A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS

Lady Gaga's album, The Fame. Crass, strange, creative, addicting. Thanks, TJ & Joelf!
Fit Flops. Extremely comfy AND they give you a calf workout. Ok, they're mostly just comfy. Thanks, Kell!


photos courtesy Jen Steele

Peanut Butter Torte from Evil Cake Lady (oh. my. gosh. delish.) Thank you, Jen.

1st DAY AT THE BEACH!

Joelf, Greg, and I had the privelege of taking Bella to the beach for the first time yesterday. Here are some photos.

FANGS!

Ok, people. My not-quite-5-month-old has her first tooth!
Her first tooth!
I often let her chomp on my knuckle and last night, while she was chomping, I decided to feel around and see if there were any new developments. Sure enough - on the bottom center-ish, there's one little fang poking through. We're so excited! Yes, bring on the constant use of bibs and the crying and the medicine. That's all fine and good. We're just excited to go through these different phases with our sweet Bella!
Other cool things:

• she holds her pacifier and can put it in her mouth by herself (most of the time!).
• she grabs at our face and nose and loves to just study us as we talk.
• she rolls over like a banshi (sp??).
• she LOVES physical play.
• when she gets frustrated, she talks with a LOT of vowels and consonants. It's hard to comfort her right away because she sounds so darn cute!
• her exzema is diminishing.
• she still sleeps about 9 hours a night!

We just love our little girl and wanted to share some milestones with you!

SWEET BELLA

For those of you (especially gramma & grampa Kammer) who need a Bella fix, here ya go! I took these this morning.

FRUN times (fun plus free)

I went to the mall today and spent $1.98 and got all of this (thanks, Kelly at www.wilsonwrites.com):
Coach pencils in a neat carrying case. They also gave me one of their cool shopping bags that I can reuse as a gift bag. Totally free with the online coupon. (By the way, I am LOVING the new Sabrina line at Coach. The one I want is a MERE $358!)
Victoria’s Secret 99 cent nail file. Had to buy something to get the….FREE lip gloss!
Bath & Body Works Warm Vanilla Sugar travel size $1 hand sanitizer. Had to buy something to get the…..FREE travel size Warm Vanilla Sugar lotion!
THREE pieces of See’s Candies - my husband thanks you for the samples, See’s lady!

Joelf's B-day

To celebrate Joelf's 36th, we went to a place called Voicebox. It. Was. AWESOME. You rent a private karaoke room. There's food and libations. And tons of music. The staff was excellent - attentive but not overbearing. I highly recommend it!

A TENDER MOMENT