My sweet baby girl turned 16 months on the 23rd.  I still call her a baby and we still call her Baby Belle, even though she is now a toddler.  So sad she is growing up so fast!!

Here are her stats:
20 pounds
30 inches tall

She is still a red head and has the personality to go with it!  She is feisty but always giggling.  In fact, when she is feisty, she pulls, bites and tugs on her sister and laughs and thinks it's so funny, much different than Luna was.  She also loves to climb and get into stuff she's not supposed to!  It's cute but she is going to be trouble :)

As far as eating, still super picky, doesn't really eat many fruits or veggies and just eats yogurt, graham crackers, cheese, milk, sometimes beans and sometimes chicken.  So I give her pureed baby food still and also bought this thing where you can make your own packets of baby food!  I was tired of buying them all the time.  I am also still nursing her 2-3 times a day, mostly just before naps, and bedtime and when she wakes up.  She's had several ear infections and the doctors are suggesting tubes, so I am trying to keep up nursing as much as possible to help!  She never has colds, or fevers, just this constant fluid that doesn't drain out of her ears so it turns into an infection. We've tried chiropractor care and it's helped some, but I need to start doing lymph node massage which is supposed to help drain her ears better.

She also is signing more and more for things which is so cute! She understands so much and nods her head yes or no for things.  She can say bubble, baby, momma, dada, Belle, doggie, balloon, Coco, grandpa, Erika and paci and says book as she signs for book! Adorable!

I kept her home with me this year because it's my last year where I don't have to take her to school, and we enjoy our M, Wed, Fridays together as well as our Kindermusik class on Wednesdays.

Here are the many faces of Belle this month:

My step mom was super nice to book a beach vacation down in Galveston this weekend for us, and my sister!  She rented a really nice house right on the beach in a quiet area called Beach Club at the end of the Island.  The girls loved the time spent there, having fun in the sand, playing in the ocean, grilling out on our porch and spending time at the club lazy river pool!  The girls enjoyed their time with my dad and Sherry and Aunt Erika.  Todd also enjoyed going to the Alabama game in College Station on Saturday, and we watched for him in the stands :)  We had such a great time at the beach, Luna and Belle can't wait to go back!

Luna and Belle had their first visit to Sprinkles.  They loved sitting and waiting for their cupcakes and picking them out!

Luna had her first soccer game on Saturday the 7th.  It was 100 degrees outside, game was at 3pm translates to meltdowns and complete exhaustion. Why would a soccer league schedule a 3 year old game at that time of the day, and why start so early? We live in Texas people!  Luna didn't enjoy it so much, she didn't hate it and didn't love it, was kind of eh about it all. We can't wait for the cooler weather! Oh, and we play in the LHSA league, where we can't pick our name or colors, so one of the moms came up with buying baby legs to make it more cute!!

Ha, look at this picture of her, classic! "I am so over this!"

Our front yard is still a work in progress with landscaping, but we took Luna and Belle to pick out some flowers for them to plant.  They had so much fun working in the yard in their PJ's early Sunday morning!

Everything in our lives right now revolve around Disney Princess.  I actually think it's a cute phase and more into dress-up and pretend play vs. her wanting to be a diva princess :)  So since Luna is obsessed with princess, my mom booked an amazing reservation at Chocolate Angel on Saturday for a Princess Tea!  It was so much fun!  

My mom, Luna, Aunt Erika and Momo came and all the little girls (ages 3-8) arrived in their favorite Princess outfit.  When we walked in, they gave all the girls some jewelry to wear, a tiara and magic wand. Then we were taken to our table where they served pink lemonade (princess tea), and the adults were served hot hibiscus peach tea.   (oh and excuse the lack of smiles from Luna, she was refusing any pictures that day- surprise surprise she's a 3 year old :)

Then they brought out Luna's tea lunch with a fruit kabob, PBJ cut into a circle, a muffin, veggies in a cup and a ham and cheese sandwich/cracker.   

The adults got an amazing spread of scones, tea sandwiches, fruit cups and quiche.

Then the best for last, dessert!  Cute cookies, cupcakes and brownie for Luna and chocolate cake and cookies for us too.  We had such a great time, we can't wait for them to host one again :)