Little Friends

Two little friends...what could be cuter?

Bianca, Francesca and Jonathan (the cat).

Putting bug stickers on the bottom of their feet :)

First Art Class

Since Mark and I don't really have a creative bone in our bodies, I figured I should enroll Bianca in an art class to give her some sort of a fighting chance in this department. So off we went today. Bianca made a letter "B" with lots of buttons and different colored pasta glued onto it, she cut different shapes out of clay and she also was able to work with "magic" paper. All in all, she had fun. Her favorite part of the class was making dolphin shapes out of the clay. She kept asking for "more dolphins" and so we did. She poked holes in the dolphins to give them eyes and carried her prized possessions all around the classroom. I think next time we are there we are going to paint the clay shapes...I will take pictures of her progress to share.

Fever Broke

Bianca's fever finally broke yesterday and today she broke out in a rash...guess Aunt Traci was right (again!) - Bianca has roseola! At least she is feeling better although she still doesn't look quite like herself. I am thankful because my happy baby had just been so sad and cranky over the past few days. We were going to meet up with a bunch of friends for the day but, since she is still contagious we stayed home and did some finger painting and water coloring instead.

This is very serious work!

Enetertaining Bianca

Mark and I have been quite busy the past few weekends trying to clear everything out of our office to make way for Bianca's new "big girl" room. Needless to say, our upstairs was quite a mess over the weekend. During that time, I was trying to entertain Bianca while helping Mark...not an easy feat! Here are some pictures and a video of our little trooper. She hung in there even with a nasty fever she has been fighting since Friday :-(

She loves playing with Daddy's cars...and she loves sitting in our cars and "driving"!

In her new closet (minus the paint).

Smiling but, you can see in her eyes that she does not feel well!

"Reading" her book!

Just One of the Boys!

Bianca and I went to the Ushers this week for some swimming, playing, and cookies! Bianca was loving their beach-entry pool where she could just sit and splash around. She also gave Traci and me a couple of good scares as she just took off up the ladder of their very tall jungle gym... she even made it up one-handed because she had a cookie in her other hand. Bianca was so tired afterwards that she took an extra-long nap and was still passed out at 5PM when I went upstairs to wake her. Hmmm...we may be stopping over more often!

The girl always has something in her mouth...her molars are coming in!

Waving bye-bye as the boys were showing off for her at the other end of the pool.

Sharing with Kobe, the dog...

Bianca and Trevor enjoying their Cookies Lamoure!

And a couple of Bianca playing in the backyard with Daddy...

Up close and personal!

Chef In Training

Bianca helping me make dinner for this evening.

Hilton Head

We went to Hilton Head, SC last week for a week of fun in the sun! Mimi and Poppy came to stay with us along with Parissa and Darron. It was so nice to have everyone together (and so relaxing for Mark and me since Mimi and Poppy love to look after Bianca!!!). Bianca LOVED the beach...she mostly stayed at the edge of the water and splashed around, looked for seashells, and dumped wet sand all over herself. When she wasn't at the beach she was either at the pool or feeding the turtles in the stream in our backyard. We didn't want to leave and we hope to make it back there again soon!

Just another day at the beach for Mommy and Bianca!

Poppy, Mimi and Bianca

Striking her beach baby pose!

Bianca and Darron - her hair was VERY curly there!

Whee!!! Love that little tongue!

Mommy, Daddy, Bianca and Baby Tad (5 months along) - another GIRL!!!

It was so beautiful there we didn't want to leave...