it, but she was terrific. So maybe it's karma paying me back for just how miserable she was as an infant, because she is really just a joy in her "terrible twos". But man did I earn it!
Here are some more winter fun pictures!

My attempt at shoveling out our car, but I had to give up when Amalia was screaming she wanted to go back inside for hot chocolate.


Exhibit A


Meanwhile Domingo was "swimming" in the snow. He was so ridiculously happy rolling around and eating the snow like a puppy!




In the 5 minutes of outside time, before she became too cold and wet and fun in the snow became unbearable misery. This kid is more like her mom than I ever realized!