"Bye Bye"

Bella has been saying lots of "Bye byes" this week. One big "bye bye" was said to her paci. She is all done with the paci! When Bella turned one, we limited her paci time to naps and bedtime. Our plan was to work on weaning her from the paci completely when she turned two. Well, when naptime rolled around on Thursday, I couldn't find her paci. After a while, I asked Bella if she could take a nap without it and she said, "yes!" We went through our typical pre-nap routine and then I laid her down. I heard her talking for a little while longer than usual, but she eventually drifted off and took a great nap! Bedtime that night went even better and we haven't had any problems with her getting to sleep without it. Who knew that it would be so easy!

She has also gotten into the habit of saying goodbye to everything whenever we leave a place. As we're heading out the door, I'll hear her say, "Bye bye chair." "Bye bye toys." "Bye bye cup." She basically says 'Bye bye' to every item that she knows the word for. It's really cute. She even says 'bye bye' to her socks when I put her shoes on because she can't see her socks anymore. Such a silly girl!

We picked up some sandwiches earlier in the week and Bella just loved hers.On Wednesday, my mom's group had a little Halloween party. We got a hand-me-down tiger costume from our church secretary, so that's what Bella dressed up as. Any passerby may have thought we were torturing Bella as we tried to get the costume on her. She wanted nothing to do with it until it was actually on; and then she loved it. We had a good time at the party and when we came back I let her play in the puddles.Yesterday was another rainy day, so I thought Bella might enjoy painting her pumpkin. She stuck her fingers in the black paint first and that's the only color that ended up on her pumpkin.

Here's our finished products! The Halloween festivities will continue into the week with a parade on Tuesday night and trick-or-treating on Wednesday. We'll probably take Bella out to a few houses just for the experience. At the end of the week, I plan to shop for Bella's costume for next year while all the stuff is on clearance. I'm leaning toward something really girly. We'll see!