What Stella eats...

Dinner is served! I try as hard as I can to give her mostly organic fruits, veggies, milk and nitrate free meat. I'm not a lunatic about it, but when she is home this is usually what her meals look like (rotating different fruits, veggies and meat of course!)

Peas and carrots, banana, turkey and cheese (listed in case you don't know what food looks like:)

Backyard

Our backyard was one of the biggest selling points of our new house when we first saw it. It is huge and insanely overwhelming. We have grapefruit, orange, lemon, fig, avocado and peach trees. It sounds amazing (and it is), but apparently in order for them to flourish, you have to take care of them! We have no idea how to do that! My mom's BF, who is like my aunt has a ton of fruit trees, so we may need to have her come over for "fruit tree boot camp" (ever heard of it? :).  Every time Morgan and I are in the backyard we say '" I love this house" and we really do.  I fall deeper in love with it everyday.  You can faintly hear the church bells chiming from down the street and at night you can hear the trains in the canyon.  We never thought we would actually own our own home and it is just now feeling real.  Stella is obsessed with the backyard.  I remember the first time we brought her to the house, we took her in the backyard and let her loose.  She ran around, yelled at trees and it was actually then that I knew this house was supposed to be ours.  I feel so lucky, happy and proud that I can give this to my girl.  She deserves it.

Spoon fed

We have been trying to get Stella to eat with a spoon and last night she was actually very interested in doing it.  She seems like she is in fast forward lately and I want her to slow down.  She has been trying to talk, which always comes out as gibberish (I know one day she will just start talking in full sentences and freak us all out!) and has been playing independently.  Last night while I was rocking her to sleep, I looked around her messy, played in room and just laughed to myself.  Her books were all laid out next to each each other, her stuffed animals were out of their basket and she had her little Minnie doll stuffed tightly in a little red bucket. I always wonder what is going on in her head.  She likes to be in her room by herself, with her door closed.  One day I went in to check on her and she was rocking a stuffed lamb in her rocking chair.  She seriously melts my heart about a million times a day!

Pigtails

I have been waiting for this for a while now and it has finally happened!  I can put Stella's hair in pigtails!  Her hair in the back is super curly and long and her hair on top is not so long and straight!  She has a mom and dad combo!  I honestly can't handle the cuteness of her little pigtails!  They make her look like a little girl and not my baby!