Amara at 3 years, 4 months

Amara struts with attitude

Amara loves little, pretty trinkets

Amara loves to hoard toys

Amara loves stuffing purses with a variety of things

Amara loves playing with baby dolls and loves to strap them into her car seat, then she straps herself into Maia’s car seat, and pretends they are driving

She loves playing in the car

She sometimes has nightmares

She loves playing with Mom’s makeup and having her nails painted

She loves trains, Thomas the Train, Yo Gabba Gabba and Bob the builder

Her favorite color is purple

When she is upset, she jumps up and down, or shakes her hands in frustration, sometimes, she throws herself on the floor

She is goofy and has a great sense of humor

She loves to play little jokes on people

She still sucks her middle 2 fingers, a lot

She still loves Elmo

She will sometimes get a piece of candy or gum and hold onto it for a very long time before eating it.

She has several nicknames, including: Mari, Mari-Mo, Mar-Mar, Tooty Butt-Butt, Tooty, Little, Boo, Mar-zi, Marzipan

Mac and cheese and watermelon are her favorite foods

She still takes medicines for absence seizures

She is terrified of dogs

Notes on our trip to Montana

An email I wrote to Grandma Fisher about our trip:

Our trip was great!  We took the train from Colombus, WI right to Havre, MT.  It took about 23 hours.  The girls were actually pretty good on the train! Amara had one major meltdown on the way back, but that is it!  We brought a cooler of food for all our meals except breakfast, which we ate in the dining car.  That was a lot of fun. 

In Havre, we stayed with Margaret's Mom.  She still lives in the house that Margo and her 6 other siblings grew up in, so that was cool to be there. 

Margo's brother Danny lives in Havre and he runs a restaurant called Murphy's Pub.  He has 3 girls, ages 9, 5 and 3, so that was PERFECT. 

I will write more in a second, but in the meantime, look at the pics!

Here's the link to the whole huge set of photos: 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hollybreeze/sets/72157630116754834/

 So, then on Tuesday, we went to Glacier with Danny and his family, except his wife and 3 year old. 

The mountains were INCREDIBLE.  When Maia first saw them, she said "Are those real?" 

We hiked a lot and Amara fell asleep on Margo's shoulders. 
We stayed in West Glacier at a motel right on Lake McDonald.  It was PERFECT! 

The motel was kind of rustic, no tvs! and the view was breathtaking.

In Havre, we went on  a "Havre Beneath the Streets" tour and we were HAUNTED!  A door opened, then slammed shut.  You will have to ask Maia about it.  It was freaky. 

Maia went to church with Grandma Kucera!   Mary (her name) went on and on about how good Maia was!  She crossed her arms when she went up for communion and she knelt and stood and did everything Mary did!  At one point, the priest called the little kids up to watch a baptism and the priest was folding his hands in a prayer and Maia did, too!  just like the priest. 

It was good to hear!  You have to take her to church with you whenever you can!  and she liked dressing up for it, too.  She even put on lip gloss. 

We also went to visit Margaret's Dad's grave.  In front of the grave is a tiny round metal thing that covers a hold to put flowers in. 

Maia was looking at it, then laid down and said into it, "I'm sorry you're dead."  Awww!!!  We wanted to laugh and cry! 

We went to a "Buffalo jump" in Havre, where the Indians used to drive the buffalo off of a cliff so that they could more easily harvest them. 

Maia and Amara had so much fun with their cousins.  They both just LOVE Ellie (she's 9).  and Abby is 5.  She has cerebral palsy, but she is super active and cute, funny and she loves fashion and having me do her hair.  Sophia is the 3 year old and she is ADORABLE, but Hell on wheels.  She is not mean, in fact, she is super sweet, but she is just all over the place!  She gets into things and she is a dare devil.  She and Amara had a ball together and they picked up on each other's bad habits.  Sophia has this loud, growl yell and now Amara does that, too.  ugh.  When we were making s'mores, Sophie took a chocolate bar and she and Amara had it gone within a minute or 2.  Sophia was practically force-feeding it to herself and to Amara.  lol.

The neighbor to Margaret's Mom is Nickolas and he is 6 and Maia played with him quite a bit. 

On Friday, Margo's brother Mark and his 2 kids Danielle and Frankie came up from Billings and we all went out to eat at Danny's restaurant and then to Danny's house for a bonfire.