Friendship Friday-April 23

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Frienship Friday-#3

Here is one of the first few pictures that Jelly Belly and G. took together.  Jelly Belly was 8 weeks old.

Since then, Jelly Belly has grown to love G.
They always have so much FUN together. 
Even during Jelly Belly's "MINE" stage, they always played so nicely together.

Jelly Belly often asks when she will see her again, if she can come to our house, if she will be at the birthday party we are going to or the next play date. We don’t see G. as much as we would like but I hope she knows that Jelly Belly is always thinking of her.

G. is also very special to me. Her mama is one of my closest friends. She was one of my bridesmaids, a former roommate, former co-worker but most importantly, a good friend and a wonderful parent.

G.’s name came up a few times today so I asked Jelly Belly if she wanted to make her a card.

She was so excited and so into it. She patiently pulled each letter and stuck them on the paper. She enjoyed using her stamps and glitter pens.  She was so proud that she did most of it all by herself.

This took a long time but she really needed little supervision.

When I asked her what she wanted to tell Gaby, she replied,

“Gaby, I want you to come to my house, I love you and Amen.”

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you join us in celebrating friendships and Friday Follow!

Friendship Friday

Every Friday I will be blogging about friendship...
Friendship means everything to me! Isabella and I are both lucky to be surrounded by wonderful friends!  Bella began experiencing friendship at a very early age, before she even turned one!
I met G's mom during story time at our local library when our girls were about 5 months old.  Since then, we have had lots of FUN together, and shared almost everything with each other!  Here they are at the library when they were about 14 months old!

Their friendship has truly blossomed!!

Taken at Tolmachoff Farms in November 2009.

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Preschool

We have been talking about it for months and it is finally here! Jelly Belly's first day of preschool. What a big girl! Here we go!!

First pic taken...It really helped to go to the open house on Friday! She walked right in and started playing!

Ginny and Bella....MINE!!

Bella and her new teacher:

Deciding which preschool Jelly Belly would attend was a tough one to make. We visited and toured a few. We decided to go with Angele's Preschool Program. It was the only preschool that let us visit for an entire morning so Isabella had a chance to participate while I sat back. I love the fact that is only three times a week, three hours a day. The day we visited, they transferred cocoons to the buttefly tent and she absolutelty loved it. She still talks about it. Angele's preschool is an in-home preschool very close to our house. We will love this since she has to be there at 8:30 a.m. She is attending with her good friend Ginny and a few other kids she knows from the Rancho Santa Fe Mommy-Coop that we belong to. I am sure this will ease the transition to being away from home or grandma's house. There were no tears today! When I picked her up she was happy to see me and right away took out her first project from her backpack. She also took me outside to show me the finger painting she had done. She came home with a Clifford book she checked out from Angele's library. Her face was full of chocolate from her fudsicle. She said she helped clean up, played with play-do and a jump rope and that it was a lot of fun. I feel very comfortable with her new teacher and I am looking forward to her new world of learning without mommy. Let's hope for the same on Wednesday!

Mak Diva

We are leaving to Costa Rica this Thursday and what am I doing? Blogging....aaaahhh it's my new addiction, good thing it has not replaced Facebook. Now I need more time! This is Makenzie aka Mak Diva, my husband's God daughter (so technically mine too). I have known her since she was 3 I think! And now she is the bestest, greatest babysitter. She comes over and Jelly belly does not need a thing from me. I packed, and cleaned and cleaned, yes I am a bit obssesed, but I must clean before I go out of town. Today Isabella made her do all kinds of silly things...getting in her crib was just one of them. Jelly belly loves her, and pretty soon Mak diva will be old enough to babysit! I'm counting down... Mak Diva may soon get blue hair and jelly belly has already put her request in for pink hair!! Yikes, we are in trouble!

Summer Fun

This past Saturday we celebrated Gaby's birthday at a splash park. We had only been to a splash park another time and she would not get wet. I sure was glad that she warmed up to all the splashing because it was super HOT!

These 2 will be friends forever....

Jelly belly now knows who Hannah Montana is...yikes!
Splash!

When will she stop covering her ears?? I hope she doesn't cover them when her bday comes around! Check out the cakes made by my friend Maria....yummy! And thanks for the eggless cupcakes!