I'm a Little Pineapple!

When I was a baby, my mom kept a calendar of my milestones, or just little observations about me each day or so. Things like "Starting to smile", "Found her feet today", etc. Not too long ago, we were going through my baby stuff together and found the calendar. On one day I found the note "Hair still sticks straight up. She looks like a pineapple!"

Apparently, Bella inherited my pineapple-ness! I love my little pineapple!

Visitors!

Brian's brother, Sean, is a flight mechanic in the Coast Guard. He and his wife, Sarah, are stationed in Hawaii right now. (We feel oh so bad for them!) We miss them very much! Unfortunately we can't really afford to go visit them right now, so it was really wonderful that they were able to come back to the mainland last summer to visit us and Sarah's family.

We had a fun day swimming at our pool. Austin showed his Coasty uncle how well he swims!












And we had some yummy lunch one day at Lazy Dog!

Summer Playdates - Travel Town

Finally we had a big crowd for a playdate! Almost everyone was able to come to Travel Town. It's a train museum by the LA Zoo. My kids loves trains!

We started the adventure out by riding the train







Then we played in the museum on their train tracks. I'm pretty sure all the kids liked this more than the real trains!



One of our little buddies turned 2 that day, so after lunch we celebrated with some mini cupcakes



And then we did some more exploring on the large trains. McKenna's best buddy helped her up to the train, cuz she was scared of the stairs.

July McKenna Cuteness

Isn't my McKenna beautiful?! She has the most gorgeous eyes in the whole world!



McKenna is incredibly patient in letting me play with her hair. It's so fun as her hair gets longer and thicker.




I love what an interest she took in Bella!


Making Bella smile!


Making sure Bella is warm enough. She must really love Bella to have shared her beloved blankie with Bella. This picture cracks me up because of the extra little blanket. That's the little one from their playmobile motorhome. McKenna has such a funny sense of humor.


We always had to keep an eye on McKenna when she was playing with Mr. Potatohead, because she seemed determined to insert various potato pieces into Bella's mouth and eyes! But this one I was okay with her dressing up Bella!

Bella Smiles

I love those first baby smiles! Bella's melt me! Bella started smiling early and never stopped!