Here's my current favorite photo of my baby girl.
I finally blogged about her 1st birthday (now that she is almost 2):
http://makingit-forever.blogspot.com/2013/05/sierra-turns-1.html
Still got to get to Lily's from last year, but I been a bit too busy lately. Feeling overwhelmed. I like to go through pictures and I need to do more stuff that I enjoy and relax more, but when?
Sierra is such a sweetie. She has her moments and has already been in more time outs than I can recall, but she's a sweetheart. I was stressing today over major life decisions, and she knew it and came over to me and gave me hugs and said "I help!" Seriously. So perceptive, just thinking of it now is bringing tears to my eyes.
My daughters can be demanding and dramatic and defiant, but they are darlings too! I did not intend to lump that many "d" words into one sentence on purpose, just for the record. Sometimes things like that just happen.
Anyway, just a couple things my kids have said recently that made us smile.
Sierra makes us laugh every time we tell her
she needs to share with someone else and she gets this look in her eye and demands to the other person in a loud tone of conviction "
Share!" but it sounds like instead of us asking her to share we were backing her up to get what she wants (like
Yeah, share!) We really need to get it on video.
She recently started saying "You're welcome" after someone says thank you, and it is the cutest thing! And she's started this habit of tapping on our shoulders to get our attention, but she just keeps tapping. And she'll say: "Know, what?" and then pause, but you never find out what, because she either just smiles at you or babbles something really quietly that you can't understand.
Today Lily and I were having a homework discussion trying to come up with 5 words that describe her. It was a pretty long conversation, because Lily has a hard time taking anyone's advice. Or maybe it's just my advice. I don't really know...but I hope she does better at school!
Anyway, she was saying: "I love Mommy" and "I love Daddy," and "I love Sierra" so Mike and I told her she should use the (one) word "loving." (After rejecting
many other suggestions ('picky' and 'whiny' may or may not have been included (Mean Mommy)). She said "I like counting...Numeric?" (I thought that was pretty funny and smart - just like my Lily I'm so proud of!)
