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..."

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!