Lazy summer days!

With all the commotion of the impending new babies arrival, preparing our nest, new carpeting being laid down this week, cleaning, painting, planning, and of course working and parenting...it was so nice to take a lazy day at the park and have a picnic with Miss Bella and Jeremy...this particular day it was 103 outside...however, when we had our picnic it was in the mere 90's...Bella didn't seem to mind the heat...she loves it out side...!!! I can't say I blame her...

Here she is singing to us, "twinkle twinkle little star..." she had hand gestures and is very animated with it!

Then, she heard something up in the sky...she absolutly loves birds and planes...she will stop what ever she is doing to point out a plane flying above, or a bird swooping in for a landing. Which makes Jer and I stop and take a look with her. Who knew bird watching and plane watching could be so entertaining? Taking an interest in Bella's interests and encouraging her imagination is something we are avid fans of.

Look, a plane, a plane!!! Mommy, Daddy, a plane!!!

There it goes Bella...someday we'll take you on a plane ride...perhaps to Disney Land!!

Here I am, Jeremy caught me snacking on crackers and cheese...Jeremy says "you're so beautiful..." at this point, I feel less than. With only 7wks left to go...I'm feeling sloath like and very tired. But it's nice to know that when you're carrying your husbands child, he thinks I'm the most beautiful woman he has ever seen...thanks Jeremy!!

mmmm....strawberries!! Bella loves her fruit...I don't think there is a fruit she has met that she doesn't like...I have to agree...they are all pretty delicious!

Tastey!!


Little Miss Bella hates having anything on her hands. So I was helping her eat...she was showing dad her hands...they were just cleaned, cause as she was feeding her self, she noticed juice on her hands..."hands dirty...hands dirty!"

Giving Bella a push on the swings...as you can see by the amount of people at the park, we too had a good idea...however, not too long after this, the park was a ghost town...the heat drove them away...we left too, had to get inside where the AC was at...

...Making the transition...

I think it was harder for me to make the transition than is was for Bella...here she is on her first night in her "big girl bed..." This transition meant two things...first, she was no longer a baby...secondly, the soon to be arriving baby would soon be sleeping in the crib that Bella spent the last 2 years sleeping in...some changes are often harder to take than others...but for Bella, it was easy...she went down without a fight, and in fact within in 10 minutes of us laying her down, she was out like a light. She was so excited right before bed time. She kept saying..."my bed momma, my bed..." to which Jer and I smiled at eachother...and I said, after she fell asleep, "that was it...where are the tears, where is the fight from our stong willed 2 year old? Amazing!" She must have been ready long before I was...

Sweet dreams little lady bug...my how the last 2 years has flown by...soon enough you'll be making the move to an even bigger bed...and we'll be wondering where time went too.

Bitter sweet...helping and watching them grow into little people...it's absolutly amazing!

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~!