Bella Rose

I sure love this baby. She's growing up so fast.



Bella will barely be 11 months old in a couple days and she already has guys hanging on her. (Spencer in the picture.) It's going to be a long haul to through the teen years!


Miracles do happen because Bella slept through the night on Tuesday. NINE hours. Her best up until then was only 6 hours. But alas, last night she was up every 3 again. Oh well, making progress.

Our little sweetheart!

Ni Hao!

This is how I look lately. Riding my bike, training for a 100-mile ride on June 6th.

The girls often go with me. They like the bike trailer and are usually really good on our rides. It sure makes for a harder workout when I haul them behind me!

I laughed out loud the other day when I walked in my bedroom and saw this. Bryndi is always tucking her dolls and stuffed animals in for naps. Here is her frog on my pillow and her kitty on Richards'.
Not the kind of thing you expect to see in your bed :)

Here is Bryndi watching her new favorite show: Ni Hao Kailan. It is similiar to Dora, but with a cute little Chinese girl. Bryndi can now say thank you, listen, and 1,2, 3 in perfect Mandarin Chinese. Xie xie, ting, Ee, ar, san. Cool. I went to China several years ago to teach newborn resuscitation. The doctors and nurses would giggle every time I would say something in Chinese. Pretty funny when they are trying to revive a baby manekin and you say the baby isn't breathing and every0ne giggles.

Quotes of the day

As we are driving by Chuck E. Cheese today on the way to the store Bryndi said, "Oh! There's Chuck E. Cheese! (wistfully)... It's beautiful!"

Later in the day, "I'm not sad. I'm cute."

Several times a day (with a completely blank look on her face no matter how many times I tell her or how well I explain myself) "What? What you say? What Mommy? What you say?"

It's hard to be two

Poor Bryndi. She just wanted to brush her own hair. I actually detangled half of the brush before I stopped to take this picture.

This girl is talking up a storm lately. She will talk the ear off of anyone who will listen. She says funny things all the time, and I need to be better at writing them down. The other night she asked Richard for something and he said no. She frowned at that and said, "No! You may NOT tell me no!". She was eating lunch the other day and kept saying, "Mmm...delicious!" throughout the meal.

It's been a while since I posted. Bella can pull herself up to stand now. She loves to hold onto the baby gate.
As I was taking her picture she biffed it!

But she landed safe and sound :)

Here are some pics from our trip to the park last week.


Bryndi loves her friend Kian.


The park pictures were taken within the SAME week as this one!! The weather here is so schizophrenic!
These are some of the hair bows I made last week. I love these flower clips! If you want to make them, click here for the link. (Or call me and you can come over and make some with me!)

The Scoot-Crawl

Bella wants to crawl, but she can't commit. So she made up The Scoot-Crawl (patent pending). Its hilarious. I promise her left leg isn't broken or paralyzed; she just wants to drag it in front of her! If I put her on both of her knees to crawl, she falls flat on her face. Don't worry Bella, you'll figure it out sooner or later!

I bought the outfit below in China 9 years ago for my future daughter. Bryndi can finally wear it!!

My princesses

I thought I'd take a picture with Bryndi since I never post pics of myself. (Always behind the camera.) Later when I looked at this picture I was mortified to notice all the wrinkles on my face! I can't believe I'm getting old! So I must confess that I photoshopped those bad boys right out of the photo!
Bryndi got dressed up to go to her cousin's princess birthday party. Cinderella did wear wings in the movie Ever After ;) So this little princess is 2 1/2 years old now and she's potty trained!! So last night we went to dinner at Red Lobster with some friends and I took her to use the restroom when we got there. Bryndi was loving the live tank of lobsters and when we were finishing up with dinner she wandered off to go look at them. I brought her back to the table and when we were getting ready to leave she wandered off again. I went to the tank and she wasn't there. I looked all around. No Bryndi. So before I started to panic I looked in the restroom. Sure enough, I saw her pants, shoes and socks on the floor and she was using the toilet! She had even locked the stall door. I was so proud of her for going to the bathroom by herself in such a big place, that I couldn't get mad at her for wandering off!

Bella got to wear wings too. Note the one sock. She's good at taking her socks off.

Everywhere I go people comment on what beautiful big brown eyes Bella has. I couldn't agree more