More Play Time!!

More pictures of Siena and Jack playtime. They are playing so well together and it just keeps getting better ;-)

Two Tickets to the WHAT??

Ohhhh....Two tickets to the GUN show! I got it now.

WHAT?!

Hahaha!

Busy Month!

June has been super hectic between Nick travelling to Germany and then to Seattle, WA and my coming back from MA and going to TN! Yikes ;-) In the middle of all this I managed to snap a *couple* of pictures...hee hee.

Here are some pictures from our trip to Brentwood, TN. We had such a blast with Mandie, her parents, and her beautiful kids. In fact, we were having such a good time that I extended our trip from 7 to 10 days ;-) Check out the fun pictures!!



And here is a video of Jack having a blast in the jumperoo. It was SO freaking FUNNY!

If you give a girl a marker...

...she will use it to draw all over herself.

Good thing it was a washable marker ;-)

Playtime

Siena has been playing with Jack more and more. The jury is still out as to whether this is a good thing ;-)

Happy Days

Jackson loves watching his big sister play...

Jackson is a pretty happy guy in general...

See! He is also LOVING his bumbo seat...

Siena loves stacking things tall...such focus ;-)

She also loves to be silly...

Jack is learning some concentration too!!

Hopefully Siena learns how to use these soon ;-)

Snow day...play day!

Since it was so cold and I had no one to watch little Jack so we all stayed inside on the rare NC snow day. Usually this spells disaster but we had a shockingly good time!

Play time!! (for me too!)

Jackson and Siena were having a fun morning together and I was having fun taking pictures and messing with my camera. Here are some of the pics of the cuties! (double click to see larger in my on-line web album!)

Feeling Blue?

Hardly!! This day Siena was playing in her cute blue jumpsuit...I couldn't resist! Here are some fun pictures from the day:

Siena playing in her new carseat


"FREEEEEEDOMMMMMMMM!!!"


Siena playing with her chalk


Going for a walk!

Fun at the Museum

Went with a few friends to the Museum of Life and Science in Durham. We had an absolute blast!

Crystal watching Siena blow bubbles...

Here are a couple pics of Siena and Ava playing in the tornado area...

Both Siena and Ava loved the maze criss-crossing on the ceiling and walls where the older kids could throw balls down...

Here is a video of Siena really enjoying the ball coming down the wall...

Kari and Ethan are taking it all in. Ethan can't wait to play too!!

Overall it was a really nice morning ;-) Can't wait to go back again!

Siena's New Couch and WHAT?!?

Nick loves to buy Siena fun things to play with. He actually hasn't gotten much of a chance to buy her too many things because...well, she has a LOT of stuff ;-) One day while I was at work Nick bought Siena a couch - yes, I did just say a couch. Anyone who knows me knows I am not much into "character" toys for Siena yet...she is so young, she doesn't know who these people are, and I guess I just get annoyed at shameless marketing targeted at kids...but that's not the point of this post ;-) So the couch - its a hot pink couch with a huge Dora the Explorer and her monkey (???) with large pieces of fruit scattered throughout... basically if babies had some baby acid that they could take, this is what they would see.



oh did I mention it FOLDS OUT? It does.

After seeing Siena with this baby crack couch, I completely realize why Nick bought it...she LOVES the freakin' thing. Siena now has her nightly bedtime story on this nightmare inducing couch...oh wait, those are MY nightmares ;-) I am far too picky...I know.

The very next day (Sunday) I had to work a night shift. Usually before my first night shift I sleep for about 3-4 hours in the evening. I went to sleep at 1:30PM leaving Nick and Siena to have another Daddy/daughter fun day but when I woke up no one was home. I looked around the house, in the back yard and then finally to the driveway to see if Nick's car was there. Gone.

RIIIING, RIIIIIING, RIIIIING......
N: Hey Kel, you up?
K: Yeah, where are you guys?
N: Well, heh heh, we are at Petsmart....I may or may not have just bought a fish tank!! Siena loves it, I let her pick out the tank, all the plants, the stone for the middle, and gravel...
K: {you can hear the crickets chirping} oh...ok, how big?
N: 60 gallons, its a great tank
K: ok...how much?
N: {this part has been deleted for obvious reason}
K: WHAT?!

Fast forward to the tank set up, in our kitchen, after much debate about where the tank should go in the 20 minutes I had before I had to go to work. This was a stressful ordeal but I definitely like the tank. I cannot lie. I like to sit in front of it with my morning "caffeine of choice" and watch the fish before Siena gets up. Its relaxing. Grrrr....I have even picked out some fish for the tank and bought them myself. I hate to admit it but the humongous, space-taking, messy, one-more-thing-to-take-care-of, fishtank is actually kind of nice.


Yes, I have admitted that to Nick...he has caught me on too many occasions drinking my tea in front of the thing. Siena, is also enamoured with it. It's now her job to feed them every morning (with some help since the tank stands about 5 feet) and she asks to do it as soon as she wakes up in the morning. She makes "fish faces" now (I WILL catch it on video one of these days!!) and we surprised Nick with that new development this morning...it's really cute.

So, Nick is certainly 2 for 2 with the couch and the fish tank. Siena LOVES both of them very much. I have to give credit where it's due. However, I am not sure how many more weekend night shifts I am going to be taking.... ;-)

Laughing Siena

This video is so funny, I could not resist to post it. I had another video posted boasting Siena's growing vocabulary but the file was too large to post. Here is another video, taken today, of Siena and I being goofy at dinner time. It made me laugh so much. I hope it makes you all laugh too!!

Sleeping Beauty

Siena has been a little under the weather lately and has been a terror to put to bed. So as you could probably guess, she has been a bit tired. I was trying to get her in her pajamas when she decided she was going to play with the dogs and...well...anything else that could prevent me from getting her in the pajamas! The video is really cute. Siena was going to walk with her toy BUT only if something came with her....take a look and see!



Thanks to Roxy for waking her up again!! Haha!