Potty Training

So yesterday Sienna said bathroom, and hit the door. I opened it up and she pointed at her potty and said "poopy" So I took her diaper off and set her down and she peed. It was awesome. I was jumping up and down and I sang her a song and had her call Grandma. Being over-excited, I decided we should potty train. We went to Target right away to buy supplies. 2 1/2 hrs, 5 pairs of wet underwear, and one more successful pee in the potty and I was done for the night. We tried again for another 2 1/2 hours this morning with similar results. 5 pairs of underwear, 2 successful pees, and I am out for the day. This is exhausting. At least she looks adorable running around in her underwear or with a little naked bum.

Cleaning up pee

Rinsing out underwear

Sienna's dog has underwear too!

Sitting on her potty

Oh and once she even peed on the couch cover and wiped herself with it. Ewww.

Singing

Sienna sang us the cutest song yesterday. It went, "Happy, Mommy, Daddy" and had an adorable dance interlude. She also sings a very off key my little pony and three words of I love to see the temple, those words are "I temple going" She is also getting really good at kicking her red ball around outside and we think she might have a knack for soccer. We are all sick right now and she is a little ray of sunshine. It is so hard to believe we have the same thing, and she isn't on medicine. I love resting without guilt, it doesn't happen very often. The house is such a mess but I will get to it when I feel better. I have never allowed myself to do that before....I always did stuff, school, work, and housework when I didn't have those too. I was so use to it being unacceptable, but now it isn't now it is the right thing to take care of myself and get better. I am so glad I have a husband who taught me to take a break and get better. This wasn't intended to be literary gold, it isn't edited, but it is a way for me to look back and remember my life. What a beautiful life it is.

Drive In Movie

Sienna and I saw our first ever drive in movie!!! Sean set up the futon in the back of the van and we were nice and cozy. We watched Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters and had a lot of fun. 

While we were having dinner with some new friends Sienna tried to climb the stairs on the outside because we had the gate up. Those gate have caused nothing but problems for her. They make her fall down and try all sorts of unsafe endeavors. 

Sienna made her very first mega blocks creation! I held the bottom for her, but she fit the pieces together all by herself!!! 

Learning Gospel Principles

Sienna just pointed at a picture of the Savior. Sean told her "that's Jesus" and immediately she folded her arms and bowed her head. :) She understands that we say his name at the end of a prayer. We were both very impressed. I love my little girl.

We have decided she might be old enough to understand simple family home evenings.

2 Nephi 25:26 And we ^atalk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we ^bprophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our ^cchildren may know to what source they may look for a ^dremission of their sins.

I have come to have a deep love for my Savior and I hope Sienna will develop this love as well. 

Oh no!

Chocolate

I had one of those rewarding mommy moments two days ago. Sienna and I were working on her actions words, and we set them down. Sienna went back, found the word spin, picked it up, and spun around. It was absolutely adorable realizing she knew what it meant. She was really excited when I showed her the word "in" and demonstrated what it meant. She was putting her hand in and out of a toy and then she moved on to putting her foot in and out of it. We got a free book from the library for doing their summer reading program, and Sienna is loving it. Ironically she brought it to me while I was typing that sentence. She also has a favorite necklace that she manages to find every day and she loves wearing it. It is the one necklace I don't ever wear and it is pink and purple....so I am glad that is the one she loves. Another fun thing that happened this week was that Sienna pointed at a bag of chocolate covered blueberries and said "chocola" I was so excited that I gave her a few.
Last night after Sean came home and said hi, he went upstairs to unwind, Sienna went to the bottom of the stairs, and yelled, "daddy!" over and over again. She is saying so many words and it is a blast. Her favorite thing to watch are the minions, and she can pronounce every syllable...although she usually shortens it to "mi" She also said, "more juice" yesterday. :) :) :) I am loving the rewards of motherhood.

Outside the theater after seeing Despicable Me 2

After spilling hot chocolate mix all over the floor and drawing some pretty pictures. 

trying on sunglasses in the children's place

Crazy Climber

What is Sienna up to lately? Mostly climbing. Climbing on the couch, climbing onto the table, climbing up the play set, climbing anything that can be reasonably climbed by her. If Sienna is happy as a clam in the kitchen I know it is time to go get her off of the table before she empties out the spices, pushes the scriptures and notebooks on the floor, and throws daddy's suture gloves everywhere.