Cienna 3 months

Cienna is 3 months old! So crazy how fast time flies! It kind of stresses me out that it's flying by so fast.


Some of the things our "sweet C" has been up to. . .

• She still loves to eat (as you can tell by her sweet cheeks :)
  
• She isn't as huge of a fan of tummy time anymore. She doesn't hate it instantly but after about 10 mins she is done.
  
• She's now a babbler. She loves to have conversations with us and lights up when we talk to her.
• She holds her head up and likes to sit upright more during the day.
  
• She has begun to whack at a toy dangling in front of her. It's so cute, you can see the concentration in her face. And is getting better at holding on to little toys.
• She loves to suck on her fist and has gotten pretty good at finding it quickly when she wants it.
• And apparently she's a little apprehensive with strangers. Just recently she doesn't like anyone else holding her besides me or Joe. Hopefully its just a phase, but I also like the fact that she likes us, recognizes us and feels comfort with us.
  
• And as you can see below she has become even more smiley.
  

And she has a brother who loves her (most of the time).


We love you Cienna girl :)

Cienna's Blessing

Cienna Silvia Walker, received a name and a blessing by her daddy on Sunday Nov. 13th. It was a beautiful blessing. We are so grateful to all the grandparents who came :)
(Beware, lots of pics)



Jace and Grandpa Walker playing the day before.


My Grandparents on my Dad's side and Cienna the day of her blessing.

My Parents
Kisses

The men who blessed her. :)

Joe's Parents


Our Family

Jace and "School"

At the beginning of October I started doing what Jace and I like to call "school." However, it's not too much like real school yet. We mostly just do a craft or 2 and then he colors for a little while after. But I have found that it really helps on the days that it's cold out and being outside only lasts for about 10 mins. I have thought a lot about things I want to do for "school" this winter and hope Jace enjoys it as much as me.

Some of the things we did in Oct. We made. . .
A colorful fall tree out of torn pieces of construction paper (where he learned how to use a glue stick).
A pumpkin.
A spider made from part of an Egg Carton
Little Ghosts made from tissues
He also learned how to use "stamps" (just little foam shapes I found at the dollar store) and a stamp pad. A basic skill that's easy for a 2 year old to learn and have A Ton of fun with. The first time jace did it for over an hour.

If any of you have fun craft ideas for a 2 year old as well, I would love to hear what they are! I will also continue to post what we have done so if you want to do any of my ideas with your toddlers you can too. Not that they are that great, I just know it's hard to come up with things to do with them sometimes ;)

To make it feel more special, we get out his mickey mouse table and chair and he wears his "ART shirt" I just got a shirt that would fit an older child and wrote art shirt on it. It covers his clothes so I dont have to change his clothes after, or strip him down to his diaper before. Then I just throw the shirt in the wash every few times. So yeah, that's our "school" :P

Drum Roll Please. . .

JOE GOT INTO PA SCHOOL!!! A lot of you probably already know this because I posted my excitement about it on facebook when we found out, but I am just so excited for my husband. He has worked very hard and I am so glad a school saw what he has to offer. He got accepted into Touro University. It's the one in Las Vegas. It's starts the beginning of July, which means we will probably be moving sometime in June. We haven't heard back yet from the one in New Mexico, but I don't know that Joe really cares because Touro was his first choice. He just really thought highly of their facility and the staff that works there. So I am pretty sure we are headed there. :) Yay Joe! So proud :)

Halloween

Last year we went to this sweet pumpkin patch and chose our pumpkins. We loved it! It was so much more fun than just going to a store and getting some. So we looked forward to doing it again this year, and we had just as much fun! (This is a long post of pictures and stuff from the pumpkin patch and halloween day, again more for the record of my family) :)








I love this picture of Jace and Joe. One of my favorites I have of them, because Jace rarely looks at the camera and smiles, and Joe rarely gives me a normal smile. lol. Love my boys!


Carving the pumpkins

Jace and his pumpkin. He loved carving pumpkins! Mostly pulling all the goopy stuff out and then admiring his pumpkin outside afterwards.


Now these pictures are from Halloween day.

Cienna being festive

So I don't know why these are sideways, because they aren't sideways in my file. Anyway, I just wanted to post them because it's the first time I have caught her chunky grin on camera :)


Jace as Steve on Blues Clues. He loves Blues Clues. And was ecstatic when I showed him that I made him shovel and pale and a Handy Dandy Notebook.





Trick or Treating


So this last pic with the guy looking at me while I am taking the picture. Didn't like it too much that I was taking a picture. He kept staring at me and even kept watching us as we went to the next house. So he may be one of america's most wanted and doesn't want his picture being posted. lol. I dont know, but it was weird.


Great Halloween :)

Cornbelly's

This past Tuesday we went to Cornbelly's at Thanksgiving point. If you haven't been there or heard of it, it's like a month long ultimate halloween carnival and it's a blast for kids. They have tons of fun things there. We didn't do everything we wanted to and we were there for 2 hours.

This was a huge hay stack. They had multiple slides and ways to get up on to it. They had a few of these huge haystacks there.
Jace coming down the slide.

Wooden vehicles that had few different wasy to get in and usually a slide to come out. They also had an airplane one. So fun for a 2 year old boy.

These were these huge rubber pillows! That you could jump and bounce on. These were Jace's favorite by far. He really loved the huge one that's in the far back of this picture.


Bounce House. It was hard to get him out of here, literally, because we couldn't go in and get him. lol
And the last thing we did was go on the hay ride.
Glad we went. It was a really fun family evening and Cienna slept through the whole thing. :)

1 month old

Cienna is one month old as of yesterday! I can't believe how fast time flies. She is changing everyday before our very eyes. It seems like it is going a lot faster than it did with Jace. A little about Cienna. . .

1. She is a very calm baby. She is easy to console and rarely cries loud. You pick her up and she's already cuddling into you and about to fall asleep.
2. She is cuddly! Which I LOVE! Jace wasn't that cuddly of a baby, so I am loving that she is! She will just lay her head into my shoulder or chest wide awake and just enjoy being close to me. Love love love it.
3. However, with all this cuddliness and easy to console she doesn't sleep well during the night (which jace did better at). She'll do 1-2 hour stretches (sometimes a 3 hour but it's rare) and be awake for an hour or two at some point during the night. Oh well, I still love her. I don't mind waking up with her. However, I am starting to miss a good nights sleep, but I know it will come soon enough so I am trying to enjoy her while she is so little because I know she won't be for much longer. :(
4. She is a really good eater now. No worries there.
5. She loves to be talked to. She looks you right in the eyes and it seriously feels like she can read you and see your soul. It sounds weird but it really is quite a tender thing about her. It's almost like you become best friends with her instantly just by talking to her and looking into her eyes.
6. She actually likes tummy time. Jace didn't hate it, but he wasn't a huge fan. She likes it. She'll bobble her head for a little while and then just lay there on her belly awake until she goes to sleep. This could change.
7. And today she smiled at me, a few real smiles, for the first time :)

So there's a little info on our sweet 1 month old Cienna :)