Dear Bella

Dear Isabella,

In 2 days you will be 5 months old. You are doing so many wonderful things. You can sit-up on your own, but you keep falling to the side. So we say you sit-up with help. You have learned to make a wonderful high pitched squealing sound that we are sure tells all the dogs in the neighborhood something.
You reach out and grab things constantly. If you see something you want there is no hesitation. You just throw your whole body at it with a blind trust that we will be there to protect and catch you, especially if your target is the floor.
You have learned to grip and hold on to us. Yes, that is the nice way of saying you have learned to PINCH!
You get very upset when we take away something you aren't supposed to have. Especially the phone. When the phone rings you get an almost mischevious grin on your face. Are you planning your next attack?
You know your name. You don't know what the word no is yet. You don't like the word wait, when you are hungry. You really enjoy your bath. You absolutely LOVE the outdoors. One day you were home with daddy and you were having a bad tooth day, so to calm you down he took you outside in your bouncy seat and you loved it. You calmed right down and didn't make a peep for hours.
Oh there is so much more.
Please forgive me for not writing as I should, and know that the time lost in writing was time spent playing with you.

I have to go now, I will talk to you more later beautiful one. (OW! you just pinched me)

I love you,
mommy