Siena Rose at 16 months old

Siena is so smart!  She is extremely independent too.  Smart and independent = A Sassy little girl.  Although she's well mannered, already saying Please and Thank You!

VOCABULARY:  She says the following words and pretty often; Bye, Hi, No, Mine, Baby, Ma Ma, Da, Daw (For Monty), Ba (Bottle), Bey (Paci), Peez (Please), Tank too (Thank You), Boo (Blueberrys, her favorite food)

ACTIVITY:  She is a very busy bodied little girl.  She loves putting on bracelets and necklaces, putting coins stacked up all over the room, opening and closing containers, drawing, dancing and climbing all over everything!  And she loves water, sitting in sinks and turning the faucet on and off, splashing in the fountain, etc.

MONTY:  She LOVES Monty, hugs and kisses him all the time and gives him treats.  She also yells No at him when he tries to eat her food.  Any dog she sees it's the greatest thing in the world to her.  She shouts and points as if seeing a rock star.

EATING:  She feeds herself with a fork and spoon now, she will NOT let you feed her anymore.

LOVING:  She cuddles a bunch, gives kisses and hugs.  She is the sweetest and melts our hearts!

Siena's 1st Movie

We went to Despicable Me 2 at Cinepolis as a family on Sunday.  It was Siena's first movie!  It held her attention for a whole 15 minutes and then she wanted to walk up and down the stairs and play with my purse and empty out all it's contents.  The kids loved eating popcorn and Sprite.

Braydon learns to swim!

We enrolled Braydon in a class called Swim 2 John to teach him how to swim.  For some reason he has a huge fear of the water and a lot of his friends are swimming now so we thought it was time.  It's a 10 day class, 10 minutes a day and he's guaranteed to swim at the end.  I was so proud of him!  He advanced so quickly!  He is a swimmer now, doing full breast strokes and all.  Craig takes him weekly to a pool so he doesn't forget.  Every day that I took him to class he would say "Mommy when I learn to swim can I go surfing with Daddy?"

The Steele Family Visits!

The Steele's came to visit for a week in mid July.  It was such an eventful and fun time!  They flew in Friday and we did a day at the beach in Mission Beach on Saturday.  The kids played in the sand and splashed in the waves.  Braydon was REALLY excited to be with cousin Dylan, they LOVE each other.  On Sunday the adults spent the day in Newport on a Duffy.  On Wednesday night we went to the ESPYs in LA, Thursday night we went to the Hullabaloo concert with all the kiddos at the Botanical Garden, Friday we went to the races and Saturday just hung out at the house.  Dylan is such a  sweetheart.  The kids played in the bouncy house, watched movies and did arts and crafts.  Siena and Dylan had a battle of wills pretty often, Dylan wasn't used to having a baby around that grabs at all her toys :)