Richards Reflections

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

20 Months on the 20th

Bella turned 20 months old today. She and Daddy had a little photo shoot. We try to get her to say "cheeeeese" and she says it while she is looking at the pictures, "cheeees-eeee" not real sure why she adds the long "e" sound at the end, but whatever.

In honor of 20 months - 20 Facts about Isabella
1. She enjoys being pantsless........and diaperless. That's right she's a streaker.
2. She has gotten quite the expert at using a fork.
3. Just this morning she said "stupid dog". I have no idea where she could have come up with that.
4. She still doesn't understand "no" and in fact thinks it is the funniest word in any adults vocabulary.
5. She is an expert climber. Like the time we caught her standing on her table. Looking at us and smiling real big. and then she did it again, and again and then Daddy had to hide her chair so she couldn't climb up there anymore. That "no" word didn't work.


6. She is on her 5th night of sleeping without her paci! Bye bye paci.
7. She seems to enjoy Mother's Day Out now. Except naptime. She strongly dislikes that.
8. I asked her the other night if she was ready to go night night and she went straight to her room. She loves her bed now. I love that.
9. She has 12 teeth. She bites real hard with those teeth.
10. She gives Eskimo kisses.


11. She thinks it's funny to try and ride Gabby. I can't tell if Gabby thinks it's funny.
12. She loves to color........on her clothes and walls. The walls at my parent's house. oops.
13. She grins real big when she is in trouble. I think she is trying to manipulate me.
14. When another child or dog has one of "her" toys she says "uh-uh-uh". She obviously understands this better than "no".
15. She is very opinionated.



16. She still loves bathtime. Now she "swims" in the tub and enjoys giving herself a "bubble beard".
17. She is very silly and makes us laugh hard all the time.
18. She enjoys singing into the mic, playing drums, and especially back-up dancing while Terry and I play Band Hero on Wii.
19. She is REALLY cute.
20. She is the funnest, most precious, incredible little girl and I love her all the way to the moon and back!!

(she was OVER the photo shoot and ready for bed)

I love you, Isabella Grace!! You have made our lives 1000 times better in the last 20 months! You are the best baby girl and we couldn't imagine our lives without you.

Monday, January 18, 2010

Children's Museum



On the last Saturday of our Christmas Break we took Bella to the Children's Museum. We had not taken her before and she had a GREAT time. It was so fun to take my own child. My grandparents took me there as a child and it was one of my favorite places to go when we visited them.... well until one time when they took my cousins and their car got stolen....but that was a LONG time ago. Anyway my favorite part was always the grocery store. Now there is a whole little town. I can't wait til she is old enough to enjoy that part of the museum. It's possible that I will have more fun than her......true story.




This was the 1st and only time I have seen her slide down a slide on her bottom. She normally lies down and slides down on her back. Silly girl.

We spent most of our time upstairs in the tot area. It was perfect for her. There was so much for her to explore and look at and touch. I still can't wait for her to play in the grocery store, and the vet, and the bank, and the.........{insert squeals here} it's going to be so much FUN!!!


This cracks me up. Not because she is standing in a hole but because her jeans were HUGE!! Poor little thing.

I'm pretty sure this was her favorite part....the light switch. Their were several around the area for the kids to play with. It's possible that Bella had a slight dominance problem over the other kids around the light switches. It is also possible that we had to make her move 692 times so that other kids could play with the light switch.



Terry thought my booties were funny so he took a picture. Cute.

This was our last adventure over the break. Granted that was 2 weeks ago so I am behind again. I must have gone back to work....yep that's got to be the reason I'm behind.

Friday, January 1, 2010

HaPpY nEw YeAr!