Sierra Week 32 - Butterfly Festival

This weekend was the Stony Brook Butterfly Festival.  If you are wondering where Stony Brook is, its not too far.  Just by Momma's work down the road.

In fact it was so close to Momma's work that bus that took us to the festival actually picked us up from just in front of Momma's office.  I was so excited to have my first bus ride.

We had a lot of fun looking at the butterflies.  Can you find the one Daddy and I found?

After walking through the butterfly garden it was onto the carnival games.  I won my first prize!

If you are wondering where SiSi is, well she slept through almost all of our time at the festival, so Momma didn't have any fun pictures of her.  But don't be disappointed.  SiSi has started on the long journey to being able to walk on her own.  Everyone say a special prayer for Daddy's back!

Sierra Week 31 - Sports Scholarships?

What do you think, Sierra or me?  Guess we should keep practicing.

Sierra Week 30 - Crawling

Look out world here I come... or more correctly Momma watch out for your camera SiSi Monster is coming quick!

Movement wasn't the only milestone for this week.  We also expanded our solid horizons to sweet potatoes.

But the bottle is still a girl's best friend.

And for those of you with two kids you know how hard it is to get them both to smile at the same time.  Momma is still working on it.

Sierra Week 29 - Cape Cod Fun!

Picking the birthday week proved to be a great choice for nice weather at the Cape this year.  We had lots of fun, with the Winigs and Uncle Sean, Aunt Jo, Devon and the puppies.  Not to mention a visit from Nanny and Great Gramma and Great Grampa at the end of the visit. We all had so much fun.  Nanny & Bobby thanks again for the use of the house!  We were sure to use every part!

The back yard was the scene for all sorts of wet fun.  The girls enjoyed the slip and slide.

Even Sierra liked it!

We went on a great bug hunt and found a cool grasshopper.

We built the bounce house...

And played in it...

We filled up the pool.  Seems Uncle Steve forgot how cold the water from the hose was!  I think I froze him in place =+)

We played on the deck too.  Tickle attacks!

After the deck we had to do a trip down to the pond.  Those the kayaks never made it out, the bugs certainly did!

Would you believe we actually went inside too!  Momma didn't get any pictures of the great games of chase we played in the basement.  But she did capture Sierra eating her first Cheerio!

After all this fun at the house you would think we would be tired out.  But we found the energy to do a few fun things around the cape.  We made to the ZooAquarium where I fed the animals.

And to our favorite playground.  Aren't we kids just the cutest.

And with all good trips we had good family snuggle time.  Blue is in the picture on my behalf.

I hope you all had a summer vacation that was as much fun as mine!

Happy Birthday Daddy! - Sierra Wk 28

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Veggies! Sierra Week 27

This weekend marked SiSi's first 4th of July.  We celebrated by introducing her to butternut squash.  This is her first taste of "grown up food".  The rice cereal was going fine, and then little Miss. Sierra decided she didn't like it anymore.  Thankfully it was time to start trying new solids.  Sierra was excited at first!

And then she reconsidered her position.  In the end she thought the squash was much better than the rice cereal.  But her first love is her formula!

We ended up staying home for the 4th of July.  DadMom came over to play.  While we were both up, Momma grabbed this picture of Sierra and I.  She had to bribe me a bit, but I do love to be the big brother!

As if that wasn't enough cuteness for you.  Momma introduced Sierra to the big bath tub.  She really didn't fit in her infant tub anymore.  As she demonstrated to Momma by trying to roll out of it.  So after asking me if it was okay, Momma introduced Sierra to Bumble Tubbing.  I'm sure the folks at Bumble never thought their seat would be used this way!

Sierra loved the big tub.  She laughed and kicked and tried to eat any toy she could pull out of the water.  I introduced her to splashing.  She LOVED it!

I had a great time introducing the fun of bath time to SiSi.

Settling In - Sierra Week 26

I guess you all can imagine how we spent our time this week.  That's right - un-boxing everything!  Believe it or not, Momma and Daddy had the upstairs completely unpacked by the time Nanny and Bobby left on Sunday.  My head was spinning.  But I'm so excited to have all my toys available in "my new home".  Which is how I refer to the house.  Momma wonders how long I will consider it to be "my new home".  I think a long time...   As you can imagine, with Momma's hands in boxes there weren't a lot of pictures take this week.  But she did snap this fun one of Daddy and I taking the new riding lawn mower out for its maiden voyage.  How long do you think it will be before I can drive it "all by myself".  My other new favorite phrase?