BELLA & TWILIGHT!

So I am still on the Twilight kick and I have been listening to the soundtrack for the 1st Twilight non stop. It hasn't come out of my CD player in 2-3 weeks now. The first song on the CD is a faster upbeat song (Supermassive Black Hole). Every single time this song comes on, no matter where we are, Bella starts dancing immediately! If we are in the car she does funny arm dancing, but if we are not in the car she starts dancing like this video. She makes us laugh so hard! Our child is hilarious! {By the way, just finished the Twilight New Moon movie the other night and it was beyond words. I loved the ending and I cannot wait until Eclipse comes out on June 30th! The official trailer came out today and it looks wonderful!}

Back to our little girl! I don't think I have ever seen a child with so much personality. She is so funny all the time. She is talking non stop now! She will babble on and on and I would give anything to be able to understand everything she is saying. She will start a long "speech" and then just cackle like she had just told a joke or something. She laughs at herself all the time. She definitely knows what she is talking about and tries so hard to tell us. Her new favorite word is please or "pees". She thinks that every time she says that word now that she is suppose to get what she wants. It is so hard to say no to her when she looks so sweet at us and says "pees'.

Another new thing she loves to do now is climb. She will try to climb anything and everything, and it just about gives me a heart attack! The other morning we were about to leave the house and I look over and she has climbed up on a dining room chair, then onto the dining room table, and looks at me and laughs! I could have fainted. I can't take my eyes off of her at all or she will be on who knows what!

Even though most times she is the best little girl in the world, sometimes at night it is not always true. This week has been a rough week because she has not been sleeping good at night. It is easy to get frustrated because she can't tell me what is wrong. Its hard to feel helpless! All I can do is pray and try to soothe her. It is so hard to be up all night and then have to go to work the next day. I used to wonder how I could make it on such little sleep but I have to say that the Lord definitely gives a working mom the strength the make it through the day even without sleep. I know it won't be like this for long so I try to enjoy every moment even those when my eyes are about to fall shut in the middle of the night!

Just waned to share a few things that Bella is going through right now! She is the best gift that Daniel and I have ever received! It is a blessing to us to watch her grow up, even though it is going by way too fast!

Time Flies!

This week has been a big week! First of all, I turned 25 on Tuesday. I can't believe I am already a quarter century old. Also this week has been 2 years since we found out that we were going to be parents! I think back to how fast time flies. I always think back to when I was in high school. It doesn't seem that long ago but I graduated almost 7 years ago! HOLY COW! If I could go back in high school and look into the future I wonder what I would have seen. I wonder if I would have seen that in September of 2003, a Freshman in college, I would meet the man of my dreams and know within the first month that I would marry him! I wonder if I would have seen that we would fall so in love and have so much fun getting to know everything about each other. That Daniel would be by best friend! I wonder if I would have seen that on June 23, 2005 Daniel would suprise me and come down to the beach to stay with me and my family on vacation. I wonder if I would have seen that then on Friday, June 24, 2005 that he would then surprise me even more and propose on the middle of the beach! It was amazing! Then we would get married on May 20, 2006. I wonder if I would look even further in the future and see that we would find out on April 8, 2008 that we were going to become parents! That was the most UNBELIEVABLE feeling in the world! Then have so much fun being pregnant and on December 12, 2008 I would have Bella after 19 hours of labor! (I'm glad I couldn't look into the future to see that because it would have scared me to death!) And then I wonder if I would have seen how amazing, scary, unpredictable, etc... it would be rasing a baby girl, but at the same time the most rewarding thing I could ever imagine. I would have then seen that now, Bella is almost 16 months old and becoming more independent every minute. I see Daniel and myself in things she does and her personality. I don't think I could have ever looked into the future and seen all of the wonderful experiences that the Lord has blessed me with! I am so glad that we can't look into the future because there are many times where we may have taken a different path if we knew what was going to happen. I know that every path I have taken has been planned for me, even if they were't easy. The Lord has directed my steps and gives me the faith to trust him and be certain that He has the best plans for me. After reminiscing this week, I just can't believe how fast time flies! I just have to be careful and not blink! :) I don't want to miss anything!

BEACH BUMS!

I know it's a few days late but I just now have had time to share about our Spring Break beach trip. We had such an amazing, relaxing week. Our little girl does such a good job riding in the car. We are so blessed that she doesn't go crazy on a semi-long trip. The weather started off kind of chilly but then it definitely warmed up after a couple of days. We enjoyed going out on the beach and playing in the sand (and water) with Bella. She was adorable in her little striped bikini. What can I say, I have to brag about how beautiful my little girl is. Daniel and I loved spending a whole week with Bella and not having to worry about work. (If you are a parent, you know how wonderful that is). Here are some things that we really enjoyed doing during the week:


Bella played in the sand & ate the sand (even though we tried to stop her)

She tried to get the water and eventually did because her Papa let her. That made it worse because after that we had to chase her the whole week :)






Ate at some delicious restaurants: PF Changs, Yamato (Japanese Steakhouse), Carabas, Liberty. Bella is hilarious because she likes to take her pieces of food and dip them in ranch dressing (or some kind of sauce) and then makes the biggest mess you have ever seen. She is also trying to feed herself now (Independence is a difficult thing sometimes) :)

We had our 2nd annual tradition of taking Bella to Build-a-Bear to make a stuffed animal. Last year we made Gracie (the cat), which is in Bella's crib every night. This year we let her make a white bear which we named "Tinkerbear". Mrs. Independence wanted to do everything herself.







We just had so much fun spending time together with each other and my parents (Nana and Papa). Bella loves spending time with them and we love it too because Mommy and Daddy got to go on a date! (Japanese was wonderful!) I guess the biggest thing that I realized on this trip is how important my family is to me. I have the best husband and daughter in the world. They make me smile everyday. I also have the best parents ever. I really enjoyed having a great week at the beach! I am so blessed and I thank God every day for the wonderful people in my life!

I am officially a Twilight fan!!!

Ok, so my little girl's name is Bella and so many people ask me if I named her that after Bella in the Twilight series. I didn't by the way, but I had never read the books or watch the movies. Saturday I finally watched the 1st Twilight movie. Let me just say, UNBELIEVABLE!!! I am now a Twilight fan. That movie was amazing! Now I definitely have to read the books and watch the 2nd movie. Have to put that one on my "To Do..." list! Just had to tell someone because I was so in love with this movie!