Lots to catch up on...

Last week was a bit of a blur as I was the first one to become sick, follwed by Seanna (with her very first cold, fever, ear infection etc), Wes and then Axel. It was more like the television show MASH around here than Valentines day, but at least everyone is back to being healthy again this week.

Instead of celebrating last weekend, we postponed to this weekend... Wes and I had our first "Gourmet Night" with some other couples from the Mom's Club that I joined and we had a fabulous Italian Dinner and conversation and were actually out until almost 10:30. As of lately, Wes and I both can barely make it until 8pm before we are sound asleep as Seanna is up at 5:30am on the dot! The good part of that is she also wants to go to bed at 5:30pm each evening--she will actually pull on my pant leg and asks me to put her to bed. I swear she has an alarm clock in her head!!

Today, we celebrated our non-sick Sunday together by taking Axel to the dog park in Irvine (Seanna LOVED the Dog Park and it was Great Dane Day so there were tons of them running around and she was in awe watching them play) and then we headed to the Irvine Zoo. It's a small little zoo that was absolutely the perfect size for Ms Seanna's first zoo outing. We have a few photos from the day and wish all of you a Happy Sunday as well!

Standing Up, Crawling Up Steps and Upper Teeth

As so many people have said, things come in threes and Seanna seems to be following this rule of thumb closely this week. Late last week, she started climbing our stairs, and as of yesterday, she is now able to pull herself up into a standing position and balance there for quite a long time. We can't actually believe that in the morning she could not master this feat at all and by the afternoon she had repeated the same motion probably 30 times in various locations around the family room! She is now officially into everything... and has discovered a whole new world at that level. Tonight she located the drapes in the family room and the fake tree leaves make a great sound when she pulls on them and the spanish moss actually comes out of the pot! I'm also pretty sure that her top teeth should be coming in any day. She wakes up screaming the last several nights around 2 or 3am. Her fist is constantly in her mouth and we are having more challenges with her drinking her bottles again. Hopefully these top teeth won't torture her too much longer.

On Saturday Morning, I woke up to Wes bringing Seanna in our room at 6am before he fed her(unfortunately, I didn't sleep very well the night before so I was still a little groggy) so he was taking over the morning duties for me. All of the sudden, Seanna's face lights up and she says "HI!" and Wes and I got a huge chuckle out of this as did she! Now, that is her second vocabulary word--we are still working on Dada so hopefully that one comes soon. She also decided this morning that she was going to learn how to crawl up the steps from the family room into the kitchen. When I came home from the gym, Wes said "you are not going to believe what she did" and sure enough, she has already mastered the task 4 other times today. She scoots all around the hardwood floor in the kitchen and is attempting to open every cabinet we have--babyproofer is on the way to lock them all!! We had a pretty quite weekend overall, we did go out to feed the ducks on Saturday and Sunday we went to a Superbowl Party for a short time (Seanna isn't really big on loud nosies so when the Steelers intercepted and ran the ball back for a touchdown--that was the end of the party for us!! :) Looks like it might rain again this weekned so we have a few play dates lined up so far and should have fun come rain or shine. Enjoy the week...