3!!!

can't believe it. 3 years later & we're still here...alive & well.

just kidding :)

wow.

happy birthday belle!...my Rafiki.

(she loooves being called Rafiki, her favorite character from Lion King)

the craziest, most adventurous 3 years ever.

thank the lord for the energy, strength & blessings!

library

guess what! belle has her very own library card!

i went to the library to return a book i had for 3 years (i was soooo embarrassed).

belle came too. then ended up with her own library card. with her name on the back & everything!

i know, i can use my card to borrow books for her, but with her own card....she's able to attend their many children's programs....which happens to be a big deal over there.

these are the first books she brought home....

"i'm the biggest thing in the ocean" seems to be her favorite.

when i read it, she sounds like she's reading along....but she's not.

cause she can't read. she just memorizes the story already.

she's so happy!

so funny

belle feel asleep early. which gave me time to upload these hilarious pics of her laughing so hard, that her eyes were getting smaller & watery.

i know you're wondering why she's laughing?

it was cause she was watching a cartoon on youtube...& memorized it.

i had no idea she memorized it until i heard her saying every word right on.

i looked at her with a shocked/surprised look....she saw my face & laughed her little heart out. yeah, she was laughing at my face...my reaction. not the video.

i guess my facial expressions are just soooo funny!?

good weekend

the past few days could possibly be the warmest days left this year.

it was spent with these 2 girls.

belle loves these rain boots her Lola gave her. she obviously wears it without the rain too.

we passed by the playground where we took advantage of the great lighting.

i've been craving milkshakes all week. when sunday hit 80 degrees, i had to go make my milkshake....with chocolate ice cream, pour in soy milk. mish & mashed in our mugs.

it's so good. i love it. that i get greedy with my ice cream & soy milk :)

today belle & i woke up late & had a lazy day. play doh-ed, watched my soaps, ate, stayed in our pjs all day. then we got bored, & belle was talking about princesses. i asked if she wanted princess hair, she agreed & i decided to curl her hair. haha...

how cute is shirley temple with black hair!? haha

i swear i'll post more

hahaha really i will. im at the slackest i've ever been.

it's not like there are crazy fun things/events happening around here.

but every day with belle is crazy. and that's all there is to blog about....

before her dance class.

her favorite pair of shoes. most likely because of it's color. her personality matches that shade of pink.

love that stool. i don't need to hold her up while her stomach gets squished to wash her hands. little things like that make me happy ;)

while we were having oatmeal, my mom's friend came over with a box of dunkin donuts. belle squealed, picked out her fave....but she couldn't have her donut until she ate more oatmeal.

"just one lick"

rushing her oatmeal to get to her donut.

and when she finally ate her donut...she only ate half. as in, the parts with frosting & sprinkles.

can't believe it's october already. wasn't it just august? crazzzzzy.

hello!

i know. i disappeared for awhile. i usually blog late at night after belle sleeps....but starting in august, i've been sleeping early & waking up early...so the blog has been accidentally put to a halt. tsk tsk.

if you're curious, you haven't really missed out anything. our days consists of oatmeal, exercise, play, watching movies, youtube videos, pinterest browsing, reading books on the iPad, random trips to new jersey, & we are starting dance school (of course for belle) tomorrow.

it's already september & it's already getting chilly!!

summer came & left. im actually fine with that...because that means those mosquitoes won't be attacking belle anymore. poor girl has bite marks all over her legs.

& here are just random photos that have been trapped in the camera....

& remember that name that recently became famous? irene??

yeah hurricane irene that made us nervous. made us run around town, panicking & preparing at the same time. well thank God it was not as big as it was expected & our town was ok. there were lots of trees that fell & broke off around the neighborhood. but for our block, we had a lot of branches, limbs, & leaves that made a mess....

considering that a lot of areas lost electricity, or flooded, or trees falling....we can't complain about that mess. thank goodness!

that's all for now :)

hot balloons!!!

2 weeks ago we woke up at 4am to attend a balloon festival and be there at 6:30 for the launching of the balloons!

it was somewhere in NJ and it was worth waking up at 4am!!

i've never been to one before, & it was pretty overwhelming.

professional sky divers.

don't they look like the toy soldiers from Toy Story?

this was the first balloon to go....
after the Hershey balloon went up, ALL the balloons were blowing up...& i didn't know there were this many balloons! i think it was about 125 balloons. quite a sight!

they are BIG!

doesn't this balloon look like aris!? it's so goofy like him.

we were all calling out balloons that was "us". mine was the strawberry, lenee the hershey....and when aris' balloon came up, we all said...."ARIS!"

& then....Belle & Leila's balloons!! (leila loves penguins)

spider pig! ha ha!

looks so funny in the sky!

belle's balloon. that woke her up. she was still so sleepy but the shark woke her up.

& after all the balloons left, the canon lady came out...

after the canon lady, belle played on the bouncrs, while the others went on a balloon.

we walked around the vendors/sponsors, had breakfast, walked around some more & got some free goodies!! we all left with bags of goods; lotions, sunblock, chips, drinks, snacks, etc!

that was realllyyy unexpectadly fun. (except for the part belle threw a huge crying session cause she didn't want a bite of her sandwich before her juice) other than that, it was good morning! we finished right before 11am.

must go back again next year!