Videos...

please don't mind the messy room and un-made bed or the fuzy video

Bella is such a little performer...love it

Different Time Zones....

 Over Presidents Day weekend, Eric went to Mesquite for a "Boys" weekend with his Dad and Brothers so the girls and I headed to Idaho for the weekend. We had such a fun weekend. We celebrated Aaliyah's 3rd birthday. We got to spend time with family and some good friends. And the girls were great! Bella and Aaliyah still fight with each other like crazy but they also love each other like crazy too. They are nuts! Lyla was so good, she loved everyone! She's loved my Mom since day one and has always been good for her so it's nice when she's around, I get a break! 

I know Eric enjoyed his time with his Dad and Brothers also. It was spring training for Blake. So they watched baseball games and ate and gambled and just hung out. Good times and good memories! 

Happy Love Day!!!

We have celebrated Valentines Day for the past few days. We decided to spread it out over the weekend. And I'm glad we did!! Here's what we've been up too...

Thursday- Bella decorating her V-day box

the finished product....lots of sparkles!

sweet Lyla...she loves her play center!

Friday- The girls got Valentine cards from Mimi and Papa....money included!

listening to her card...it sang "you make me wanna shout" She loves it!

Lyla with her card

Saturday- we had our big yummy Valentines Breakfast...giant waffles, eggs, bacon and orange juice

Sunday- We had our yummy Valentines Dinner....homemade Alfredo sauce with chicken and shrimp over angel hair pasta with garlic bread and Caesar salad....Yum

We finished it off with a homemade Red Velvet Cake!

Lyla on her very first Valentines Day...sporting her new jammies!!

And Bella with her box of chocolates and special balloon and her V-day jammies...Dora, she picked them out! 

 Eric and I are so lucky to have these two beautiful, precious and sweet baby girls to Celebrate Valentines Day with! And we are pretty lucky to have each other also!!! We had a great weekend! 

I love us...all of us!!!

So funny...

I was in rocking and nursing Lyla in her room and Bella came in. She opened the little ottoman that I have in there full on baby toys and small stuffed animals and some things that were hers but she doesn't play with anymore because they are more babyish toys. Anyway here is the conversation we had.

Bella: Mom this is mine, and that is mine. Why is all my stuffs in here? 

Me: Bella those are baby toys.

Bella: Well this is my Kai-lan that Mimi gave me..isn't it? 

Me: (laughing so hard)- yes Bella, you can take that back to your room. Ok?

Bella: (pulling something else out)-  and this isn't a baby toy, is it? Mom!

At this point I am laughing so hard and she says to me in her serious voice "mom, this is not funny, this is my stuffs!"

Oh Bella it's funny!! So funny that I stopped feeding the baby to come write it down so I wouldn't forget.

Now back to my baby...

4 months already?!?!

My sweet Lyla baby is 4 months old! Time has gone by so fast...too fast.

Lyla, at 4 months old you are still a total mama's baby. Which I love but it also makes things hard. You are a sweet and precious little baby. You know what you want and you let us know! You still don't sleep through the night or take a bottle or a binky. You are a strong willed little thing. So needless to say you usually get your way. And your way is to be held by mommy or daddy and on occasion you will let some one other than us hold you. But like I said you are so sweet. All I have to do is look at you and you give me great big smiles. If I simply make a silly face or a silly noise you will giggle at me which is the best sound in the world! I love that your favorite thing is for me to hold you close and kiss on your sweet cheek's and that soft little neck! I am afraid that we've gotten into a bit of a bad habit. This last week you and I have both been sick so the only way you will sleep is laying next to me or right on top of me. Oh well. When you are all better we'll have to work on breaking that and getting you sleeping back in your own bed for longer that a half hour at a time. Oh these are the days....long days! But also the very best days!! You are so sweet Lyla baby and you have totally taken over our hearts!

 She had her 4 month well baby check-up yesterday and she's growing (a little) and she's healthy! 

4 month stats:

weight- 11 lbs 13oz = 10th percentile

height- 25 inches = 90th percentile

She's tiny but she's mity! 

We love you our blue eyed girl!! 

Precious Moments...

Love this baby girl!

Bella the Ballerina....

Bella started Ballet on Wednesday! It's a ballet/tap class for 3/4 year olds. I was going to wait until the fall to put her in dance because I thought she would do better being closer to 4 instead of just barely 3 but she kept asking us when she was going to go to ballet. So...I signed her up! I met a lady this summer at one of Eric's softball games who owns a dance studio. She's danced her whole life and has had the studio for over 10 years so I felt like it would be a good place to take her. Bella did really well for being her first class and having me as a parent...I have no coordination! But it's a fun thing for her to do. I would secretly love it if she got really good and wanted to be a professional ballerina. 

I had to get a shot with my sweet girl

This is her after her dance class. She had one of her fevers but still wanted to go. So afterward she was exhausted. Poor sick girl all the time. 

I think she makes the cutest ballerina ever!!

Seriously?!?

Me: Bella you are going to start cleaning up your room every night before you go to bed. I'm tired of all your stuff out. And you need to start helping.(this is coming off a night with no sleep so I was dead serious and dead tired)

Bella: Oh Mom, you are so silly. (said calmly as she is just sitting there watching me clean her room)

Seriously, what? Who does she think she is? Well, she really does think she is a princess that shouldn't have to do anything ever! What have we done!?!

Despicable Me...

Baby loves Daddy...

 So precious!

Bowling....

lugging her big ball to the lane

showing off her sweet bowling shoes

nice form, right

And there's her victory dance!

watching her ball so intently

And this sweet little lover just loved watching all the action

more celebratory dancing...so fun!

 Bella has been asking to go bowling for the last few days so we took her on Saturday. She loved it! She has been before but now she's old enough to really bowl and she likes it! She was so funny to watch. She would push the ball down the lane and stand and watch it and when it knocked some pins down she always had a sweet little victory dance. Ha ha ha. So funny and so cute! She was a pretty good little bowler too. She beat me by 1 point the first game. Ha ha. I think it was like 59 to 58. Awesome! But she did have the little ramp and the bumpers to help her out! So the second game Eric gave me the bumpers also. I know, I'm awesome. But hey it got me up over one hundred that game and Eric only beat me by 1 point that time. So I'm a fan of bumpers! 

We had such a fun time bowling together!