A Day In The Life Of Isabella

Bella's shoes await her feet.........

Bella has always needed lots of sleep, even when she was a baby she slept at least 12 hours at night plus naps. She has not changed. It has become my job to wake everyone up, including Bella, in the morning for school. Not a pretty job!

Luckily Bella is not a primper. She takes after her mother and is all about comfort, she can throw anything on and be ready to go in 10 minutes flat.

GOOD MORNING BELLA!

When we have birthdays in our house, the birthday person gets to be "king" for the day. This gives that person total power. They get to control almost everything, including wheather they go to school, stay up late, do homework, or even if they get to go to the bakery for a pastry. Today Bella was crowned "queen" just for fun, she was very pleased!!!!

Out of the house and running to the car. We usually drive the kiddos to school in the colder months although Matt has been known to "ban" them from the car for fighting over who sits in the front seats!

Fortunatly for Bella, she has grown so much that her legs are too long for the way back, and she usually sits up front. Her brothers murmur and place hexs' on her under their breath, all she does is smirk and enjoy.

Here we are at school, dropping off and picking up all look the same, lots of kids,and too many parents. The director would not allow me to follow Isabella around all day to her classes, she said I would disrupt the class, not true, I was always a good girl!

Tuesday, Bella had PE, science, math, and language, plus 2 breaks in the courtyard make for a full day of school. School starts at 9 am and lets out at 2.

The school that the kids go to was actually a convent back in "the day" it is still attached to a fairly large church that houses some priests, but the convent is no longer. The school is named Ciudad De Begastri / convento. Ciudad De Begastri was the name of an old Roman town. The ruins are still up on the hill, as well as parts of the aquaduct.

Practicing her piano, a daily affair, sometimes more than once a day. Although we don't mind, she is very gifted at the piano, and having her fill our home with beautiful music is always appreciated!

Doing homework at the kitchen table after a filling lunch. Here in Spain the kids come home from school at 2:00, and that is when we eat our "big" meal. our dinner is a small light meal, usually around 7 pm in the winter, 9 pm in the summer.

This is where you can also often find Bella, in her dad's office online with Messenger, "chatting" with her friends. I can remember talking on the phone with my friends after school, so I don't put up too much of a fuss, but I guess this is a sign of assurity that she is becoming a teenager!

Off to play... on Tuesdays and Thursdays Bella has Taekwondo

and Solfeo (music theory). On wednesdays Fridays and Mondays she runs track and has piano lessons. But today is Tuesday and so here we are ready to Kick Booty!

Isabella and Lorenzo are in the same Solfeo and piano classes. Much to Isabellas distaste, she would prefer to have more activities sin hermanos.

So they did not want me to come in to class and start snapping away, they said I would look dumb, o well, so we shall snap out side the door.

Studying for tomorrows cono (science) exam. With a map in front of her trying to remember all the rivers, mountians and cabos of beautiful Spain.

Taking a break from daily tasks is not a difficult thing to do especially when you have something so tempting and so sweet as baby brothers!

Bella is not only Ottavio's big sister, but his constant playmate and second mother. And I swear she plays with him more than do anything else!

Back to the books, Buena Suerte Bella!

here Bella is getting her jamies on obviously; she seems to hit the sheets at 11:00 every night, except fridays, that is PARTY night. Her brothers like "snuggling" her, so she finds new people in her bed every night, usually it is Dante and Max, tonight it is Alessandro and Dante. She is a good sissy.

Lucky for Bella she has a bathroom in her bedroom, so personal hygiene is an easy task..

Unfortunatly she needs to rearrange there "bed hogging" bodies before she can slip in....

BUENA NOCHE RIENA!!!! Ojala que mañana sera egualmente divertido!!!

Glimpses of Everyday Life

Here we have our "girls" Cleo ( light one) and Lucy (black one). Everyday they come with me on my run, they live for it. we run through the orchards and end up at the small river, where they get to splash around, and drink up for the run back to the house. I of course can't just stand around, so while they splash I squat.

Here we have a peek at Lorenzo and Alessandro playing Mancala on the kitchen floor. Our kitchen, like yours, I am sure, is the central hub of the house, and many a game is played in it. Unfortunatly even futball (soccer)

Alessandro working hard at Matematicas, yes on the kitchen table.

Matt is learning to play the piano, Isabella is actually the one giving him his lessons, he is doing very well... Ottavio gets to be the benefactor of all the piano players in our house. One of his most fav things to do is to sit on their laps while they play. Bella, Lorenzo, Alessandro, and Matt have all held him whilst playing. He is quite content to sit and enjoy.

Another pause for Ottavio

I am not sure if it was the struggle that brought Ottavio into this world, the fact that he is most likely my last baby, or if it is just that he is soooo SWEET! But I need to pause for him and give him another highlight on the blog. I know this is unfair to the others, but I will make it up to them, they are easily bought off with some form of dessert.

Ottavio is now 8 months old and doing wonderful. He has quickly learned to imitate Dante in reguards to tantrums, and for all of you that know Dante, well, need I say more? He will stomp his feet thrash his little head and cry crocodile tears. Good thing I have a tough outer shell!

This baby stops all the old ladies on the street; not 1 can pass the pram without gooing and gaaing over him, and I have even had a couple of offers to have some prearranged marriages.

Lovig babies is easy, letting them grow up is the hard part. I am soaking in every minute.