Bella enters the "Terrific Two's!"

I know it's the "terrible two's," but I'm convinced that by saying that will jinks Bella's attitude into a little monster that she isn't. I'd have to say that Bella just grows more precious everyday. There's just too many cute moments to post, but I'll just name a few that pop in my head now. Instead of saying NO to everything, her most frequent words are "LOOK, LOOK momma!" Actually, just the past week or so I've noticed a huge leap in the amount of words she's saying. She's so interested in everything. Bella wants to be doing whatever it is I'm doing, whether it's vacuuming, watering the lawn or folding clothes. She's right there saying, "I try!" Her face lights up when her Dad or brothers come home. When it's time to say prayers we usually let her pick who gets to say the prayer and most every time she picks Bryce. She loves to say his name. In a lot of ways she acts like Bryce. We feel very blessed to have her in our family. I spend a lot of time in the Garden which means so does Bella and Claire. The time we've put into it has paid off though. Here's Bella smelling a fresh cucumber. Her favorite thing is to see the chickens. Claire was so excited that her chicken "Goldie" let her pick her up. Now since our sunflowers are about 10 feet tall I think the kids feel like they're in a jungle. I hope I can pass on the love of Gardening to my kids.

I couldn't help but make Bella's birthday cake a Twilight theme. I figured that this would be the only time that she wouldn't mind the theme. She doesn't care as long as she gets to eat cake! Next year I'm sure she'll have an opinion about what her cake will look like. Plus, the Edward doll is an addition to the Barbie family. It was all I could do to keep her hands from taking Edward off to her room to play. So this is Edward in "The Meadow." As fast as she's growing up it won't be long before we have an "Edward" at our doorstep trying to sweep Bella off her feet.