Smarty Pants

The lighting is AWFUL in this video but I thought it was so cute I decided to post it anyway. Sienna is just starting to respond to particular words and motions and we learned this weekend that she actually knows what you are talking about occasionally. Here you go!

Florida!

We just got back from a "escape-the-cold-weather" vacation with my family to Palm Beach. It was awesome. It was a bit unusual hearing "Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow" on the radio when it was 75 degrees out, but it was fun anyway. We stayed in a nice hotel where Sienna got her own bedroom that happened to be the bathroom. For those of you have babies, you might agree that it is difficult to share a bedroom after they have been sleeping in the nursery. When Sienna sleeps in her Pack 'N Play in our room, she wakes up at every little noise. She hears something (we move, cough, breathe...whatever) so she stands up & realizes her mom & dad are RIGHT THERE. So of course she wants us to pick her up and play with her. It doesn't make for a restful night. So when we saw the bathroom was gigantic, we decided the crib would stay in there and we would use my parents bathroom adjoining room if we needed to after she had gone to bed. And it was a great idea - Sienna slept an hour later in the morning for some reason while we were there! Here are a few pictures from our visit...

The Hotel.....

The Beach....

At breakfast. We forgot her bib so a cloth napkin had to do...

We also had a chance to visit my Mom's Godmother, Joyce. I tried to take a photo of the two but it didn't turn out. At least I got a photo of Joyce's stylin' flamingo. He came with lots of outfits, but obviously he is celebrating Christmas. :)



My favorite... :)

Thanksgiving and Happy Birthday To ME!

The past few weeks have been really great and a little crazy. The weekend right before we left for NY/Mass. for Thanksgiving, Daniel and I got the stomach flu. That was a little tricky - it was the first time we were both sick at the same time trying to take care of the baby. But Sienna didn't get it, so that is good. We did, however, seem to bring our germs to Daniel's family while we were there for Thanksgiving. I felt terrible that everyone got sick (sorry again guys!) but we had a great time there anyway. I did an awful job taking pictures but Jesse and Caroline took approximately 80,000 or so and I will update this page if I see some. :0)

We returned from Thanksgiving two days before my (gasp!) 30th birthday. Daniel out did himself to celebrate with me. He took me to dinner at my new favorite italian restaurant, Il Fornaio. The bread is amazing and we had delicious salad, soup and butternut squash ravoli with brown walnut sauce. It was soo good. On top of my yummy dinner out, Daniel also arranged a suprise-ish party for me. He told me about a month in advance that I had to come up with the best 80's outfit that I could find. That is all I knew. So I followed his instructions and we ended up at our friends Rob, Ladson & Slater's house and when I walked in I was surprised with a bunch of my favorite people - all wearing ridiculous awesome outfits. For example...

Daniel knows I really love celebrating birthdays (especially MINE!!!) so he really made my 30th special. Thank you, Super-Husband! :)