14 Months

Sierra's first haircut.  I just took a tiny bit off of her bangs to keep them

from getting in her eyes. 

 She LOVES to play with stickers!

 Sierra with her blanky (Bo as she calls it).  They are BFF's. 

 Pretending to eat the grass....

Ahhhh my sweet sweet girl 

Enjoying a sunny fall day with daddy 

With a pair of tiny pink crocks you can do anything! 

Play dough! 

Sometimes it is necessary to wear a hat with your jammies.  

Hanging out at Garland Nursery (one of mommy's favorite places) 

We celebrate a warm fall day by doing the chicken dance:) 

Learning to be a goof. 

It's been quite a month!  Sierra's imagination is really starting to grow.  She loves to play with her dolls and stuffed animals.  She feeds them, gives them drinks, rocks them, has them kiss each other, puts them on the potty, and sometimes when they are bad she tells them No!  That's another new thing this month.  She has started saying no with gusto.  She shook her head no before, but now we get the word with the head shake.  And we get it pretty frequently. 

Sierra gave up her morning nap this month.  In some ways it has given us some freedom.  We only have one nap to plan our day around now.  We may be able to make it out of Corvallis one of these days:)  It was a difficult transition and caused some serious crankiness.  There are still days  when I'm afraid she won't make it past lunch without falling asleep, so we have to keep busy.  We had some great weather at the beginning to mid October and that helped a lot!  We sure love to be outside and the rainy weather is not going to make either of us very happy.  I did order her a pair of rain boots (regularly $39.99 that I paid $4.95 for including shipping I might ad!) so we'll have to do some puddle jumping in the near future. 

Sierra's vocabulary has really taken off.  She can say so many things.  She can also recognize and say the color blue.  Stars and hearts are both shapes that she can recognize as well.  It's amazing how fast children learn things and how eager they are to learn.  I wish that it was the same for adults. 

Jesse stepped in this month to help with bedtime.  After two colds in two months bedtime started going roughly.  She had been doing wonderful until she got sick and got some molars in as well.  When she was sick I ended up rocking her to bed quite a bit because she was too congested to fall asleep laying down.  She got used to it very quickly.  After her colds went away and we got back to regular bedtime business she wanted no part in it.  As soon as I would leave the room she would cry.  For 45 minutes sometimes.  It was AWFUL.  We went through this at around 7 or 8 months when we taught her to go to sleep on her own.  But now to be going through it again when she had been a pro at bedtime made me want to cry for 45 minutes every night too.  So Jesse stepped in and started putting her to bed.  It was amazing.  She cried when I left the room the first night, but he rocked her and put her to bed awake and she was........quiet and went to sleep just fine.  Since then he has taken over night time duty and she does very well.  It is a welcome break for me too.  I am so blessed to have such a good partner in this parenting gig! 

I can't believe that next month is November already.  Where did this year go?  I have to admit that I detest the fall Oregon weather but I do LOVE Christmas.  Christmas music helps get me through the wet weather ickies.  Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.......