Bella's a chatter box!

I don't know if the grandmother's and aunts have noticed when they call or not, but Bella has turned in to quite a talker. She is saying "that" and pointing as if to say "what's that?". She also says dog "da", daddy, momma, uh-oh (very well), and tries to say car. She is not gonna let me and Brett get a word in soon. Still working on the walking, some days are better than others. I had a moment tonight when I was rocking Bella to sleep. The computer screen saver is a slideshow of all Bella's pics that are on the computer from day 1 to 1yr. The slideshow was playing while Bella was sleeping in my arms and I just got kind of emotional, Mom's do that I guess. I am so blessed to have such a wonderful daughter and so thankful she is healthy and developing normally. I need to quit pushing so hard for her to walk b/c first of all she's not delayed and once she does, she's not gonna want to be held as much:( She truly will be a big girl and not my baby! I thank God for Bella and what's she's done to me and brought to my life. I truly feel I have a meaning! She needs me!! It feels good to be needed! I don't know how mothers divide their love when they have more than one child. It's hard to imagine loving another child as much as I do Bella, but I'm sure it will be easy when that time comes! Until next time................

Bella's day at the park!

When I got home from work Brett, Bella, and I went to the park, first time Brett came. I was determined to make Bella walk so I put her down and we walked all over the playground her holding my hand. Well I finally started letting go and b/c the mulch didn't appeal to her she couldn't crawl, so she had no choice but to walk! So she started walking and initially she was freaking out but I started being her personal cheerleader and she started to get real proud of herself!! She just kept walking and walking, she even walked backwards a couple of steps!! She actually didn't want me to put her in her stroller when it was time to go. I was so proud of her!!! To celebrate we ate at Shogun's and Bella had applesauce, rice, pirate's booty, and chicken, YUMMY! I think Bella ate more than me. Once we got home, Bella was ready for bed and so she didn't walk any at home, so I'm hoping if I keep making her walk outside she will eventually just take off! I'm so sick of worrying about what she's wearing and if her knees are going to get dry if I don't put her in pants or leggin's. Plus, it's time for her to walk, she showed me today she is fully capable, she is just STUBBORN!! So that's my big news for today, gotta go to bed, have to work tomorrow. Until next time...........................

Catching up......

Well since last post Bella has been sick again, this time with 103 and above temps, not eating/drinking, bad ear infection, and cough. Thank the Lord, she is all better now and spoiled rotten. Bella was moved to the Toddler room today b/c last Friday she bit another child not once but twice. The director said that was an obvious sign she was getting frustrated with the little ones and was ready to move up. Well today she was in the toddler room almost the entire day and even slept on a mat for an hour and a half. Why is it that your children do things for others that they would never do for you? Bella also started saying a new word today, Uh Oh! and at the appropriate times. She is getting so big. Now that she is in the toddler room I hope she will finally start to walk!!! I start my sewing lessons on Thursday, I'm really excited. I plan to learn how to sew a few outfits and then sale them online and at Killgore's Pharmacy, if Bev says o.k. Whitney's baby wore one of the pillowcase dresses I made her today and got several compliments, or so Whitney said. Also, Bella wore a dress I made her to daycare and everyone loved it! So I'm starting to feel better about my abilities. If they look good now, watch out once I learn a little more!! My Nanny is back in the hospital and needs prayer badly!! Megan's local volcano erupted, but she said everything was o.k. Brett and I are stuffy, but I blame allergies. That's about it. I will let everyone know when I post some things online to sell, just look for ThreeBsinapod label!
Until next time.............

New Bella Pics, in her birthday suit!

Bella's first steps!!!

Bella finally walked 2-3 steps last night on her own, without holding on. She did it a few times and then got tired of Brett and I trying to get her to walk when all she wanted was her play money we had bribing her. She did when she was distracted playing with her money. Brett and I almost didn't believe it at first. She's been so timid and fearful of falling she hasn't let go of our hands and taken off on her own. Hopefully this means she'll be walking soon. It's so hard when we go out, she always wants to crawl on the floor and I have to hold her the entire time b/c I'm a germaphobe and don't want her crawling on nasty floors. Once she starts walking though, it will be a little easier (I say that now).

Happy Valentine's Day!

Well tomorrow is Bella's first Valentine's day. I remember a year ago I was begging my Dr. to induce me on V-day. I'm glad he didn't though, it wouldn't be the same if it was both V-day and Bella's birthday. Speaking of her birthday, Stephanie (my PT friend from LA) asked me if she could make Bella's cake. She is wanting to try and start decorating cakes. So of course I said yes, and she and I are gonna make it the Friday before her party. It will have Mickey Mouse on it, Bella's boyfriend. Well, I have lost 10.2lbs since starting weight watchers 1/5/09. I'm pretty satisfied with that number, but my goal is 30lbs. My reward for 10lbs is to dye my hair. My sister Megan asked that I stay away from orange tones, which I will try hard to do! I am working tomorrow on V-day b/c I have been out most of the week with Bella and need to work so I don't use all my vacation time. Sarah had laprascopic exploratory surgery to see why she keeps getting sick and vomitting when she eats. They found nothing abnormal and did a test on her gallbladder and that was fine too. They are d/c'ing her home tomorrow morning and will do an endoscopy (opposite of a colonoscopy) next to see if they see anything. Please pray that they find something so they can get to the bottom of her problems. Well this post was all over the place, but that's just how my life seems to be lately. Well hope you all have a Hot Dog Valentine's Day (Mickey's words, I need to get out more!)! See ya real soon................(again, Mickey Mouse's farewell)

Bella's first day back at daycare, no phone calls!!

Well Bella went back to daycare today after having been out since 2/6 (Friday). I breathed a sigh of relief when I didn't get any calls before 3pm. Bella has had a rough, I mean ROUGH week. My last post was about an hour before we took her to the ER. We took Bella in b/c she started having trouble breathing. We found out Wednesday night she had croup, that's why she had such a funny cough. Croup is when your vocal cords swell up over your wind pipe and prevent air from getting to the lungs easily. The Dr. put her on steroids once a day for 3 days. Well Bella went back to daycare on Friday and due to the lowered immunity from the steroids she got sick from another child (the same one that gave her RSV). Over the weekend she was very clingy and cranky and started running fever on Monday morning when I woke her up. So no work for me, just another Dr's appt. The Dr thought her fever was due to lingering affects of her croup/cold so she gave her antibiotics. Well that afternoon after leaving the Dr's office, both of Bella's eyes started producing this white goopy stuff that we would have to get out of her eyes. Tuesday morning we woke up and were gonna go to daycare but Bella's eyes were matted shut and really pink and swollen. Took her to the daycare and told them I thought it was just a cold and they didn't buy it. Two other kids had pink eye the previous week, so she had to be checked out before coming back to daycare, so off the Dr's we go. Well, guess what Bella had pink eye in both eyes! Great! So as of today, Bella is much better and today was able to stay at daycare all day. Her eyes look much better, practically normal and her cold symptoms are lessening. Bella is becoming more and more independent everyday and I don't like that at all! My little girl is growing up before my eyes! Bella started whole milk today, no more baby formula, I'm sure Bev is glad! So far she likes it pretty well, but did have quite a nasty diaper at daycare! Well thanks for the prayers for Bella. Please continue to pray for her and us, as well as Sarah who is having laprascopic surgery tomorrow to see why she keeps getting sick and vomitting. Please also pray for our friends and new parents Whitney and Jamey and baby Caroline. She had a rough first couple of days, but was able to go home with her mom and dad yesterday and is doing much better. Praise God!