Little Feet, Big Shoes

String Cheese

Bella has an affinity for string cheese. Bella can also open the fridge on her own now. Those two combined lead to situations like this. She can get it out of the fridge but she can't get it out of the wrapper. So, rather than helping her right away, I grabbed my schnazzy new camera and captured it on SD card.

Prepare Yourselves.

I may be signed in as mom, but that's only because I can't remember the password to my account. This is Bella speaking now. I'd like to prepare you all. Yesterday at approximately 4:53 pm, my mom received a gift. That gift was a camera. That camera was a nice camera. That nice camera has lots of bells and whistles. So she's going to be taking even more pictures now, and she vowed to post some more pictures as a sort of 'thank you' for receiving the camera. Just thought I'd prepare you. Don't say I didn't warn ya.

Play Time

This afternoon we created a little bedouin tent in our living room for play time, complete with silks, sequins, and sheers. It started out as just white sheets thrown over the chairs, but then we got a little more daring and pulled out the fabrics I’d used for Bella's nursery and draped those over the chairs. Add a few pillows, a little cup of cereal, a few books, and a doll and we were set.



She kept mimicking me and asking, "Is it pretty?" What a doll.

New Shoes

I will be coaching track again this year, and Bella will be my trusty assistant (she'll actually be an assistant's assistant, considering that I'll be an assistant coach). In honor of the upcoming season, we got her some new tennis shoes. I would like to point out that child leashes are highly overrated when you can simply neglect to cut the elastic between the shoes, thereby limiting your child to a walking pace.


Don't worry, they only stayed like this long enough for me to take the picture. Honest.

Goose in a Basket

Laundry baskets are apparently very popular, and very useful, things in our house. When they're not full of laundry or pulling a child down the snowy sidewalks, they're playing home/bed to a host of Bella's toys. As I was making the bed the other day, Bella had to 'make bed' for her babies in the laundry basket which involved a pillow in the bottom, babies on the pillow, and then a huge blanket covering them all. Bella, of course, had to get in on the fun.

Play-Doh Fun

A few days ago we pulled out the Play-Doh for the first time. I realized very quickly that I had provided very lame tools for playing with the Play-Doh, excepting of course the 100 cookie cutters that Grandma Bonnie gave her. So, our next trip to Wal-Mart will involve a quest for the perfect set of tools (particularly a rolling pin so that it's easier to use those cookie cutters!). Anyhow. So here she is, having fun, and figuring out how to roll out 'snakes', and then cut them up.