Stella is hanging around my neck giving me zerberts. She is the most fun, delightful little being I have ever met in my life. I know that I am her mother so it doesn't count, but it's true. She is in the terrible two mode and it can definitely be hard at times, but at the same time it has never been so fun. She has recently sprouted a great imagination. She likes to play a game called hide from the monsters and pic the berries from the ceiling and feed them to mom and dad. She loves kitty mew mews and Odle, and Odle is just now starting to love Stella as well.... Leila and family came over for thanksgiving this weekend. It was fun as usual. Always too much indulgence and laughing until we're crying. We cut down the christmas tree in the new minivan, and managed to get a guy stuck in a bronco. woops!

  It has once again been a very long time since our last post, but for the first time ever Nolan and I are posting this together. So we got the first bloody head gash out of the way when Stella tried to climb a shelf in the kitchen which caused a ceramic pot to fall onto her head. By a ceramic pot I mean three stacked in each other, one carrying quite a bit of dirt that filled her mouth and ear. She is fully walking now, or shall I say running. Sometimes she will start running so fast that her head doesn't keep up with her body and she falls backwards. Her forehead is consistently bruised, and mostly in the same area. Odle has yet to find his deep rooted love for her, but he is all she cares about. Odle this and Odle that all day, he is all she talks about....

           

  

She is blowing bubbles in the bath now. Papa Nolan got us all gym and pool memberships, and while I was in Europe for ten days Nolan took Stella to the pool a few times. Stella doesn't get the concept of drowning. She just goes for it. I have never seen a child so in love with water. The force is strong in this one. I sometimes think she was born into the wrong species. 

  We went to the Oregon Coast Aquarium last week. it was baby heaven.

It is just eye candy all over the place. Little Stella was running around going "OH, Wow!" over and over. She can't say much, but she makes what she can count. Here are some more recent photo's. The online journals are the way to go, because I know that they won't be lost. Okay it is much to late now. Stellas sleeping habits are still fairly poor, so I need to get all the sleep I can now.