20 Months

A fun day with mommy and daddy at the bounce house!

Daddy had a little bit of fun too:)

Happy in a new dress

Daddy put all these in her hair thinking maybe she would leave one in. 

Not so.

Yay a sunny day!  Helping with flowers.

My tulips and hyacinths lasted about 3 seconds.

Stepping on some oak balls (not sure of their scientific name;)

Easter!

Another busy month came and went.  We are still working on potty training.  #2 continues to be tricky, but Sierra is doing a lot better about not holding it all day.  We've had a few nice days and we were all so happy to go outside and spend some time in the sun.  I try to take her out at least once a day, even on rainy days.  There tends to be a lull in the rain after her nap, so we put on our boots and head out to do some puddle stomping.  I cannot wait until the weather gets better.  I know that we live in Oregon, and after growing up here I should be used to the rain.  I am not.  By February I am ready to pack up and move to another state.  I do enjoy our summers though - and love how green this part of Oregon is. 

Now that Sierra's teeth are through - her sweeter side is shining through again.  Four teeth in a short time has been pretty rough on all of us.  I was starting to really question my parenting skills.  I was afraid that I was doing something wrong and it was causing her to act out.  Luckily after those mean teeth came through - things began to go back to normal.  She still throws fits every so often, like a normal child, but they aren't every 10 minutes!  Thank goodness.  Next up are her 2 year molars.  Then she should be done for a long time.  Phew!

Easter was so fun this year.  Sierra was really into finding eggs.  For some reason I was surprised at how quickly she picked it up.  I thought she would find one egg, and be happy to eat or play with whatever was inside of it.  But once she found one, she had to keep going and wanted more, more, more!  The day before Easter we headed to town and went to an egg hunt at Stoneybrook Village (a local retirement home).  We were 2 minutes late, and the children had already been unleashed when we walked in.  There were not age divisions so all of the big kids had about 30 eggs in their baskets and the little ones had none.  One nice lady gave Sierra some of her daughters, and she was able to find a few more on her own.  She also got to meet the Easter Bunny.  All of the kids around her were backing up and their parents were trying to go get them to go get a picture with the bunny.  But they were apparently terrified of the giant rabbit.  Not Sierra.  She ran right up to him, showed him her eggs, gave him a hug, and kiss on the nose.  I was so proud of her!  We went to several other hunts before ending at Great Grandma's house where she also hid a few eggs for Sierra.  She had a blast and I think she may think that she needs eggs every time she goes to GG's! 

We spent Easter morning at church.  Sierra loves church, mostly because after my dad is done singing, he takes her downstairs for children's church.  She is very good during the music, but at the end of each song she says, "OK!  Downstairs now?"  She loves to pretend to sing along and clap to the music.  After church we visited both sets of grandparents and had a lovely meal at my parents house.  It was a really nice weekend!

This is going to be a pretty short post considering I'm kind of behind and need to get started on her next month already.  Mostly this month was still really dedicated to potty training - but we can now see and end in sight, and are pretty proud of how far she has come.