Middle-end of February 2015. Club Foot/Fibular Hemimelia Appointment

I love sleeping baby pictures. Here is a cute one of Declan all burrito-ed up!

I curled Siena's hair with a curling iron for the first time a few weeks ago for church. She loved getting her hair done! Turned out pretty darn cute too if I do say so myself.

Joel got a new phone and it had capability of doing slow-mo videos. When testing it out we got an epic video of Siena. She kept saying that it was burping and mooing when we watched it back too. So funny

We went to a trampoline play place with the kids a few weeks ago. The kids loved it! Even Brighton held his own against the big kids.

Can you see this next one?!:) I laid Declan down on Siena's bed and asked Siena just to keep an eye on him while I laid Brighton down for his nap in the room next door. I came back to this sweet sight. Siena had tucked him in the blankets, given him a stuffed animal to hold and was reading him a book. Cutest big sister award!:)

Such a sweet little guy!

 This video is just a slow-build of Declan about to cry. I thought it was too cute though and had to post it.

 Everyone loves Declan!:)

 I love when they play well together. It's so sweet!

Siena loves listening to her books on CD that we get from the library. I also love it because I am able to get a few things done.

Declan cooing.

 Knock knock..

 Bippidi Boppidi Boo:)

 Siena had a club foot/ fibular Hemimelia appointment. She has these about every 6 months, so I was looking forward to seeing if they had anything new to say. Brighton was a fan of the toys they had in the waiting room.

I took this picture and sent it to Joel telling him about how they had put us in a room set up for doing the castings for club foot that we had done with Siena when she was a baby and how it was bringing back such "fun" memories..lol and then about 2 minutes into the appointment the dr said Siena needed a cast. Talk about some negative foreshadowing!lol Siena's right leg is shorter than her right and she had apparently been walking on her tippy toes on her right leg and that had tightened her Achilles on that leg and it needed some stretching out. They stretched her leg and then put a cast on it for a week to stretch it out. They wanted Siena to come back for new casts once a week until it was better so we made 2 more appointments for the next two weeks just in case. More on that later in the post.

 She did great getting her cast on. The Dr was really impressed and said she does better than even the teenagers.lol

 She's was quite a fan of her pink cast

Brighton LOVES "Deck-uh" (Declan). If Declan is awake and I'm not feeding him Brighton is usually right near him. It's adorable!

 Snapped this sweet picture of Brighton's chubby cheeks! Love them!!

 He just recently found his belly button and thinks it's the coolest thing ever!

 Brighton says quite a few words now. One is "here you go" which sounds more like Hee-a-go. It's so cute.

 About 2 days after getting her cast on she was complaining that it was hurting a ton and wouldn't walk on it.

 Sweet tuckered-out baby!

 After a day or 2 of her complaining and occasionally bursting into tears we went back in to the office to have them take off the cast and check to make sure there were no blisters or problems with it. After determinng that it was fine and that it was probably just her Achilles stretching that was hurting they put on another cast and we made another appointment for a week from that day to get that one off and the next one on.Siena was pretty excited that she got to get a new color. She chose red for her 2nd cast. More to come on that in the next post.

I posted a shorter version of this video on Instagram and said this: "Oh my goodness I am dying over this video! I think I have a little OCD boy on my hands..lol wish I could have posted the whole video.. He was pretty upset over that darn trash can lid that would not stay closed!"

This is how we make it through church my friends.. two fistfuls of cheerios.lol

Siena has been learning songs in Primary and it is so fun to hear her singing these songs at home. The most recent one is called Gethsemane.

Brighton was so upset that morning that he couldn't figure out how to use his spoon. Overall he did well with it though.

 Siena loves having Brighton walk to her. I'm still working on teaching her that you have to stand a few steps away for him to actually be able to walk to her.:)

 Hanging out with his bro.

I love Brighton's car sounds:)

Brighton's first time-out. It was too cute to not take a picture! He sat there really well too. I guess he's seen his sister do it a time or two or something..lol

Shortly after Brighton went to time-out Siena had a meltdown and had to go to her room until she calmed down. I took a video in which you can hear Siena screaming from her room and can watch Brighton's reaction to her freakout. It was pretty epic..

I was also lucky enough to have my friend, Amanda, from college come to visit with her sweet little girl. Her daughter was such a fan of Declan, it was hilarious!

The Museum, Raking Leaves and Other Fun Videos

Last weekend we bought a van! Hooray! I know it's silly, but I have always had a dream of owning a Honda Odyssey, and I am now a proud owner of one! Just ask Joel. I tell him about 3-10 times a day that I love my van! This picture below is from when we were at one of the dealerships waiting around for forever. Daddy's good at coming up with ideas to entertain the kids.

  We went to the museum again recently. So here are a few pictures from that outing.

 We went out and raked up the millions of leaves in our backyard on Saturday. Siena had a ball, and to be honest so did Joel and I. Using the blower to get all the leaves to one side was ingenious and way too entertaining.

This is Siena's favorite thing to do when I have some things I want to work on in my craft room. She takes my craft room trash (the box) over to the corner of the room and dumps it all out then plays with all the scraps.

Siena loves to have dance parties! Joel recently was showing siena some dance moves and having her copy him and I caught it all on video..:)

And last but not least. I recorded Siena saying a few words (because she said them in a funny/cute way) the other day. I said the word and had her repeat me. After doing that she asked if she could say some of her own words and if I could record her. I was expecting her to say a word or two and be done.. but she kept going. So here you go, the train of thought of a 3 year old.. (p.s. ignore the slight bit of toddler nudity..lol)

I'm so glad I caught these fun moments on tape! She is growing up WAY too fast!

Fun with Family and Friends.. Life Lately

These are all my photos that have been storing up on my phone.. Joel said I should title this post "Data Dump.."

This is one of Brighton's favorite toys right now. I have to push the button, but he loves to talk into this thing.. he'll sit still for 10 minutes straight if you'll help him.

My mom came into town a few weeks ago and we had such a fun time with her. We met up with my Aunt Kathy up at the zoo one of the days.

 And met up for lunch with my grandma Sellers as well one of the days.

 We had such a fun time having her here. It's always sad to see family go. Doug and Vivian, Joel's parents will be coming in town in about 2 weeks though and my mom will be back in town at Christmas. It's great to have family trips planned.

These two little cuties love each other!:)

 I posted this next one on facebook and so I'm just going to copy and paste the story from that here:
The joys of having a mischievous older sister. I was working in putting a dresser together.. I had siena watching a movie and brighton corralled in the area too with toys. I heard siena say "Brighton, you will be a monster for halloween. You need lotion.." I look over the couch to find her smearing diaper cream all over brighton...

 The library had a little train come for the kids to ride on recently. We BARELY made it in time for the second to last ride around. Siena was SOOO worried we were going to miss it. and frankly so was I. I was certainly not looking forward to the extremely dissapointed toddler I would have had on my hands, so both she and I were thankful we made it just in time!:)

 After lunch one day brighton was a mess so I just threw him in the sink to get cleaned up. Siena loved helping wash his hair.

 Brighton is finally stable enough of a sitter that he can even sit in the slippery car grocery cart things they have at the store (that Siena insists we use every time we go in.. to which I usually give in if we're not in a huge hurry).

 We went to Kid to Kid recently and picked up all the kids' winter gear for this upcoming winter season here in Utah. Joel and I were super excited about the things we found that day! You should see brighton's winter snowsuit.. Siena calls it the astronaut costume..:)

 Just hanging out at the nearby park

 Brighton has figured out the stairs and LOVES to climb them.

 We love storytime at the library here. Siena gets way into it usually.

 Even Brighton likes story time.

 Hanging out at the park again..

 Siena loves to do her head stands against the wall and the other day Brighton thought it was pretty hilarious to crawl over and bite her face (he's still pretty gummy, so it didn't hurt her thankfully). Siena thought it was hilarious too and they played this game for a while.

 All dressed up for church.

 Cute little sleepy boy!

 Brighton figured out the other day that it was way easier to just climb into the toy chest to play with the toys than to pull out the toys individually.

 Little diva said she was going grocery shopping.lol

 We went to a peach/apple orchard on Friday and picked some peaches. No this was not your normal orchard experience and the one you would probably imagine in your head.. this one had sticker weed bushes that came up to your knees..lol it ended in lots of tears, but those peaches were some of the best peaches I've ever tasted, and to be honest it made for a pretty funny story so it still felt worth it in the end. (a story involving me holding Brighton, the diaper bag, and Siena while I tried to remove the sitckers from her pants and shoes enough to at least be able to carry both kiddos out of the orchard.. it was pretty funny..after the fact).

 On Saturday we watched the BYU game, then headed out for some tasty pizza and then a hike with friends after. We had a great weekend this weekend!

 Yes, she hiked in a skirt..lol

 The pretty view on the way down.

There is the latest from our family! Things are going well. I am now 28 weeks pregnant.. just a few short months left before we have another little guy to chase around!:)