Purple Make-up

Bella loves make-up, she is quite the girly girl! Almost everyday she asks for either the purple or pink make-up I keep in my purse. "Mama, purple make-up please". She has her own "make-up" (chapstick) that she is allowed to use anytime, but of course Mama's is way better.

Kiss Baby?

Bell asked to "kiss baby" in my belly today, I told her that Mama didn't have a baby. How weird is that, I'm only a couple of weeks along - how does she know already? I'm not sure if she was just asking because of Aunt Karen's baby in her belly, or because of all of my pregnant friends. I don't think she could have overheard me telling anyone, seeing as we haven't told many people. I wonder if she is just an intuitive cookie???

We passed...

So this morning I felt a little funny, so I thought why not take a pregnancy test and see. I was super confused by the results though. The control line showed up super dark, the negative line a little lighter but the line that would make up the plus was super faint. I showed the test to Gabe and we were both "uhh I dunno". We looked at the package instructions to see they were going to be of anymore help - but nope. I didn't have another test, so we would just have to wait a while. This afternoon I bought two more tests, from a different manufacturer. I took the second test and failed miserably, the control line didn't even appear! Seriously, who can't pee on a stick correctly? Apparently me : ) A couple of hours later I took the third test, and what do you know I passed! So it looks like Bell will be a big sister this Spring! Needless, to say we are pretty excited. The due date is March 30th, Bella's birthday - so hopefully it will be a little late so they don't have to share a birthday.

Wait for me!

Bella's latest phrase is "wait for me", sometimes it is "wait for me, guys". She says it at the funniest times as well; jumping into the shower, leaving a room, or just her line of sight... It is so funny, we have no idea where she got this one.

What are you trying to say?

Up until a couple of days ago Bell spoke so clearly that it seemed very seldom that I didn't understand what she was trying to say. Lately, it has been a lot more difficult, she has added a new twist to her English language skills. Adding IE to the end of almost everything she says; soothie (soother), campie (camping), juicie (juice), bathie (bath), tubbie (tub), cuppie (cup), milkie (milk), etc... Thankfully, we have figured out this new code so we are having an easier time understanding out little Linguist.

My make-up

Aunt Karen was here this weekend, and was using a lip gloss that Bell was very excited about. Up until this point I have only let Bell play with chap stick. She calls chap stick her make-up and plays with every morning while I do my own make up. When Karen left she gave Bell the lip gloss - best gift ever as far as she is concerned. She takes it with her everywhere! She is so crazy about her make-up that, she won't leave the house without "my make-up, my make-up" and won't go to sleep without clutching it in her little fist. Now, chap stick is nothing in comparison to the amazing newness of lip gloss.

788 days later...

788 days in and finally Bell stayed in her bed until 6am today! What a dream, who knows how long it will last but at least it happened...maybe this means it will happen again sometime : ) She still woke up a couple of times before Gabe came to bed. Asking for water and needing to be tucked in again, she goes back to sleep so easily then, that is barely counts. Plus, I'm asleep then, so it really doesn't count for me : ) We are feeling so grateful with our current sleep situation, normally she just crawls into bed with us anywhere between 2 -5am. Now, if it is only going to get later and later in the morning - Fantastic!!