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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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Wednesday I met up with Pete (poor Joy couldn’t break away from work!) for lunch at Shopsin’s. I vowed NOT to get the sliders again because I wanted to try something different. Pete got the sliders tho. I ordered a shrimp po’boy and chocolate egg cream. It was quite yummy. The entertainment wasn’t as colorful as my first visit but fun just the same. The people that sat on both sides of us were very nice and friendly. One side was an older woman with his son that has been going to Shopsin’s every Saturday for brunch for I forgot how long. They gave us a few of their favorites items but of course I forgot. I was so excited to be back there again, I forgot to take photos of the food! Arggh!! Since I forgot to take pictures at Shopsin’s, I took photos of everything else I got that day. We stopped over at Roni-Sue’s chocolates (they also have bacon covered chocolate!) and I opted to get BaCorn (caramel popcorn with bacon & chile pinon nuts) and one of their homemade lollipops. I couldn’t convince Pete to go in with me on Bacon buttercrunch.

We also stopped by our favorite cupcake shop, Sugar Sweet Sunshine and I brought home a pistachio and spicy pumpkin to share with Yves.

And a stop off at Economy Candy yielded this:

And in case you think your eyes are playing tricks on you, they are not! Yes! That is Pop Rocks candy in chocolate!! I can’t wait to try it!

And yes, I do have a major sweet tooth but to my credit, that time of the month is here so I think I went extra crazy! 😉

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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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Check it out here!

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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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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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Please leave a comment or e-mail me if you don’t have the password for the video!

Daddy’s Slippers from Lisa on Vimeo.

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He poses with chicken feet, he pretends to gobble up raw ricotta cheesecake and hangs out with Sienna, he helps us do a test run for our first ghetto BBQ, he doesn’t pretend to not know me when I rock out to Kelly Clarkson, he’s Skippy’s cuddle buddy and…

he gave me his old Ipod Touch! (The monkey is Sienna’s). Thanks Pete!!

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Last weekend’s ‘snowstorm’ was a disappointment. We were looking forward to playing in the snow with Sienna. It didn’t really begin to snow more heavily until around 5ish, past Sienna’s outside time so only Skippy really got to ‘enjoy’ it (as you can see above). We thought we’d wake up Sunday morning to a nice powdery pile of white stuff. It had turned slushy overnight and the cool temps turned it icy. Not fun! And Sienna wasn’t thrilled either!

So this morning we were delighted to wake up to see it snowing! It wasn’t a lot but at least it was early enough for Sienna to be able to play in it before it turned slushy or icy.

(not really the snowball we were intending!)

Making snowcastles with daddy and skippy!

Snow Carriage from Lisa on Vimeo.

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