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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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My in-laws are big fans of Obama’s, having lived in Chicago for several years. Needless to say they were quite happy he won the election and stayed up on election night to watch all the coverage. They asked me to send them some memorabilia and this is one of the shirts I sent. I got it from an Etsy seller, 57 thirty three . I forgot to take photos of some of the other stuff I sent like another shirt, a tote bag, a button and a hat (and also this pin I made). I have to say, he’s one of the most marketable President’s we’ve had!

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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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On Wednesday, me and Pete celebrated Restaurant Week at Nobu again. I got the sushi plate and he got the cod (it’s the same menu as previous RW). I also got an extra roll of tuna with asparagus. I wish the waiter had told me there was already tuna roll on my dish as I didn’t remember! Argh! Pete introduced me to a new roll, the sea urchin, which has become one of his favorite rolls. It’s a creamy consistency. It was interesting. I’m always up for trying new rolls and glad I tried this one but I probably won’t be ordering it again!

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Here is Sienna giving Skippy a hug. This was last week. He needs mega hugs this week as Tuesday he went into the vet to get some things done. First, he got 4 teeth pulled! They were rotting, poor thing. Then he had 3 growths removed, 2 small ones on top of his head and 1 big one on his left back paw. The vet never actually explained what they were and I forgot to push him on it as I am curious. He just told me we might as well get them removed while he is under because they could get larger. And the last and major thing he got done and the thing that made me most guilty is, we got him fixed, poor thing. He was having lots of accidents in the house, even though we let him out during the day to release his bladder. The vet said because he isn’t fixed, his prostrate gets enlarged and can’t hold large amounts of urine and/or he can’t release all his urine at once (I forgot which or maybe it is both reasons).  The first thing I said to him when I picked him up was to ask him if he was mad at me. He was so out of it, it didn’t matter. And he has to wear the cone on his head until Sunday to keep away from the sensitive area. Poor thing. Send him a virtual hug!

Sienna pointing out his cone head.

He’s giving me the ‘look what you’re putting me through’ look!

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I’m a little behind in my posts as Chinese New Year was on Monday. Sienna had a slight fever last Friday and since the weekend was very cold, we hibernated and we were all getting cabin fever by Sunday. Sienna was overjoyed to be getting out of the house when we went to my parent’s house for New Year Eve’s dinner on Sunday. In my family the big celebration is on the eve and my parents cook chicken, cellophane noodles, sausages, abalone (one of my faves and the only time of year I get to eat it!), baby bok choy and a few other things that I don’t remember because I usually don’t eat it! HA!

(the abalone is the beige in brown sauce dish on the left)

Sienna’s digging into the fried rice, made especially for her and Yves

I’m digging into the cellophane noodles, my second favorite dish!

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