Max is getting to the age he ‘s really enjoying Storytime..when he’s not on the run. I remember this stage with Bella and when she finally “got” story time. WE don’t always make it due to naps but when we go we have a blast.
Moving to the music
Parachute
First stroller ride of the year…and trying on his sister’s sunglasses!
Well Wednesdays are now very busy days for us. First Bella has to be at school at 8am and really can’t be late since she has church at 8:15am. We have decided to also attend the same mass. It’s very refreshing to go to the school mass. We get to watch Bella, who does great in church but yet only have to worry about Max. Then we head home to get Max a nap. Once he’s up from his nap, He and I go to storytime at the local library. We stay there until it’s time to pick up Bella from school. Once I get Bella, we head home for Lunch that Josh has started bc once we are all done eatting it’s back in the car to go to Josh’s chemo appt. This weeks appointment lasted 3 hours. I have no clue if they all will or not. But thankfully the kids did really good. Josh did too, so we had to make a few stops before getting home and supper, bath and bed. The day just flew by..
Bella brings her “tv” in with her.. Max wants to share it but Bella has other ideas. Then she was treated like a princess.. crayons, paper, snacks, pillow and comfy chair.
Just needed a picture of my little guy
New trick.. climbing into the dishwasher.
Today felt like a normal day, something that I haven’t felt in a long time. Bella didn’t alert us to her being up in the middle of the night, so Josh and I got full nights of sleep. She did wake up and eat some candy in bed and clear off her bookshelf.
We had breakfast and then got ready for the day. Josh was heading off to work, so we headed off to the library early. I took my netbook with. I didn’t think anyone would be early too, so I thought i could get some internet time in. Bella had fun playing on the computers. I was able to upload my pictures from the last week and half and finish up a blog post. It was great. i think I might have to visit the library more often with my net book. :) A few of our friends were at the library too, so we got to hang out too.
After we left the library with some new books to read, we went to Kwik Trip to fill up the gas tank. We also ran inside to get a snack. Bella loves getting string cheese and i got a Grilled cheese. Then it was off to home. Bella of course wanted a snack, even thought she had fallen asleep on the way home. So I left her finish her breakfast and off to bed she went. Naturally she wouldn’t go to sleep. We keep trying and finally about an hour and half later she went to sleep.
while she slept i was able to get some work done and have a bit of time for me. I decided to go to a cleaning schedule in hopes to keep up better with the house work. I worked so hard to de-clutter most of the house(still not done yet) so now i want to keep it clean. So my goal today was to clean up the bedrooms. I got my room and the office done. Then i managed to get the rest of the laundry put folded and put away, and cleaned up the kitchen. While doing this i caught up on my DVR and read for about 30 minutes before Bella woke up.
Once Bella got up, she got a snack/lunch. Then it was time to head outside to do barn chores. I quickly threw chicken to bake in the oven while we went out so that way it would be done in time for Josh to be home. Bella had fun playing outside in the snow while I worked on pushing up feed and scraping the walk. We then went for a walk up by the calves to see Baby Sue, who managed to get out of her hut. Bella had fun playing in the snow up there, since it’s so untouched. Next i moved on to setting up the milk house. By the time i was done with that Bella was ready to head in the house.
We got in the house and Josh arrived home a few minutes later. We sat down for supper and decided that i could run to Aldi’s to get some food staples. Bella and Josh went out ot milk and I went to the store. I had a budget and stuck to it. I got a bunch of food in about 20 mins. Then i decided to run to Dick’s and get some meat and a couple other things that were on sale and stuck to my budget there too! I was really impressed with myself. Another goal for 2011 is to get a budget and stick to it!
On my way home I got stuck behind the fire department and by an accident so that slowed me down getting home, but worked out in the long run, since Josh and Bella were just finishing up milking. Together as a family we unloaded and put away all the new food. Bella was so excited to see the new foods i got her. She got a bunch of snacks, but hopefully it will keep her sleeping all night.
Bella went to be pretty easily then Josh and I watched a bit of tv before he went out to fix feed.
It was a great day and i hope to have more like it!
Monday, Bella got to go to her first valentine's party. We were very excited to go especially since we were told a large amount of snow was moving in. It was great to see most of our Playgroup friends there and a few new friends. Bella loved playing with the balloons and hiding behind the furniture. Thanks Christi for a great party!!!
Tuesday we were bummed because of the snow, playgroup was cancelled. Daddy had to go to Town anyhow, so Bella and I went with. We hung out at the Library and got to enjoy books, turtles and Miss Karen. Then after shoveling the snow at the Lancaster house, Daddy said we could go out to eat for lunch. So we went to A&W. Bella got a grilled Cheese and ate most it! Then it was off to Dick’s to get some last minute groceries before heading home. The snow was still falling and kind of windy so Bella only got to hang out in while I fed bottles.
Today Bella and I went to Storytime and had fun reading books iwth other kids around. :) Then it was home again for Bella to nap. I spend the day working on stuff for the tax guy while she napped. Then ti was lunch time and we headed over to see the Southwest tech to see the new updates to the college. Then Bella got to play in the snow at home. She had a great time til she took off her mittens. Hopefully after milking and supper we can finish up the valentines we have to mail out!
here’s a couple pictures
Let’s see if i can recap what we did so far this week.
Monday was the wind down for our party on Sunday. the house was still in pretty good shape, only dishes that had to be done. I officially decided that Bella works the best with only one nap, so we started on our new little plan for the day. We worked on colors and letters. Basically it meant Bella got to color with crayons, markers and finger paint. Oh she was in HEAVEN! We also read a bunch of books. Then after a snack, she went down for her nap. I spent my free time working out on the Wii, scrapbooking and sewing.
Then after Bella woke up, it was almost time to go out for chores. We had Test Bottles, so that meant I would be out in the barn the whole time. Bella took another nap while in the barn apparently it’s either really boring or she was making up for only one early nap the day before. So it meant kind of a late night since supper wasn’t really ready when we came in.
Tuesday, It was sad day to see the 4 inches of snow covering everything!!!! Unfoturnatly our blade to move the snow was uptown, so Bella and I stayed home from playgroup. I just couldn’t heart Josh having to plow out the driveway with the skid steer or driving us to town when he would be coming to town with us the next day. IT was sad not to go, but Bella and I ended up going outside to play. She had a lot of fun in the snow. she even got to go with Daddy in the Tractor. That girl is a farm girl for sure!
I was ready for naptime, as it’s tiring play outside in the snow. Especially when you have to carry your 25lb baby who feels like she weight 50 with all the snow stuff on. ONly this time after nap she wasn’t a happy camper. I guess it was a sign of what was to come.
Wednesday we all headed to town in the morning. Josh dropped Bella and I off at the library for storytime and he went to do some errands. He came back to pick us up after storytime to head to the doctor’s office. For once we were early, but didn't’ go in til 10 mins after our appointment time. I think it was karma for us always being late. Well as soon as Bella saw the nurse she started to scream and didnt’ stop til 10 mins after the nurse left the room to tell the doctor we were ready. Then even with the doctor in the room she wasn’t a happy camper. I forgot to ask some question due to my very unhappy baby. Hopefully the next visit in 6 months will go better. a
After the doctor’s office, we stopped at Dick’s to get some food and something for lunch. Naturally that took almost an hour of a trip to get food. I’m grateful we only seem to go around once every 3 weeks. Came home for lunch and then to put Bella down for a nap. She didnt’ sleep too long and was cranky as she was first thing in the morning. Apparently Wednesday was just not her day.
She did mange to learn some new words :Cole, Bird and Whoa
Also we finally got to open the Mrs Potato head that she got from some friends and she loved it!!
Today has been a better day and looks like Friday is going to be a fun day. Can’t wait.
Hopefully I’ll get some pictures up soon
So the holidays are over. now it’s time to get back to normal. I really tried how to remember what things were like last year after the holiday slow down, but I can’t remember. All I do remember is I didn’t have the wonderful playgroup and story time that I do now. I wasn’t even a regular blogger or tweeter…just on face book, which if anyone knows it’s near impossible to go back to what was happening a year ago. But I guess it really doesn’t matter, as Bella is totally mobile in all directions, and communicating with words. So life with a baby would be sitting up and rolling around is nothing like a baby who’s almost a year half old!.
So this week Monday we had a visitor, my buddy Katie. It was nice to see her and visit. I don’t think we have done that in ages. Bella was a very good baby and even napped while Katie was here. After she left Bella and I headed to the barn. That night she got some new jammies.… they are Wonder Pet Jammies. They are suppose to be for a little boy, but I haven’t found any cute little girl’s wonder pets Jammies. She really enjoyed them and knows where each of the characters are.
Tuesday we went to Playgroup. It was nice to be back. Bella really had fun and didn’t want to leave. IT was really cold, but we braved it to go to town. We came home and lunch and then Bella took a nap! some how it ended up being a late night for milking and chores, so that pushed everything else behind. I did finally get some pictures of our new calves. Unfortunaly we have lost two bull calves..Taco that I mentioned before and another one named Taco that was only a couple days old. I guess I might have to retire the name Taco.
Wednesday was a crazy day. Bella and I had to run to the post office to mail out my jump drives so Tori could upload my pictures, (have i mentioned how much I hate that I’m limited to what i can upload?), then we had to stop at the bank and check into who’s name was on her savings account as the system says there is no adult. Well we need one on there, come to find out it’s just Josh and not me or the both of us, so that was on stop i should have left to Josh. LOL Then we hit up story time, where it was crazy busy, I think everyone came back, but once the actual story time was done, Bella had fun playing with her friend. Then we set off for the vet. It was time to get dewormer for All the cats and Cole. Well that went great until the last 30 seconds as Bella fell off the bench and hit her head on the ground… btw she would have used her hands if they hadn’t been holding on to candy. So then I freaked out because after she calmed down and got in the car and was all happy and smily she got sleepy… also i should note that she was up at 6:30 am and by now it’s 11:30 and normally she naps by 10 or 11 at the latest… so I stop at Pamida to get a few things to wake Bella up too. SHe did fine in the store and then stayed awake the whole way home. It was lunch time when we got home and I prayed she would nap. She did finally… a 2 hour 15 min nap! By the time we got up it was time for milking. She did end up with a big ol’ goose egg on her head that was a light purple when she went to bed, but woke up in the morning and you could barely tell it was there.
Thursday, the snow had came… well at least 4 to 5 inches of it anyhow. I decided it was still warm enough yet to let Bella go out and play in it. Well then Josh said he had to go the Lancaster house to shovel. So yeah Bella got about 5 mins in the snow before we loaded her up, then she fell asleep in the truck. She slept the whole time we were in town and back home. Gave her lunch and then dealt with a cranky baby til she finally went to sleep again. We started chores early since it was windy and blowing snow. I didn't’ want to be out in the dark trying to feed calves, especially one who was new to the huts. So that gave me a nice break while Josh milked.
Today: While Bella napped I cleaned my house. I really haven’t done it yet this week, so it was much needed. I need to work on laundry, but that will have to wait til this weekend. Once she got up, we had lunch, where I found a jar of cashew butter and it was so yummy, I think better than the almond butter. I’m diggin the other nut butters. Pretty sure we are going to convert completely once we are done with the peanut butter jars. Then we went to town. It was amazing that with the sun shining how great the roads were especially since yesterday they were awful! Bella and I played in the house while Josh shoveled. Bella loves to play in the lancaster house since it’s wide open space! then we hit up the grocery store where we put to go use our xmas gift from Grandma and Grandpa. Then we came home and attempted to give Bella and afternoon nap. She had other ideas, so again chores were started early and I got to head back to the house for a little break. I managed to update the shutterfly site and get pictures up on facebook. the pics on facebook have all been posted here already.
And since I just used a lot of words… here are a few pictures from this week.. pretty much one a day :)
Finding Lenny on her wonder pet jammies…and they do have a cape too :)
Bella got baby bottles and pretend baby food. she is happy to be able to feed Sophie now with out mommy getting mad
Walking out to the barn. It’s normal to have a least one kitten/cat to go with her. Sometimes it’s everyone who’s under the car port
Can you see on the left part of her forehead the red mark?
Her 5 mins in the snow..she did enjoy what she got to play in.
“Found ya mommy”
I really hate being limited on my picture uploading. It’s made me kind of not want to blog or share pictures. I hope this weekend to get caught up on uploading pictures while i’m visiting my sister’s. I also hope to upgrade our internet sometime this winter so i can upload more.
But her’s a rundown of what we have been up too.
Monday: Josh was home all day, so we ended up running errands in the afternoon. Bella seemed to enjoy it a lot. We also worked on carving pumpkins.
Tuesday: Bella and I went to playgroup. It was dress up day, so everyone came in their costumes. Bella did very well in hers minus the hat. Though she can put the hat on all by herself. We also visited Daddy at work. Josh has been working at a friends of ours so Bella has enjoy playing out in the yard. After a late nap and lunch, we played outside for a bit.
Today: We went to storytime. Bella is really getting into the kids and sort of the story part. I’m really getting into being able to take to other mothers and adults!
All this week i’ve worked on attempting to declutter our house. I”ve already gotten to our linen closet, Bella’s room and half of our kitchen. I know most of th stuff is downstairs but every little gone is a little more room! Josh and I also got the car port cleaned up, under neath too!
Bella has been thinking she only needs one nap a day and been going to bed then early. This is only kind of nice, as it would be nice for her to stay up a bit so that Josh, Bella and I can hang out a bit. Also I miss the break to get more work done around the house. She also likes to “use” a spoon or fork with her meals. She’s good at getting the food off the spoon with her hand and then feeding it to herself.
We also Fingerpainted today and she didn’t try to eat it at all! She is really growing up!
Since this past week has been a very busy one for us.
MOnday night Book Club
Tuesday Playgroup
Wednesday Storytime
Thursday Mommy’s class
Friday Rain, Rain Rain
We have also been recoving from a cold that we all seemed to have picked up over the weekend due to lack of sleep.
So here are some pictures of what we have done
Sunday we saw some friends and had fun
Then came home and found out our toybox is a great place to play
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Tuesday we had fun playing with the tic tats from Rachel’s wedding
we also found our fav phone
Learn to play Ball with Daddy and mommy 
Discovered the cat toys
Wednesday after storytime we had a jelly sandwich and got it everywhere!
then mommy did a little photoshoot
then because the weather was nice, we did some fall pictures too
Thursday Aunt Diane came over. She took home a kitten
Friday I found my toybox again, can you find me?
Mommy put my family up on the fridge and now I can look at them all the time
See i have hair!
Today we headed to town for Storytime. I also had to take my car into the shop for the check engine light. I knew it was fromt he gas cap, but to be safe since we are travling this weekend.
So Bella and I dropped off my car at Les Mac, which happens to be across the street from the library. I pulled out the stroller, just in case, and i’m glad I did.
We went to storytime and had a good time. It’s so nice to see the kids interact and for me to be able to interact too. Also I go the book for the book club. Don’t know anything other than the book we are to read, but oh well. It’s a start :)
after storytime, our car still wasn’t done, so Bella and I took a walk down tot he square. We ended up at Kidz Klozet, where Bella got new shoes(she has almost out grown her first pair of stride rites ;( ) and mittens for outside. They were having 20% off everything so with all of it, it turned otu we got ht mittens for free.
THen we walked down by where daddy was helping out friends and saw him. We wanted to do lunch in the park, but by the time Bella and I walked back to our car, which was now done, she was out cold, so we jsut went home.
Bella slept for 2 hours and we have now enjoyed out lunch. Off to play until Daddy gets home!
So wedensday we did storytime, and Bella had a great time. She was hanging out with all the kids and I really was able to connect with the mothers too! It was awesome.
Yesterday was clean up bella’s clothes day. I packed away almost all of her 12 month clothes, even though she still fits into most of them. I just needed to get them out of there. So then i was able to pull out all her 18 months stuff. Oh i can’t wait for it to cool down. she has such cute clothes. I should take a pictures of her very stuffed cloest now. Bella does not need any more clothes unless they are warm things like hat, mittnes and pants for going out in the barn. Well hats and mittens to play outside too. It was kind of sad to pack up the summer stuff. I pray whenever we decided to have another child that we have another girl so i can reuse these clothes.
Today, is a raining day. But we are going to visit the Great G-parents. It will be nice for Bella to see them again. I’m trying hard for her to know her Grandparents. She seems my mom about once every 10 days, Judy once a week, martin about every couple of weeks. so that’s hitting most of them.
A few other little tidbits of Bella:
She is walking more and more. yesterday I think she walked more than crawled. She can walk all the way from the refridgator to the computer room without stopping or falling down.
She’s trying to walk fast but not stable enough for that yet.
whenever you say “you did it” or “good job” bella has to stop what she is doing and clap. or if she knows she did soemthing, like getting down from the couch the right way she will clap until you say “good Job”
She loves to watch her shows in the morning right after she wakes up. she will climb up into our bed and just sit there with her milk, cow blankie and nuk.
No new pictures this time..haven’t uploaded since this weekend.. promise some to come soon
Proof that my child loves the corner. older picture that i just pulled off the camera
She was climbing in and out of the basket while pulling out clothes
Waiting to go into the pool, doesn't she look so big?
Eatting her favorite teething food..watermelon.
another older shot... her with a jelly sandwich..another new fav
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