Teething and Books

Carson turned 6 months old on 11/11 and she already has 7 teeth. Poor baby has a new tooth poking through, everytime I turn around. She is a drooling machine and she won't go a second with out her thumb or binky in her mouth. Despite the crazy pain, Carson is still the sweetest thing ever. Love you baby girl.

Taylor reading to her sissy...

Carson joining in on the fun...note: looks who is sitting up so good!

Taylor has been so patient with Carson, even when she is grabbing at all of her toys...hopefully she can keep it up!

Halloween

Halloween was a blast this year. Taylor is really starting to get it. We spent many weeks trying to decide on the "perfect" costume. I had this super cute idea of Taylor and Carson being Dora and Boots, but Tay wouldn't have it. She was absolutely determined to be Ariel from the Little Mermaid. She is obsessed with reading the Little Mermaid book that we have and after watching it on VHS at Grammie's house, she was sold. The funny thing is that Ariel was always my favorite Disney princess, so I was just fine with her desire to be the princess. Poor Carson got the hand-me-down mouse costume from Taylor's first Halloween. However, she didn't mind too much...she was asleep by 7pm and didn't care too much for the candy.;)


Carson was not too thrilled about this whole thing.

However, Taylor was very excited about the concept of unlimited amounts of candy.

Ariel kissing the mouse.

Taylor loves dressing up and putting on costumes, she prances around the house yelling, "look at me mommy, I am so pretty" "show me the mirror" "I am a princess"...so Halloween may be over for all of you, but dressing up is a daily event at the Bell house!

5 Month Pics and more

Wow, I am sitting here looking at my Christmas tree and I realized that I haven't even blogged Halloween yet. I can't seem to catch up on everything. Life is great and I just can't seem to keep up with how fast the days are flying by. Spending this time of year with my family is absolutely wonderful. Pumpkin patches, trick or treating, turkeys, and christmas lights...nothing is better than experiencing it through the eyes of a two and half year old. I feel so blessed to have my husband and my beautiful daugthers...life truly couldn't get any better.
I have to brag on Taylor for a little bit. She has become obsessed with puzzles. The wooden board ones are way to easy, I have had to buy her the "big kid" ones. This Ariel princesss puzzle is for ages 5 and up and she can do it all by herself. I was seriously shocked...after helping her a couple of times, she was good to go. I am impressed with her strong-will to do it all by herself and her patience to make sure all the pieces fit perfectly together. Not too bad for a 2.5 year old=)

I am way behind on post Carson's 5 month pics. Here is my sweetie pie posing for us in the chair, we had to do our photo shoot next to the bed since...

10/2010

her sister decided to take over the crib. Taylor thinks it's hilarious to climb into the crib and read her books. Note: She is reading 'The New Potty" book in this picture and it has failed to rub off. She only wants to use the potty when it's convenient for her (before bed, so she can stall or if we are out and about and she is bored and wanted to explore the "newest" bathroom). I am not really stressing yet, but sheesh she is so dang stubborn...I just pray we don't have to have an intervention like we did when she wouldn't feed herself. Everyone keeps saying "she will get it" so I will just take their word for it...for now.=)

10/2010

Thought it was fun to post Taylor's 5 month crib picture...to compare to Carson but also to 2.5 year old Tay. Can you believe the facial expression? Same exact one. Hilarious!

11/2008