Happy Halloween!

Rainy Days

Helping Mommy make Apple bread pudding.

Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.1

2 Months

Sienna turned 2 months on Sunday. Can you believe it? I don't think I can. She's measuring about 21.5 inches and weights about 11 lbs 10 ounces. She had a Dr's appointment last week, just to get her eye checked out (infected clogged tear duct no biggie) We have our official 2 month appointment next week. She's starting to get some of that adorable baby chub rolls, mostly in her cheeks and thighs. The Dr last week said something like, "Wow look at those cheeks! She sure doesn't miss any meals." It's true she doesn't. This was after the nurse went on and on about how she should be a baby model; while I beamed the whole time.

She's gotten so fun this past month. She is so smiley, especially in the morning when you sit and chat with her. You can always get a big one out if you touch her nose or her cheeks. Of course I'm still not getting many good ones on camera. She's also getting a lot chattier and she'll respond when you talk and pause. I swear she said "Hi" this morning to me too. :) She's been batting and kicking her toys and she's working on grabbing hold of them. She loves sticking her hands into her mouth and will occasionally suck her thumb. She has great neck control and LOVES to be standing up. I think this girl is going to be an early walker and might just bypass that whole crawling bit.

We did a little better on the photo shoot this month. I still had to do it by myself, so not too many good smiles ones. Next time! At least this time there was no screaming crying. We are headed in the right direction.

First Trip...Check!

I leave the house for 10 minutes and look what Grandpa did to my daughter


(ignore my pjs, yes I left the house in my pjs. Doughnuts were calling Amanda and I)


Other than this, the weekend went really well. Sienna did great in the car. She only woke up when we stopped moving. She slept great at night too - better than me I think. It's amazing how many noises babies make while they sleep. I don't know how people sleep in the same room with them. Maybe you get used to it.

Here's Sammy, Amanda, & Travis on baptism day.


Tried to get another good pic of the cousins. My daughter is always the crying one. This is my fav. Izzy was trying to comfort "Baby Sienna"

Here we go...

We're heading to WI this weekend to visit the in-laws. Sammy is getting baptized on Sunday and everyone will be there! Should be a lot of fun especially for Sienna to see her Grandparents and cousins. I was going to post a week of pictures but looks like Justin already packed the camera in his car so here's a couple that I have.

Great Grammy and Sienna. I just love this one.


Working on our neck control in the Bumbo.


All cozy in the car seat.


Have a great weekend and wish us luck for our first weekend away! I am hoping we all get some sleep...

New Toy

We decided it was time to invest in a video camera to get this fun girl on camera before she out grows all her fun baby times. Testing it all out right now. Here's a short one of her smiling and playing. Hope this works!!

Warning! Don't walk by the clearance racks...

Sales are dangerous. Sales on little baby girl clothes are even more dangerous. I was at Macy's the other day and saw they had a big clearance on some of their baby clothes. Of course I had to just "look". While looking I came upon this dress: a little hard to tell but it's navy corduroy. So cute, my future ballerina had to have it.


Digging further into the racks I saw these 2:




Of course I had a Macy's gift card sitting at home that was for Sienna. I didn't buy anything that day but I kept thinking about that dress. 2 days later I was going past Macy's, with the gift card in my purse just in case we got close to one. Went back and they had all 3 items plus a few more that I picked up. Even better was when I went to check out the sales woman had an extra 20% off our total and gave it to me to use. I love sales!!!

So Pretty

Nothing beats flowers for an anniversary gift. Thanks hun! And if you notice the few petals next to the vase... I just caught Zoey eating them. :P

Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.1

Beautiful Fall Day

We went out yesterday to try and get the perfect family fall pictures - for the Xmas card of course. So happy that we have our [not so] new camera that allows us to take hundreds of pictures quickly. AND it even had a fall colors setting. Perfect! We met up with the Eids and found a couple pretty spots. Sienna cooperated with us too. She was bright eyed and even gave us a few smiles! I'm not going to post the winner but here are a few that we got.

Sitting on a stump.


Posing in the leaves.


Big smiles for Mom and Dad!


Mal playing in the leaves.


I was in charge of making Mikayla smile. She wasn't really having it by the time the stump pictures came. Luckily we were successful earlier.

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.1

What I miss most about not working.

Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.1

Family Favorite

Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.1

The fish bouncy seat is a big hit in our house. It has saved us in many cranky situations and now Zoey has developed a love for it. Every time I leave the room for awhile and come back the darn cat has jumped back in it. I even tried turning on the vibrations in hopes to scare her off. No such luck. She enjoyed it as much as Sienna does. I guess this is Sienna's first lesson in sharing. :)

Smiles

Trying to get some smiles captured on camera. Probably would be easier if Dad was home to help but here's what we got so far.

Good smile but not looking at the camera.


Half smile but at least she's looking my way.


If all else fails go for a cute butt shot.