Dancing with Papi or Conecting with her inner Latin rhythm

Bella loves to dance, at home, in the car or at church whenever she hears music you see her bending her knees or swaying to the music. This is a trait I wholly attribute to her Papi and she has a willing partner when she wants to get down.

Liberty Park

One of the benefits of city living is our proximity to a lot of fun things, principal among these in my book is Liberty Park and in the summer the Seven Canyons fountain. Since we have no yard of our own we end up at the park at least twice a week. So anyway, here is a flavor of one of our favorite summer activities.

The fountain is a representation of the rivers and canyons that surround Salt Lake City and the water runs down the creeks and into a pool that represents The Great Salt Lake. Unlike other purely ornamental fountains, wading and playing in the water is actively encouraged.

These pictures were taken about a week ago when we went together as a family after the Blue Prince got home from work.

The Blue Prince had his hands full while wading through the bigger lake pool. Bella chose that moment to grab on his leg and knock him off balance. I of course took the picture instead of helping him out. (he didn't actually end up falling in)

Liberty park is also home to a large duck pond which is feeding Bella's current obsession with ducks. Here is a couple videos of her chasing after a flock. She got quite put out when they ran into the water and we wouldn't let her follow them in.

Bella Pictures

Looking over my blog I realized that it has been far to long since I posted some updated Bella Pictures. Got to keep the core demographic of grandparents and aunties happy.

I've got a cute hat

But mommy I want to play with the camera
It has so many fun buttons to push.

Why yes I do let my daughter run with sharp objects.

The flowers obviously need fixing.

Bella and the tool supplier.

I'm a frog

Mom keeps saying don't pick and eat the flowers
But I conscientiously disagree. At least pansies are non-toxic.

And finally a video of Bella being a froggie with Papi.

Bella Videos

Here are a couple videos of Bella that we took last week when Aunt Emily was over doing her laundry. Bella decided to help by pulling all the clothes out of Auntie's basket and then proceeded to play dress-up with Auntie's shirt. She carried it around with her all over the house. I also love the first video as it gives a close-up shot of my new favorite funny face.

Being contrary

So we finally got our camera back from Grandma's house and so our picture famine is over. Bella has started doing several new tricks including giving kisses. She usually will imitate anyone who makes a kissing sound even when my husband and I are kissing each other. The other day I even saw her blowing kisses when she saw a picture of people kissing. It cracks me up and I thought "wouldn't it be fun to get it on video to save for posterity". Unfortunately due to her funny personality and general refusal to perform, I now have about 10, 30 second videos on my camera of me making kissing noises and her just staring into the camera. This is the best of the bunch where she is showing another of her new tricks.