Our Little Ladybug

Child Study Center & New Skirt

Well, we were all excited because we thought Bella had started crawling, but she has only crawled two times for a few "steps" and continues to scoot the rest of the time. On Friday we went to the Child Study Center for Bella's 15 month NIGrads evaluation. She got high scores on everything but her crawling and walking, which we expected. They are suggesting physical therapy. So when we see her pediatrician next week we are supposed to talk about it with him. Grant and I have decided that if this is all we have to worry about with the way she started out we are very lucky!

Our friend Cari learned to sew this summer and we are benefiting from her expertise! She made this cute skirt for Bella. Still lugging Bunny around with us!

Farmin' In My Overalls

Grandpa Garvin just got back from a month or more in Illinois harvesting corn with a childhood friend. In many of his pictures he is wearing his overalls. I thought it was cute that Bella was playing with her farm today in her overalls.

Pumpkin Patch

The three of us went to a neat pumpkin patch in Flower Mound to get our pumpkins and gourds. This place is so cool! They have hay rides, mazes, face painting and lots of other things for kids to do in addition to a HUGE selection of pumpkins of any size or shape you could possibly want. Of course Bella is still too young to do very much of it, but it's still a great place to go. Thank you to my friend Cari for telling us about it. Anyway here are some pictures from our fun visit.

"Do I want to drive the tractor or do I want you to?"

"Mom, look how big I am!"

"Smile and say cheese!" Bella didn't want to do her cheesy smile on this day.
"I think I'll take that one!"Playing in the straw

Throwing the straw

"Okay, one last picture."

Football

Our friend Carlin played on the Glen Rose JV football team this week so we all went to cheer him on. Bella had quite the time playing musical laps. Bella & Grant
Bella & Katy

Scooting

We finally have scooting! Bella scooted across the floor on her bottom today to get to my recycled paper basket! Then later she was on the rug in the living room trying to get up on her knees to push forward and get her bunny. She might actually crawl!
AND
She also stopped crying before I left the nursery this morning at church! Yippee! What a day!

Family Farm, Toys and Dress Up

This is Bella playing with a Fisher Price farm set that I had has a child. She loved it! Bella rearranging her toy box.
We went to our friends Bart and Cari's house last night and their little girl, Lauren, dressed up Bella with some hats and things that were being handed down to her. Bella was a great sport... even had a good time...

Until now!