Saturday, September 27, 2008

2 year update...

At 2....
She weighs 24 1/2lbs (25 percentile)
She is 34inches tall (75percentile)

Izabella continues to be the joy of our life! We love watching her learn, grow and love! She is already very independent and certain about what she wants yet very sweet and loving too! Loves to give Big Hugs and kisses all the time. Will cuddle with you especially in the morning and night but throughout the day too, which we love! She loves to sing all the time, lots of well known songs and her own made up songs too. She knows her ABC, and a triangle and star...the other shapes along with her colors it depends what day you ask her. I have heard her count to 12 but skips 4 or 5 a lot. She is not a picky eater just picky about what you give her at times, likes her variety! She continues to be a great sleeper and sleeps 10-12 hours at night and still takes a 2-3 hour nap! Bella's imagination is huge: she takes great care of her babies, always making us something to eat in her kitchen, and loves to dress up. She will let us read to her for hours and sometimes reads back to us! All 4 of her 2 year-molars are breaking threw right now. Her vocabulary is really exploding Tim and I have noticed just in the last couple of weeks she is full of questions, "what are you doing", "what happened?", "where'd it go?" She is very polite and always says thank you, now when she burps she says, "what's that" and then "excuse me"....pretty cute! She recognizes cars of friends and family...we were driving the other day and a car like Miss Jenny's pulled up and she said, Emily, then when we pulled in the drive way Papaw's truck was there and she said Papaw. She loves all vehicle, firetrucks, tractors, bull dozers and will point them out to me while we are driving!

What fun we are having!

We continue to thank our lucky stars that we are blessed with her as our daughter and look forward to each and every day with her!


Wyatt joins in...

Is that you, Wyatt...he wasted no time and had a bag full of apples
in 5 minutes!
Had to get some way up high with Daddy's help!
Taking a break enjoying an apple!
Too cute!
Wyatt joined us at the end of our outing...we were so glad he could make it!

Refreshments...

We got warm out in the orchard picking all those apples
so Grandma treated us to a apple cider slushy...
YUMMY Of course had to try an apple too!

Hard Work...

Picking apples wasn't always easy sometimes they didn't want to come off so I had to work hard to get them! I few times I pulled so hard that I fell backwards but it was fun!

Picking Apples....

She is off with her bag to get some APPLES!
Grandma showing Bella what a good apple looks like.
Ok, I am going to get this one
& this one too!
This is sooo much fun!
I love apples! Look at all the apples to pick!
Of course she wouldn't look at the camera!
Bella was upset at the end when her bag was too heavy to carry!


Stuckey Farms...

Learning how the bees make honey!
Checking out all the pumpkins but we decided it was just a little early to get them and we wanted to do that with Daddy!
Driving the 4x4 play equipment!
Blowing the dandelion
Daddy had to go to Lebanon to help Papaw video tape a wedding so he dropped us off at Stuckey Farms where we met Grandma and had lot so fun!

What are you?

Bella LOVES to dress up and her combinations always crack me up! First thing this morning she brought me her blue Colts jersey (which she said Go Colts while bring it to me) out of her closet and then got her pink pom poms and her princess crown, unfortunately I was making breakfast and didn't snap a picture. Then she wanted the blue jersey off and pink on and then was Colts Cowgirl Princess!
She always has us laughing with her imagination!

Tea in the Tub???

Are you ready for a tea party?
First you get the water for the tea,
Then you pour it,
and then you enjoy some hot tea!
Ohh, this is so much fun, I don't ever want to get out of the tub!

Fun with Olivia...

Playing outside on the swing set with Olivia...
On you mark.
Get set.

GO!
Yeah, let's do it again!
Swinging on a big girl swing...weeee!

Bella had so much fun last night playing with Abby, Olivia and Jackson. Olivia was so sweet to just let Bella take her hand and drag her all over!

Morning At the Park....




Thursday Bella and I enjoyed a beautiful fall morning at the park! She has become more apprehensive about climbing and doing things by herself than she use to but she made great strides by the end she was climbing up and down everything!
We loved being outside and just having mommy and Bella time!!!

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Happy 50th...

Sheri....
We hope all your Birthday Wishes come true!!!
Saturday night Sheri's family had a wonderful 50th Birthday for her with a house full of family and friends to celebrate! Bella loved the Barber Shop Quartet that was sang for her!
We are so glad we got to join in the celebrating!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

Sunday, September 21, 2008

A BIG
THANK YOU
to all of you who helped us through these last 6 crazy weeks when I was going
through orientation and working lots of extra hours. Tim picked up lots of extra duties along with lots of friends and family.
As always we couldn't have done it without you guys! We are blessed to have such wonderful family and friends who are willing to help us and care for Bella!
I am done now with orientation and back to working more "normal"
hours. I like working L&D a lot and working with all the itty bitty
babies...I get my baby fix that is for sure!
THANKS to....
Grammy J & Papaw
Grandma & Papaw M
Aunt Suzi
Aunt Rachel
Great Aunt Beth
Uncle Ryan and Sara
Sarah
Cathy
Ann
Amber
Abby
Miss Jenny

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Birthday Clips...

A couple cute videos of Bella celebrating...

Our Birthday Princess

We can't believe you are 2!!!!
You continue to bring us so much love, laughter and joy daily!
We are blessed to call you our daughter!!!
Mommy and Daddy Love you sooooo
much!!!!


Royalty

Lady Izabella
&
Sir Wyatt James ohhh, how sweet!

Tea for Two...

Saturday Wyatt and Bella had their own little tea party for two...
they were so cute sitting ther and pretending. The later included Grandma M in on the yummy tea!