Round Two

Today Sierra had her 4 month check up (it was a month late) and the second round of shots. It was definately worse than last time. But she still did pretty well all things considered. She is 12 lbs 9 oz (50th) and 24 1/2 inches long (90th). AND she is tripoding like a 6 month old. Whatever that means haha.

'tripoding'

mullet

Travels

My friend Susan did this and it looked like fun so I did it too! Places I've been in the U.S: Even though I'm from Canada I've been to way more places in the states. Growing up we always travelled here and drove from ontario to florida and utah so i've seen lots of states.


visited 23 states (46%)
Create your own visited map of The United States or try another Douwe Osinga project

I'd still really love to go to Oregon & Hawaii.

5 Months

Sierra is 5 months old today. She gets cuter and more fun every month! Everyone in our house has been sick lately and she has been a really good sport about it. She is always coughing and congested and it's so sad but she doesn't seem to mind too much. She just wants to be held twice as much as usual. Some new things she is doing since last month:

-Army crawl. she can really get around now and i have to constantly be watching her. but it is impossible to get it on video. everytime i try she stops and looks at me or refuses to do it when i have the camera ready. i have even tried hiding behind the couch and standing at the stairway spying on her. but it's like she knows i'm there. little rascal.

-scratching. she loves to scratch. especially rough fabrics, my arms, and blankets. not so much her face anymore which is definately a good thing.

-cell phones, remotes, and cups. she gets frantic when she sees any of these things and has to grab them and bring them to her mouth immediately.

-actually she wants to put everything in her mouth lately.

-she wants our food. i think she's ready for solids now because she watches our every move when we eat and grabs for it. and last night when we were out for dinner she was putting the cup to her mouth and sucking on it and i swear she was getting mad because she wasnt getting any liquid out of it.

-she won't take a bottle anymore! even if it's pumped. she gets so upset and will cry and scream for half an hour before she gets desperate and will take it. (at least thats what eric's mom told me) so now i feel bad leaving her ever. such a disaster.

Well I guess that's about it since last month.

She is a funny girl and has such a little sassy attitude. We love her to death. Also I think i'm ruining my teeth because i grit them so much because i can't take how cute she is. Normal? Probably not.

The latest picture of her: And here is a video of her pretending she doesnt know how to crawl/basically just staring at the camera:

NC

This year we went to Duck, North Carolina for Thanksgiving. My friend Serena and I drove down Sunday night with her two girls and Sierra. Eric and Chris drove down Tuesday night. It was so much fun! We were right by the beach and even though it was pretty cold it was so beautiful! There were 3 other couples up there with us who also stayed in the house. We went to the aquarium, shopped at lots of cute stores, played games, went in the hot tub, and lots of other fun things.
My birthday was on Friday so we celebrated with shopping, dinner at outback and ice cream cake!
It's always so nice to get away for a while. Thanks everyone who was up there for making it such a fun week and enjoyable trip!
Playing Rock Band-SO FUN!
At Sonic-yummy cream slushes!
Thanksgiving Day (Serena's little 4 yr old girl Lane took this-pretty good! haha)
Cute little Isaac & Lane cheers-ing
Some sketchy pictures in the house
Serena presenting her delicious sweet potatoes
learning early :)
tuckered out from shopping at The Christmas Mouse
Serena, Lane & Me at Outback
Sierra wants the ice cream!

Our last day at the beach

Sleepy munchkin on the way home

The Bug Came Back!

Do not ask me how the bug made it's way back into our lives, but it did. I am positive that we didn't use the stroller the night it went missing but two nights ago when I pulled it out the bug was there! We are very pleased with it's return.

A Camper & A Sleeper

What do you do when your husband is on a young men's camp freezing his rump off and your baby is sleeping? I'm not sure-I'm getting pretty bored. So I guess I'll update my blog with a pointless entry!
I just finished watching The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2-so cute! I love Blake Lively(Gossip Girl) and Alexis Bledel(Gilmore Girls). And since I'm so bored right now with nothing to do I just read both of their biographies. Did you know that Alexis Bledel's first name is Kimberly? Or that her first language is spanish and she learned English in school? If you watch gilmore girls you know that she is obsessed with coffee on the show but really she hates it and drinks coke on set. Pretty enlightening stuff wouldn't you say? haha
Today we had our first snowfall! Tomorrow we are celebrating my birthday a week early with Eric's family and on Sunday we leave for North Carolina for a week for thanksgiving! Then when we get back Eric's brother and his wife will have moved here from Utah and it will also be time to start decorating the house all Christmasy! Which I'm pretty excited about this year since I have way more space to decorate!
It's 1:30 in the morning now so I guess I'll go try to sleep. Here are a couple new pics of Sierra:


Nighty Night!

Date Night

Last night was so much fun! We dropped Sierra off at Eric's parents and his mom actually gave us money for the night! We should be paying them to watch her but instead they pay us! Pretty sweet! It is so nice to have family near by and be able to go out whenever we want because we know there are grandparents dying to watch our little baby.
After we dropped her off we met up with a big group of people from the Susquehanna ward for dinner at La Tolteca. There were seriously like 20 couples there! I think it is so cool that their ward does these big get togethers! Some of the people we knew who went (so i remember later on who was there)were the loff's, the landbeck's, the reuckert's, the braun's, the mccafferty's, the bullock's and the crowl's.
After we went to get homemade ice creram at this cute little farm called broom's bloom with the rueckert's and landbecks. so yummy. and cheap too! we will definately be returning. eric got rice pudding (really good) and cookies and cream and i got chocolate peppermint chip.
After that we went to the mall and i got new black dress shoes at Aldo.
Then we went back to Eric's parents and watched the UFC fights wth Kye.
Sorry, no pictures of this event. :) But it was a good time and so nice to get out together.