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Silly Sienna & Goofy Gunnar

My kids love listening to books on audio CDs as they are going to bed. Tonight, I was asking my daughter which story she would like to hear. I said, "Do you want 'The Mystery Envelope', 'The Monster in the Closet', or 'The Curse of the Cheese Pyramid'?"

She responded by telling me very adamantly, "Mom! It is not 'The Monster in the Closet'! It is 'Junie B. Jones has a Monster UNDER HER BED!' ... by Barbara Park ... read for you by Lana Quintal."

I looked at her and laughed. "How do you know all that?"

"Because mom, I am a smart girl!"

She is definitely smart. I pushed play on the CD and sure enough the voice on it said, "'Junie B. Jones has a Monster Under Her Bed!' ... by Barbara Park ... read for you by Lana Quintal."

As I was laughing, I looked out of the kids' room and saw that Nolan could barely contain himself as he laughed with me at our little girl's funny comments. Sienna joined in and then of course, Gunnar, never wanting to miss a beat, laughed right along with the rest of us, even though he didn't know what we were laughing at. (By the way, this happens quite often when something funny happens. Gunnar loves to laugh every chance he gets ... and sometimes it is a forced laugh ... which makes the whole situation even more funny!)

I am so thankful for my cute little family!

Picture post

Since I have only posted old photos, I thought I would post some more recent pictures of my adorable children. Here is from when my little man was 5 months old and his big sister was 3 whole years old!





This next one is from when Sienna was 3 1/2 years old & Gunnar had just turned 1 year old.







And here are some from Gunnar at 18 months and Sienna at 4 years.

These below are the most recent, done this past spring. Gunnar was almost 2 and Sienna was 4 1/2.

I am such a proud mama! And of course, I think my kids are the cutest!

My Cute Little Man!

I am fortunate enough to be blessed with a daughter (seen in posts below and above) as well as a wonderful son, Gunnar. (His newborn picture is to the left) Like my little girl, he is growing up so fast, I can hardly keep up. I have been working on fixing and enhancing my pictures recently, and in doing so I frequently come across pictures from when my kids were tiny. Baby Gunnar still looks like Gunnar, but so different from today. I am really glad that I take so many pictures because without them, I don't think I would remember nearly as many things that have happened in years past. Even just remembering what my kiddies looked like would be more difficult.
Gunnar is learning to talk now, and the way he communicates is sometimes so funny! It probably does not come across the same way in a blog post as it does in real life...oh well. One thing that is funny is that he can actually tell on his sister now. In times past when she would take a toy or something, he would just scream or cry and it was up to Nolan and me to figure out what was wrong. Well now when similar things happen he will pipe up and say "Nie-nah (sienna) tow (toy)" or "Nie-nah, owee". We ran errands recently and on the way home, I asked the kids if they wanted homemade chicken nuggets for dinner and Gunnar started bouncing up and down in his seat and practically shrieked "Nungnet nungnet! dih dih (dinner dinner)!" and started laughing. We all laughed too...it was pretty cute how excited he got at the thought.
He is also good at saying please and thank you ("pwee" & "tih coo") when asking for or receiving things. Although we have used hand gestures (and quite honestly a lot of guessing) it is nice to be able to have some form of verbal communication with him now.
He loves his sister (even when they bicker) and they spend a lot of time together playing and dancing around. He has recently started really mimicking Sienna in what she says or how she is dancing, or if she screams then he feels the need to also. Needless to say, it often gets very loud at our house. Fun, but loud! Sienna has been taking swimming lessons this summer, and of course, Gunnar wants to dive right in and play with his sister in the pool. When we would all go, I could not get him interested in playing with toy cars out on the patio or anything...he wanted to swim. So, sadly for him, he does not go to the pool anymore with us. I have to leave him home with his dad, or with a sitter. I think he will be very good when it comes time for him to take the lessons.

Photos from yester-year

I was looking through my photos on my computer and found some fun ones from when Sienna was just about 9 months old. I thought these would be fun to use for my first picture post. It is always fun to take a trip down memory lane, and these pictures definitely do that! I can't believe how much my little girl has grown up! Some of these are when she was just learning to walk - taking her first steps, playing with her best friend at the time, Tasha, playing in the tub, and just being my sweet little baby girl. I am so lucky to have her! I am also very blessed with my adorable son, Gunnar. He is so active and into EVERYTHING!! He keeps my on my toes and keeps life very interesting. But this post is about young little Sienna.
I will post a "Gunnar post" later.

My first post

Hello everyone! I am starting my blog now. I am just starting to learn all about how to do this, so it may start out slow. But I am going to try to keep up on this and share our activities and adventures with you! Look for more posts soon!