Hanging with my puppies

Just another day, hanging out on the floor with my two big black dogs. Sometimes they pay attention to me, sometimes they ignore me. But their breath sure does stink!

Things are looking up

Bella is still teething, but she has been in a little better spirits the past couple of days. And for the first time ever, she slept through the night last night without taking her benedryl. I don't know if it was a fluke, or if it means she might actually be able to sleep on her own. Maybe we will try it again tonight. Granted she is currently napping on the couch, since she decided she didn't want to nap earlier today. At this point I don't know if she will just go ahead and sleep for the night, or if she will be wide awake and well rested just at the point that we are ready for bed. Speaking of bed time, I wanted to share a few photos of our normal bedtime routine. Here we were working on some more head control while looking at our books. Always have to sneak in the working whenever we can.

It's been a long weekend with Bella

Bella is at this very moment laying in her new "playroom" otherwise known as a formal living room. She is in there all by herself as she has worn out both Jesse and I. Bella ran a fever Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. We assume she was teething, although nothing ended up popping through. During this time period she didn't sleep very well, and neither did the rest of us. She also had trouble eating.

This morning the fever broke and she seemed to be in better spirits. We headed off to church, were she went into the nursery for the first time. Luckily we have a friend who works in the church nursery so we felt confident leaving her in there. She did fine and hopefully we can use that more often, as it beats having one of us out in the lobby with a very talkative Bella during church service.

This afternoon we decided to run some errands and took Bella with us. She fussed the entire time we were in Home Depot. So then I ran into Target by myself while Jesse stayed in the vehicle. We got home and assumed she was hungry.........but refused to eat anything. So then we gave her a little time to lay on the floor, and she got fussy again, so we tried feeding her again. And again nothing. Then we tried giving her some milk....and she just kept spitting it in our face. So needless to say, she has exasperated both of us, and is having her alone time. And currently she is content. It might be teething again, I don't know. All I do know is it is very frustrating that an almost 2 year old can not tell us what she wants, and she is still teething, and probably will be for the next 2 years, being that she only has a total of 5 teeth right now, and most of them don't even seem to be all the way through.

Well that's my rant at the moment. And here is a picture of Jesse imitating Bella's favorite way to pass time, which is to stare at her right arm. Which is what she is currently doing in her "alone time".

The last night

Here are some pictures taken from the last day and night we spent at our old house. Empty rooms and lots of boxes. We made sure Bella had the comfort of her crib until the very end, and then had to quickly put it together in the new house. I am happy to report that she has made the transition to the new house without any problems. I was a little worried she wouldn't sleep in the new bedroom, but so far so good.

Check out Bella's feet. To this day at almost 2 years old, she is still only wearing a size 2 shoe. I believe that is for 3-6 month olds. You can tell her feet are tiny when looking at this picture. I know I have small feet, but I don't think they were every that small. I haven't checked into it, but I'm wondering if the small feet has anything to do with her disorder. I also wonder if it will hinder her in being able to stand and walk. I guess only time will tell.

We have moved.

We are completely out of our old house, but not quite in the new one. We are getting carpet installed next week, so in the meantime, we are living with as little as possible. So hopefully the chaos will be over within the next couple of weeks. I have some cute pictures to load, just need to find the time to do it. At least we finally have Internet up and working at the new house.

One Week Left

It's officially a week away from the big move date, and we only have the dining room packed.

Bella has been very helpful by making sure she wakes up every night for a couple of hours, to ensure our sleep is disrupted. Work has been a piece of cake and not much is going on there. And with our ample amounts of free time, packing and moving in the 90+ degree weather seems like a wonderful activity to partake in.

No I'm not sarcastic. I'm just hoping Colby will do it all.....I mean if she has time to play dress-up why can't she pack and move everything!!

Okay so maybe I'm a procrastinator and I need to get busy.....here's wishing us all good luck!

The Big Move is Coming

Isn't this the face of excitement!!
I don't think Bella knows what to expect. But we did indeed buy a new house and sell our existing house, all in the span of 3 weeks. So we are pretty excited about it. Now we have the big move date of June 25th and a whole new house to renovate (all in good time).