22 months

Tons of new vocabulary (dark, park, pool, MINE, names of classmates and teachers, numbers one and two.)
Sienna is a bit aggressive now, she definitely enjoys using the word mine. We need to work on the hitting and pushing. We have to keep an eye on her with our cat, but she is getting better especially now that I showed her how to feed Zacky treats.

Sienna is very independent and has to do everything herself these days, I hope these toddler tantrums are not a sign of what to expect when she turns 2.

Tonight's 22month picture came past her usual bedtime and she was very cranky. I couldn't pry away the Binky... She was very curious now about how the camera worked especially the video recording, so I showed her. I think she got the concept of how it works because she had a fit again when I tried to resume the picture taking.

Here is the best from the group. Sienna and her monkeys. Once there was one, now she has two.
Her uncle gave her the first one for Christmas, but then she saw a bunch of them on display the last time we went shopping and had to grab them all . Thomas thought how nice it would be to have a backup favorite toy.

Parks and Pools

Sienna was invited to her friend from school's 2nd birthday party last weekend. It was the first time she played in a splash pool . Today we went to a Labor day party where Sienna got a chance to splash in a big pool. All she talks about now is pool pool pool. At least it's something different than obsessing about the park.
I caught her once having a dream about the park. She fell asleep in the carseat, and woke up all startled when I tried getting her out. Her awakening first words were, "park!

Also, Sienna said her first full sentence about 2 weeks ago.
Holding a bennie baby cat that looks like our cat Zacky, she said, " My baby cat".


Here are pics from Alexandre's birthday party.

21 month update!

Earlier this month Sienna, my mom and I went to a kids park in San Francisco for a photoshoot. It was a great day! My co-worker's wife is a photographer http://www.petitepixels.com , and it was a great opportunity for us to capture Sienna at this age where she is running around now and can enjoy the play park. Her favorite park acitivity is the slide.

Favorite activites this month: buckling (high chair, stroller, car seat) good thing she can't unbuckle yet!, trying to do everything herself (dressing, putting on shoes, moving her furniture), and climbing.

Pho Challenge

Friday night, we took Sienna to the city for dinner with old friends from college. We went to a Vietnamese resturant, Pho Garden, which is known for their 3x extra large noodle soup challenge. I believe if you can finished the bowl within 1 hour you get your meal for free, and picture taken with the "I did it!" trophy bowl.
At every large table there were a few brave willing to try the challenge. The waitress informs everyone of the new challenger and we all cheer. I think 3 guys managed to finish during the time we were there.
At our table, only our friend Joko was willing to try. In the end, Sienna took over his bowl of soup. She loves to eat!

20 Month Update

Sienna is toddler talking more each day.

More and More words

Sienna is repeating everyone. For the first time, she started combing words too. The new words in the past few days include:

turtle, Hi Dadda, black, baby, Nena (Sienna), me, meat, juice, bib

I think she's gone through another growth spurt. It's sad to pack away old shoes and clothes, athough it was fun having to run out with her on the weekend to buy some summer outfits. :)

I was playing back the video caputures for Sienna. We watch the most recent to all the way back when she was 3months old. She kept pointing at herself, smiling, and saying, "Nena, Nena, Nena!" until we got to the 3 month videos.

Sienna got very mad and jealous ( in the videos she was holding one of her stuff bears). I realized at that point, she didn't recognize herself anymore. I couldn't convince her it was still Sienna. She didn't like seeing a baby playing with her things.

Her are pictures from the 22nd of June and earlier this month.

Happy 19 months, Sienna!

Sienna enjoys the backyard

Her many expressions

lots of new words!

This is a mid-month update. Sorry, no pictures this time. I just had to write down all the new things Sienna's been saying this week, before I forget.

Grandma

Purple!

Dee ( I don't know what that actually means but she says it a lot)

Bye-bye and hi (she understood the meaning for months now, but she's finally saying the words!)

It rained this morning and a couple of snails were on the walkway as we walked to the car. Sienna carefully walked around each snail she passed, waved, and said "bye-bye". It was super cute.

She'll be chatting away soon!