Bells

Bella, Bell, Hells Bells, we call her lots of names, but rarely the one we gave her the day she was born, Isabella.  I am having trouble recalling some details of her birth after having Michael earlier this year.  My brain can only retain so much information it seems, and with 4 kids, I am forgetting important memories, so I think I will use this blog to remember some of the details.  Today it is details about Bella Cadella, my third born and so far most mischevious child. 

Before I left on this trip, on the night of Dec. 12, I kissed Markie and Bella goodnight and told Bella I would be back lter after she was asleep to lay with her, I did stop into her room at about 2 a.m., but only covered her up with a blanket and left again for my own bed, my alarm was set for 4:20 a.m. and I had been asleep in Lizzy's room for three hours.  So some time between 2 and 4, Bella comes into my room with her pillow, blanket, and corn bag, and says very loudly as she climbs into our bed, "You never came into my room to sleep, you said you would."  I tried to convince her I had been in there for a bit, and she wouldn't buy it, just kept saying, "YOU SAID YOU WOULD."  I reassured her I had stopped in, and finally said, "then if I didn't come in, who covered you up with the blanket?"  She said "humph" in a loud grunt that only Bella can do and proceeded to immediately fall asleep with her head on my stomach. 

The picture above is from her gymnastics performance on Dec 4.  It was her first one and she got to show off everything she has been doing in preschool gymnastics class.  She was so proud and loved showing off.  When she got awarded her medal along with the other kids from her group she saluted the crowd so proud.

Bella is so much fun to have around.  She loves to boss around her older brother and sister.  She loves our cat Oreo, she loves all of our pets, she is our animal kid.  We are homeschooling her for preK as we just love to have her around and didn't want to have her away at school part of the day already.  She takes a soccer class once a week at Kiwanis Park and does gymnastics now twice a week as she is in Rockets, a pre-team class that she loves and is really shining in.

Bella, you are a darling third child and a wonderful part of the Phipps family of 6!!!