A Day At The Fair

Yep, it's fair time again! So Bella, me, Papaw, Dallas, Camden and Slade all loaded up and headed over the bridge to Monroe! This is Bella when we arrived....she was excited to hear the music and immediately started dancing in her stroller.

First on the agenda was the carousel. She is so amazing. She loves the carousel at the mall, which has a safety strap on it. I put her on the horse and she immediately looked down for the strap, but, alas, NO SAFETY STRAP!!! Have no fear, Mommy is here to hang onto you!

Here are Dallas, Camden and Slade riding right in front of us.

Next up was the Super Slide. Papaw took one for the team and trekked up those stairs with a 28 lb baby on his hip. Gotta love him!!! Bella is not too sure about slides. She loves a swing, but a slide??? Not so much!

Dallas and Slade, however, loved the slide. Check out the smiles on those faces!

Camden had fun in the fun house!!! Good thing his mom went with him, because he didn't know which way to walk because "them stairs was mooovin!!!"

While Dallas and Camden were lost in the fun house, Bella and Slade were beating the heat...Bella with her ba-ba and Slade with his sippy.


Next were the helicopters and spaceships. This was the one where I was having some serious apprehension about. Turns out I actually have a decent mother's intuition. I asked Dallas "why do I feel the need to run around underneath them?" That question was soon answered when the ride began and started lifting the kids in the air (and over my head) and Miss Thang decided she was a big girl and wanted to ride standing up. I believe I had my first coronary!!! As I was about to scale the fence because the ride attendant was blocking the gate I was told (by him) "Now Momma she is fine. If she stands up more then I will bring them down". And how many kids do you have, Mr. Man???? That 's the only one I've got and I don't feel like another trip to the E.R. Get outta my way!!! Momma's on the case! After some serious shouting to my beautiful daughter, she decided Momma was serious and she better sit her big ole bubble butt down!
Bella: Well, Momma, I only stood up a little bit. What are you soooo mad for???
Momma: Oh, well now, Bella you only nearly gave your doting mother a heart attack!!! Don't ever do that again!
Bella: Does my sweet and innocent look make it better, Momma???

Woo hoo!!! Off to the jeeps! My kid loves a steering wheel. It doesn't matter if it's attached to anything or not. She loves to "drive". A future NASCAR racer???

Hey, Slade, this is kinda cool. You diggin' this?

We had a great time at the fair. As you can tell, it's the best thing to get a one year old to take a nap. We were almost home and I look back and see this!!!!

A Preview of Halloween

We searched high and low looking for the perfect costume. WE FOUND IT!!! Meet my little ladybug!!! We have to add the black tights and shoes!


The first time she saw herself in it. She cracked up!

Bella and Slade

I can't get my pics to post in order. I had this cute little commentary all planned out in my head and now it's not meant to be! If anyone can tell me how to move these pics (the click and drag is not working) please comment and let me know.
This is Belle after Slade got on the tractor.


So after he got on the tractor we distracted the Belle and put her on this zebra. By the way, she LOVES this zebra!
Hey, Bella, that's MY zebra....and I want it!
Step off, Slade, I'm riding this zebra!
This is my beautiful little lady right after she woke up from nap. Note the wild hair!
Bella talking to me. I didn't have a clue as to what she was saying!!! See that picture behind my head??? She was 8 days old! Man I miss those days you know when she just laid there like a slug!
Blowing kisses...
Here is Belle with my cousin Ashley. Hey, Ash, the giraffe visor looks great!
So back to the interrupted and might I say out of order commentary...Here is Belle enjoying this tractor. See the gleam in Slade's eyes in the background??? Just kidding, love ya Slade (and Dallas)!
And here we go!!! Slade wanted his tractor, I don't think Belle wanted to give it up but she got off of it and it is his toy so sweetheart, you snooze, you lose!!!
And if you go back up to the top of the post you will get the rest of the story (do I sound like Paul Harvey or what???)
I was going to post more pics but I am now aggravated with trying to put them in the correct order. So for now, much love to you all!!!!

Belle's 12 month proofs

Grrr...having issues with arranging the order again!!!

Belle saying that she's one!!!
Playing tug of war with the pearls

doing the boodn boodn...i know...it looks like i'm picking my nose!
Sticking our tongues out at each other

Campaigning for Bella

It's Election Year and I am campaigning for Bella!!! Every year, the local paper has a beautiful baby contest and first prize is a $5000.00 savings bond (woohoo...college money!!!). So please help us out! All you have to do is go to www.thenewsstar.com and click on the most beautiful baby contest icon. Then go to view the contestants. Bella is baby #128. Voting starts September 1st. You get one free vote per day(it will ask you for a donation, but you do not have to donate to vote one time per day). You can vote more than once daily but any vote after the first vote for that day is 25 cents per vote. Alright guys, so get on those computers and make this mommy proud!!!! Thanks so much for your help!!! Okay, so enough with the shameless campaigning for votes. Here is a little looksie into a night in the life of the most beautiful baby!!!! I'm having a little technical difficulties arranging these photos in order....grrrrr....so please bear with me!!!
Here is chunky monkey doing something she KNOWS she's not supposed to be doing....standing up in the bathtub and as you can tell, she's lovin' every minute of it! Note the ever thickening unibrow!!!! Not to worry my love, Mommy will wax you before your first day of kindergarten!!!
She conceded and I gave in a little bit and let her stand on her knees...how's that for meeting in the middle???
Baby girl brushing her teeth...actually she's just sucking the toothpaste off of the toothbrush!
Combing her hair after bath....and doing a pretty good job at it if I do say so myself!!!
Ok, Mommy, I'm done...here is the comb back....
Bella's first time coloring!!! She had so much fun. Mommy was a little worn out from trying not to let her eat the crayons!

The poop face.

Oh, please tell me Mommy didn't post the poop face pic!!!
The expression after I told her to sit down in the bathtub.
Have a good night, all and thanks for the votes. We appreciate your help!!! Love, Marla and Bella