My girls

May 12th, 2008

I have the cutest nieces. I don’t know what I ever did before they came along… I love ‘em to bits and pieces. Wia (which is what she calls herself) is 2-1/2 years old, and is such a little person. She’s one of the smartest kids I know, I think because all of us have always talked to her like a little adult rather than a baby. She’s definitely starting to test everyone, and I warned my brother lastnight that he really needs to watch out for the threes. She’s the apple of my eye, and totally knows it.

Emma is 17 months old, and she’s really starting to blossom. She’s always been a little more standoffish than Wia was, but now she’s getting to the point where she wants to be in the mix. She’ll still sit and entertain herself, but she’s also the one who brings a book and sits herself down in your lap to read. She wants to do everything Wia does, but she’ll also blaze her own trails. Her vocabulary has really expanded in the last couple of weeks, but a lot of what she says is still gibberish. I know she thinks she’s giving us the what for, but we just aren’t getting it!

I went to visit the girls yesterday afternoon while my brother and sister-in-law went out. I always have a ton of fun with the girls, and the last couple of times I’ve been over we haven’t even touched a toy. We just entertain each other. Lastnight, in fact, we entertained each other by playing with Aunt Amanda’s expensive camera and mobile phone. Probably not the smartest idea, but I got some cute footage…

Wia & Emma, May 11, 2008 from Amanda on Vimeo.

Seriously. I can barely stand the cute.

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5 Favorites : Movie Edition

March 25th, 2008

I realize that I haven’t shared a lot of my favorites during this March edition of NaBloPoMo, and I feel I’ve been remiss. I guess I find it hard to publish a favorites list of anything, because I think those kind of list are always changing, and it’s hard to keep up. But here, tonight, I give you my 5 of my favorite movies as of right now:

	13 Going on 30 - I love the little girl Jennifer Garner plays in this movie, even as an adult. She has such an exuberance for life in this film! This was also the first film where I’ve really liked Mark Ruffalo, also.
	About A Boy - I LOVE Hugh Grant. I especially love when Hugh Grant plays this kind of character. I think I’d like to live in a British film, really. I like to imagine that all the characters from all my favorite British films and books live in some alternate universe… I think it’d be fantastic place to live.
	Amelie - This was the first foreign film I’d ever seen where I didn’t care about the subtitles. My mom bought this for me on a whim, thinking I’d like it because it “looked whimsical”. She knows me too well.
	Love Actually - Another favorite Brit film. I love that Hugh Grant is in it, but it also features most of my other favorites… Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman (squee!!), Colin Firth, and of course, Rowan Atkinson. It just makes me feel good to watch it.
	Moulin Rouge! - I love musicals. My Gammy and I used to watch them on Saturday afternoons… Singin’ In the Rain, Funny Face, Sound of Music… so I get a little twinge of nostalgia watching movies like this. I don’t know if she’d have liked this one, but I love it. The colors, the story, the music.