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!