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Summertime

It's officially summer and 2 weekends ago we brought the pool out. Bella had so much fun and got to play in her pool 3 days in a row. She has tan lines now, that's how much she was in there

 This year she had her slide from Nana and Papa so we thought of putting it in the pool.

 It was an awesome idea!

                                          

1st Marlins Game

Growing up in South Florida I can remember going to Marlin's games with my family, friends and even as school field trips. This past Monday we got to take Bella to her first Marlin's game and the rest of us got to go to the new stadium for the first time. It was a lot of fun and I know for you DiTore's out there the Marlins are no Yankees :) But a girl can have 2 teams can't she? 

The family before heading out, all decked out in our Marlin's gear

 getting ready to tailgate

 enjoying a hot dog before the game

 walking to the stadium, Bella was more like running

 Billy the Marlin 

 New home run sculpture that lights up and the dolphins swim when a home run is hit. Unfortunately we didn't get to see it in action that night. 

 checking out the field

 stadium before they opened the retractable roof

 found our seats

 they have a bobblehead museum with every bobblehead every made

 here is part of the Yankee's section and that's Jeter in the middle

 first beer in the new stadium 

 Bella had many snacks that night, first was popcorn

 stadium with the roof opened 

 next she enjoyed cotton candy

 then she had ice cream, also not pictured was a lollipop and cookies 

Happy Birthday Joe

Joe's birthday was last weekend and we celebrated in the Keys. We went down on Friday with Tiffany and Frankie and we stayed with my Uncle Bruce and Aunt Tracy. They were great hosts and we had a lot of fun.

We stopped for lunch on Friday in Islamorada at Jimmy Johnson's Big Chill where we ate on the water

Driving on the famous 7 mile bridge

The boys on the boat

Joe had a little too much fun Friday night and passed out very early

The girls heading to Picnic Island

All the boats at the island

chilling in the ocean

We docked for lunch at Looe Key Tiki Bar

Uncle Bruce thought this would be a funny picture of the birthday boy

shots for the birthday boy

Big Ragu's (that's what they call Joe) birthday cake

Sunday we headed to Key West for a bit

only 90 miles to Cuba

Here are some other pictures from last week when we were down south at Nana and Papa's.

She helped Papa wash the car

 we went and visited Great Grandma Bella and little Bella fed her some french fries

we also visited Auntie Maria's shop and got our bangs trimmed

afterwards she swept up her own hair

and she got to eat her first drum stick

First swim of 2012

We spent the Memorial weekend at Nana and Papa's and Bella went in the pool for the first time this year. The water was still a little cold so we didn't stay in very long. Bella had fun though and hopefully in 2 weeks when she is back there it will be a little warmer. 

Updates

Bella has been growing and changing daily. She is saying more and more words and loves singing and dancing. She surprises us everyday with the new things she comes up with. She also loves telling us what to do! She is fearless as well, which sometimes I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. 

Recently we have had a litter of new ducklings in the neighborhood. They waddle through our yard daily and Bella loves getting as close to them as they will allow. 

This was taken about a month ago when they came right up to the garage and Bella and Papa fed them some bread.

 this was a few weeks ago when she was trying to chase them

She loves her magnet doodle and her favorite thing to draw is a "happy face". Although she can't draw one well she likes trying and loves asking others to draw them for her. 

 She also loves corn on the cob and can eat a whole ear with no problems. Who would have ever thought that she would eat that, I never did. She normally doesn't like getting her hands dirty. She will whine and say her hands are dirty and need to be cleaned. 

She also loves her "bench" that Papa made her. She calls it her bench and she carries it with her everywhere. She wants to see everything we are doing these days.  She will run and get her bench and tell me to wait until she gets her bench. Here she is helping Joe install the hardware on the cabinets in the kitchen.