i LOVE that sierra refers to herself in the 3rd person!
it makes sense - i mean, i've been referring to myself as Mommy the majority of her life and not "I".
for almost 2 months now, she has referred to herself in the 3rd person - first as "Sassah", now as "Sessah" and just recently she'll say "Seeya". it's so much more fun to hear "Sessah food, Sessah raisins" instead of grunting and pointing to guess what she wants.
and when i say "Sierra Grace" in a 'mommy isn't happy with what you're doing' tone of voice, she stops, giggles and repeats "Sessah Gace" with a big smile. little stinker.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Friday, May 20, 2011
dressing her self and buckling buckles
Sierra is definitely trying to grow up way too fast!!!
Buckles:
recently, she has been consumed with figuring out how to buckle the buckles on her highchair, car seat and on all the baby things we've recently pulled out - swing, bouncer, etc. typically it's hard for one toy/thing to hold her attention for too long, but she can try and try and try buckling for quite a long time - usually when she's not sitting in the chair, but just standing in front of it working on the buckle! she is soooo determined! she's been doing this for a few weeks and has finally gotten the hang of it...this is going to end up being really helpful for me when the baby comes! and it's precious when she gets it because yells YAYYYYY! and looks over at me with this huge smile, waiting for praise on what a big girl she is :) now she is trying to figure out how to unbuckle...that one's a bit tougher.
Dressing:
oh yes, she has also become obsessed with putting on pants - several of them at the same time. she will pull out all her pajama pants (the only ones she can reach from her dresser), sit down and start to put her legs through them. after a couple weeks of trying, she is getting pretty good! she can get them as far as up to her knees and then needs helping pulling them all the way up. sometimes shirts end up on her legs too! it's pretty funny, but can be a challenge when we are actually in a hurry to get dressed (with only one pair of pants...or a dress without pants!) and get out the door. again, this is another activity that can keep her interest for quite a long time! great for when mommy needs to get dressed and ready for the day!!
Buckles:
recently, she has been consumed with figuring out how to buckle the buckles on her highchair, car seat and on all the baby things we've recently pulled out - swing, bouncer, etc. typically it's hard for one toy/thing to hold her attention for too long, but she can try and try and try buckling for quite a long time - usually when she's not sitting in the chair, but just standing in front of it working on the buckle! she is soooo determined! she's been doing this for a few weeks and has finally gotten the hang of it...this is going to end up being really helpful for me when the baby comes! and it's precious when she gets it because yells YAYYYYY! and looks over at me with this huge smile, waiting for praise on what a big girl she is :) now she is trying to figure out how to unbuckle...that one's a bit tougher.
Dressing:
oh yes, she has also become obsessed with putting on pants - several of them at the same time. she will pull out all her pajama pants (the only ones she can reach from her dresser), sit down and start to put her legs through them. after a couple weeks of trying, she is getting pretty good! she can get them as far as up to her knees and then needs helping pulling them all the way up. sometimes shirts end up on her legs too! it's pretty funny, but can be a challenge when we are actually in a hurry to get dressed (with only one pair of pants...or a dress without pants!) and get out the door. again, this is another activity that can keep her interest for quite a long time! great for when mommy needs to get dressed and ready for the day!!
and side note, she is really improving with handling her frustration!! she has always gotten easily frustrated when she couldn't quickly figure something out and would grunt/whine and often throw something to let you know she was upset. i told her instead she needed to ask for help saying "help please" and now she does it with this really sweet voice and then waits patiently for help ... without the frustration noises!! i'm pretty amazed!! and thankful :)
(she is crying because she bumped her head on the dresser...not because she put her legs through a shirt!)
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
cuddle time with Daddy
Kyle has been trying to get Sierra to cuddle with him on the couch for quite some time now and she is just so squirmy and full of energy that she's been resistant - always on the go. But recently she loves to give hugs, hold hands and yesterday evening gave her Daddy some short but precious cuddle time on the couch!!!
aren't they so sweet?!?!
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Wildflower Center
this was one of the fieldtrips we took about a month ago with some friends and their kiddos. we were looking for a good spot to take bluebonnet pictures but since we haven't had much rain this spring, there weren't many out there. at least it was a pretty day to enjoy the outdoors and plenty of other pretty flowers. the highlight for the kids was definitely the turtles in the pond at the entrance...and the pond in the back...and then the playground we went to afterwards - not the flowers. oh well, we all had fun and at least got to snap a "few" photos...
i guess this is a true sign of a toddler - majority of my pictures are of the back of Sierra's head and she is walking away or just busy doing her own thing...absolutely NO interest/time to stop and pose for a picture!
oops, she did pick a few flowers...pretty sure that's not allowed. but i chose the photo op over stopping her!
she was dropping pebbles into the pond and the big kids wanted to see what all the fun was about
this was our best bluebonnet picture...hope next year is more successful!!!
sweet baby curls (i hope she doesn't lose those!) and the strap that just wouldn't stay on
busy with her rocks
gotcha!
that smile melts my heart :)
bad shadows, but what a cutie!
rocks seem to always provide such great entertainment...and at this point the hair clip was lost and the photo session had gone a bit too long....
i was playing around with the camera so the lighting is weird, but she was being silly while mommy made one last attempt at a face-on picture :)
I just don't want to forget...
all the adorable and hilarious things that our silly girl says and does. so please excuse all these wordy posts. feel free to skip over them until i get more pictures up :)
* we went to HEB two days in a row and the next day we got in the car to go to the park and sierra said from the backseat (in a very excited voice) "H-E-D! H-E-D!". haha, poor girl...at least i took her to the park instead that time! *I started this post 2 weeks ago and since then, she hasn't been so excited about H-E-D. We pulled up the other day and she started shaking her head saying "no H-E-D, no H-E-D". But today she was playing in her car in the backyard and I asked her where she was going..."H-E-D!" she said. I guess it's a love-hate relationship :)
* sierra has loved hiding for quite awhile. now she covers her eyes and thinks you can't see her. whenever she's hiding and i ask "where's Sierra?" she always responds with "hiding!" *it has since turned in to her response for anything I ask about. ex: "where are your shoes?" "hiding!"; "where did the bird go?" "hiding!"
* she is really practicing her verbs and opposites. she loves to open and close doors, while saying "open! close!" over and over. she also does "up! down!" with her head nodding or with animals. she just started now doing "in! out!" getting inside her cozy coupe car or the laundry basket. and she always says it with such excitement in her voice :)
* she talks so much and fast that she often says the wrong person/thing a couple times in a row and then stops, thinks and says it correctly. you can just see it on her face, how quickly her little mind is working! example: (to Kyle) "all done, mommy all done, mommy....(pause) daddy all done, daddy all done."
* this morning when i went to get her out of her crib (she had been awake for a little while reading in bed), she just talked my ear off. she didn't want me to get her out yet, so i sat in the rocker and listened as she told me all about lots of animals. it was a very long conversation (more like story but she needs me to repeat back what she's said to show that i was listening and understand)! it went something like this...
S: "bunny, bunny, eating, bunny eating"
me: "the bunny is eating?"
S: "yeah! bunny, eye, ear, feet, tail, nose, mouth, bunny" (pointing to those things on herself)
S: "goat, goat, eating, food, hungy, goat, agua, mouth"
*she has started putting 3 and 4 words together to make sentences with nouns and verbs - mostly correct! her first few "sentences" have been: "no hitting baby" (i need to do a seperate post on that subject!), "no hitting mommy" (do we see a pattern?), "i see you daddy", "i see you mommy", "i ee you too" (i love you too)
* we went to HEB two days in a row and the next day we got in the car to go to the park and sierra said from the backseat (in a very excited voice) "H-E-D! H-E-D!". haha, poor girl...at least i took her to the park instead that time! *I started this post 2 weeks ago and since then, she hasn't been so excited about H-E-D. We pulled up the other day and she started shaking her head saying "no H-E-D, no H-E-D". But today she was playing in her car in the backyard and I asked her where she was going..."H-E-D!" she said. I guess it's a love-hate relationship :)
* sierra has loved hiding for quite awhile. now she covers her eyes and thinks you can't see her. whenever she's hiding and i ask "where's Sierra?" she always responds with "hiding!" *it has since turned in to her response for anything I ask about. ex: "where are your shoes?" "hiding!"; "where did the bird go?" "hiding!"
* she is really practicing her verbs and opposites. she loves to open and close doors, while saying "open! close!" over and over. she also does "up! down!" with her head nodding or with animals. she just started now doing "in! out!" getting inside her cozy coupe car or the laundry basket. and she always says it with such excitement in her voice :)
* she talks so much and fast that she often says the wrong person/thing a couple times in a row and then stops, thinks and says it correctly. you can just see it on her face, how quickly her little mind is working! example: (to Kyle) "all done, mommy all done, mommy....(pause) daddy all done, daddy all done."
* this morning when i went to get her out of her crib (she had been awake for a little while reading in bed), she just talked my ear off. she didn't want me to get her out yet, so i sat in the rocker and listened as she told me all about lots of animals. it was a very long conversation (more like story but she needs me to repeat back what she's said to show that i was listening and understand)! it went something like this...
S: "bunny, bunny, eating, bunny eating"
me: "the bunny is eating?"
S: "yeah! bunny, eye, ear, feet, tail, nose, mouth, bunny" (pointing to those things on herself)
S: "goat, goat, eating, food, hungy, goat, agua, mouth"
*she has started putting 3 and 4 words together to make sentences with nouns and verbs - mostly correct! her first few "sentences" have been: "no hitting baby" (i need to do a seperate post on that subject!), "no hitting mommy" (do we see a pattern?), "i see you daddy", "i see you mommy", "i ee you too" (i love you too)
Monday, May 9, 2011
Agua! and Mother's Day :)
I had a wonderful Mother's Day! Kyle (& Sierra of course) gave me some beautiful pink tulips, a sweet card and a photo collage. Our day started with an 8am meeting at church so we stopped at SB on the way to get my coffee "treat". After church Kyle had reservations for us to have brunch downtown and it was amazing - great food, great atmosphere, warm muffins, and just because it was Mother's Day we got a free slice of cake and a 5x7 picture of the 3 of us from a photographer the restaurant hired! Sierra then took a nap while Kyle and I watched a movie. Once she was up, I went down for my nap while Kyle had some daddy/daughter time. I woke up to find this....
I'm sure you could hear that laugh for miles - she was LOVING it! ...especially when she turned towards mommy and discovered she could get me wet!!
pure JOY
then we tossed the clothes and put her in the pool, which she lovingly called the "boat"
she was "tooting noodles", so of course she had to "eat" them!
totally "nakie" now!
what a little ham :)
We all had a blast! Once we got the little one bathed and in bed, our good friend came over to babysit so Kyle and I could slip away to meet some friends for yogurt. We sat outside, enjoying the breeze and good conversation.
It was the perfect day! I am sooo blessed to be a Mommy to this sweet little girl (and boy on the way)...and wife to my amazing husband. Thank you, Lord!
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Mom
just this week Sierra has sometimes started calling me "mom"...not "mama" or "mommy".
what?! where did this come from?! it sounds sooo grown up! i'm not ready to be "mom" yet!
i looooooooooove the way she calls me "mommy"!!!
i hope this doesn't stick! so far it's only been when she repeats "mommy, mommy..." over and over and then turns it into "mom, mom...". but she laughs and just thinks it's the funniest thing. i'm trying to tell her that's not my name. hopefully that works.
oh little girl, please don't grow up too fast!!!
what?! where did this come from?! it sounds sooo grown up! i'm not ready to be "mom" yet!
i looooooooooove the way she calls me "mommy"!!!
i hope this doesn't stick! so far it's only been when she repeats "mommy, mommy..." over and over and then turns it into "mom, mom...". but she laughs and just thinks it's the funniest thing. i'm trying to tell her that's not my name. hopefully that works.
oh little girl, please don't grow up too fast!!!
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