Thank you, friends

I want to tell you thank you, yes you! I don't say it enough, but I'm very appreciative of this community. For your advice, support & positive affirmation I want to extend my thanks to all of you for being a part of my small internet world.

Same goes for all the sweet gals I 'met' on IG. This little space of mine is comprised of memories and photos most dear to my heart. Knowing you guys stop by here every so often and even express you how much you "love my blog" it really means a lot and sure makes this girl blush :)

So thank you for stopping in, I appreciate you all.

 I may not always respond to your comments..but I ALWAYS read them.

Healthy cookies

Healthy & made with just three ingredients

need I say more?

2 ripe bananas, mashed

1 cup of uncooked quick oats

1/4 of walnuts

 (I used cranberries & chocolate chips)

bake on 350 for 15-20 minutes

I've made them twice in one week! 

satisfied my craving for sweets in a guilt free way :)

a day in the life

A little run down of what our days look like :)

Typically our day begins between 6:30-7. Sometimes shes a total doll and will sleep till 8, but not too often. I wake up to her babbling away in her crib...I go to get her & smoother that smiling face with kisses. Then change her diaper & play till she starts asking for breakfast, if I give it to her before she asks she most likely will not even touch it.

Her typical breakfast looks something like this...avocado is always a must. Sometimes I get to quickly eat something myself when she eats, but when shes done eating she won't sit in the high chair for even 5 minutes unless I play her a video.

Usually miss bed head gets messy during breakfast so we do bath time in the morning, she seems to prefer it early instead of before bed when shes tired and uninterested in splashing around.

She loves bathtime with her baby, she takes the washcloth & washes her, hugs & kisses. After the bath she gets dressed & plays while I get dressed out of my pjs. She gets a bottle and goes down for a nap.

While she naps, I clean up after breakfast & clean up in general...eat if I haven't eaten yet and start preparing lunch. This is also when I blog :) depending how long the naps is.

 

She usually wakes up starvingggggg so we go right downstairs to get her fed. Like her mama, she loves soups...so I usually whip one up while she naps and have it ready for her when she wakes up...of course, avocado is a must again.

After lunch we play outside while we still can. She waters our veggie garden and runs around chasing bubbles or our neighbors cat who visits us...it makes her day when he comes!

Highlight of our day: Daddy coming home

.she runs to him & gives him hugs!

After Daddy changes & settles in...him & Sienna goof off a bit & we always go for a family walk to the mail box and park. This is the highlight of Charlies day...we let him loose in the park while Sienna plays.

After the walk...one of us or both make dinner while Sienna plays or watches a video in her high chair. Shes usually getting into the pantry or dishwasher ha..who needs toys? What time she goes down for the night depends on whether or not Sienna had 2 naps or 1. After we eat, she plays a bit...we read books & Daddy puts her down for the night and we do it all over again the next day!

Thats pretty much how it goes :)

Sienna's 1st haircut...or trim rather

I've been going back and forth on whether or not I should trim Sienna's hair. Hubs made it very clear that he did not approve of the idea and I should just leave it alone...but leaving it alone meant letting it turn into a wild baby mullet.

So today I decided to trim it...myself. Just a teeny tiny bit to make it even....I didn't tell Danny till after the fact, though I'm not sure he would have even noticed (men are oblivious).

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How did I do it? while she was in the tub,

 I gave her a toy to keep her sitting still...I only needed about 30 seconds for the back. The front was harder with the fear of her moving....that I did with a youtube video of a cat jumping around...she was mesmerized and perfectly still :)

eeep! I love how it flips out by it self.

 Her next cut we'll take her to a salon but I'm sure it won't be for a long time till she needs another cut.

what would you do if...

Your child's picture went viral all over the internet?

creeped out? flattered? mad? baffled?

because I was all of those things.

About a month or two ago someone brought to my attention that Sienna's picture was popping up on their fb from on of those dumb "like" facebook pages. It was titled
 "like this if you think she's cute"  two hours later she had 96K likes...

Mind boggling.

I spent that evening reading each one of those comments and to some relief none were creepy or alarming. I thought about watermarking my photos but 1. its time consuming to do every picture you post 2. its easily removable in photoshop, so if someone really wanted a picture they would have no problem taking out the watermark. So what did I do? for a second I had the urge to delete my social media pages but then I realized...it would make no difference at this point, my pages are private except the blog and I'm not quite sure where the photo was taken from and I just figured it was that one page and they would move onto another picture ending the hype.

well I figured wrong

It wasn't just that one page, 
it was hundreds of pages.

Everyday since then I have someone letting me know they saw her picture somewhere... pintrest, twitter, instagram pages, more facebook 'like' pages, you name it. 

 

 

Travel Plans 2013

I sure hope Sienna likes to travel as much as her mom & dad because we have a busy few months ahead of us, well what I really should say is I hope she BEHAVES on these travels. We really could use some quality family time and more than anything, my hubs deserves a vacation.

Here are some of our upcoming trips!

California 

This will be a little practice run for when we have to travel by plane with Miss fidgety....perk of a road trip - ability to pull over for a break whenever needed. We're going to be in the San Diego area visiting friends & stopping in Carlsbad on the way to see the flower field & to take some Mothers Day photos! miles & miles of flowers....yes please.

 New York 

Last time we went back Sienna was only 5 months old! so excited for her to run around our childhood homes & be able to eat our moms cooking!

NY 2012

Hawaii

I don't think there is a day that passes that we don't talk about this place, once you've been...you'll know what I mean.

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Now PLEASE give me your best traveling with a toddler tips!

Any specific things to bring on the plane besides massive amounts of snacks?

Life lately, all sorts of updates

You know its been crazy busy around here when I haven't had a chance to sit down at the computer for more than 5 minutes hence the lack of blogging lately, buts its Siennas nap time so here is a little brain scatter update of what's been going with us.

*The weather lately has been amazing, 

we spent the last few weekends outside....playdate, park and pool galore

* Poor Miss S had the stomach flu recently. We panicked as it was the first time ever she wasn't feeling well. To make matters worse....hubs got it, then two days I did. 
Luckily we didn't all get it at the same time - that would have been a nightmare.

It was so hard to see her this way knowing there was nothing I could do but let the virus run its course

*Hubs got a new job! so proud of him - it took balls to leave a comfortable job & take a risk at a new position but its an awesome company to be a part of - just different hours now that will take some getting used to for us both. This is how he spent his last day at the old job...haha 

*we finally moved Sienna's crib out of our room and shes been sleeping better...and so are we! no more co-sleeping either.

*Is it possible for terrible twos to happen at 13 months? cuz I'm pretty sure I'm seeing a little preview. Yesterday she laid down on the floor in the middle of Trader Joes...screaming cuz I wouldn't let her hold a tub of yogurt...I hate giving into her little terrors but sometimes I do just for the sake of my sanity.

*We are on the market for an SUV, we both have sedans...one which is on its last hair. Anyone LOVE their SUV? what do you drive? 

*We have a family photoshoot in 2 weeks and I've decided to sass up my look a bit and dye my hair for the FIRST time in my 26 years of life...nothing drastic, need Sienna to still recognize me ha but maybe a tad lighter brown and a new cut. Pintrest has been my BFF in getting ideas. I'm thinking its either the worst or best idea ever to get a new cut & color the day of a photoshoot...we'll see.