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!
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