Hair loss, playing in the snow, the aquarium, some cousin time, and Nickel City

Sorry it has been awhile since I have blogged. Besides the cuteness of my daughter, my life just really isn't that exciting. I really need to try and add some more excitement to my life, but I'm too exhausted and too poor. If someone wants to give me some energy pills and some money, I will gladly add some adventure to my life and thus a few more blog posts.

If you do decide to brace yourself to read about the going-ons in our life since the last time I posted, feel free, but do not feel any obligation to do so.

Some sad, sad hair loss:

As most of you know, our beautiful Belle has lost quite a bit of her beautiful curls. It has been heartbreaking, but unfortunately, there is not much we could/can do to change it. After 2 months of ear infections, colds, and fevers, Belle's body just underwent so much stress that it caused her hair to fall out (much like pregnancy does for women). Fortunately, she has not lost all of her hair, but it is definitely not thick like it was. The falling out phase has seemed to slow down quite a bit. So now we just wait for it to start to grow back - anywhere from 3 - 6 months. I am praying that it will come in thick and curly again.

A few shots to compare:

Love the thick curls Not so curly, and not so thick. :(

A pig-tail style before .... And now. :(

What it is now.

Some snow-time fun:

At the beginning of the winter, we, of course, got a super cute snowsuit for Belle. She LOVES being outdoors, and we anticipated using it a lot with her. Unfortunately, during most of the snow days/weeks/months, she was sick. I never wanted to take her out in the snow while she was sick, so her snow pants just sat hanging in her closet. The last week of February, we had one day where we got a couple inches of snow, so Dave wanted to take Belle out to enjoy it. Of course by the time, they got out in the afternoon, most of the snow was gone. But she still wore her cute snow pants and she still had fun.

Isn't she so darn cute?

She LOVES eating the snow!

If you ignore the booger in her nose, this is a super cute picture. :)

Of course, eating all the snow she possibly can.

The Aquarium:

Since I had President's Day off, Dave didn't have school, and he wasn't working on any side jobs, we decided to try and do something fun for the day. We decided to give the Aquarium a try. Obviously, it was not super exciting for us, but Belle loved it. I think she just loved getting to run around. Since it is pretty small, we could just follow her and let her do what she wanted. It was a very relaxing little trip for the most part. It was so nice that we decided to upgrade our day passes to season passes so we can go as much as we want this year. Dave has already used his again this last week while his family was in town.

I can't believe how big she's getting!

She and Daddy had lots of fun

Of course she can't hold still for 2 seconds for a picture

I thought I could get her to hold still by holding her, but that didn't even last

(hence the absence of Belle)

Some Cousin Time:

This last weekend, Dave's brother Adam and his family stayed at our house for the weekend. We also had the addition of his brother Josh, and his mom later on. Although there were some intense fights over the doll stroller and the baby dolls, Belle had lots of fun with her cousin Keziah. As long as they don't take her precious babies from her, Belle loves playing with other kids. :) (We need to work on the sharing a little bit.)

We went to breakfast at Magelby's in our jammies.

Belle sure enjoyed the french toast (or more the berries and cream)

After a sticky breakfast, the girls had a bath together

They had lots of fun jumping on the air mattress

Nickel City:

Yesterday was the last day we had Uncle Josh with us, so we wanted to do something fun, yet inexpensive, so we decided to go to Nickel City. I'm not gonna lie, it was pretty lame. It was much smaller than I expected and not much for younger kids to do. But I think Dave and Josh had fun trying to win tickets for Belle, so overall, we had a good time.

Our first game was racing cars with all of us.

Most of the time, Belle lived on the carousel in this little carriage thing

So there you have it. A long-needed catch up of what has been going in our little lives lately. Hopefully I'll be better about staying caught up so I don't have to spend forever uploading pictures next time. :)