Honda Odyssey

So Mark & I bought a car. We thought we were going to just wait it out and let the jeep run until the end, but after renting a similar car to drive to Max's birthday, we just had to get one. So we are joining the MINIVAN CLUB!!!
Anyways, so last week we were at the Honda dealership and my dad starts looking at the other cars there, especially this one...

Unfortunately, our daughter was looking at the same car...

Ummm... sorry Bella... not yet, but nice try!

BAPTISM & BUMBO

So Bella was finally baptized on Saturday. She slept the whole time! Here's a picture of all her godparents that were able to attend.


I'll post more pictures later.

So Mark and I realized that Bella always wants to sit up. So we bought her the bumbo chair for 3-14 month olds.


She also grabs now! She grabbed her lady bug toy and she grabbed her booger suctioner out of my hand!

LOST DOG

So we lost one of our dogs. My family has a total of 3 dogs and one of them ran away or got lost or got picked up by someone on Wednesday. Dad, Mark, Bella, and I drove around calling out her name. Bella's was so cute trying to help... when Mark and I screamed the dog's name out the window, Bella would scream at the same time. It's so sad, this dog was a very sweet dog, smelly but sweet. We called the police in the area, and Mark and I made fliers to post, and tomorrow Dad and I are going to go around and ask the neighbors and post the fliers. It's definitely frustrating not knowing where she is, and I just pray to God we find her. So wish us luck!

First Road Trip

Pictures from April so far...
The first weekend in April, we decided to take Bella on her first road trip to visit her Auntie Chris in St. Louis. So we left on Friday, and it's about a 5 hour drive and Bella slept the whole way! We stayed at Chris' very cute apartment with an awesome view of St. Louis (but leave it to me to forget to take a picture of the apartment and the view). Saturday was a beautiful day, so we decided to grab some food (really good sandwiches and yummy desserts!) and head off to the wineries of Missouri... never even knew that the midwest had wineries. In the evening, we met up with an old college friend, Peter, and his fiance. We haven't seen Peter since our wedding (where does the time go?), but it was really nice seeing him. Then on Sunday we headed back home and Bella slept the whole way back!!!
So on April 4, my friend Klodi gave birth to a beautiful baby girl named Stela!!! It's so exciting that Bella now has her first friend! hehehe... The funny thing is that Klodi's delivery was pretty much the same as mine except MUCH shorter. It's as if these 2 little girls planned how they wanted to be delivered when they talked uterus to uterus when Klodi and I sat next to eachother in class.
Here's the happy family, Leo-Stela-Klodi.

And here's Stela looking so innocent, but look at her left hand. Yup, that's right, she's flicking you off! Definitely Leo's little girl... hehehe (Klodi told me to say that!)

Welcome to the world, Stela! Stela and Bella... it rhymes!
The second weekend we went to visit Max for her birthday. So on Friday we rented a minivan for comfort and headed off. Bella did a pretty good job and it took us about 7 hours getting there (that's because dad forgot his cellphone and we had to turn back when he realized it about 45 minutes into the trip). On Saturday, we took the kids swimming at the hotel. I forgot to take a picture of LT's swim gear. He had on a wet suit with built in floaties in the shape of a six pack! How funny! And of course my Bella had on a bikini... hehehe

After swimming, we ate at a Japanese restaurant, went to the driving range, and got a mani/pedicure. On Sunday was Max's birthday party at the zoo. Happy Birthday Max! This was a pretty cool place... you can just be walking and all of a sudden a kangkaroo cuts right in front of you... weird! Dad drove the whole way back pretty much, so it took 9 hours to get home!!! About the last 2 hours, Bella got REALLY REALLY cranky... but I don't blame her, that's way to long to be in a car.
So April's been pretty busy... I've tallied up all the states that Bella has either driven through or visited... we are at 6 states. Not bad for a 3 month old!

Bella Laughing

This past weekend we were visiting Max for her birthday weekend. Uncle Tom was playing with Bella and she laughed 6 times within the few minutes he played with her. We weren't able to record that, but here's a recording of her laughing last night (it's not as loud and giggly as when she was with her uncle Tom, though. We'll get that sometime).