Merry Christmas

It's a few days late, but hopefully it was a wonderful celebration for all.  Seanna really enjoyed the holidays this year and I think she is going to be very disappointed when everyone's Christmas lights displays have been taken down and all the decorations put away--the only person she won't miss --SANTA.  She is NOT a big fan of his this year, so we will have to begin working on promoting him a little earlier next year.  She has really begun talking the last two weeks and has even started putting small sentences together--"where's Daddy" and "Bye Bye Jess".  She has even added several words to her vocabulary over the last week-apple (we walked into the grocery store on Saturday and she shouted "APPLE" at the top of her lungs when she saw the apple bin),  Up, Moon (she is obsessed with the moon), mammaw and grama and pappa.  She is really doing great!

Her favorite show on television is Yo Gabba Gabba--she gets to watch a small amount of TV every morning when we're trying to get breakfast ready and get daddy off to work.

Her favorite food--now that is tricky since it seems to be changing from day to day.  She loves to eat our oatmeal in the morning (she now gets her own bowl as she almost eats the entire bowl), she still loves fruit, especially frozen blueberries which are a chocolate mess to serve her, and finally whatever mom and dad are eating is what she wants for dinner.

She is able to run and is extremely coordinated these days.  She is starting to throw a ball and we bought her a tee and bat for Xmas to work on her hand eye coordination.  She is a great climber and problem solver as she has already learned how to scale a ladder at Gymboree and is also able to open the diswasher and climb on the sofas.

Hope everyone is well and had a safe and lovely holiday season.  We would love to hear how you are all doing...

JR Firefighter in Training

Seanna and I went on a field trip last week to our local firehouse for a tour.  At first, she wasn't quite sure what to think-but when she and I were able to jump into the cabin of the fire truck and she came alive!!  She waived at everyone as soon as the door shut and told them "bye-bye"...  when we got home and still to this day, she wears her little red fire hat around the house and laughs when she looks in the mirror.

We've been frantically getting ready for the holidays.  Seanna absolutely loves Xmas lights and when she likes a particular set up in someone's yard, she grins from ear to ear and yells "LIGHTS".  She is DEFINITELY not a fan of santa this year, we tried to get a photo and she wasn't having it.

Hope everyone is well and early Merry Xmas wishes!

Happy Turkey Day

We hope you all had a fantastic Turkey Day!  We have been celebrating alot here at our home --my 39th bday (Seanna and I went to Disneyland for the 1st time last week) and then we had Thanksgiving (we did the Turkey Trot in the morning and came home and cooked Thanksgiving Dinner at home) and then Wes and I celebrated our 11th year anniversary last night.  So many things to be thankful for...  Seanna is doing great these days and talking and playing up a storm.  She has alot of new words that she likes to say--car, please, birdie, doggie, daddy, hello, mommy, etc.  and she gabbers on top of that.  She is definitely going to be the class clown as she has fun and laughs alot during the day (but also has a very strong temper as well).  
Hope all is well with you...

Love, Us

Happy Halloween!!!!!!

We had so much fun last night!!!!!!  We went around the neighborhood early before anyone was out to visit the neighbors and then parked ourselves out at home and waited for over 200+ trick or treaters to come over...  We got Seanna's cheerios out on the front porch and in between bites, she would pass out candy to our visitors.  Everyone had a ton of fun.  We also had our photo shoot today for our holiday cards from my very good friend the photographer.  We got some awesome shots of our family and Seanna!

She is really doing welll these days (although week before last she was SUPER sick with a terrible fever but is tons better now).  She is a pistol peet these days and has energy from the time she wakes up, until the time she goes to bed.  We also got our first haircut yesterday in preparation for our holiday photos!  Hope everyone had a great Halloween...

Playing Dress up and Tanaka Farms

So last week Seanna and I broke out her dress up costumes and I wasn't exactly sure how she would do (since she hates changing her clothes I wasn't sure if dress up was something that would appeal to her)--She LOVED it!  Her favorite activity during the day is to raid my costume jewlery and wear all of my necklaces and bracelets.  Later in the week, we went to the pumpkin farm which was a blast...  we went for a tractor ride, went into the petting zoo area with some goats and then picked our own veggies and pumpkins.  Seanna had a blast...  thought you would enjoy the photos!

Happy 15 Months!

It's hard to believe that Seanna is 15 months old today!  We spent the day going to a local pumpkin patch and she had fun going through all the pumpkins, watching other kids ride the John Deer Tractors and riding a "hay" horse.  She is growing, growing, growing and got 4 molars and a lower tooth in the last week and a half.  She was in a ton of pain constantly and very few things made her happy--thank goodness we are past that stage.  She has made a lot of progress in her verbal skills (at least from an understanding standpoint) as she now knows what several words mean--ball, baby, book, sleep, blanket etc.  She is doing very, very well.

Bottles no more...

So many changes these past few weeks--Seanna has completely given up bottles these days (thank goodness as the formula was a small fortune every week).  She is talking up a storm (baby talk) but has started saying a few more words very clearly--birdie, please and doggie. She LOVES her daddy and this is a photo of her after she begged to wear his sound reducing headset--she thought it was soooo cool and we laughed so hard.  Her doctor appt a few weeks ago she measured in at 31" long (90%) and 23lbs 12 oz (75%) and is a healthy as a horse as well as eating like one.  She eats about every two hours right now and is constantly hungry so I'm sure she is getting ready for another growth spurt.  She is wearing size 5 shoes and 2 T clothes already.  We've moved her up to the next level at her gym class and she is now "hanging" with the 16-22 month olds and doing all the same activities that they are... she has mastered the art of turning door handles and is also walking down the 2 steps using a railing from our kitchen to our family room.  She got three new lower teeth this week so needless to say she was very crabby and didn't sleep very well.  All and all she is doing great and having lots of fun with her new friends.

Love to all!