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Picture of the Week – November 8, 2007

Catching up

Last time Bella went to the doctor was for her 4 month well visit where she also received some more vaccinations. I gave her a little Tylenol before we left for the appointment and although she cried toward the last shot, after I picked her up, she was fine from then on. Even though she bruised up pretty bad and the area swelled up like a huge knot, she never once complained or fussed about it. We are blessed to have such a great baby! At that visit, she weighed almost 15lbs. and measured 25 1/4 inch tall. Her head was still small but the doctor isn’t worried. Besides, a small head keeps her looking cuter than all the other babies in the world:). She’ll go again for more vaccines and another checkup at 6 months, only 3 weeks away now.

Bella is doing so well with her development. She sits up really well with a little support from us–she enjoys it so much that when she is lying in her infant car seat, she’s constantly leaning forward trying to tell us she’d rather be sitting up than lying down. I think she’s gonna have the energy of her Daddy which would be wonderful. She’s rolled over a couple of times from her back to her stomach but always when we’re not looking so even though we’ve seen partial roll-overs, neither one of us have witnessed her doing a complete roll over. She’s not real big on the stomach to back thing but she’s done that too. The videos Paul has posted shows how she loves to talk with us and to herself. Someone said the other day that she probably loves the echo in our big house which is probably accurate because she loves squealing really loud especially in the 2 story living room area.

She can suck on her toes like a champ. It only took her a few days to figure out exactly how to hold her foot so she could grab it, hold onto it and still get her toes in her mouth. Now she’s such an expert, she even knows how to strategically hold her thumb next to her big toe so she can suck on both at the same time. Pure Genius! (and it helps her get rid of some of the gas she gets from her Daddy too-she doesn’t get that from me, not at all:)

When she first started playing in her exersaucer, she could barely reach the floor. Now she stands up straight and leans very little on the cushioned sides for support. She can also maneuver her way around in 360 degrees to give her legs a real work out. Of course, all she can think about it how many toys she can nibble on before Mommy comes to clean up her drool pool.

She still sleeps thru the night but occasionally surprises us with a mid-night feeding request, then she goes right back to sleep and wakes up at a normal time vs. the buttcrack of dawn.

So far a few colds have come and gone but nothing major (keep praying) so far. She started crying tonight when she got hungry and we noticed that her tear ducts have started working. We were so excited about that, we forgot that we were supposed to be figuring out why she was crying.

For Halloween, Bella was a penguin and I was a nurse (Paul and I went to a party the weekend before and we were dressed up as stick people (the kind with glow sticks). You can see videos and pics on the blog somewhere for October. Bella’s so cute with her little baggy and costume all ready. She didn’t complain about any of it at all.

The night of Halloweeen, I took her with a friend and her son and she was just a people person. While we were out, she started smacking her lips. Not really sure why but occasionally she’ll do it once or twice and it’s adorable. I call it her ‘kisses’. I’ve given her cereal a few times-a video is on the web showing how cute she was with spitting it out and then sometimes liking it. She loves grabbing for things like bottles (she can hold her own when it’s half empty by the way), glasses, earrings, noses, etc. You name it, she loves to hold it and shovel it into her mouth.

I guess that about does it for now. If I remember something else, I’ll post a quick note. Hopefully, I won’t get really behind, otherwise the small stuff slips my mind quicker than I’d like.

110207 – Bella gets attacked by a bear

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You’d probably never guess how rough the life of a five-month-old is.  How often do you get mauled by terrifying grizzly bears that are the same size as you?

New website

Update your bookmark to bellarose.com.  I’ve totally redone the site in a way which will make it very easy for us to keep up to date.  I’ve also set up bellarose.name to redirect to the .com address because it will be going away when my one year term on it expires in May.  By bookmarking bellarose.com and not the s2069xxxxx address, you save yourself the possibility of showing up at an empty site if I ever decide to switch website hosts.

A pictorial month in review – October '07

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Picture of the Week – November 1, 2007