Bring On The Terrible Twos...

I'm a little sad that baby girl is TWO... She's is spunky, sassy, loving, outgoing, funny, beautiful, mischievous, busy, and so much more. I often look at her and just stare because I really can't believe she is mine. We often find ourselves just watching her and laughing at her. She is so entertaining and always puts on a show. She is the best thing that has EVER happened to me & she is the best of both Steve & I. I am so lucky to be her mom, I feel blessed that I was chosen to raise this strong willed baby girl. Two years have gone so fast, I just want it to slow down a little and push the pause button. I love to go in and look at her sleeping and I love it when she first wakes up in the morning. I love it when she sings, even though she took after her mamma and is NOT a very good singer. I love the way she smells and the way she looks at me with such love and admiration. I love this little girl more than words will ever be able to express.

Happy Birthday Sweet Girl...

I am a better person because I am your mamma...



**We are having a big Minnie Mouse bash this weekend. She stumbled upon her birthday present tonight. I had brought it in from the car and covered it with a blanket in the corner of the house. Steve had been home about 20 minutes when we both heard a very excited... "OHHHHHH, A dora bike" She ran over to Steve and excitedly asked "I ride it daddy?" (Throwing in the batting of the eyelashes...) How do you say no??? I was the stupid one who didn't hide it very well, and technically I was in labor with her at the same time two years ago so it was close enough right? She rode that thing all night. When she was going to bed, she told the big wheel "night bike, see ya tomorrow..."**

***And also another side note, I just wanted to let everyone know that I made Sienna's TuTu, Shirt, Bow, & Blinged out her shoes with Minnie Mouse... If you know me at all you know this is a pretty big deal. I didn't get the craft gene in the family. I can do it, I just don't like it. And realistically if you asked me to do it again, I probably would not be able to do it the same way I did the first time. I will never do it for anyone else but my babies, but I was very proud how they turned out. The shoes that I blinged took me HOURS!!! I will have to get a close up picture of just how cute they turned out. I'm pretty sure Sienna does not appreciate the work I put into her Minnie outfit. I can't come up with this stuff on my own but I can copy really well... Thanks to hours searching on Etsy I was able to come up with the basic ideas of creating it, and I did copy my sisters shirt she made from Haleigh two years ago, it was just too cute!
Technically, my mom sewed the ribbon on the shirt, I did get a C+ in sewing for heck sakes, I only learned how to make scrunchies, not sew ribbon on a shirt...
But the rest was all me, if you look really close on her bow you will see a minnie head made out of ribbon, THAT I actually hand stiched. I usually have to ask Steve to sew buttons on things for me, so this in of itself was a big accomplishment for me. When I showed Steve he told me he didn't think I could thread a needle. This all coming from the daughter of one of the most talented women in the world. She raised me and offered to teach me this stuff, I just didn't listen.***

2 Year Old Facts...

Songs she can sing...
ABC's The whole way through...
Itsy bitsy spider (Bitchy, Bitchy Spider)
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Womanizer
Once their was a snowman
The Dora Song
Mickey Mouse Club House
Little Einsteins
Jingle Bells
The Wizard & I (Wicked...) Not the whole thing, but a good chunk!
Popular (Wicked)
Give's you hell (All American rejects)
I Like to move it move it

Favorite TV Shows
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
Little Einsteins
Handy Manny
Dora the Explorer

Favorite Movie
Toy Story... She LOVES woody & buzz & asks to watch it daily!
Move it, move it (Managascar 2)

She can count to 15 - but after 10 it gets a little sketchy...

She knows red, pink & Blue - if all else fails, everything's blue.

My favorite things that she says...
I don't yike it...
My yeg hurts
Wait, Come back
I love you most, followed closely by I love you carrots.
I hold you (She said this once to Alyssa and she just looked at Sienna and said "I'm to big for you to hold me")
Don't do that daddy... In a really mean voice with the Sargent scowl on her face.

Favorite person is Uncle Paul, with Aunt Ruby coming in a close 2nd...

She can point out, Mee-mah & Grandpa's House, Uncle Paul's House, Granny's House, Tasia's house, Grandma Jill's House, and the office.

When you pass the stake center in Oakley she says it's Daddys game...

Right after the Stake Center she realizes we're getting close to Grandpa Sargent's house so she starts asking to see Grandpa Jack...

Every time we get off the Kimball Junction exit she instantly starts asking to go to "nastics"

Love's Cafe Rio Black Beans

Has one Specific Blanket that she has to have... So far, I have bought 4 of the same blanket...

Sleeps with 2 puppies, Baby, Gloam (the glow worm),"Ight" the carry along night light Aunt Tasia gave her and Dude (the turtle her daddy bought her in Hawaii...

She takes the water baby that she got for Christmas EVERYWHERE... It was a bath baby so it only came with a towel, but luckily Aunt Ruby donated clothes for the poor doll, for a while there she went everywhere naked...

I pretty much find her naked every morning & after every nap...

She won't keep clothes on. No matter where we are, the clothes come off. Unfortunately she has figured out how to get the onesies off...

The first thing she does when she get's in the car seat is takes her shoes & socks off & then asks us to push the button. (For the volume on her movie)

Calls me "Mama"... But calls her dad "daddy"

If one of us leaves she will ask "where mama go" or "where daddy go"

When I don't feel good or I am sad she constantly asks "mama ok?"
Two weeks ago I got the worst kidney infection I've ever had, while I was in the tub
bawling she crawled over (since her leg was broken) & tickled my back while repeatedly
saying "ok mamma, ok?"

We have tickled her face & back since she was tiny. Now when she crawls in bed with us she asks you to tickle her face or play with her hair, and if she's not too tired she will tickle my face while my eyes are closed...

She always says, "mama, I'm so proud of you"

Any time she hears a 4-wheeler she asks if it's "Uncle Cody"

Any time she talks on the phone she's either talking to "Uncle Paul or Daddy" it always starts with "Hi Uncle Paul, what ya doin huh???"

When you give her something she usually replies with "thank you mamma"

When she wants something she will grab your face with both hands & says "please mamma please" & if you don't give in she will keep saying it and bat her little eyelashes... I taught her this one thinking she would do it to her daddy but it has since come back to bite me in the butt!

My dad will come up occasionally and anytime he goes to leave she says "Wait, come back Seth" Then she will throw her self over and start to fake crying. He will come back, tickle her and kiss her and then the cycle starts all over again. He is the only person I have seen her do this too...

She just started answering her own questions. Last night she said "Paint my toes mamma, okay..." I think she things if she says okay, I will just let her do it! When we went to the store today she asked for numerous items followed by okay!

She was telling me to "Watch Out" in Spanish and also asked her daddy to "help her" in Spanish... Thanks to Dora my child is bilingual.

Any time she see a kid remotely smaller then her she says "oh tiny baby, so cute"

Valenitne Day Pictures

I took Sienna to get her two year old pictures taken... They turned out so dang cute and I can't wait to get the invites out for her birthday party. While we were taking pictures I wanted to get a few of her best friends... Unfortunelty Alyssa was sick the day that we did it, but Emma & Sienna sure hammed it up for the camera... I hope these two girls are friends forever. They are so cute together... Hopefully next time Alyssa will join in on the fun!

Wishing...

I know celebrities complain about the constant paparazzi
always following them, but wouldn't you kill to get a
picture like this of your own kid... Her face is priceless...
I'm tempted to photo shop Sienna in there. How many
kids get a private audience with Minnie & Mikey Mouse
and Cinderella??? But really, I just want to take this
little girl & cut her hair or pull it out of her face...

New Beach House

I almost forgot the best news of our entire trip... My Nana & Grandpa
stumbled upon this little gem while walking on the secret beach we
found. They Instantly fell in Love with the house & location & bought it
on the spot... With Cash!!! We are so excited to go back... It might be a little difficult
to all fit, but who cares, it's beach front property in Kauai...

Kauai

This was a secret beach we found. It was so pretty & there were
very few people there.

So, I'm feeling a little overwhelmed on posting Hawaii... I took way to many pictures. We had so much fun & I kind of wish we were still there... We were supposed to go to Kauai for a conference put on my Steve's Optometry school that he graduated from. We started planning on going about 4 months ago. When my grandparents found out we were going my Nana asked if she would be imposing if she came along. After she decided to go my parents jumped on board and we started planning! Steve ended up ditching the conference. We stayed at the same hotel that it was taking place and he kept running in to people he went to school with and his professors. They all kept saying they hadn't seen him at any of the meetings... He just decided he wanted to play and not miss out on anything. Sienna did so good on the flight over. We had a couple of layovers in California and I was a little worried about the long flight from California to Hawaii, but she shocked us & was a little trooper. When we were flying into Kauai Sienna was sitting on my moms lap and as she was looking out the window she says "Oh Look, there's a whale..." I just started laughing. She had no idea at this point what a whale was & I have no idea where that ever came from but it was pretty dang cute! Also when she saw it was raining when we landed she said "Oh man, it's nowing" Little did she know we were out of the snow for a while.




Listening to the ocean in a seashell...


Grandpa Seth & Sienna found a little fresh water stream that went
into the ocean. The water in the little stream was Freezing cold!

I had Sienna in a little dress to walk on the beach. Surprisingly
she ended up pretty close to naked!



Hanging out on our balcony. Those slits in the fence are so wide
Sienna could have fell from them. It scared the crap out of me
& made sure she never went out there alone!!!

Our boat crew. One of the kids had never been to the mainland. He was jealous
I lived where there was snow & I was jealous he got to live in paradise. When we got
onto the boat he said "welcome to my office" how great would it be to just sail every
day? The boat tour was my favorite thing that we did. We left early in the morning & sailed
all day! Sienna loved it & kept looking for "dude" the turtle.

Kauai farmers market. Of course being with my daddy we had to
hit up the local farmers market. We got there a little early & they had
it roped off so you couldn't enter. Before they brought the rope down a
lady came out and lectured everyone on stampeding & pushing & shoving.
Right at 3:00 someone blew a whistle & everyone rushed in. It was so funny
watching everyone running from vendor to vendor. We got so much fresh fruit.
We got Apple Banana's (thanks to Michelle's sister for talking about these on
her blog...) star apples, fresh pineapple, these weird spiky looking things that
tasted amazing & more pineapple. My favorite was the apple bananas. I wish
I could have those everyday!!! Yum!



Na Pali Coast... This place was amazing!!!

This picture doesn't even look real. This was the view from
our condo.

Nana & Baby Girl hanging out at the pool

The last day I didn't take Sienna back to the room to nap.
We wore her completely out & fell asleep on a pool chair!



The Marriott we stayed at had the most amazing swimming pool
I have ever seen. I judge hotels based purely on the pools so this
one is a new favorite. It was huge & had 6 hot tubs!



Eating a cream puff...

Grandpa was in charge of watching the "dragon" he fell asleep on the job!

So one thing that drove me CRAZY about being in Hawaii is
that NONE of the places we went to eat had Dr. Pepper... Seriously
who doesn't have Dr. Pepper??? Luckily my cute husband hit up
costco & bought me a case of it and I took it with me to dinner!

Drinking one of the many "Lava Flows" we had
throughout our stay. We fell in love with this drink
when we lived in Oahu. It's a mixture of pina colada &
strawberry... It was so good. Sienna instantly fell in love
with it as well.



There were chickens ALL over the Island. Apparently back in 1994 they
had a hurricane and it brought chickens onto the island. I swear they are
taking over... Grandpa Tingey told Sienna if she was able to put salt on the
chickens tail, then she would be able to catch it... She spent about an hour chasing
the poor chicken all over the pool area... After she figured out she wouldn't be
able to get salt on the chicken she decided to just poor it all over the ground.
I have to say it was pretty entertaining watching her chase those chickens
around...

When we were at tunnels beach Sienna was playing in the sand when
all of a sudden I heard her say "eww, nasty, a bug..." I went over & their
was a little sand crab running away from her. We played with it for a while
& she thought it was pretty great.

Looking @ the crab



The Island was so green... It reminded me so much of Oregon,
except the beaches were a lot warmer then the Oregon beaches.
It made me a little homesick for Oregon!

She would jump off the sand hill... Good thing she broke her
leg After we returned to Utah...

She had so much sand in her diaper after this little excursion

You have to look really close, but there's the little sand crab she found.

We found coconuts & Steve was determined to get
it open. He was so proud when he cracked it open.

Kauai sunset







Sienna Loved jumping in the waves. When we went to Tunnels
Beach her daddy wasn't paying attention & a huge wave came in
& knocked her over. After that she was a little hesitant to get close

but soon became brave & went back in!

Grandpa Grant & Sienna @ Tunnels Beach



10 year wedding anniversary!

We went on a boat cruise to see the Na Pali Coast line. On this Island
you can't drive around the whole thing. You have to either hike in, Boat in
or helicopter in. The day we chose to go was perfect. We saw TONS of whales
with their babies. Spinning dolphins, turtles & monk seals. Sienna love the boat
& at one point we stopped to see the spinning dolphins and she could almost
reach over and touch them. Her favorite part was seeing the turtles or as she called
them "Dude"

Nana & Grandpa on the boat tour...







We stopped to see the spouting horn & I almost ran into this
scary spider... It scared me to DEATH!!! I was told it was just
a garden spider but if I saw that thing crawling around my house
I would have a heart attack!

Sienna slept so well while we were there. We would literally wear
her out during the day & by the time we made it back to the room
she was asking us to go Night Night...

Spinning dolphins...

This is where Sienna was trying to touch the dolphins. They
were directly below her.





She was trying to carry all the coconuts. They were almost
as big as she was!







We attempted to get our feet print in the sand... Sienna would
not cooperate. She just didn't understand the importance of the
scrapbook moment.









Watching the waves with Mee-Mah

I love my dad in the picture. He just looks so dang cute!

Loved this sign...

Riding the escelator with daddy! We had to do this several
times a day!

The Marriott that we stayed at had a huge Koi pond out front.
Every morning they would let the kids feed them. There we million
of fish in that thing & Sienna loved feeding them. It was pretty amazing
seeing them at feeding time.



Another view from our room...

This picture is amazing. It was raining & I thought it looked
like a postcard picture moment. This is the view from our room
looking out to the pool area...

I'm pretty sure this is the best vacation we have ever taken. We were so lucky that my parents & Grandparents decided to tag along... Here's to next year... Maui 2010, right Grandpa????
Thanks for all the memories that we will hold onto forever. We are so lucky to have you & Sienna is the luckiest little girl ever!!!