Growing!

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I’ve been chastised the past couple of days for not updating the blog lately, so here goes…Life has been busy. 🙂

Bella is growing, growing, growing…She is getting two little teeth in the front bottom. They haven’t quite popped through yet, but you can see the holes where they will, and feel the ridges with your finger. She is a bit cranky about the whole process, and her sleep has been very interrupted (which means mine has too!) – but I can’t really blame her – it looks painful. She is also trying SOOOOOO hard to crawl. She can roll really fast now, so when she gets irritated with trying to get what she wants, she usually resorts to a quick roll to reach it. She will get up on all fours and rock, then lunge forward, only to fall flat on her face. The determination is there – so I think it will happen in the next few weeks. (I’ll post video then! 🙂 The top photo is her in her dinosaur ball pit that DeeDee gave her. She is doing this funny thing when she is really happy where she crinkles her nose and snorts a few times. Really funny – in that pic I got it – but I keep trying to get it on video, too. Unfortunately, it is hard to get her to smile for the camera right now – because she is always amused and making those silly sounds when she sees it.

She has tried a few new foods – zucchini, prunes – likes!, carrots, green beans – hates….I’ll keep on tryin!

bigdonLast weekend, we traveled to Houston to cheer up Grammy after her surgery. We had a really nice and relaxing visit. We also got to see Go-Go, George and even MeMe and Big Don. Bella loves to show off for the crowd, sitting, rolling, and basking in the attention on her blanket. She is going through a little stranger anxiety right now – she is fine as long as Mommy or Daddy is in the room, but when we leave her with someone she is not really familiar with – she starts to cry. (This has even happened with our neighbors, who she used to go to fairly frequently…) She gets really upset if someone tries to pick her up when we are not around…I’ve read this is pretty normal. Hopefully it will only last a little while. I know there are more pics from the trip – but they are on Jeremy’s camera, so he’ll have to get them to me.

We have a busy next few weeks – Amy is visiting, we head to Mammoth again, and then we head on our first family vacation to Sayulita, Mexico!! I’ll post new pictures as soon as I can…Enjoy the last of the gummy smile photos! Our next batch will probably have a couple of pearly whites in it.

Below, Bella is relaxing in her beach tent at Beacons…

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