When the weather gets hot...

You seek the comfort of friends and water of course! Here is Bella playing at her friend Lily's house, with her new water table...and cute Miss Aubrey in the back ground...keeping cool.
Miss Bella and Miss Lily...taking a break for a moment.

Lily showing Bella the how too's on playing in the water...the girls love playing with the water table...they spent quite a while playing...until their fingers were prunes, and their clothes were dripping wet....it was a good day for both of them.

Excuse me, can I help you with something?

Accessories! A must for the girly girl in the house!

Here is Bella with her pink sunglasses on...she was helping me clean out her room, and the "baby" items when we ran accross her basket of hair goodies, and 3 different pairs of sunglasses....she chose these out of all 3 pairs...I can't say I blame her, they are cute on her...they make her eyes look 2 times bigger than they are...which as you'll see is hilarious! pushing them up so they are in place and she is ready to face the world

posing...! Which I have to tell you, for what ever reason, this picture just absolutly crackes her dad and I up...she looks like she is 65 years old, going out to play bingo with her girl friends.

she had to wear her bracelets too...of course!

making sure they are in their proper place...girls! So glad there is someone else in the house who I can share all my fashion knowledge with...did I mention she also loves shoes!!

Jab, cross, hook, up!

Here is Bella showing dad the kick boxing moves she learned while watching mom practice for her class...here she is giving her dad a jab punch! *kee-ya* "This is speed bag dad...speed bag~!"
more speed bag, she equates this to "rolling" the dough from patty cake

Finally she ends with a ta-da! Much like "Super Star" from Saturday night live's Molly Shannon routine! Make you wonder if we have a future performer/star on our hands...hmmmm? At any rate she picked up on the kick boxing moves quickly...and loves to immitate what she see's mom doing. Immitation is the best form of flattery they say...

~Happy Mother's Day~

Here is Bella smiling big with her oh so proud momma...next mother's day, we'll have 2 daughters, which will make for the best mother's day present of all.

Look a'like

Here is Bella with our family dog, Pancho...they say that owners look like their pets or vice versa....this is uncanny! :)

Fueling the creativity!

Bella loves loves loves to color...so every time she askes "color?" of course we have to let her... concentrating, creating her latest work of art...or "art work.." as she calls it. We promptly display them on the fridge...for all to see.

Taking a break to give us her silly cheesy smiles!!

Back to work...very studious our 2 year old...

Being 2 means...

Being very inventive, creative and a show stopper...!

Here is Isabella's latest trick folks...that's right, her hand is missing...but where did it go? She thought of this all by her self...we were sitting here, and she said "look, my hand..." and held up her other hand to indicate, "where did it go?"

As you can tell, she thought this was the best thing she had ever thought of...we have to say, we were quite entertained for a good long while..."Bella where did your hands go..." We have no idea where she picked up this new trick, but we sat here staring at eachother (Jer and I) in disbelief, "She is SO smart..." and giving eachother that gentle nod of "well, she is OUR kid...DUH!"

After about a 1/2 hour, we were pooped...time for bed, thank you Bella for the magic show!

I'm dying laughing after posting these...

So remember down below how I told you the camera just happened to be around as we were getting Bella ready for bed...she was being her usual entertaining self...so we took some pictures...of course! She gave me gentle smiles...

But with dad, she is quite the goof ball!

Okay she did get silly with me too...for a moment!

But it's mostly with her dad that she gets into her silly moods and really starts acting like a nut! :)

But we love our little silly nut...she makes us stop and have a good deep belly laugh, which as you know, being a grown up, we don't get many of those...so it's nice to have her in the house!
We wonder what her sister will be like? We'll find out sooner that we know it...time is ticking by quick!

Our new photographer

The other night we were getting Bella ready for bed, and the camera was laying around...she kept saying..."pictures...pictures..." so I picked up and snapped some of her, and then showed her how to use the camera...this is what she snapped~! She liked it after she took the picture, we'd turn the camera around to show her what she snapped...although now, when you hold the camera up, she is trying to see what the pictures look like on the camera, and won't hold still...silly little goose!

...totally random...

Our avid reader...sitting down with a good book.

Look at that hair! That's what mine looks like in the morning...but I'm not sharing pictures of that! Dont' want to scare anyone.

It was 65-70 degrees outside, and Bella insisted on her pink fur coat...very opinionated about her clothes, coats and shoes.

Pretending to cook us food, daddy got mac-n-cheese and I got yummy peas~!

Look mommy I have daddies glasses on!

Here we are, Friday morning, and I'm reading through my emails, checking the weather online, going through my grocery list one last time before we head out...and I hear Bella say...
Look...mom...mom...glasses...glasses on! Then the show started...posing this way and that...

Sitting down, and smiling big...

really haming it up...

And then hiding, she was done...she said "no more...no more pictures...!" Okay okay...but it's hard to resist, she is SO cute!! And quite funny these days...too bad they can't bottle the short window we get them while they are in this phase of learning, growing into their own person, and really showing us who they are going to be...so far the "terrible two's," haven't been so terrible, more like miraculous!

First trip to the zoo...

With the weekend weather getting nicer and nicer we decided to take Bella to the zoo for the first time...she had a great time!

We saw giraffs...

We petted some goats...

Which she really enjoyed!

Peacocks were raising their feathers and putting on a show...

Bella and I taking a break so we both could rest our feet...as there was lots of walking.

The sea otter was playing...

It was a great day at the zoo...we'll be back again soon!

Jeremy was taking pictures of my baby bump...!! As you can see I'm really starting to poke out there...this time my belly button has decided to become an outty, last time, this didn't happen.

Right now we are 23wks, and more than half way through...! Thank gosh, I don't remember being this uncomforable last time...but it's all for the good of our family. Only 17wks to go...!

Can't wait to meet baby Gabriella...!!

Stay tuned...

For Bella's birthday...

She got this wonderful mouse from my mom or "Grammy" to Isabella. You can dress and undress it, using zippers, buttons, velcro, and laces. Bella loves this mouse...especially it's shoes!! As you can see here, she HAD to wear them...and I'm not kidding you one bit when I tell you this girl has got a shoe fettish...and I thought I was bad...she makes everyone in the house wear shoes, even the company when they come to visit (we normally don't wear shoes in the house). She carries their shoes to them, and insists they wear them..."shoes...shoes...SHOES!"

She absolutly loves shoes...and when she discovered the mouses shoes came off and fit her...well, she HAD to wear them...when I told her the mouses feet were cold...she laughed...I'm guessing that meant "too bad for mouse..."