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 :)

4th of July - Park City, Utah

We had a big Wilder family reunion in Park City over the 4th of July to spread Great Grandpa Wilder's ashes.  It was a great time.  I flew out on Monday the 1st with the kids all by myself which was a bit of a challenge.  Siena does not like to sit still so airplanes are a challenge for her.  She has a Sassy attitude and cries when big brother doesn't let her have something she wants or is told not to do something.  The kids loved looking out the plane window though.  Braydon would shout "look at the ocean Mommy!'  or "look at the boats!"

The kids were so excited to spend the week with Mimi, Grampy, The Greenes and the Steeles.  We had a beautiful house that was walking distance to everything!  At Park City Resort they had a ton of kid rides, an Alpine Slide, Alpine Coaster, Zipline, Merry Go Round, Train, etc.  We made a trip there at least once every day.  Braydon loved the Coaster and slide.  Siena could only go on the Merry Go Round but she loved people watching and spending time with her cousins.

On the 4th there was a huge parade through town, the kids loved it!  They ate popsicles and danced to the music.  That night we went to the Salt Lake City Firework show where Chuck (my Dad's best friend, who is head Pyrotechnic) set up a special tribute for Grandpa Wilder.  My Dad set it off.  There were 95 salutes and 125 fireworks that looked like snowflakes in honor of Grandpa's love of skiing.  They announced him over the loud speaker.  It was pretty amazing.  Craig stayed back at the house with Braydon and Siena because Siena couldn't stay up that late.  Bray and Daddy watched the fireworks together over the Park City mountain.  Bray couldn't stop talking about how cool it was.

On the 5th we spread Grandpa's ashes at Alta Ski Resort on his favorite lift with all 30 Elmers and the Bastings and Polhemous family.  It was a beautiful moment with Wildflowers everywhere.

Braydon and Siena had the best time and Braydon can't stop talking about wanting to go back to Utah with all his cousins.  Siena had a great time too, she loved dancing for her cousins and clapping.  At the airport on the way home she would wave and say "Bye" to everyone.