Dear Cruz

How is it possible that we have been so lucky to be your parents for 9 months now. You have grown up so much since our 4 lb. baby in the NICU.

- More than the others, you love to eat! You probably wouldn't stop if I didn't make you. You love all bottles, baby food, etc. You get very upset when you've woken up and we haven't given you your bottle fast enough. You cry in between almost every bite because you can't believe that I would try to feed your brother and sister at the same time and not just focus only on feeding you. You open your mouth and shake your head until it's your turn again. Your favorite would have to be the new sweet potato puffs we got. I think you might be obsessed. It's pretty funny to watch you.
- You open your mouth big and wide when you smile and it's adorable. You love to show off your two teeth.
- It's undeniable, your hair is out of control. No matter what I do, that back of your hair sticks straight up and cannot be tamed.
- You too are moving pretty good these days.
- Unfortunately you love to steal from your sister too. What is it with you two?
- You are very easy to tickle and your Mom loves to tickle you every single day. Your laugh is absolutely contagious!
- You love your toys, especially the basketball hoop your Grandpa Green got you.
- Sometimes I think you're just going to start walking on me, you stand up so good and it's amazing how strong you are. You definitely got the strong Bell thighs.
- Your eyes are big and a blueish grey. They melt your mother.
- You've got great facial expressions always and right now you're shaking your head at your mom and it's so cute!
- You are very sweet and have started talking a lot lately. We can't wait to know what you're thinking.

We love you Cuz, Cuz. We can't tell you how much we love being with you, watching you grow, and hearing your laugh.

Love, Mom and Dad

Dear Carder

You turned 9 months too last week. We're so happy you're apart of our family. It's been so fun to be your parents and watch you grow and enjoying you. Here are a few things about you:

- You love to smile and giggle. One of the ways we can tell you apart from your brother is that when you smile you have the cutest cheeks I've ever seen. You giggle at just about anything and sometimes during church you'll just start giggling and it's so cute I don't even try to stop it.
- You are easy to tickle and playing with your foam giraffe always makes you laugh.
- At the moment your favorite toy is the spring door stopper-thing in the play room. It entertains you for a long time.
- I can say without hesitation that you love to eat. You get very angry when I give a bite to your brother and sister. You sit there with your mouth wide open waiting for the next bite. I don't know how much you weigh, but you're heavy. You're already wearing 18 month clothes!
- You have a very sweet and peaceful demeanor. And I promise, you could not be more handsome. It's ridiculous how cute you are!
- To calm yourself you suck your pointer finger and your middle finger on your left hand. Thank goodness for that. You are a great sleeper!
- Until yesterday you showed no desire to crawl around. You're just starting to scoot. You probably learned that to survive around your brother and sister and get the toys that you want, you better learn how to get there first.
- Mom loves it how you try to give her slobbery kisses.
- Your bottom two teeth have come in and they could not be cuter. You think it's funny to shake your head and try to eat everything in site.

We can't imagine life without you Carder. You are so sweet and make everyone around you happy. We love our Carder Boy.

Love, Mom and Dad

Dear Taylor

On December 25, 2012 you turned 9 months old. I cannot even believe that you are that old already. I am constantly amazed by you so I wanted to write a few things down about you so we could all remember.

- You are my wild child. You are constantly moving, kicking your legs, trying to eat your toes, scooting to the next toy, diving off our laps to see something new. It's hilarious and exhausting at the same time!
- You are almost always happy. When we wake you up in the morning you give us the biggest smile with a wiggle and some kicks. It's adorable!
- You've been sleeping through the night for a long time now and I can't tell you how much I appreciate that.
- You have the most beautiful blue eyes that seem to attract everyone's attention.
- Each week you seem to have a new trick. Currently you're rolling your tongue and clicking it in your mouth.   You also love to blow bubbles, shake your head, and sway whenever music is on.
- So far you are the most mobile. I would describe your crawl as a army crawl/swim stroke. It's pretty funny to watch. You should definitely ask to see videos of it when you're older.
- In addition to being the most mobile you like to steal toys from your brothers. You've gotten pretty good at it to. You learned that if you just take it away and lay next to them they will try to steal it back so you now do the steal and roll over move. Very good honey. But could you please stop stealing Cruz's binkie, you don't even like them.
- I think your favorite food is sweet potatoes, you don't love peas. Your favorite toy is Mom's cell phone and you'll do whatever it takes to get to the ipad when it's out. You're wearing 12 month clothes now and looking adorable in anything you wear.

There is so much more I could say. You are a joy to be around and we're so happy you are part of our family. Thanks for being our Tay Tay. We love you.

Love, Mom and Dad

Merry Christmas

Love, The Bells

Halloween

Halloween is so fun when you have kids! Even though ours aren't old enough to get it yet or enjoy the candy, we loved getting them dressed up. I just couldn't resist. Cruz was a lion, Carder a Tiger, and Taylor was an elephant. We took them to a church activity one night and then around the neighborhood on Halloween. I still get the biggest grin on my face when I look at these pictures. 

Bell Triplets with Brill Triplets

Don't worry they can't get the wrapper open! Yet.

Lately

We've just being hanging out and the kids have been growing up the last few months. They are 7 months old now and so fun. They have teeth, are eating baby food, rolling over all the time, sleeping through the night, giggling and smiling, and are so much fun. We're loving being their parents and watching them grow up. Here are some random pictures of them over the last couple of months. 

Carder and his Dad taking a little nap

Taylor Kay with her new pink football from Dad

Carder watching Conference

Our kids are spitter-uppers so we're always reaching for a burp cloth, Peter found the perfect place for Taylor's one Sunday.

practicing sitting up

sitting in big girl and boy chairs to eat rice cereal

Brother and Sister
they're just starting to interact with each other

cute Tazor Cakers

Cruz in big boy wagon G'pa Green bought for him

cutest sweatshirt and girl EVER!

happy kids
Carder- Taylor- Cruz

sleeping cuteness

leg warmers and carrots

Uncle Brad and Aunt Marianne came to visit

Gpa Green came to visit

no that it not rice cereal!

Go Cougars

The kids are already taking after their Daddy and becoming serious BYU Cougar fans. Thanks to their Grandparents they have cute outfits (and hats courtesy of Erin) to cheer them on in every week.