Our little Picasso

Bella, learned today that crayons are for more than just eating! So now like all proud parents we have our first piece of kid art on the fridge. With many more to come I would imagine. I think it was her magna doodle that taught her the beauty of drawing. She, and all her little friends have this one in white, at it is awesome.

A new part!

Bella learned where her nose is today! Now, if she would just stop putting her finger up it, that would be even better :)

Building with Lego..

Bella, has learned that her blocks can be placed on top of each other instead of just thrown out of the bucket! It is so cute to watch her stack them up, she hasn't figured out yet that they snap together. Our little architect will be building castles very soon!

Pop Pop

Bella says "pop pop" now when she wants to blow bubbles. It is super cute of course. They use this bubble set at story time at the library. I thought it was great so went out and got it a couple of weeks ago. It is great because Bella can blow through the pipe no problem, unlike a traditional wand. Sometimes, we go outside to the courtyard and blow them, and other times we just go out into the hallway. That way I don't have to clean up bubbles on our fresh new carpet :) We say pop pop when we are cleaning up the bubbles in the hallway, so I think that is where the "pop pop" comes from.

Baby Crack

Bee Movie is now like crack for Bella. Normally, we don't let her watch TV - but when taking her medicine every night we needed something to help distract her. It is a little scary to watch how mesmerized she gets, if I put something in front of her face she just moves her head so that she can still see the TV. Thankfully, she doesn't scream nearly as much, or for as long when getting her daily medication. We'll see how long it is before Bee Movie makes Gabe and I crazy :)

Please Dad..

Bella was getting fussy, so we decided to put her on the pony and see what she thought. She thought it was great. What little girl doesn't want a pony? This is the closest she will come : )

Yumm!

Ohh my is fried food ever good! Some video of Bella eating some of the falafel out of my wrap. We are at Mom's diner with Granddad and Gramma - what fun!

Blow!

For the past couple of weeks, Gabe has been trying to teach Bella how to blow her nose. He sniffs each time he goes at her with the tissue and it seems to distract her enough to let him clean up the mess. For a while she was screaming when we came at her with a tissue. Today, she walked over to the toilet paper pulled at it until she had enough, brought the tissue to her nose and started sniffing!!! How cool is that! Cutie pie tries to blow her nose... Hopefully, Gabe will get to witness this soon as well.

Story Time..

Today, was our first time at Story Time at the local library. The room was packed with babies, toddlers, a couple of second baby infants, mommies, grandparents and nannies...I think they said about a hundred people. Stories, songs, throwing babies up in the air, bubbles and parachutes - what could be better!! It was a little overwhelming, but I think as Bella gets a little older it will be one of her favourite weekly adventures. It's such a fun way to foster reading...

Picking up dad..

Bella, walked from our condo all the way to the park and ride to meet Gabe as he got off the bus. (For those of you who don't know where we live, it's a couple of blocks away and takes Gabe 6-8 minutes.) She walked so much faster then I thought she would. I was expecting her to stop and look at every flower and rock along the way but it didn't happen. While we were waiting for Gabe's bus to arrive, Bella was trying to suck the crosswalk braille. She managed once, and I had to wipe pebbles off her tongue :)

Ohh so happy...

Bell sure does love when she gets to visit with Aunt Karen and Uncle Drew. This time they brought cousin Jody too!!!

Pucker Up!!

Bella walks around with a pucker up face these days. Lips pushed out just ready for a kiss, but when you try to kiss her she turns away. It is super cute! We'll see how long it takes for her to learn that it means a kiss is coming...

Monkey see monkey do

Two days ago, I put Bella at the bottom of the stairs (in the common hallway coming up from the garage) and tried to see if she would climb the stairs. She wasn't really all that interested, but I thought - heck I should give her the opportunity or she will never know how. Today, I did the same thing and she started crawling right away. She crawled up both flights and walked to our front door! She was taking a while, I kept on reminding myself be patient and to just stay in the moment. I was tempted to just scoop her up in my arms and hurry up the process...but I didn't!

Twenty minutes later, the phone rang while we were sitting on the couch so I put Bella on the floor. I grabbed the phone turn around and see that Bella has learned to climb up onto the couch!!! Thankfully, she knows how to get off the couch safely - but now we have to teach her to stay on her butt, and not stand... Wish us luck!