We have ourselves a birthday girl.

AHHHHH is this real life? Where did my little baby go? Sometimes I want to go back 11 months and just have my cuddly sleepy baby for a day.

Sienna had a great birthday. She loved all the extra attention. For breakfast she had pancakes with cake frosting, which she loved. Then we went and picked up Grandma Termeer. Hello, what greater gift then a grandma, who then bought her some cute new clothes for her birthday. After we got home from a long day of travelling we had my parents over for ice cream cake. Such a lucky birthday girl. 

Stats: last appt. told us she was 15 lbs 4 oz and 27 inchs, which finally put this girl on the charts (3rd and 10th percentiles). Happy birthday to her! 

Favorite foods: tomatoes, lasagna, spaghetti, life cereal, oatmeal, peaches, cinnamon toast bread, cheesy toast, grapes, strawberries, French fries, and dog food...we babysat a dog for a weekend and Sienna could not stop getting into his food. Why would she want to eat that over some of the other stuff I try to get her to eat?  

Also addicted to ketchup. If it's on the table she is pretty sure she needs some on her plate. She will just dip her fingers in and lick away. 

New things: she has a new way to play peek a boo. I say "where is Sienna?" And she will place her head down wherever she is for a few seconds and then pop it back up. It's about the only way I get cuddles in when she places her head on my chest for a bit. 

Personality: she is really the sweetest thing but this girl has got a high temper and low patience. If I don't get her what she wants in time she screams at me. 

Loves: puppies! If they are around she follows them all over wanting to pull on their hair and touch their faces. We even put on a YouTube video that was just of dogs doing funny things and she was locked in on the screen. It was so funny. 

She is also really fascinating by skin. She loves to pinch and pull on mine. 

Loves her bag of crayons and hair elastics. She is always bringing them to me and isn't happy till the bag is opened.
Loves her soft minky blankets. Doesn't like to leave her crib without it and gets mad when matt steals it from her.

Loves going to the park and playing in the gravel. Mostly because she likes to suck on it.

Sleep: starting to go from 2 naps to 1! I am not quite ready for it but I am not ready to let her hang out with us till 9 either.

Can't get enough of her softy.

 Diva by day

Thug by night

This is her playing "where's sienna" See what I meant about some cuddle time?

 She was so unsure about that tunnel but ended up liking it.

Just playing and eating rocks.

The dog we babysat. You can tell how much he liked Sienna too.

 THAT HAIR

How cute is that hat? AND THAT BABY

Just a little sienna sunday selfie. She loves to look at herself on the camera.

An Eleven monther

Whoop. One month away from being a whole year old. Yikes. How did this happen? Here is the usual Sienna Recap

Weight: 15 lbs 4 oz. She can still fit into 3-6 month clothes and has started wearing 9 month sleepers. It's a little bit funny.
New Foods: Fig newtons (thank you Aunt Donna for bringing them to California. These things have been life savers!), cooked carrots, cheese, pizza, adult cereal - as in she likes to steal bites of mine.
Interests: Pulling all the books off the book case and blankets/stuffies off a shelf. Also pulling out all her clothes from a draw as I try to put away the laundry. Likes to take lids off and put them again or open and close things. Loves stealing my glasses. Loves to open a door more and then close it, not all the way, behind her. Loves running water. Loves when Caleb comes over and they get to go exploring together. Fascinated by the fridge and always trying to play in there any chance she gets. Likes to be swung in a blanket onto the couch (sack of potatoes?) She loves the water and if the water temp was warmer, I think she could spend all day in there. Has some favorite songs: little bunny foo foo, happy and you know it, go Sienna go (diego theme song), 
Story: I was babysitting Caleb for a couple of days and at first Sienna loved having him, like never heard her laugh and talk so much. But after about day two I think she was worried he was going to be coming over for forever. She started getting a lot more possessive of me and her toys. She started stealing whatever toy Caleb had of hers and once she was banging on my old lap top and Caleb tried to have a turn, but as soon as his arm touched she would push it off. So of course naturally Caleb started pushing hers off. It was rather entertaining to watch cause I really wasn't expecting this behavior yet!


I feel like I haven't taken as many pictures as I usually do. Guess we have just been busy doing other stuff!

We have gone to the Holiday Inn waterslides in Lethbridge a few times now. We love going with friends and getting our babies all together.

I have been so excited for this moment. Little baby pigtails are so cute to me! My sister even started crying when she saw sienna cause she thought it was so cute. 

Nothing more sweet then seeing my babe cuddle with our babe.

Seriously. I love this skinny chicken legged, naked bum, girl.

My name is Luigi. I like to make the pizza.

Baby Einstein 

Foodie

Reading books with Daddy. It melts my heart seeing them together. 

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