Backyard photos

Sienna a year and 1 day old!

HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY SIENNA!!!!

We took Sienna to the Academy of Science Museum in San Francisco with her Lolo & Lola for her birthday. She loved seeing all the fishes and especially the Penguins. I think she could sit there all day watching them swim around. We had lunch at Sang Tung in my old neighorhood when I went to school in San Francisco. Later, we picked up her other grandma for some cake, balloons and presents!

Sienna,

How quickly this year has passed, and how quickly you've grown .

Happy Birthday to my baby who is now a little girl!

Love,

Mommy

Sienna loves balloons

"I don't get it"

"I don't know about this"

are you sure this is ok?

"not bad"

" cake is goood"

Sienna excited on her birthday!

Sienna & Lola can watch fishes all day.

Sienna the Halloween Bunny

Sienna's 1st Halloween. These pics were taken in downtown Petaluma where we strolled around some of the local shops and went out to dinner.

The Little Cruiser

I'm a week behind on updating... Sienna is now 11 months and 1 week old. Already looking and acting like a toddler, Sienna has 6 teeth coming through ( 3 top front and 3 bottom front teeth). She's walks by holding onto furniture, walls, and us. She can stand unassisted for a good few seconds before she gets insecure, and plops to the floor to her more comfortable crawling mode. Sienna has already taken her first steps, so I'm placing my bets she will be full on walking before her birthday.
We took Sienna to a pumkin patch in Petaluma, here are some pictures:

10 months old

Sienna's 10month birth date is shared with her Lola & Lolo's wedding 34th Anniversary! This evening Sienna took her photos, which is getting harder and harder to do each month. Eventually, I had to put her in baby jail to take some video footage.

She is getting really good at saying mamamama and daadaaa daaa. Also, she is pointing even more at things you say. The list-to-date: Zacky, Daddy, Mommy, tree, light, nose, and teeth.

If she doesn't point. She'll look over and smile at what you say. I first noticed when she started to recognize the word for tree and our cat Zacky.

Sienna is crawling at a fast speed now, and pulling herself up on everything.

Here's her pictures from tonight!

Zacky tried to kiss me!

Sienna's mobile!

Sienna turned 9 months old this past Friday. She's learned quite a bit over the past 4 weeks. Sienna loves to point at things, open/shuts the drawer at the bottom of her crib, crawls around (today she manage to go from the living room to her bedroom) and she is standing up in her crib. Her new found mobility is quite scary for us.

Bedtime is a challenge. It was a lot easier getting her to fuss herself to sleep when she couldn't sit right back up, or stand in her crib in protest.

Her 9month day photoshoot didn't go so well. Now that she can crawl away, it's like trying to take a picture of an animal in the wild... I kept getting her to smile at the camera, as she lunged to snatch it from me. Finally, I gave up and had to use the "binky".

so innocent

so naughty

8 months old today!

Every month I video tape Sienna on her birthdate. Today I was expecting her to do something on camera she had started doing for the past few weeks like, her "smiley eye expressioin" or when she's sitting she quickly gets into crawling position, and makes an attempt to crawl.

Instead, she starts clapping! I've never seen her clap before, and I saw it for the first time while looking through my camera. It was so funny watching her clap, pause to examine her hands, and start clapping again. Yay Sienna!

I discourage Sienna from doing this, but she slipped this one in while I was messing with the camera.

Sienna, right before she started clapping for the first time.