July has been an incredibly busy month for the De Haan household! We have been very busy enjoying the sunshine (and humidity!), swimming, hanging out with family and friends, and taking our first vacation of the summer. Bella has been busy continuing to grow and develop as well! She is talking SO much and is definitely starting to become even more of a little girl rather than a baby! She is still Miss Independent and knows exactly what she wants and when she wants it! She loves to show off and make us laugh and smile, but she also is so sweet and loving. We love this little girl more and more every day!
We still spend lots of time in the "wah-wah" (Bella's term for water). We have been able to enjoy swimming at Grandpa and Grandma's pool a few different times! Bella is not too sure of the floatie toys- in fact, she is pretty terrified of them. But she likes just splashing around with Mama and Dada.
Bella loves dancing and singing to music. She often makes a singing noise to herself when she is playing, which is so cute to hear. She also helps sing along to some of her favorite songs, like Skidamarinkidinkydink, the Itsy Bitsy Spider, and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
For some reason, Bella thought she needed to put her toys in Tommy's little bed- which is pretty gross since it is covered with cat hair. She loves putting stuff into places and taking them back out. It's a fun never-ending game!
And here she wants to demonstrate just how strong and determined she really is. One afternoon, Bella decided to pull out all the chairs from the table and pushed them around on the floor. As I said, she's quite persistent in what she wants to do! :)
Apparently Bella thought she could fit into her baby's crib. When that didn't happen so well, she was rather mad! Bella is still loving to play with her babies and "La-la" (Elmo). She gives them kisses, feeds them, makes them go nigh-nigh, throws them across the room when they are being naughty...
Bella loves our new family member yet. In fact, he helped introduce a new word into her vocabulary- Kitty! Bella always has big huge smiles whenever she sees Tommy and I know that she just wants to go jump on top of him. Thankfully, she does not do that and only goes by him with Mommy.
Bella has been quite attached to "Mama" this month. She is fine when I'm at work, but if she knows that I am around, she has to be nearby. I can't lie, it's pretty fun to be so wanted, but carrying around a 25 pound child can get rather tiresome! But now that she says up when she wants to be held, I really can't resist.
As I said, Bella has started talking soo much this past month. I try to write down all the words that she uses or has said, but it's getting hard to keep track of! She has said up, tractor, purse, apple, kitty, shoe, backpack, cheeka (a character on a show), and baby (she's finally not calling babies mama!). Bella also knows and identifies pretty much all our family member names. Some are a little harder to say than others, but she makes an attempt at all of them.
She started to learn our family names by looking at our wedding book. She is obsessed with looking at that and photo albums. They are looked through daily, and she points to and names all the people and things she knows.
Bella blows kisses when she tells somebody bye-bye, although she doesn't usually "blow" the kiss.
I think I mentioned in my last post that Bella loves to do silly tricks that makes us laugh. She "runs" in place, does this silly walk where she lifts up one of her legs, and makes a yodeling noise. She thinks it's so funny when we laugh at her, so she loves to keep showing off again and again!
Bella is still a really good eater and sleeper. She goes to bed around 9, and typically gets up between 8:30-9. However, I don't think she usually goes to sleep until 10- she likes to play around in her bed! She still takes 2 naps a day, although she can survive on one. But she does better with having 2 shorter naps rather than 1 longer one at this point.
Bella typically eats oatmeal and yogurt for breakfast, some type of pasta/main dish with veggies and fruit for lunch, a snack in the afternoon, and whatever we eat at night with veggies and fruit for supper. She drinks a few cups of whole milk a day, although it has taken me some time to get her to like it. She loves apple juice and water as well. Bella had been getting a bottle at night up until this week. I was very sad to take it away as she loved her ba-ba so much! But she has done fine without it, and has only asked for it a couple of times.
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