16 months!

Dear Bella,
I am now going to give you a new nickname. Miss "B" for B.U.S.Y!
I love you,
Your mommy
PS: Please slow down in growing!

16 months? Crazy y'all! Here are some Miss B (for B.U.S.Y) updates - with giraffe pictures.

We'll try to get her to say "mommy" and she'll respond by yelling "DADDY". what? wait a minute?


She does not like to have things taken from her. The other night she kept grabbing my glasses, which I kept telling her "no" to. That didn't work so we had to pull out the "big guns" - aka. D.A.D.D.Y! He told her "no" and she was not happy with it at all. She started crying really hard, walked over to him with her arms up, laid her head on his shoulder and continued to cry. Break my heart - and Mike's too! Boy, discipline like this is going to be a heart wrencher. Later that night we were all laying together before bathtime when she tried to grab my glasses again. Mike said "Bella" is his you're-about-to-get-in-trouble tone - and she put her bottom lip out in the BIGGEST pout i've seen so far! She did that 3 or 4 more times that night too when she kept trying to grab my glasses. I had to turn away every time from laughing so hard. (Mike kept saying "she's not going to understand it's discipline if you're laughing" - I need some practice of keeping a poker face or i'm in trouble.) One second she was fine - the next second the pout lip came out. On and off like a like switch! So cute and so sad at the same time!
She loves to push the laundry basket around - and gather up everything in the way - so, right now the laundry basket has books, my clothes (including undergarments), measuring cups, blocks, socks, more books, my shoes, her sippy cup, and her stuffed llama.
She will play her music from her laptop (which, by the way, is extremely LOUD - thanks to the grandparents for that toy - uh, hem) and dance and sing to it.
She will lay herself on the floor (tummy side down) and scootch (sp?) herself backwards like a fish - only going backward - ok, so not like a fish at all. But you get the idea. She thinks this is hysterical.
Speaking of light switches, she loves to turn them off and on. Over and over again.
She likes to rub her belly when she's in the bath tub. She'll get her hands wet and rub away!

She is blowing kisses and giving them - they are usually big, wet, slobbery and sometimes running-nosey kisses. Awww - if you could bottle them up and keep them forever! Here she is hugging her giraffe. Priceless!

She still loves books and will sit contently for a while "reading" them.


She wants to rock herself in the rocking chair.

She likes to put too much in her mouth - especially bread. She really likes cheese, bananas, bread, peaches, oranges, green beans, cheerios and the occasional little bit of homemade cookies she sees her parents enjoying.

Happy 16 months sweet thang! We love you so much - pout lip and slobbery kisses and all.