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Yesterday was Sienna’s 2nd birthday! I can’t believe how time flies! We did not have a big blowout party for her (I will not feel guilty! I will not feel guilty!) but as usual, my parents bought her a cake from a chinese bakery. Can you believe they did not have Elmo but only Big Bird? Don’t these Asians know who Elmo is? Besides the fact that he is RED (considered a lucky color in the Asian community). In any case, I bought these little Elmo icing decorations at the craft store to put on there. Only 1 fit! The cake was a mixed fruit cake and while the actual cake was moist and soft and the icing wasn’t too sweet, they were really stingy with the fresh fruit! Damn recession! We bought her a Sesame Street Medical kit, little Ernie, Elmo and Cookie Monster figurines, a Little People tractor set and a Sesame Street coloring book and crayons (washable!) Yves has a cute video he took , see his blog here. My parents told me they were going to get her a tricycle but came back with a bigger bike with training wheels! I am not sure how fast she will learn to ride. We still have to get her a helmet. She was really excited for the bicycle!

Blowing out her candle

Where’s the fruit?

Her face is red from Elmo

Presents!

My parents bought her a singing dogs birthday card that Sienna kept playing over and over again. Gee, thanks Mom and Dad!

Showing off her card

Excited for her bike!

We have to put air in the tires! Man, I am so not ready for this!

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This is about the 4th time we have taken Sienna to the Prospect Park Zoo. The last time was quite chilly and Saturday it was in the 60’s so it was much nicer. She is definitely more active and seemed to enjoy it even more than last time. I had wanted to do something special as a way to celebrate her birthday and was originally thinking of going to an indoor animal farm out on Long Island (White Post Farm) but I think the zoo was a better, closer option because of the weather. I’m trying not to feel guilty about not doing a special shin dig for her birthday. I’m telling myself that she’ll have lots of big blowout parties when she gets older. We also went to Golden Krust for lunch by the park. It was bad. I don’t know if it was just a bad day for the beef patty’s or if now we are used to better pattie’s but we’ll have to remember not to go back there again. The Golden Krust by us is far better!

Sienna pronounces this guy as “owww-wal”

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Moooo! from Lisa on Vimeo.

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Last night, the snow started around 6pm ish (it had to be at least after 6:30 since I walk Skippy around 6 and all was clear). They said it was going to snow all night and into the morning and the city was due to get anywhere between 6-12 inches. I don’t know how much we really got, but we got a lot! It’s the most so far this season. All previous snowstorms was just a tease. I was hoping Yves would get word that he didn’t have to go into work but he didn’t find out anything (and turns out it was a delayed start). Instead of driving in this snow, we canceled our Monday playdate and went to play in the snow in the driveway/back area. It was cold! And still snowing! And there was a lot! Regardless of all these facts, I still had a hard time telling Sienna we had to go inside after 45 minutes. She cried tears of tears each time. She LOVES the snow! I promised her that she could come out again when Daddy came home. That seemed to work.

Telling me to open the door!

The stroller wasn’t so much fun this time around.

Or the soccer ball!

She kept falling in the big piles of snow. It was uneven because of the wind.

Snowing again!

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Now, this is snow! from Lisa on Vimeo.

As promised, she came back out again when Yves came home and helped him put away the snow blower thingy.

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Ok, so I don’t want to be accused of being one of those parent’s who thinks their kid is all that. But honestly, I think my kid IS all that! HA! Case #1. Last weekend we went to Kohl’s to do some shopping (our mission to find some long sleeved shirts for Sienna was a failure – of course all the Spring stuff is out and the Winter clearance was a mess!). Sienna found this purple bunny, see Yves’ post here, but we did not buy it for her. This past Saturday, we went back to Kohl’s. It was cold and we didn’t have any better plans and Yves wanted to get a sports jacket (success!). Well, not 2 minutes in the place and Sienna starts calling out “Bunny, where are you?” (The ‘where are you’ game is a recent development, it’s really cute to hear her say ‘oh, there you are!’) Now, really, how could she have possibly remembered that the bunny lived there? It was a whole week between visits to Kohl’s! Is that a normal thing to remember something like that?

Case #2: Yves’ razor hangs on the wall by the sink in the bathroom. Yves bought new ones because he didn’t like the one he had and replaced it on the wall. Sienna points to it and says ‘ooh, new one daddy!’

I’m sure more signs of genius will occur. Stay tuned! HA!

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Here are some photos I took in early January that I forgot to post. There was a thankfully short lived period where Sienna wanted to brush everything. It started with her dolls like Elmo and Abby and then she graduated to Skippy and Neo (when he lets her!). Then she would brush her hair right after! Yuk! HA!

Here she is laying down next to Skippy. Skippy really needs a haircut! His eyes are in there somewhere!

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I made this Morrissey onesie for Evan, a baby boy born in November to my friend Corinne in Canada. I met Corinne in 1997 when I went to the Smiths convention in California. She went with her friend Scott, who I set up to meet initially. I lost contact with Scott but still keep up in touch with Corinne, although sporadically the last few years. So I saw it fitting to make this for her baby! Never too early to introduce Morrissey to the little one! I used my Gocco so I made a shirt for Sienna too! The image of Moz was from a rubber stamp that I had gotten made ages ago from a drawing from another Morrissey fan. I had gotten permission from them to make this stamp and also made a stamp for that person as well (I can’t remember if it was a female or male Moz fan!) I planned to also use the screen to do up some notecards and hopefully I can get the paint off the screen as I did not clean it right away (bad Gocco owner! BAD!) I tried to pick a color that would work well with both the blue onesie and the orange shirt. Not sure how successful the green is but hey! It’s done now!

I decided to wear my commercially bought Morrissey shirt in solidarity! HA!

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I got me some Zack love on Tuesday!

Oh yeah and Tammy came over too!

And gave some love to Skippy too!

Gangsta Sienna! (She put the cap on herself like that!)

And this is what we got when we tried to get them together to take a photo!

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Saturday we took Sienna to her very first show, Elmo Makes Music! at the Wamu Theater at MSG. Needless to say, Sienna had a great time! We picked to go to the 10:30 show because we figured early morning was best. I’m glad we left on the early side because we had train trouble and made it to the show just in time. We got stuck at Dekalb Avenue because of train congestion on the bridge. Then we stopped again on the bridge. Normally, it wouldn’t be as aggravating but trying to keep Sienna entertained in one spot is not an easy task! She was sitting on Yves’ lap for the first half of the train ride. Then she wanted to be with me so we switched seats. Not five minutes after she sat down with me, I felt a warm wet sensation on my leg. I was confused at first as I haven’t felt a warm wet sensation on my pants for a very long time (HA!) then I realized that Sienna’s diaper was leaking! Grrrr!! We forgot to change her diaper before leaving and with the way she was sitting on my lap (her legs spread apart over my legs), I guess her stream went right out her diaper and onto my pants. I didn’t even realize the floor was wet as well until Yves pointed it out!

Well, that incident did not mar the rest of the day as it went smoothly after that. We debated whether to bring the stroller and decided to bring it after all. We grumbled when we had to check in our stroller but that whole process went amazingly smooth! The show was fun! It started pretty much on time then there was a 15 minute intermission at 11:15 and the show ended around 12:15. We were hoping she’d nap on the way back but that didn’t work out! Of course she started getting sleepy when we were about a block away from home. She ended up not taking her nap after all but we put her to bed early when that happens. Overall it was a pretty good experience and something I wouldn’t mind doing again. (Circus anyone?)

Daddy with dry pants! Sienna has that “I’m waiting to pee for when you sit here!” look
Such excitement realizing what she was seeing!

The cast -  it’s most of Sesame Street so I don’t know why Elmo gets such top billing!

They were selling these obnoxious balloons during intermission. Sienna wanted one but we talked her out of it and got her a stuffed Elmo instead.

Oscar and Rosita!

Elmo’s World!

Bert in a Saturday Night Fever skit. Guess this was for the parents, it made me laugh!

Baby Bear and Big Bird!

After the show with her new Elmo doll

Eating her spinach pizza!

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I told you I was going crazy making these glass pendants!  I’m trying to perfect the technique plus it is fun to make these. I really, really  need to take more time to photograph them more nicely! They do look a lot better than these photos.

Sienna’s gorilla is sporting the newest Sienna pendant I made.

Here is one of Zack for Tammy

This is Chlóe, the newest addition to the Dombre/Black family, relations of Yves’.
This is Evan, born into the world in November 2008 to my friends Corinne and Thomas

Sienna’s cousins Eli and Maia for my sister in law, Liz

Pins for my mother in law to wear.

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We’re taking a break from Music Together classes and getting active at the Little Gym. We took a trial class last January but I felt Sienna was still a bit too young to get anything out of it besides just releasing energy. (Which isn’t a bad thing but not at those prices!) This year we took another trail class and signed up for the rest of the Winter semester (which was only 3 more classes). We’ll be signing up for the Spring semester, which is actually this week. Sienna really seems to be enjoying it (at least most of it!)

Not crazy about sitting in the middle of the parachute while we move around her.

Loved this!

She could really hang around!

She was a little unsure of this!

But it turned into a forward roll, which she really enjoyed!

And of course all the kids seemed to get mesmerized by the bubbles! It’s hard to tell but there are a lot of bubbles surrounding Sienna (probably mostly behind her).

Here’s a video of her doing a forward flip on the high bars (I forgot if that is what they are technically called). Please e-mail me or leave a comment for the password.

Flipping out at The Little Gym! from Lisa on Vimeo.

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