vocab list

Remember when we had those in elementary and middle school? I hated them. Well, here's one that I love! All the words that Bethany can say. Up to frog are the words I named last time.
mama
dada
papa
nahna
cat
dog
bird
star
fish
turtle
hi
bye-bye
no-no
bubble
frog
night-night
duck
purple
baby
shh
ball
book
shoe
ears (the bunny from the hospital)
chair
diaper
phone
cup
bottle
milk
(from Mr. Brown)
knock-knock
hoo-hoo
doodle doo
pop pop
(from Moo, Baa, La La La)
moo
baa
la la la
oof (little dogs)
meow
bow wow wow (big dogs)
neigh
(letters she can name)
A
B
C
D
E
G
I
J
K
L
O
P
R
T
V
Y
Z

I think that's it! More to come, I'm sure!

First Birthday

Well, Bethany is now a year old. I can't believe it. She is so amazing. It is so cool to watch your child learn and discover. And the older she gets, the more amazing it seems. I remember how excited I got when she rolled over for the first time. I cried I was so excited! Now, she's learning letters, repeating words, walking. Soon she'll be using sentences, running, jumping, going to school...okay, maybe I've gotten a little ahead of myself.

We had a fun party on Saturday. Bethany (and our guests) had pizza, popcorn (just the guests), strawberries, pineapple, and some veggies (just the guests). Then we opened presents. Bethany got some new clothes, books, a big purple frog, a cute puppy that plays songs and helps learn colors, etc., sorting blocks, a bike seat and helmet, new shoes, and I'm sure I'm leaving out some stuff. Then we had cake and ice cream. She didn't care a whole lot for the cake, but LOVED the ice cream! See the pics below.

I'll post again with an updated list of her words! I bet you are so excited!

Bethany's first Fourth of July

Yesterday my parents, my sister and brother-in-law, Nathan, Bethany and I all went to Cypress Gardens. We planned on staying out for the fireworks, so this was our first time keeping Bethany out ALL DAY. She was amazing. We had a lot of fun and she even rode some of the kiddy rides.





She had a short morning nap before we left and didn't nap at all while we were there. About 6:30, we decided to leave and go to dinner. Nathan and I ended up going to see fireworks at Universal with Susan and Ricardo. Bethany slept all the way to dinner (about 30 min). We were able to then get her from her car seat to the stroller and keep her asleep! She slept all the way through dinner and to Universal!! She is awesome! (She was also really tired, but I prefer to look at it the other way.) She was pretty alert once we got to Universal. The fireworks were supposed to start at 10PM. It had started raining and there was some lightning so they were delayed about 45 minutes. But once they went, they were awesome! Bethany just looked up and a couple of times she pointed at them. So cute!





Leaving was very difficult. So many people all going one direction. Not fun. But we made it out and Bethany slept all the way home. We got to bed around 1 AM. But it was a great day.

Thank you to all of the service men and women who have served or are serving to continue to make this country the greatest on the planet.

God Bless America.

bubbles and ice cream

Last night we went to an ice cream social for our church. When we got to the house where it was being held, there were a bunch of kids outside and two huge bubble tumblers. The tumblers had three wands in each of them. Bethany is obsessed with bubbles right now. That was the first thing she saw. She just kept saying, "Bubbow!!". So, she plopped right down in the driveway and pulled out two of the wands and started chewing on them. We had a good time outside talking to some people for about 5 minutes, but we wanted to see who was inside, too. So, we tried picking Bethany up and she screamed! Beth, the Children's Ministry Director, offered to stay with her while we went in and got some ice cream. So, we went in and talked to some more people and took our ice cream outside. Bethany ate some of Nathan's vanilla ice cream and loved it! She kept saying, "num-num-num". So, we'll have some at her party next week. We had a good time last night and she was so good even though we kept her up 1 1/2 hours past her bedtime.