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Here are a few pictures of Ana Bella w/Daddy! They are so in love with each other and I love watching them together!!

It has been a while!

We have been super busy lately! I started a new job!! Alejandro has been working non-stop!! And Ana Bella is growing and growing and growing!!

Ana Bella is 8 months old!! She is doing so much now! She is a little rolling queen and is working on crawling, but tends to only move in a circle or backwards! She has two teeth on the bottom and as always is so active!! We are just amazed daily by the things she does and "says"!!

We are so excited for the summer!! Alejandro's sister and her husband have a pool and I can't wait for Ana Bella to take her first swim!! Plus Ana Bella will have several new friends this summer....Addelyn Harrison, Baylee Busch, and Baby Smith, so we can't wait for their arrivals and to meet them! And Alejandro is going to Honduras with our church on a mission trip at the end of June! Besides that we are planning a pretty low key summer!!

Here are a few pictures from the last few months.....


Jax's 1st Birthday Party....I think he said something funny!!!


Ana Bella LOVES bathtime! She gets so upset when I have to take her out!


Trying to get a picture of her teeth, but all she would do is grab for the camera or stick out her tounge!


Being silly and playing!


Finally a picture of the teeth!


Pretty girl! Somehow she inherited all the recessive genes in the family...blue eyes and light hair. But one thing she did inherit is her daddy's ear that sticks out! Ana Bella's left ear sticks out and Alejandro's right ear sticks out, so there is no denying her!!!!

Trying jello. Of course she loved it! First time in a restaurant high chair
She wanted to order something from the menu, she chose applesauce..
My first Mother's Day

What a difference

3 months can make!! This is just proof they grow up to fast!!


This was taken the day after Christmas...note the blanket propping her up and the pillow so her feet could touch...

Taken the end of March...

She kinda has a big head.....

Ana Bella went Friday for her 6 month check-up! The doctor said she looks great! She weighed 17lbs 9oz (90th percentile), is 25 3/4 in long (50th percentile) and her head, I can't remember the exact measurement, but it did prompt the doctor to make the "she kinda has a big head" comment!!! But she gets it honest!! She is still only rolling from her back to her belly (which the doctor said was kinda strange) and she is starting to sit up pretty good by herself! Ana Bella has two meals of cereal or oatmeal and either a fruit or veggie! She eats like a champ and doesn't turn down anything! I really hope this continues! And she has said her first word!!! DaDa! We can't figure out if she knows what she is saying or not, but Alejandro loves it!!! Here is Ana Bella sitting up and playing like a big girl!

Happy Easter!

We had a great, low-key Easter. We went to Mass, then to breakfast with the family, home for a little nap and photo session and then over to Alejandro's sister's for dinner. Easter is one of my favorite holidays! I used to love going to church and then over to my Mamaw's for the biggest feast you have ever seen and then an Easter egg hunt with my cousins! I can't wait for Ana Bella to experience it!! Here are a few pictures from our little home photo session! We are going this weekend to have some professionally done and hope to be able to post some of those!!!

She had to wear a little cardigan over her cute dress since it was a little cool out!

No cardigan

With her Easter basket

Grandma got Ana Bella the really cute and neat wooden egg

Are we done yet?

A few sides of Ana Bella

Happy Baby
Inquisitive Baby

Sweet Baby

A Week of Firsts

Last Tuesday began a week of firsts for Ana Bella. On Tuesday she started going to daycare, over the weekend she rode in her stroller like a big girl, she got to see snow for the first time, and yesterday she had her first taste of fruits!

I also had a first on Tuesday....I started back to work. It was the first time I have really left Ana Bella anywhere!! We have spent a little over 5 months together and leaving her at daycare was the hardest thing I have done! Ana Bella did great and all the ladies said she was so great and sweet! I am pretty sure she really likes it! When I went to pick her up on the first day, I was so excited and wanted to love all over her and wanted her to love on me! Well, she was too busy checking everyone else out and seeing what they were doing!! And then on top of that she feel asleep on the way home!!!

This weekend will also bring on a few firsts as Ana Bella will get to meet some more of her "aunts" for the first time and she will be going to her first shower to celebrate the coming arrival of Addelyn Harrison!

Here are a few of the "firsts" pictures.....

First day of daycare/school

First big girl ride in the stroller

Snow on the stairs of the condo

After eating Mangos