Lily came to visit at our cookie party!

Lily came to visit, and so did the green eyed monster! As soon as I was holding Lily, Bella had to come over too...there is enough of me to go around, but apparently, Isabella didn't think so. Good thing grammy (my mom) was there to help share the love~! Lily with her new jacket, she didn't want to take it off...!!

Isabella and Lily engaging in conversation!

25,000 Christmas lights!!

There is a house here in Vancouver, where the owners really go all out! They put 25,000 lights out, which takes 200 to 300 man hours to put up...as you can see behind me, there was no shortgage of holiday flair! And as you can tell, Bella did not want to be held! Notice all the lights in the back ground....I should have taken a picture of the entire house...next year I will...

Bella was in awe of all the lights, and all the animatronics...this person had ice skaters, angles that moved, music playing...then he came out and gave us candy canes...

That is an actual live tree in their yard....beautiful! This house was unbelieveable! What a wonderful way to spread Christmas joy...it was free to us to view...and Isabella was really excited!

Traditions...finding the right tree...

Here is Bella checking out the ground below her...as we know she is a lover of nature...and very intersted in sticks, pine cones, leaves...so she is surveying the ground to see if she can find anything to take home, as we are trying to find our perfect Christmas Tree!

Bella and Dad off to find the right Christmas tree...

Ta-Dah! Here it is, how splendid it will look in our house all decorated, awaiting Santa's gifts below it...!

~RUH ROH~ Scooby's Doo's voice...

At first, I was having a great time climbing inside of the bar stools...laughing, giggling, showing off my climbing skills.... Then I started to panic!

And then I started to cry....

Help...I can't figure out how to get out of here!

Of course my parents helped me out...I haven't climbed back inside since...!

Random acts of cute-ness part 2

Here is Bella with Vicki's squirt gun, which was meant for the kitten that is living at Vicki's house...Bella thought this was a great toy, since we don't have any squirt guns at our house. (being partial...she is quite cute!) Climbing under the bar stools...as these days we are quite interested in climbing "up," "down," and "side," which is to say inside things...bar stools make for great forts!

Look at how adorable this picture is...~~!

The most beautiful brown eyes I've ever seen!!

Pretty in Pink, with a pine cone!

Here is Bella in her pretty pink coat, and her pink leapord print hat and mittens. With her most prized posession, a pine cone. A while back her and I were taking a walk, when she spied a pine cone on the ground...in her best speaking voice she said "please..." so I stopped and picked it up...mind you this was back in September, so she's been holding onto this "find" for sometime. We have a special bowl in the living room that I've added a few more pine cones too...she loves to pack them around the house...it's really cute! Much more exciting than her toys!

Pictures of dental appointment

Here is the dental assistant cleaning and polishing Bella's teeth, notice, NO TEARS! They were fantastic, and Bella actually had a great time...getting her teeth cleaned!

Here is Isabella with the dental assitant. She is showing Bella how the polisher tickles her hand, which in turn will tickle her teeth. Notice the very large tooth brush in Bella's hand? She was brushing Squirt's teeth...read blog below.

Isabella's 1st dentist appointment

Just a quick little blerb!! (pictures to follow soon)

Isabella went to the dentist today, for her first time! She was nervous and not sure what to expect. I must admit I was too. What exactly are they going to do to my baby?

Well, she was greeted by the assistant who was dressed like one of Santa's elves! She was very patient and excited with Isabella. Which is so nice since she has "stranger danger.." She showed Isabella how to brush Squirts teeth. Their stuffed animal with human looking teeth. She had a huge tooth brush for his teeth, and was showing Bella how to brush the back teeth as well as Squirts tongue. Then she showed Bella the water squirter, and the sucker...she loved that, she got to suck water out of a cup, and then they put water in her mouth, and they sucked that out, she giggled!

Then they showed her the yummy smelling teeth cleaning polish, and how the polisher worked, and she sat there and let the lady clean all her teeth! I was amazed.

They took such good care of her, and were so relaxed and calm with Bella. Her first experiance was not fearful or teary eyed...it was fun! Bella now thinks going to the dentist is going to be fun!! Which is so awesome!!

And the best part, no cavaties!! YEAH!! She got her picture put up with the rest of the kids who have no cavaties...the "no sugar bugs club."

I will post the 2 pictures I was able to take...they didn't want mom to interrupt Bella's concentration of scare her. Stay tuned! :)

Happy Halloween'07

Here is Bella with her Friends, The jedi Master, Yoda (Francis) and the adorable love bug (Miss Lily) And of course the cute girl on the end is the adorable Witch Miss Bella!! Here she is before her guests arrived, she was nibbling on a light snack, gearing up for Trick Or Treating!!

We were trying to get her to pose, of course easier said than done, I was trying to get a good view of her so cute tights!!

Running towards dad, her Hero!

Having a serious conversation with Miss Lily about something that appears to be quite important to Isabella.

After their chat, they just sat and thought about how heavy the conversation was, and what the next topic would be.

Here I am trying to get Miss Bella to wear her hat...thank goodness it was on sale, she absolutly would not under any circumstances wear that hat, not even for a moment to snap a picture.

Here is the crew gathering for a "group picture."

Vicki was entertaining the kids (can you believe she thinks she would be a bad mom?) she was blowing bubbles for them, I'm getting dizzy just looking at the picture, she blew bubbles for a good 20 minutes till I showed up with the automatic bubble dispenser. As you can tell Francis was having a great time! Lily isn't quite sure what the fuss is all about.

Bella checking out her loot from the few moments we trick or treated. We hit maybe 6 houses on our cul-de-sac...the first house she was quite timid, but by the end she was thanking the people (in sign language) and saying "Bye..." and waving...it was so so cute. She and Francis had a great time! Francis was trying to give the candy back, thinking it was a trade sort of thing, I give you this snickers back for a dum dum...he'll learn. It was their first crack at it, next year I'm sure we'll be the ones being taken around the neighborhood.

Can I eat this? Yes, after mommy inspects it for drugs, needles and razor blades. Some traditions never change...I must admit it was a lot of fun for me too! I loved Halloween so much I trick or treated till I was 19...I'm short, I got away with looking cute and small, and very young.

Thank you April!

Bella wanted to send April a big thank you for the warm and wonderful scarf...as you can see below, I got good use out of it today at the pumpkin patch, it kept me snuggly warm!

The pumpkin patch!

Here we are at Joe's Place, in Vancouver, at their pumpkin patch. They also have other variety other produce through the year, apples, fresh veggies, etc. This was Isabella's first trip the pumpkin patch, last year she was still tiny, but this year, we went BIG!

We took a a hay ride, which took us around the farm, which had Bella saying "oh wow!" And they gave us free apples, which were delicious!

Then we accompanied Bella through the various patches of pumpkins to find just the right one!

We searched through many different sizes, colors and shapes...

This one was right up Bella's ally!

Finally after we made our selections, we let Bella frolic and run around, after all, she is encroaching on 2 years old...she has lots and lots of energy! Good thing for us we keep in good shape so we can keep up with her! We look forward to making this a new family tradition, Bella had a fantastic time, and so did we!

A walk in the park...

Remember that old saying? "That was a walk in the park..." Or the other saying "just another ordinary day..." both no longer have the same meanings in our house. A walk in the park is now spent investigating things we adults take for granite. Falling leaves from the change of Summer to Fall...the different colors the leaves are turning...all of these things we adults know will happen are mysterious and magical through the eyes of a child. Isabella is quite taken with all of this, so we stopped to take "a walk in the park" with our favorite person so she could check it out! Things like this are no longer ordinary...and we love it!