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..."

Easter round 2...Going to Great Grandma's house...

Are all of these for me? Wow...the Easter Bunny must really like me... We've been working on our colors, this is "lellow..."

This is "bleuuuuuuu" with an emphasis on the "u"

"help you...help you..." is what she says when she is asking for help...we've tried to correct her and say "you mean you need help?" She'll say "yes...help you..."

Hmmm...a moment of silence before the sugar kicks in?

We did take a break for dinner, she would have loved to have eaten sugar all day, especially since she hardly gets any...she gets lots of fruit and is allowed a couple puches of fruit snacks a day...but this was on a whole new sugar level...!

We even played with our food...Isabella olive fingers!

Grandpa Palmer, Daddy and Miss Bella...who was starting to go comotose.

...sup...coming down off my sugar buzz...what's up party people...whoop whoop!

Happy 3rd Easter Isabella!

...Sup... Mmmm...nothing beats jelly beans for breakfast...! Delicious...!

What is inside here? Here chickie chickie...
*WOW* more jelly beans...

Happy Easter 2008!

Just being cute Bella...

I love it when Bella is so happy, especially when she runs around the house like a maniac...she is so funny, easily excited, and most of all, quite the entertainer...she is fantastically awesome!

~Easter egg hunt at daycare~

Getting down at ground level to asses the situation...! Oh what a difference a year makes, this time last year, Bella couldn't walk, so it was fun to watch her in action hunting for eggs.

One more for the easter basket!

Counting to see how many have we found...

Not too shabby Miss Bella!!

Ah yes, that is our child crying...why you may ask, after all those eggs she found...because she wanted to go outside and find even more...the world is not fair sometimes, especially when you're 2...and you want things, and you want them right now...I'm anticipating what being 3 brings.

But after her fit, she calmed down enough to enjoy a sugary cookie...I think she felt much better after getting all that crying out of her system.

Saturday, in the park...ah, gotta love spring days!

Our Brave little girl has really done it this time...you may not be able to tell, but she climbed the play structure all by her self, and went down the slide all by her self...I was at the bottom rooting her on...but after we showed her a few times how to do it...she would get to the top, and say "I did it...!"

Yes you did Bella...smart and brave...our Isabella!

Our monkey climbing the monkey bars...Jer was wincing the whole time..."she is going to fall...and hurt her self..." if you can see, my pink and grey shoe in the side line there, I was at the top, waiting to help her up! So she was never far from one of our helping and guiding hands.
The eyes of an angle!! What a beautiful girl!

We realized at 16wks (4months) that we hadn't taken any profile shots fo the tummy...so at the park Jer took one...looking pregalicious here...can't wait to find out who is inhabiting my tummy!

All I can say is...

*OMG*
Bella was whirling around the house, as she tends to do, in her toddler fashion...she likes it when we sit on the floor, as she runs laps around us...or she will run between us and screams as she is running towards you "HUGS...!" and she runs into our arms and give us great big bear hugs. Which I have to say are the best hugs I've ever received. Anyhow...as you can see below...and as I'm cracking up looking at the pictures...I asked Bella between laps around Jer if she could stop and smile...she is surprisingly witty for a 2 year old...!! And quite the attention sponge.

What a riot!!
This is a good one...not too much hamming going on...just Bella and her daddy...one of my new favorite pictures!

Bella running laps around Jeremy...she is quite the entertainer lately!

The buding artist!

Bella's favorite past time is coloring...she sees a pen and paper and says "color, color....color peez..." which just melts your heart when she uses her manners... Does green really represent what I'm trying to accomplish here? I'll try it...!

As you can see here, she is really getting into her coloring...very concentrated, very focused. We proudly display her art work on the fridge, each week we have new things to add...ever the proud parents of a someday Frida, or Picasso....we don't know, but we are sure glad to be in the presence of her greatness.

Good Morning Ham!!

Good Morning Sunshine!! Or rather, our resident "HAM." Bella was sitting at the counter, like every morning, since she has decided to abandon her high chair...I asked her to smile...and this is what I got... Ah...Bella and Jeremy...need I say more...? :)

Bella looking adoringly at "daddy..." it's safe to say that Bella has officially got her dad wrapped around her finger, for life!

Lastly, this has been an expression we have been seeing a lot lately, she does it when she is suprised, being inquisitive, but mostly when ever she is just being silly...Bella, you are so funny!