Bella Signing

Bella has been watching Baby Signing Time DVDs for the past few weeks. She LOVES them! She already has learned more signs. She can sign:
more
milk
hurt
eat

The signing really helps with her verbal language. Now she uses words to say more...She says "mom" for more. She is such a bright little girl. Takes after her sister, for sure :)

Wow...so much changing....

Let's see...it has been a while since I updated. As you can see from the recent video, Bella is now walking. She started walking at exactly 12 months and 2 weeks old. We were in the pediatrician's office, for Morgan and Bella's check-ups, when Bella just stood up and began walking in between me and Morgan. She was so proud of herself! In addition to the walking, Bella has become quite the avid climber. We climbs up on most everything and anything....and has pretty good balance and planning.

Bella is fully transitioned to whole milk. We started the transition 2 weeks before her first birthday....mixing it 1/2 formula 1/2 milk. She took to the milk right away and we quickly switched to all milk. She also now drinks out of sippy cups for drinks, except her first and last bottle of the day.

Bella's language is blossoming, too. She says so many words (see the list on the side of the blog for an updated list). She also imitates just about everything she hears...even 2 syllable words. Pretty amazing. She is also doing alot of sign language. We started Baby Signing Time, a DVD series for babies for teaching sign language. She loves it! She signs MORE, EAT, MILK, FINISHED....we are learning more every day. Even Morgan enjoys the DVDs and is learning the sign language along with Bella.

Bella now loves the pool. She kicks and splashes and has no problem getting water in her face. I think we have another swimmer! She also had her first trip to the beach recently and LOVED it!!!! She plays in the sand and does not care to get all messy with the sand.

7 teeth and counting........

Morgan is gearing up for middle school. I cannot believe that in a few weeks we will have a middle school student. She is excited and a bit anxious. We are going out to the school before school starts to walk through and meet the counselor. This should help make her transition easier.

Morgan has been finished with swimming since the end July. She did well this summer. Her strokes are looking so much cleaner. She will continue with swimming, once again, in the fall. She will also continue with karate, too. In addition to these extra activities, she will be continuing with violin in middle school. In elementary school, she only had violin class one time per week. In middle school, she has it 5 times per week! It will be really neat to see how much her playing changes with so much instruction......

Will post some more pictures soon....
Until Next time....
Charlene

at 1 year and 2 weeks....

we have a walker...