11 Months

This year has gone so fast. I can't believe you are going to be 1 in a month! Your personality is really starting to shine. You've always been my little giggler and now you are turning into a cuddler too. I love it. You'll crawl over to me, stand up and snuggle your head into my shoulder. You love to lay on your back and be tickled while you roll around. You are imitating everything we do. I'll be in the kitchen putting on lotion and I'll look at you watching me from the family room. You'll start rubbing your hands together like you are putting it on too. This also means you are signing!! You've masted more and all done. I'm trying to teach you eat, water, and milk next. Right now whenever you are hungry (which is most of the time) you'll start signing more. It's soo cool to start this communication. I am thinking you might be an early talker too. When you sign more you say "Ma" and when you sign all done you say "Ahh Daa". You've also started to say "Hi."

You are so long!

You love your sister more than anything and always follow her around. You 2 are starting to interact more. The other night she was rolling you a ball and you would hand it back to her. All while giggling of course. At the dinner table you 2 makes sounds back and forth, which also ends in fits of giggles.

Making raspberries while showing off your new bows.

The past couple months you have finally started getting into books. Pulling out your bin of books is the best way to keep you occupied. You'll even let me read a couple to you before bed. Before you'd cry and squirm away every time I tried. Your second favorite activity is pulling everything off the end tables. With your long arms and height nothing is safe. Remotes and coasters are your top choices.

All you wanted for Christmas was your two front teeth and you got them! They poked through at the beginning of the month and are showing nicely now. You have 7 chompers already! Very useful since you love to eat. You have out eaten your Mom at meals.

Princesses

Sienna has been into princesses ever since we left Disney last year. This year, Papa treated her to a special lunch with her favorites - Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Jasmine, and Sleeping Beauty. It was amazing. I have never experienced anything so magical. All of the princesses made my princess feel so special. Before the lunch started we got a meet and greet with Cinderella, who is Sienna's favorite. I wasn't sure how she would react to meeting the princesses since she was a bit scared of some of the characters the day before. Turns out there was nothing to worry about. She was so excited to meet Cinderella. She walked right up to her, handed her the autograph book, and they started talking about Cinderella's mice. She proudly showed her the princess shirt she was wearing and even ended her time by giving Cinderella a hug.

(Kensi slept through the whole meet and greet) 

After meeting Cinderella we headed upstairs in the castle for lunch. Before each princess entered music would started and a booming voice would announce their arrival while everyone cheered. Sienna spent most of her lunch turned around in her seat eagerly awaiting the next princess.

Snow white was my favorite. Probably because she gave my baby a big kiss that stuck with her for the rest of the day.

Kensi wasn't a big fan of the princesses. She cried for all of them and was much happier just eating.

And the food... It was delish. I didn't get many photos of it. This was my dessert. Some mouse with a spongy cake base covered in chocolate. Mmmmmmm.

I think we will definitely have to do this again when both of my princesses are old enough to appreciate it. Maybe even get them all dolled up for the occasion.

Santa

There has been lots of talk of Santa this year. Sienna knows all about what he does and knows exactly what she wants - "a tablet like Mommy & Daddy." Oh dear, having techy parents isn't always a good thing. I was very against this idea at first, but then I did some research and found a good option for young kids. So we went with it.

Nana and Grandpa took Sienna & Ariana to the Macys downtown Santa display where real Santa was waiting at the end of the show. Sienna said she wanted to sit on his lap and talk to him - until it was actually time to do so. Nana ended up sitting with her and she managed to agree with Santa that she wanted presents. She called me up after and happily told me she was a little shy with Santa. I reassured her that he still knew what she wanted.

I knew we'd see another Santa at Disney and she'd get another chance. The big day came to go meet Santa again. That morning Papa had Santa on speed dial, so we were able to call him and leave a message with the girls names and what they wanted. Even after doing that, Sienna still said she wanted to go sit on his lap. Off to Disney we went to meet Santa. I was still skeptical about the whole thing and assumed I'd be sitting up there with her, along with Kensi who would be screaming her head off. The magic of Christmas must've hit. When it was our turn, Sienna marched up to Santa like it was her best friend. She talked to him and told him she wanted a tablet. After they had their moment I backed Kensi up into Santa's arms and you won't believe this, but she SMILED! The girl who cries for everyone smiled for Santa. Amazing!

Dancing at Disney

We spent the past week visiting Papa in FL. It was a great trip and we all had a lot of fun. I was pretty nervous about taking my busy, busy 10 month old on an air plane for 3 hours but even she did great. We did have the screaming baby for a little while on the plane ride home, but eventually she passed out.

One of my favorite moments was at Downtown Disney. On the main stage a dance line was performing a few dances. Of course Sienna and I had to watch. As soon as I set her down, she put her hands on her hips, started shaking them to the beat, and did her best to imitate the dancers on stage. She didn't stop dancing throughout the whole performance and instantly had a crowd watching her. People even turned around in their seats to see her moves. She ate it all up flashing her "I know I'm cute" smiles. I couldn't stop giggling.

Here's a couple clips.