The following was on a Father's Day Present that Bella had made at school. The present was a frame with her single handprint with the following words:
Everyday I am exploring
Touching everything I’ve found
I leave behind my little marks
And handprints all around
You clean up those handprints
But someday when I’m grown
You’ll wish you had just one
Handprint to keep for your own
I made the handprint for you
So that one day when I am tall
You’ll remember what my hand looked like
Long ago when I was small
Mark wanted me too post this. This is SO true. So far this summer, we're trying to enjoy the outdoors more and do more activities with Bella. I feel like the months I was pregnant, my energy level zoomed way down and so did our activities with Bella. We only hung out at the malls and ran around doing errands and errands and errands. But now that Bria is finally here, and during my off weeks, we are trying to do more family fun things with the 4 of us, and with the grandparents. Bella is growing up so fast, and we blink and miss SO many moments. It makes me sad how fast she's growing up. I just wanna keep her my baby forever, but they gotta grow and do their thing.
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Friday, June 06, 2008
May Pictures... again, FINALLY!
So this past May was super busy. We started with Bria's baptism, where Tom and family came into town for it. Every weekend in May had some kind of event, from first communion parties, wedding showers, birthday parties (both Grandpas, Kayley, and Talia), Mother's Day, and we took Bria for her first of a million road trips to Pennsylvania (so that means tax-free shopping at the outlet store!). And finally after 9 weeks off from work, I had to go back. So sad. I think I cried the whole week before. It's SO hard to leave the girls, even if it's only at night.
Bella updates: She's still a fantastic and loving BIG sister! Loves Bria so so so much, always kissing and hugging her (to the point that irritates Bria). Potty training is on temporary hold (still don't really want to do it, but Bella does keep taking off her diaper so we really should work more consistently on it). Toddler bed is a success! I bought a Cinderella bed (which she LOVES, even though she's never seen the movie). So she does sleep there through the night by herself, but of course we are still in the same room (I'd miss her too much).
Bria updates: She's cooing and laughing now! Just had her 2 month check-up and she is now 11 lbs 15 ounces. She sleeps through the night (we were lucky with both girls sleeping through the night early on in their lives). It's fun watching how much Bria changes day to day. She definitely is starting to develop more unique features and is no longer looking so much like her Ate Bella.
Anyways, here are all my May pictures. They come in 2 parts. ENjoy!
May Pictures Part 1
May Pictures Part 2
Bella updates: She's still a fantastic and loving BIG sister! Loves Bria so so so much, always kissing and hugging her (to the point that irritates Bria). Potty training is on temporary hold (still don't really want to do it, but Bella does keep taking off her diaper so we really should work more consistently on it). Toddler bed is a success! I bought a Cinderella bed (which she LOVES, even though she's never seen the movie). So she does sleep there through the night by herself, but of course we are still in the same room (I'd miss her too much).
Bria updates: She's cooing and laughing now! Just had her 2 month check-up and she is now 11 lbs 15 ounces. She sleeps through the night (we were lucky with both girls sleeping through the night early on in their lives). It's fun watching how much Bria changes day to day. She definitely is starting to develop more unique features and is no longer looking so much like her Ate Bella.
Anyways, here are all my May pictures. They come in 2 parts. ENjoy!
May Pictures Part 1
May Pictures Part 2
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