Happy Birthday Bella!

Bella turned 1 this past Friday! We can't believe our baby is 1. We had such a great weekend. We so appreciate all of our family and friends making the trip to our house for Bella's special day & Cupcake party. I am going to do a better post about her birthday with more pictures, but for now here are a couple!

1st Time Playing in the Snow!

This weekend we headed up to the Poconos and had a great time! It started snowing on our drive there and snowed off and on through Sunday. It was beautiful and this was the first real snow Bella has seen. She loved sledding in the front yard and she also loved eating the snow...

Weekend Fun and No Fun

After being gone since last Sunday for work, I could not wait to get home to see Bella! I missed her so much but I knew she was in good hands while I was gone. I got home late Friday night to Bella and Daddy asleep on the couch. Daddy planned that so I could see her before he put her in the crib. So she woke up enough to see me, laid on me for a little bit then I tucked her in her bed and she was off to la la land! On Saturday we had some friends come in town to visit and we hung out with them in the afternoon. We stopped by Daddy's office and I thoroughly enjoyed playing around as you will see in the pictures. About 11 pm on Saturday night, we went to check on Bella as we heard her waking up every now and then and kind of whine, which she doesn't ever do. Normally, we put her to bed at 7 and she is quiet as a mouse until the next morning. So when we checked you, we discovered you were super hot. Turns out you had a fever of 103. After calling the night nurses at the Pediatric office, they said just to treat your fever with medicine and cold liquids. So needless to say you laid in bed with us for a couple hours and we all finally fell asleep. You still have a little fever today but are getting better. We think it is her teething, as she has 4 teeth coming in! Yikes! So we had a good weekend until last night, we hate seeing our baby sick. It breaks our heart. We hope you feel better ASAP! Here are our pictures from the weekend:

Insisting on having some of Mommy's tea...don't worry it wasn't hot!

Sitting at Daddy's boss' desk, look out!

Just being silly

Sweet baby sitting in the big girl chair!

Bella has Beiber Fever...she loves dancing to "Baby"

Notice she has one sock on and one sock off...

Bella being Bella

11 Months!

It is so hard to believe that Bella is 11 months! She is almost a big 1 year old, yikes! This year has flown by but it has been so fun and I have loved every minute. So Bella at 11 Months, what do you like and what are you doing:

• Walking/Running-you are very fast
• Very curious about everything
• You love us to chase you around the house
• Feeding yourself
• Drinking out of your big girl cup with a straw
• Playing with your babies, you carry them around and pat them on the back
• Reading books, you bring it to me then scoot back and sit in my lap yourself
• Playing with your tupperware cabinet in the kitchen
• Skyping with Mimi and Papa
• Running up and down the halls
• Going on wagon rides
• Trying to put hats and headbands on your head
• Grabbing shoes out of your shoe drawer and trying to put them on
• You love Macaroni and Cheese!
• Saying "Mama"
• Making a fun scrunching your nose and making a funny sniffing noise
• Getting into everything you are not supposed to
• Love bath time
• Walking around in your diaper and slapping your belly, you think it's so funny
• DANCING! You especially love dancing to "Baby" by Beiber

Okay well that is all I can think of right now....enjoy our 11 month chair pics! It's certainly hard to get Bella to sit still these days!

Best one I could get!

Doing your funny sniffing noise!

Little split?

Relaxing...

Juice Box & Mount Vernon

Since Bella really likes drinking from a straw, I decided to let her try a juice box this weekend. She did pretty good. After squeezing it a few times and making a mess, she got the hang of it and was carrying it around, drinking out of it. We still need some work, but she was really cute and loved holding her own drink!

This Saturday we took Bella to Mount Vernon to see George Washington's house. Fran had taken Bella in the fall and said she loved it, so I couldn't wait to go with them. We had so much fun, it was a beautiful day and Bella loved running around the front lawn of his house. She also wanted to try and eat everything she picked off the ground...grass, leaves, you name it. Here are some pictures from our weekend!

Lovey? Check! Juice Box? Check!

Such a big girl!

Enjoying the sheep with Daddy!

Loving running around

Bella and Mommy

Such a beautiful view!

Making sure she doesn't eat the grass!