She is sleeping like a champ! She goes to bed between 8 and 9pm and then wakes up around 9 or 10am (sometimes she gets up earlier, but that is pretty rare. sometimes she sleeps in even later, like 11am, it's pretty great). She still takes one afternoon nap between 2 and 3 hours.
She still sleeps in her crib. We got her a toddler bed, but she's still getting used to seeing it her room. We aren't going to force her to sleep in it... at least not yet...
She's still right on target with her clothing sizes, she's wearing 18month clothes, which means she's still smaller than most kids her age. She is still wearing diapers, but we are looking forward to a future without diapers. We got her a potty and one for her baby doll. She likes to put her baby on the potty, so I'm hoping that as time goes on she'll feel more comfortable sitting on the potty herself. I think we're going to get her into her toddler bed first and then really start the potty training. Any tips on these transitions from anyone out there would be great.
She started going to nursery 2 weeks ago. She likes going in there and playing with the kids, but she still wants Mommy or Daddy to go with her. There were 10 kids in there yesterday and it was a little over whelming. She has figured out that if she stays in there the whole time she will get a snack at the end (which she LOVES). For the mean time I think we will just switch off and one of us will go with her.
She loves to feed herself and has her favorite foods that she loves to eat. In the morning she loves eating her bowl of cereal. She can finally eat it in a bowl with milk. She is so proud of herself. However, if she tells us that she is done and we don't get to her soon enough then she dumps the rest out and it can get kind of messy. But hey, that's life with a kid. If you ever come over to our house, you will probably notice that the floor under Bella's chair is a little sticky. ;) She still loves to eat anything that we are eating. If she gets hungry (and we aren't eating) she knows where to go to get her snacks. She goes in the kitchen, opens her cupboard and gets out whatever it is that she wants. She usually gets a fruit cup or applesauce and then climbs up in her chair and waits for me to open it for her.
One of her favorite things to do is to check out her fish. She has a stool in the kitchen that she can climb up on and see her fish. Sometimes, though, she wants us to help her see the fish so she'll stand in the kitchen and yell "shishy, shishy!" The first few times she did it it was cute and funny. But by the 3rd time of the day... not so much.
She loves to hang out with her friend Maddy. They like to play tea party and dress up in her princess dresses. Of course she only wants to dress up when it's her idea. If I ask her to dress up, no way! If she asks me, she loves it. Maddy on the other hand, loves to dress up anytime. Today she had on a dress and wanted Bella to put on the other dress. When I told her that Bella didn't want to dress up, she was very confused. She couldn't figure out why Bella didn't want to dress up.
Her favorite thing to say right now is NO! She says it to everything. Sometimes she'll ask for something and when we go to give it to her she puts her hand up and says no! and then realize that she really does want it and ask for it again.
We got her a little stroller for Christmas that she loves to push around the house. I ended up getting another one that we can leave in the car. We take it out when we go to the mall or to the zoo and she can push it around. She thinks it's so great. She also likes to take her purse with her wherever we go. It's very funny to see her pushing her stroller with her doggy in it with her little purse on her stroller.
I was in the bedroom the other day and I heard Bella and Dusty out playing and laughing so had I had to come and see what they were doing. Dusty was kicking the ball all around the living room and Bella thought it was hilarious. I finally got the camera going right at the end of it. Notice how she is sitting on a ball, she loves to do that. And, yes, that is 13 Going on 30 in the background...
I took Bella to the zoo the other day (it wasn't raining so we HAD to go outside). Here she is pushing her stroller (with her doggy) and her purse (Kate, you may notice that this is the purse you gave me a while back, when you were still living out here, filled with goodies. Bella has claimed it at her own.).
She was peaking at the wild pigs through the split in the glass. Why she wasn't just looking through the glass? I don't know.
I don't know when I took this or what Bella was doing, but as I was flipping trough my camera I saw it and immediately started laughing. Yes, those are my wellies.
One of Bella's favorite games... let's turn the lights off while Daddy's studying.
We got to watch our friend's parent's dog (it's a long story) over night a while ago and Bella had so much fun. She followed him all around the house. By the time it was time for Bear to leave, I think he was a little tired of having a toddler chase after him (he was hiding under the computer desk).
I found Bella like this one day. I think she was playing hide and seek, but I'm still not sure who she was playing with. 
2 comments:
Bella!!!!!!!!!!
So big and cute. I love LOVE her hair and purse in the zoo pics. She's a woman who knows what she wants.
Finally online to blog "stalk" haven't read an update in a LONG while, but love to see all the udpates and antics.
Did however want to lend a comment on keeping cute little Bella in that crib as long as she'll let you. For some reason the transition started the 7am schedule for my kids and if I could undo I would in a heartbeat. Didn't pull Reagan out til I HAD too, and Chance, well he figured it out and all H#!! broke loose. So enjoy it while you can, at least she's safe and sleeping :)
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