11 Months

Sienna hit the big 11 months on Friday. I cannot even believe next month she will be one. Let's not talk about it.

Sienna is getting a tooth! Her first one finally popped through a few days ago after struggling under the surface for two weeks. I'm hopeful there is another just behind it and all that teething fun wasn't just for one tooth.

She's turned into a big girl on me. We play the game "Who is my Big Girl?" and Kiran always answers "Me!" and "Who is my Baby?" is always answered with "Sienna!" But soon I'll have two big girls. Sienna's favorite thing to do is follow Kiran around. She always looks for Kiran first when she wakes from her nap and crawls to her door if Kiran is still in her room. I have to physically remove Sienna from the time out corner when Kiran is serving her time. It just doesn't seem like punishment when your sister is there making silly faces at you.

I asked Jonathan if we should have a theme for Sienna's first birthday party. These are the ones he's come up with so far:

• birthday
• 1st birthday
• Atlanta Braves
• Indian-themed naming ceremony
• Summer is great
• Great Moments in baseball on the 4th of July (Rick Camp)
• My First Prom

We are still negotiating.

Sienna loves to eat a baked sweet potato every night for dinner. She tears into it. I love it. We made progress today in the milk department. I've tried giving her soy formula the last few times I've missed a feeding since we needed to know if she was still intolerant to soy. She didn't seem to have a reaction but got to the point where she wouldn't take the bottle or sippy cup at all- she would just throw it. Today I introduced Soy Milk in her sippy cup- not as a replacement for nursing but in addition to. At first she would drink some, say "Ah" and let it all fall out of her mouth. But tonight's sweet potato was pretty hot so she guzzled some down. I really hope she continues to drink it because J & I leave a month from today for Hawaii and she needs to have some sort of milk to drink while we are gone.

One More....

After church yesterday, Kiran came out of her room and announced, "Mommy I have twin babies!"

I said, "You do? Who are they?"

Kiran said, "Riley, Riley, Quinn, Quinn and Riley."

I said, "Well Kiran that's five babies. That's quintuplets."

Kiran got all excited and said, "I want quintuplets! And I want Rileytuplets too!"

Seriously Cute Babies

And I'm not even talking about mine!

Over a month ago (yikes!) the girls and I drove down to see Bren and her babies on her birthday. At the time the babes were (i think) 7 weeks old.

Quinn- a strapping 10 lbs

Riley- doubled her birth weight to 6lbs! Neither of my girls were ever that tiny! I almost threw her the first time I picked her up because she was so light.

Kelley with Quinn (left) and Riley (right)

I was so impressed with Brenna. She had 7 week old twins and she was doing fabulous. I think what impressed me most was that she knew how she wanted to mother and was very confident and secure in that. I don't think I've seen many new moms like that! It was so calming and I know Quinn and Riley are thriving due to that. I don't mean to imply she thought she knew it all or had all the answers but she didn't second guess every decision she had to make.

All the seriously cute babies!