Two more teeth for Bella.....

BELLA NEWS
Bella started cutting two more teeth (her top two front teeth) on April 20th...3 days before turning 9 months old. She seems slightly bothered by them coming in but not too bad. Since the last post, she is crawling really fast everywhere in the house. She has three kinds of crawls....crawling on her knees, a crab crawl on all fours, and a crawl on one foot and one knee. She is a trip! She also started pulling herself on furniture and cruising about. On Thursday, on her 9 month birthday, she said "MAMA." It wasn't babble, either. She was upset and crawling to me and said "MAMA." It made me melt. Let's see........

Milestones:
8 1/4 months crawling
8 1/2 months pulling self to standing position
9 months says "MAMA"
9 months signs "More"
Oh...yesterday she tried to say "CHEESE" when she wanted more cheese...

This past Friday, she got sick with Croup, again. We wound up in the ER Saturday evening. She had a visit with her pediatrician who thinks we might want to to talk with a Pulminologist. She has had croup 3 times since January. While he thinks it is nothing to worry about, he just wants to be certain that there is nothing going on with Bella's airway. I kept her home from daycare today just to be sure she was ok, but she will be going back tomorrow.

She is a little thing, by the way. She only weighs 16 pounds 11 ounces. The Dr. is not concerned. She is a light one.


Bella in the ER in the tiniest little hospital gown


MORGAN NEWS
Not much to report since the last post a few weeks ago. Morgan continues to do well. She is preparing to Bridge over to Cadette's in Girl Scouts.. She is very excited. Recently, Morgan had to deal with a really tough situation but pulled through, making us proud as usual. We had to put our dog Lucky to sleep. Morgan loved Lucky and it was really hard for her. She said that when she is an adult, she is going to have two Shetland Sheepdogs (like Lucky) and name them Lucky and Lucy. I love her :)





Until next time....

Catch up....

Wow....it's been a while since we have had a real update. It has been so busy here. Let's see. Things are going well. We went to NJ for Passover...which was nice for Bella and Morgan to have a nice Passover Sedar with Omi and Pop Pop. We stayed in MD for Easter. Boy did the girls get lots of stuff from the Easter Bunny!!!

BELLA
Since my last mini update, Bella is crawling all over the house. The gates are now up :) She started with a typical crawl and now does this crawl with her left knee down and her right foot propelling her. Quite cute :) She also pulled herself up to a standing position last week...so at 8 1/2 months. She still has 2 teeth. It does not look like she is cutting more right now. She still says "dada" and babbles other things but has yet to say "mama." I am still waiting for that one. Morgan taught her to make a sound using her hand on her mouth. Quite funny. She imitates alot and laughs alot. She is a very happy baby.

She prefers real food over her baby food. Her favs include pancakes and cheese. She loves to snack on Gerber puffs, too. About 1 1/2 months ago, she weighed 16 pounds. She is getting so big. Everywhere we go, people stop and comment about how beautiful she is and how big her eyes are. We are told, often, that she is a gerber baby :)

MORGAN
Morgan continues to make us proud. She is such a great big sister. She loves her Bella so much! Morgan is doing well in school and is preparing for Middle School Next year. She earned her purple belt (pics in another post) in karate. She has 2 more swim meets for the school year and then will be done with winter swimming. She will have a short break in swimming before summer swimming starts again.

Morgan has recently discovered that reading is fun. I have been waiting for this moment. She actually likes to read...not all of the time but reads every night before going to bed and is reading chapter books! WOOHOO Morgan!!!

Well.....here are some pics to enjoy....Bella just woke up from her nap. Until Next time