Cute photo session yesterday

Yesterday, she and I were battling it out with me trying to teach her the word "No" and that Mommy is not joking when she says this. She loves to smile at me and laugh when I tell her not to do something and then she re-does whatever it is I was frustrated at in the first place. Arggh!
Anyway, amongst this day I got some cute photos of her at lunch time.

Thanksgiving weekend updates

Here are a bunch of photo's from the holiday weekend. We celebrated Thanksgiving dinner over at Grandma Carlson's house. She tried turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, and even a cranberry. She liked the turkey the best! On Saturday night, Sierra got to meet Erik's Aunt, Uncle and cousin at JoAnn's for another yummy dinner. Sierra got to try scalloped potatoes which she also enjoyed.
It was a busy weekend but she strutted her stuff and showed how she is growing up and progressing her walking skills. She is getting better and better every day. Now if I could just teach her not to throw her toys every where, Mom would be a lot happier!


Trying a cranberry...
Not really liking that cranberry!
Playing with Uncle Ryan

Family photo

Sierra's Aunt Kerstin's Baby shower

Yesterday, at Nina's house we hosted a baby shower for Kerstin's future bundle of joy, baby "X". They will not share with us the name until he is born so that is what I am calling him. My job unfortunately was keeping Sierra from destroying Nina's nice carpet because she was all over the place walking, crawling going after plates, glasses, the dog, oh yes, the dog! Sierra became re-acquainted with Nina's Golden Retriever, Libby. Libby kept on licking her face and getting more excited as sierra squealed in delight. It was exhausting yet hilarious to watch her at the same time. I had her in her first pair of tights and boots which were darling. There were a lot of other younger babies there as well. Here are a couple of photos.

Hanging out with Grandma
Saying Hi to Libby
Attacking and eating the paper after everyone left. Mommy let me put my comfy clothes back on!
What's that on your tummy?

Finally caught her walking!

I have been trying to catch her on video of her walking and finally got her! It is quick and right at the beginning so be prepared. The problem with our place is that there is not a lot of open spaces. She uses things to help her when she doesn't need to. I've noticed when she doesn't have things to hold onto, she is fine but if it's there she will use it.
She also, in this video, does something with her food tray, which she has never done before, and I don't know where that came from. It was a long day though! She put on her party dress for her Auntie's baby shower which was fun!

Sierra dancing and clapping

Trying new foods

The other night I tried to give Sierra some new foods like real veggies and some salmon. Here is a video of her experience.

1st babysitter experience

This last Saturday Erik and I went out to dinner with some friends and we had my friend, Mira, from work watch Sierra for the first time. We have had Grandma watch her before but this was the first "non family" member watching her. I am happy to say, they both survived each other with flying colors! Not to mention there were no tears when we left. Phew! Here are some pictures from when we came and hung out after our dinner and from this weekend.

Updates for the little one

Sierra's first Halloween came and went without a trick or treater but I cannot wait to take her out and go trick or treating when she is older. This was the first time in, I don't know how long, that it did not rain on Halloween.
Sierra is still cruising around via crawling and moving pretty quickly with assistance of furniture and Erik said he saw her take a step by herself the other night. I watched her all day yesterday and tried to get her to repeat but I had no luck.
Here is a picture of her eating dinner a couple nights ago. She is doing this cute head tilt when she eats and then gives me this really cute smile. I just melt...