A Bella Update

1. We buy her tops in 4T, her pants in 3T, and her shoes in 8 - 9. Such a big girl!
2. Me: "Bella. Knock, knock." Bella: "Come in!"
3. She tells me stories about her friends at daycare. For example, she came home the other day and said, "Claire was throwing dirt. I don't like her throwing dirt. She got a time out because she was throwing dirt. Throwing dirt is not nice."
   
4. She also tells on her friends, i.e., "So and so pushed me by the car and he got a time out. We don't push or we get a time out."
5. Bella asks if she can play her games on "Daddy's iPad".
   
6. At bedtime, I usually read her a book and then she likes to read it back to me. It's super cute how she flips the pages and tells me about the pictures.
   
7. Bella tries to postpone us leaving her room at bedtime by calling to us (as we walk out), "Mommy, I have a kiss for you!" (and of course I have to go back in and get my kiss!)
8. She loves to give my belly raspberries "to wake the baby up".
9. We're currently giving her eye medication twice a day. She had been telling us "there's a bump in my eye", so we pulled her eyelid down and saw that she had a large inflamed, red area under her eyes. We took her to her pediatrician and we tried allergy meds for a week, to no avail. So, we got a referral to a pediatric ophthalmologist and now we are trying steroid eye drops for a week. On another note, she got a complete eye exam and we learned Bella has 20/15 vision! She passed all her eye exams with flying colors!
10. Potty training update: if we take her every half hour to an hour, she does not use her pull ups. However, she still will not tell us she needs to go. We need to try harder - it's just hard not being home for long stretches. It doesn't help that our friends of older girls and multiple children are now advising us to just wait since Bella will most likely regress once baby is born anyway. Biggest. Frustration. Ever.
    
11. Bella's uber snuggly. Not sure if it's a regular stage or a result of baby coming... No matter what the reason, I'm really loving snuggly Bella and enjoying precious moments with her.