Lack of stuff...

I haven't been on this thing in a while...mostly due to the fact of having a lack of photos.

For my 22nd birthday, Dorian's family had a party for me again, but the pictures are on Freddy's camera. I'm still waiting to borrow it and upload them. Bella was entranced by the balloons and birthday candles...hehe.

And...we're crawling regularly now...hard-core and fast too. Here's one of the most recent photos I have of me and Bella. Sadly, I'm still waiting on the others.

Hope to have more stuff soon!

A "Dark Knight"

After a sleepy start to my morning, I think I'm finally fully awake.

Last night (or this morning?) we went to see the premere of "Dark Knight", the new Batman movie. Dorian and two of his brothers thought it was the greatest movie of the year, along with probably the entire packed theatre. The great thing about living so close to LA is that when movies premere out here, we have some really special events. People not only came in costumes, etc, but our theatre was hosted by a really famous radio DJ out of LA. The host, along with a few of his other "high-class buddies" was planted exactly in the middle of a completely packed theatre. There were probably 5 or 6 screens showing the movie here, and all of them were super full a 1/2 hour before the show started. News cameras and radio stations were abundant, recording interviews of fans standing in line/opinions after the show. Mr. Ledger's performance was grusome indeed, but he had quite the turn out for his last full length movie.

Needless to say, it was a long night, and I, quite frankly did not expect the turnout that it did have. It was lots of fun though. I can only imagine what it was like in LA for real last night...next time maybe we should make the drive for a premere blockbuster if we're up to it.

Wanna know a secret?
(Shh...don't tell, but I still liked Iron Man better for some reason. Dorian has already explained to me that they're not comparable due to the fact that Dark Knight was geared toward an older audience.)

~*Return to Cyberspace*~

So...It's been about a month.

We now have internet again, as we finally got the cable people here on Monday. So much has happened since the last post. I'll do a re-cap as efficiently as possible.

July 4th- I took an extremely cute picture of Bella, but we didn't end up doing much in the category of patriotism. The day was extremely busy, and I had to work.

A couple of weeks ago, Bella started crawling. Well, by crawling, I mean "scooting". She can scoot herself across the floor now, and once in a while will get up on her hands and knees and rock back and forth, as if to actually crawl, but soon gets tired, and goes back on her tummy. We've had to keep a VERY close eye on her the past couple of weeks.

The remedy to this, has been yesterday's compra (buy) of a walker. Here, she is quite stationary, and I can get things done while she is playing with her toys. Her feet don't quite reach the floor, so the "walking" part of the walker has yet to be discovered.

And the final new "Bella" thing, is that she can now pull herself up in her crib to standing. I have caught her on several occasions pulling herself up to reach things she shouldn't, like her wipe box, and/or clean diapers. However, as soon as she notices that you notice her, she sits down in her crib...my little sneeker...

We have a new bedding set for our bedroom, and it is quite nice. I am so happy to have some new stuff. So here is a whole slew of pictures/videos and hopefully you will be able to follow them.


Pulling herself up to reach those things she shouldn't!



New comforter & pillows. Yay for me.



Bella's 4th of July photo.


Bella and her uncle Eban love to play together. She gets extremely excited when he comes to play.


Bella stops at nothing to be adored by friends and family. Here, cousin Gabby is unaware of the fact that she's aiding Bella's diva-attitude by giving her so much attention.



Bella has spent some good playtime minutes in her walker so far. In these two pictures, it's not quite assembled yet (missing the tray toys), but she is eager to try it out!


Scooting to check out the package of diapers.

Baber.

A picture of Bella that Nayeli took as an add on to today's post.

Which Bottle is Mine?!

Here's a video of Bella showing how coordinated she is with her bottle. She also thinks the water bottle is hers! I'm still trying to get a clapping video. It seems she doesn't want to clap on camera because she's too interested in the camera...lol.

Father's Day Fiasco!

Hmm...Where do I start?? Haha.

Well, when we all woke up yesterday, I was excited to change my work hours and attempt to celebrate Dorian's first Daddy's Day with him. Boy was I in for a go-round. First, we noticed we only had a few hours before I was sopossed to go into work, so we headed out (after getting all 3 of us ready...this usually takes a while) to where I wanted to buy Dorian's gift. Originally, I had planned to get him a set of books that he has been wanting for a long time. After searching, we discovered they wern't at Barnes & Noble. 1st disappointment. Then, we couldn't decide where to eat, so we went home. By this time I had about 3 hours before I had to go into work, so before going out to check if we could eat at the Buffet, I called work, and asked if I could either come in late, or leave early...so as to spend more time with Dorian. Problem #2. My manager asked me if I could come in early, and then therefore leave early. She had told me 5pm. So we raced to the Buffet only to see rediculously long lines...(forget that!).

We ended up eating at KFC...because of our time crunch, and how overcrouded even Denny's was. Then I went into work early, and when I asked to leave at 5, they told me "No". I seriously wanted to cry. Lol. So I went on my lunch break, and drove to the mall to find a different present for Dorian. Once I had an idea, I learned that the mall was closing at 6pm, and I wouldn't be off of work until 7, so there was no way that I could pick up his present after they would have been done engraving it. Oh yes...it gets worse.

I stayed until the store's closing. By then, of course, everywhere else was too, with the exception of the grocery store, where I picked up two cards (that actually are pretty cute). I raced home in anger, and found that Bella wasn't even home when I got there. So we decided to go get more fast food and "skip Father's Day". During our next food run, I realized that somewhere in the middle of everything during the day, I had lost a $100 bill. After that, I broke. I was angry at work for making me well...work, I was angry at myself for being careless and rushing about, and I was angry at the mall, for being closed.

So today...we're going to re-do Father's Day. I am convinced that today is Father's Day...YES, A MONDAY. Why? Because I have time today, Bella isn't going anywhere, and we can present the cards to her Daddy formally and without interruption.

So see photos in the future. Lol.

Sleepy-by.

"Loving them babbles"

So today I had a day off of work. I was glad for it, too. Anyway, I took a picture of Bella falling asleep in her (what has become) normal attitude: bottle in hand. Some need a nightlight, some need stuffed animals, some need to be rocked...no. Bella only needs her "ba-ble".

In recent news, Bella has learned to clap her hands, although not on command. She mostly does it when she's excited. Today she had watermelon, and let me tell you...the hand clapping was almost as frequent as the open mouth watermelon wanting.