Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Cienna - 4 Years, 1 Month... Kaylee - 1 Year, 8 Months!

Cienna had her much anticipated 4th birthday and party!  She picked her house to throw the party and loved every minute.  Even though it rained earlier in the day, the clouds parted when it was time to party!  She got to add another sheet of pictures to her celebration of life to share with her friends at school.  Cienna only begins the string of birthdays through this month, which will also continue to next month as well.  The girls loved singing Happy Birthday to Poppa, and Uncle Joe, and skype-ing our birthday wishes to June.  We got to enjoy a bonfire at the beach for Jocelyn's 2nd birthday, a mongo burrito night with Kristen for hers, and a Farm filled princess adventure to celebrate Georgia's 4th birthday as well.  Somewhere in there we also partied with good friends for Super Bowl at Dave and JoJo's!  As if the month wasn't busy enough we  enjoyed story times at the local library, walks to the nearby parks, a trip to Downtown Disney where the girls got to "Build-A-Bear" using a gift card from Cienna's last birthday (Thanks Kristine!),  took a couple of trips to the Santa Ana Zoo, and went to the aquarium as well!  Trying to not fully neglect our house we did manage to settle on a design and actually begin building our front porch!

Cienna was blessed being showered with love and thoughtfulness all month.  She has really excelled in reading by sounding out the letters and truly enjoys it.  She thrives for a sense of accomplishment.  After getting some shoes with laces for her birthday she is determined to learn how to tie them herself.  She is getting the steps, her fingers just aren't quite as versed.  That doesn't stop her from trying though!  She is still into her clothes and likes Mommy to french braid her hair.  She is writing her upper and lower case letters learning to stay in the lines.

Kaylee is now singing along with familiar songs, carrying on the theme for the month, Happy Birthday is of course one of them.  She got to sport pony tails for the first time and is done with her highchair.  She mastered how it all works and decided that she didn't feel like using the tray all the time.  She now eats at the table with the rest of us, strapped into a booster.  She enjoys scribbling, pointing to and naming pictures in books, but mostly wants to be on the go, learning new things, or just snuggle!

They now feed Porter together, Cienna gives the commands and Kaylee scoops the food.  Actually they do alot together now, including share (sometimes) and lots of laughs!  You can tell Cienna is thrilled to have Kaylee interact and play pretends with her but is sometimes frustrated when she can't use her like a doll or Kaylee wants to do her own thing.

Late Breaking news.. we welcome a healthy Greyson Scott Leedy born 2/21/2012!  Congratulations Jamaica and Val!

Fun and Smiley faces. Click the picture below to see even more!

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Cienna - 18 Years 7 Months Old! ... Kaylee - 16 Years 2 Months Old!

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