Thursday fun day

Thursday started out with Bella being awake early. Worked out for me, since that meant she was easy to get ready for school.  She got dropped off with out any tears and I headed off to Platteville to go grocery shopping. I’m going to be so spoiled to be able to go without a kid for the next couple of months.  After i picked her up, we waited for Daddy to stop in the house for lunch before it was naptime for Bella.

  

After naptime we ventured outside. It wasn’t sunny and you can tell the temps were dropping, but with a coat and hat it was fun to be outside. We went and found the mini pumpkins. We also found some sweet corn and Bella ate it fresh from the garden. WE have some bigger pumpkins but we have to wait for Daddy to help us pick them!

 

Later that night, we had open house at Preschool. We got to see all the toys Bella gets to play with, meet the other students in her class and hear about some of the things they do in class. We ran into one problem, when it was time to leave, she didn’t want to go with us. She just wanted us to leave. I hope that means Tuesday she will be ok with us leaving.

The gum ball machine that Bella made all on her own.

Highlights of the last two weeks

So the craziness of the first week of school is over, but that didn’t mean we slowed down very much.  We took a last minute trip to Watertown for a wedding, family and friends. IT was a very short visit but we sure squeezed in a lot! One of the biggest things was Bella got her first fish! it was a belated birthday gift, but seemed to come at a great time. She loves her fish named Charlie!  It was an adventure to get him home though. He now lives on the kitchen Table and is fed twice a day by Bella. She would feed him every time she walked into the kitchen if we let her. LOL

Then we had dentist appointments for me and Bella. Ok Bella sat in the chair and refused to open her mouth. Oh well. we will try again in 6 months. I got a good check up though, other than finding out my wisdom teeth are finally coming in. UGH! The joy of knowing they will need to come out is not fun. 

Then we did two days of rough drop offs at school, but still she had a good time while there. I can already see that she is learning so much more. I see it when we got to library for storytime. She’s much more willing to talk to the other kids and the librarian. She more active in the activities they do and no longer clinging to my side.  She also tells us all about what she does at school and comes home singing songs she has learned!

Then last Thursday, Bella and I loaded up and headed to the east side of the state. We got to hang out with my sister and family. Bella had a blast playing soccer with Drew and Andy. Then Friday I left Bella with my sister and took my last single trip for along time up to the Mall of America. Ok I really didn’t take pictures up there, but I did spend enough and ate my way through! I went up with Tori and it was a great time! It was something that we don't seem to ever do.. hang out just the two of us.

We got back on Sunday and then I stay with Bella at my mom’s for another day. Monday JOsh joined us in Watertown and then just he and I went to look at some cows he would like to buy. After that it was back in the car to finally come home! It then took me the rest of the week to recover! Even Bella took a bit to get back into her normal routine!

 

enjoying her “airplane”

just a couple pictures from the wedding. My church ones didn’t really turn out

 

Bella playing with the stuff we were getting ready to mark to sell.

The very Blue cupcake!

Bella and Ella reading Bella’s new book from Ella

Charlie!

 

She was so in need of sleep she passed out in the car and then slept for 2 hours at home

My little builder

Helping me paint letters

 

Bella’s favorite part of storytime..Jumping!

Playing outside at Aunt Tracey’s

Soccer time!

 

Fun at Aunt Tracey’s

Most of the pictures I took at the Mall were of food.. Wings and Nutella crepe

I came home to a baby full of energy!

She would lay in the window and then roll off the couch. She thought it was the coolest thing ever!

 

Kisses from Pepper

 

Love for Peas

A reward trip to the zoo

So kind of as a little reward/treat for making it through the first day of school, I took Bella to the zoo. We go a lot to the zoo and it’s such a nice little day trip for us. Bella always has such a fun time and we managed to either see or do something differently each time. We were hoping that the new dairy barn would be open, but naturally it wasn’t yet. :( We also didn’t get there until later in the afternoon, but it seemed to work out pretty well. We ran into our friends there too, which was a fun surprise.  Bella was all about “being” one of the animals..aka putting her head in the cut outs around the zoo. That was a first for us, since normally she won’t. 

Here’s some pictures:

The seals are still one of her most favorite animals at the zoo. Pretty sure she would just hang out and watch them the whole time if given the chance.

The giraffes were very much into eating.

 

Which came first..the Chick of course. Bella had a hard time reaching the hen spot.

I love the polar bear one.

The Allagator was right up to the glass. Bella thought that was so cool. I noticed I could see my reflection..so proof i was really there ;)

 

 

Three years to get her to sit up on this turtle. Then a self shot :)

 

 

We had the WHOLE train to ourselves!

 

The only part of the new dairy barn that we got to see was this tractor and they have turkey vultures outside in a cage.

 

Bella’s treat.

 

Can you spot Bella?

 

Us by the lions! Thanks Hannah’s mom for the pic!