Bella's 2nd Christmas

Christmas is so much better when you have a kid!!! I don't think I have ever enjoyed Christmas as much as this year! Here is little mama checking out what Santa brought her. She didn't know what to think of everything in the living room.

Look at that smile

She loved her kitchen!

Already cooking up a storm!

Grandma came by to see Bella wake up to Santa's gifts.

Love this one of the two of them!

Hey mom! How bout a little broomstick in the eye???

Opening presents.

Hmmm....what's in here?

Her first car, haha!

Mommy scored big smiles with the xylophone!
Finally getting the hang of this opening presents thing!

Bella telling Slade to "gee-oww" (get out!) She's incredibly opinionated and bossy, wonder where she gets that from???

Camden playing on the swings.
Sorry boys, but she only dates rock stars! Yeesh, I don't wanna even start thinking about her dating!

Chowin' at Middendorf's

It's a tradition for all who travel to New Orleans to stop at this little seafood restaurant in Manchac called Middendorf's. Here is little mama posing as we waited for our dinner.
Lovin her some lemons

Yeow! That's sour!

But she went back for a few more bites

Just beautiful...

A night on Bourbon Street

We took Bells a little way down Bourbon Street. This was the tame portion of it.
Who ARE these people????

Chillin' in the stroller.

5A State Championship in New Orleans

We headed down to the Superdome in New Orleans for the 5A State Championships! We love our Rebs!
Posing for a pic by Aunt Pam.

Bells and Papaw.

Me and my girl.

Thanksgiving 2008 and a few more

Bells is fascinated by belly buttons. Here she is trying to find Nana's belly button.

Bella: Hey I think I found it............

Bella: Hey, I DID find your belly button, Nana!

Bella: Ont bibe!!!! (her version of give me five)
Playing with Papaw's rosary beads.

The most beautiful smile in the world.

Smelling her stinky feet. Those feet are tiny but they pack a powerful punch on the olfactory senses!!!!!!! In the words of Bella....SHEWWEEE!!!! NASSY BEET!!!! (Shooo-wee, nasty feet!)

My little turkey getting ready to eat Thanksgiving dinner.


Hey Skylar, gimme that frisbee. I wanna play! (It's not spoiled, it's just EXTREMELY well loved!) :)

Playing in the leaves

I LOVE this one of Slade.

Me, my girl and her passy. The three of us makes for a happy team. Woe be to the person who tries to break us up!! (Nana hates the fact that she still gets her passy from time to time!)

Slade the monkey climbing on the couch.

My chipmunk cheeks!

Hope everyone's Thanksgiving went well! Until the next post......

Fun on the slide

Squealing on the slide!!!! I'm not sure why these videos are blurry but I posted them for the giggles anyway!!! SHE'S A WILD ONE!!!!!!!!

A walk down memory lane

Anyone who knows me knows that I am a complete sap when it comes to my doodlebug. I was feeling a little nostalgic tonight and was going through a few pics from my myspace page. She is just so stinkin' cute. I can't help myself!!! Here is the precious pumpkin sleeping on my legs while we were still in the hospital. Yep just a day old and already a bowhead!
The first time I got to hold her. It's amazing how you can love someone so much and be so completely terrified of them at the same time. See my face??? I have babysat so much over the years and worked with kids for most of my nursing career I thought "hey, I've got this covered". (at least until the day that I had her!) What was really going on in my head was "Oh my God, what do I do with her??? Do they really trust me enough to take her home???? Shouldn't you have to have a license to breed???" :)

Snoozing away on Mommy's legs. We were STILL in the hospital.

Catching some rays. She had jaundice for about a month. She looks so huge here. Scroll down a little and look at the picture of her holding my finger to get an idea of just how tiny she was. Hard to believe that the baby lying in this picture wore preemie clothes for the first month of her life!!!

Yep, my little furball. Check out that forehead!!!

Ahh....the 8 day old portrait session.

She looks like she has a few chins here but it's just that newborn sharpei-like skin!

In a bed of daisies.

Teensy tiny tootsies.

See what I mean about how tiny? Her whole hand was just a smidgen longer than one joint of my finger.

Looks like a little doll!!!!