The Bell Family

Sorry it’s taken a while to update the blog… time has just been flying and the events of the last few months have just overcome us!!!

Life has been fairly hectic for us all between work commitments, more work around the house and of course entertaining the little lady!

Laura is sooo active these days – she can walk, run, climb, throw a ball and even dances around the lounge room with Mummy! She just loves her music CDs and is always bopping around (at home, in the car and even in the shopping trolley when you walk past a shop with good music)! Here’s a piccie of her all dressed up for a visit to Ma and Pa’s place…

Laura’s talking so much more every day now and she’s starting to say all sorts of little sentences in amongst her parrot talk – throw the ball, catch the ball, shut the door, cup of tea, night night bed time, more food please etc. She’s getting quite good with her alphabet and counting now too and has also picked up a few bad habits from her father when watching the footy, with the two of them chorusing ‘go, go’!!!

She’s a little sponge for information at the moment and is copying almost everything we say, some of which she understands and the rest of the time we figure it’s just ‘practice’!!! We can see it all coming together for her now, in her own little way of course, and it’s wonderful!!!

Laura now weighs a little over 13kg and her hair is starting to thicken up. It’s still a lovely sandy-blond colour and it is now just long enough to tie in two tiny little pigtails (very cute)!!!

Laura’s been helping us with all sorts of things around the house (well she’s trying to anyway) – cleaning, putting things away, sweeping and vacuuming. Outside in the courtyard, we’ve been working hard to finish her little play area, complete with safety fence, garden and swing set! She thinks it’s brilliant!

Visited a farm the other day (for a little friends birthday)… the kids (both big and little) had a great day, although Laura was a little surprised that all the farm animals seemed so much bigger, louder and scarier than what she’d imagined in her books!!! When asked if she wanted to pat the pony and go for a ride, the response was a very clear and determined “NO!”, although she did soften towards the goats and had good fun throwing the grain all over the paddock amongst squeals of delight!

Cheers and thanks for tuning in,
Jason, Christine and Laura