California part 3!?!

We went to California, AGAIN. My parents were driving down to visit my brother and his family and asked me to tag along. Besides the warm weather as an incentive to go, my moms sisters were coming to visit, who had never seen Sienna and who knew when they would ever get to!  The drive about killed me with Sienna, but thankfully I had my parents who took turns with her. Also, we discovered Sienna gets a little car sick as after a while of playing on the iPad (shhh don't judge, it was 20 hours in a car. You would too.) she started throwing up, lots. Anything she had ate in the last 5 hours came up. Not the most convenient thing when you still have a four hour drive ahead of you and the car seat is covered in throw up. It was a pretty stinky ride.

But once in California we had a great time! Here is our stay in pictures.

We had some fun throwing the kids around. Sienna surprisingly loved it.

Crystal was teaching Sienna how to float. At first she was unsure but then she started flipping her head back trying to float herself.

Chocolate mustache.

Then we hit up the beach. Oh how we love the beach! At first Sienna didn't want to touch the sand with her feet, then it progressed to just letting the sand run thru her fingers, and then it was all down hill from there and she started eating it. SHE. WOULDN'T. STOP.

One day we went to Irvine Park Railroad. It has a cute little train ride you can go on, pony rides, a playground, and a duck pond.

ALL ABOARD!

Trying to wave like the conductor.

Jadyn on a pony. She wanted "Trampy" to walk her around on the pony, and boy was he thrilled...

Best friends beat each other up right?

Last but not least, you can't go to California without visiting Bowl of Heaven. They are starting to expand into other states (Fingers crossed for a Canadian location someday!). Go to their webpage and find out if their is a location near you. If there isn't plan a trip to California just for it. It's seriously that good.

Ten. X. 10 months!

Sienna has grown so much this month! Its amazing the difference one month can make in a babies life.

Weight: 14.8 (slow and steady!)
Sleep: She has slept thru the night a few times, but more often goes down at 730, we wake her up before we go to bed and give her bottle, just so she will sleep until 8 so we don't have to get up during the night! (Is that bad??) All I know is we love sleeping all night long.
Loves: Stuffed animals. In particular, a small teddy bear, a pink pig, and the pink bunny she gets pictures with. After a nap when I pull her out of the crib she reaches back in so she can pick up at least one of these stuffies. I think it's adorable. She is also very addicted to anything that looks like an apple product. She gets mad if it turns off or mad if we take it away. And every day I tell myself I am not going to use any of these things in front of her but everyday I fail.
She also loves to "dance" to music which consists of just flapping her arms. And she is obsessed with reaching out one hand to people, it's like her special way of saying hello or something.
Nicknames: Monster, Monkey, Coffee (coughy) bean, biggie, cutie bum, Bum Bum, Benna, Sienna baby, baby, love, grumpy pants, SiSi.
Words: Says mama and dada and I think she has figured out there is a meaning to them. She cries at my feet and just says mamamamama and when I feed her. When Matt walks into the room she will start saying dada. And the other day out of the blue, she knocked over some toilet paper and so I said uh-oh and the clear as day she said uh-oh. Matt, who was in the other room had to ask who said that. I tried getting her to say it again and she said it once more but it was a lot more strained and grunty then the first.
Miscellaneous: Sienna has gotten a few night terrors this last month. Hopefully she grows out of them soon. Its kind of scary because she usually keeps her eyes shut, cries uncontrollably, twitches out a little, and there is nothing I can do. She has finally stopped army crawling and crawls on her hands and knees. Plays strange to almost any man, but will go to any woman. Thinks she is just about the best thing since sliced bread, which she is.


Pictures of achievements and fun.
Sienna has two teeth now! Oh how cute little baby teeth are. Sienna handled teething pretty well, a little fussier and a lot more cuddly, which made teething so manageable.

* cuddles with mom and Gilmore girls. She couldn't want for more. 

Sienna loves eating and we have had fun trying new foods with her. Her favorite foods so far are potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes, avocados, oranges, and pancakes. She lets me feed her for the first little while then she becomes a grumpy pants and will only eat if she is in charge, which leads to a big mess.

Loves to mimic people. It is adorable. She learned how to do the finger thing with her mouth after me showing her once. She loves it when I stick out my tongue and move it back and forth you can just see her mind trying to figure out how to do it as she opens her mouth and just sticks out her tongue.

*Einstein Baby after a bath. Which she loves. She also loves to just play in an empty bath tub.

* Wild hair don't care

*Our Lucky Leprechaun 

*Just playing with a grapefruit, like every other normal baby...

*The straw. Still a favorite toy

*One of her favorite stuffies

* Juicing it up. Just trying to make up for all the junk she gets fed.

* First couple of minutes were fun, then it just wasn't anymore.

* Just doing her thing, being cute.

Loves the swings. I wish it was nice out more often so we could go out more. But hey, we will take the few nice days we have had.

* Boogie fever

NINE MONTHS

Her last month in single digits. (sigh) Everyday I am amazed at how much Sienna is learning and growing. I want her to slow down but at the same time I want her to do everything! As seen in previous posts Sienna had a busy month in California. And considering the picture overload in those posts, I don't have a lot to put up. I know, so disappointing.

* Still likes to army crawl. She will get up on all fours and launch herself. That's about as close to real crawling as she has gotten.
* Starting to climb up on things. Actually scratch things. It's only people.
* Eating more solid foods. Like chunks of Avocado, puffs, yogurt melts,panckaes and oranges.
* No teeth still! Viva La gums.
* Recognizes the theme song and credit song of Gilmore girls. Every time it plays she stops what she is doing and watches until it's over.
* Had her first "Mama is upset at what you did, but I can't really get mad at you because you have no idea what you are doing and I should have been more careful" moment. I was painting our living room, which I love the new color, and I had placed the lid to the paint back on, but not tightly. And Sienna was just doing her thing, crawling around the room playing with whatever caught her eye... When all the sudden I turn and look at her and there is a big puddle of paint. After I got over the shock of what just happened I counted my blessings. The can was only 1/3 full, Sienna didn't get it all over her face, and she never crawled through it and trailed it all over the floor. But it was still a pain to clean.
* Weight 13 lbs 14 oz. She stands a chance of tripling her birth weight by 1 year.
* Current favorite toys are the straw from my water bottle, my glasses, hairbrush, and anything electronic.

Sienna enjoying the best orange. Fresh picked off a California orange tree.

Begging for some cereal from daddy.

Aunt Brenda loves to spoil Sienna with clothes. She gave Sienna this cute Christmas dress. 

Traditional Sienna with her bunny pic. Sad I missed it for month 8. Although I don't think she changed much. 

 Crawling all over me. She will intentionally crawl over me to reach an object, when going around me would be much easier.

Sienna has some favorite books. She loves this touch and feel one and also one called Quiet, Loud. I love reading to her and watching her face light up and scanning the page like it's the most interesting thing.

Went through a tongue sticking out phase. Pretty sure she could've replaced Gene Simmons from the band Kiss

Going for a walk in her new snug and warm snowsuit.

Love this sweet girl. Everyday she makes me laugh and feel so happy to be here mom.

Christmas in California part 2

Man, where to start? Christmas was great. I thought I would miss a white Christmas but really, I loved being warm for Christmas! Matts mom got us a beautiful real Christmas tree. I honestly had never seen one that looked so nice. Any real Christmas trees I saw were like giant versions of Charlie Browns Christmas trees, so I didn't know why any one would ever want a real one, but after seeing her's I can see why. Although I still love an artificial one. I never have to go looking for one or figure out how to get rid of it and it's just a one time payment!

So Matts sister, Sara, and her family came to Fresno this year. It was so fun to see them again and I just know Sienna loved seeing her newest cousin Emma. We went to another area of town where everyone has lights and blow up Christmas things set up. They call it candy cane lane, which I think is pretty adorable. And dare I say, candy cane lane was better then Christmas tree lane. I loved being able to walk down the streets, it seemed like more houses decorated, and the houses were closer to the street so you could see all the lights better.

 Candy Cane Lane

Next we went to Sara's husbands house in Bakersfield for Christmas Eve and morning

I LOVE that we are doing Christmas Jammies. I was always so jealous of friends who got to open up one gift Christmas Eve, it being christmas pajamas. So I was very on board with the idea of doing it for the grandkids.

Santa Baby

Something I love about California is fresh fruit grown in your backyards. I told Matt the only way I will move to California is if we have an orange, lemon, and grapefruit tree.

Matt took me for my first in & out burger. Well actually it was my first fast food burger ever! It lived up to it's hype. We went back for round two a few days later.

 Sienna slept in till 11:30 on New Years Eve so she was quite the party animal and stayed up till 11:00

Teaching family and friends how to Tim Tam Slam

Last but not least, we went to the zoo. I love the Fresno Zoo. I can't wait for Sienna to be a little older and actually enjoy seeing all the animals.

And if you made it this far, let me just tell you how maddening our trip home was. Sienna did great on the flight from Fresno, to Denver. I am talking she didn't make a peep! It was wonderful. Next flight, not the case. I think it was because it was so BLASTED hot in the plane and that we sat in the plane for 2 HOURS before we even took off. Here is how it went.

Tarmac>door ajar light on>back to gate>mechanical comes to fix it, 10mins> need to refuel, another 15 mins> tarmac> heavy snowfall warning> back to gate> Moderate snowfall warning>we can leave> need to be de-iced> last in line> wait 30-45 mins> back to tarmac> take off! 

We didn't leave the Denver airport, until AFTER we were suppose to have arrived in Great falls. It was the worst, but I am just grateful we made it home safely.