Bella Update

A couple of weekends ago we were hanging out with my cousin, and she took some snapshots of Bella. She looks like such a big girl in these pictures. Bella has her moments of "the twos" and being super independent, but she is still such a sweetheart.

• Potty Training - We are currently working on potty training. It is going pretty well. Every once in a while there are some accidents, but it is getting easier every day. The night time training is not there yet, though.

• Dancing - LOVES to dance...Bella always wants music turned on. I will find her in her bedroom with her skirt, hat, shoes, and babies dancing around. She has a radio that she turns on all the time and twirls around. She always wants us to dance with her too. Her favorite songs are "Shake it For Me Girl" and "Crazy Girl". I'm not sure why. I usually listen to country music, but those songs haven't been favorites of mine. She discovered them on her own! This is how I found her dressed up and dancing one day in her room. She even has wings on :)

• Imagination - Bella has a great imagination at this age. She loves to play babies. They are all currently named Andrew, except for her Puppy Bumbles. Bella changes their diapers, rocks them, puts them to bed, feeds and burps them.

• Cooking - She is always playing with her play food and cooking for us. Every morning she makes Andy some "coffee" and birthday cake. The cake is just little foam shapes. She could play with those shapes all day.

• Singing - Her favorite songs to sing are ABCs, Jesus Loves Me, The B-I-B-L-E, Have Patience, and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

• Humor - I think Bella has a great sense of humor. She likes to be funny and make people laugh. She always asks me "Is that funny, mama?"

• Names - Bella has been calling me Mama Mia for the past couple of weeks. Sometimes she will call me Miss Mama too...so strange! Bella has been a little stinker lately too...She will call us Andy and Tabby. The other day in the grocery store we were checking out and she kept saying "Ok Tabby" The cashier thought it was funny that she was calling me by my name. Oh, and lately she likes to be called Honey Butt, Bell, and Baby Bell. Randomly while we will shorten her name to Bell, and she thinks that's cool so now she tells us to call her that.

• Big Sister - Bella is a great big sister. When Drew is crying she will find his nuk for him and tell him it will be ok. She tries to entertain him and bring him toys. I always find a stool next to his crib, because Bella likes to climb up and peek into the crib at him. The funniest thing is when she mocks my baby talk to him.....Do I really sound that goofy when I baby talk??? :)

• Sassiness - We are working on saying "Please stop" instead of "Don't!"

• Money - Hide your money! She loves putting coins in her piggy bank. This morning she went into my room and saw a quarter on my night stand. She yelled "I found my money!!" (As if she has been looking for this long lost coin.) After she claimed the quarter, she ran into her room to put it in her piggy bank.

(By the way....this post took me way too long to put together!! Sometimes Blogger frustrates me when it changes everything on its own like underlining, text size, organizing pictures, etc...ugh! Please ignore any weird spacing. I got tired of trying to fix it. At least it's done!)