Sierra Speak

sierra is communicating more and more every day!


it is a really fun stage because she is learning really quickly and it happens right in front of our eyes! she LOVES to copy sounds she hears and try to repeat words that we say.


mommy likes to play the "can you say ____?" game all day long and she's getting really good at it. she at least tries to repeat most of the words i ask her too and gets pretty close. sometimes she doesn't say anything, but you can tell that her mind is thinking, trying to figure it out


this month she has added to her Sierra Speak vocabulary:

bubble - bubbles (this was one of her very first words)
bubble - diaper (still not sure why it's the same word for both, but she's consistent)
nah - nose
eye - eye
ma - mouth
oh - open or out
nuh nuh - no no (i knew this was coming sooner or later)
tuh tuh - hot hot (usually referring to the oven)
baa - sheep
wah wah or awah - water and milk (she sounds like she's saying it in spanish "agua"!)
bye bye or byyyyye - bye bye (she always says it very emphatically, waving frantically at the same time as if she is shooing people out the door. also if she wants to go outside, she goes to the door and says "bye bye")
alala - abuela (my mom)
papa - poppa (my dad - if you ask her to say "abuela", she always says "papa" right afterwards. she knows they go together!)
gee gee - G.G. (kyle's mom)
nah nah - anya (her little cousin)
***we are practicing all of our family names and some are harder than others, but she'll get there :) ***


even when she doesn't say the word, she has mastered the point and grunt ("ahahah" or "uhuhuh") and we just guess until we figure out what she wants. it really does help make things a lot easier!


and she understands soooo much! but that also works to her disadvantage, because it's obvious when she understands that we're telling her NOT to do something, and she does it anyway...she can't fool us!

she also loves to sing along to songs or books with songs. she recognizes a lot of songs she hears and knows the hand movements that go with them.

sorry for the long post, but she is just too cute and fun right now...i don't want to forget anything!

Numero 2 !!!!!

we officially have Sierra in training...to be a Big Sister!!! yes, yes, it's true...we are pregnant and excitedly expecting baby frazier numero dos around June 5!!!!!!!!!

both sides of our families are in the season of the "baby boom" and it is going to be so fun to have siblings and cousins all so close in age!!

right now (and for awhile), Sierra has been in love with babies - real ones, pictures of real ones, drawings, dolls, etc, etc. - she definitely has a mothering sweetness and we pray that she loves her little brother/sister even more!!! she will be a great big sis!

let the countdown begin...and any predictions of whether this one is a boy or a girl!

"fall" in Texas

oh how i wish we had a real season of Fall in Texas!!! but i love and cherish the handful of beautiful fallish days that we get. on one of them last week, Sierra and i went to the park to enjoy. it was actually super windy, but still enjoyable :)

can you tell she was having a blast?!! look at that smile :)

she had her eye on this little boy (about a year older). she squealed and laughed every time he got close. she really does love the older boys! yikes!!

no fear on the slide!

she kept standing up and trying to walk back up it...that resulted in a red nose from a face plant

and of course, her favorite part of the whole park...playing in the rocks!

a collector of...all

Sierra has become quite the little collector. she loves to pick up a lot of little things and see how many she can hold in her hands. and then when she has too many and one (or all) fall, she picks them back up again!

it's really funny to watch. it can keep her entertained for quite a long time. she will just walk around with a tight grip on her "treasures", smiling, laughing and so proud of herself.

here she is with her halloween candy...little did she know it was even candy! later that day we went on a walk and she didn't let go of the choclate pieces the whole time...we got home and they were squishy from melting inside her little palms!

some of her favorite treasure to collect have been:

* her foam letters and numbers (intended for the bathtub, but even more fun at non-bath time)

i can't find the picture of her with the letters in her hands, but here she is putting them in her baby stroller to take them (yes, the foam letters) on a walk!

* rocks, stones

not sure if you can tell, but both fists are tightly closed around the treasured pebbles she collected. she just had to swing with them too!

* sticks, twigs

* leaves

oh yes, ...and mommy's credit cards, yikes!

(as a side note...i've been taking a lot of pictures on my phone because it's so convenient, but haven't uploaded any of them to my computer. so i'll have to get more pics up here soon!)

let's pray

"Sierra, let's pray" ...and this is what she does. it is precious! usually she has a big smile on her face when she puts her hands together.

while she prays with her eyes wide open, she is really good at staying quiet and still while we pray...unless the prayer is too long for her patience and then she starts to laugh and tries to open up my hands

we've tried all holding hands to pray and she does not like to be constrained so for now, this is how Sierra prays...

:)


Amen.