Sienna update

Sienna is now 4 months old.  Where did the time go??  Here are some little tidbits about our little sunshine:

• We love her hair!  We always get comments on it wherever we go. At 3 months old we could put an elastic band in it!
• She's a mama's girl. Cries when she's away from me. Glaring difference from Sophie who didn't mind being with other people when she was a baby!
• Her nicknames are Sunshine (Sunny) and Big Mouth Bass.  This is because when she smiles it is a huge wide open smile every time!

• Started giggling when she was about 3 months old and laughs when lifted up in the air and when daddy gives her neck blows and tickles her neck with his facial hair!
• A HUGE spitter-upper (although a little less so lately) but has now upgraded to being a huge drooler.  She is always juicy!
• Sleeps about 11 hours at night, waking occasionally in the middle of the night to get her paci put back in her mouth. By us. Every time.
• Loves her jumparoo and wiggles around in it and smiles.
• Has rolled over from tummy to back about 4-5 times now, but it's always surprising to her and I don't think she realizes what she's doing yet!
• Loves to babble and squeal.  Has definitely found her voice. 
• Just discovered her toes and holds them often.

 4 month official mug shot:

I don't know what I would do without my sunshine. She is awesome. (Oh and so is Sophie of course, just in case she is reading this ;) LOVE MY GIRLS!

The Outer Banks

Completely forgot to blog about our trip to the outer banks last month! I've been slacking in the blog department. Cory switched jobs last month and had a lovely week of unemployment between the two. We decided to take a trip to North Carolina's famous Outer Banks, since we've lived here 5 years now and have never been there. We've been to the ocean a couple times before but not the actual outer banks.

It was challenging! It was our first trip with Sienna and she was only 3 months old. It took about 5.5 hours to drive there with a stop in the middle to feed Sienna, change diapers etc. We went to the NC aquarium in Manteo, a cute coastal town on an island between the mainland and the outer banks. We were happy to see they had 7-Elevens! We don't have any around here where we live so we got a slurpee a couple of times.





Stayed at the Cavalier motel right on the beach. Sophie loved the ocean and sat in the water and loved getting pushed by the waves.


We drove up and down the outer banks tiny strip of land and saw the Bodie Island Lighthouse and the famous Cape Hatteras lighthouse, plus we went to the Jockey Ridge State Park which is full of huge sand dunes. I stayed on the boardwalk with Sienna and Cory took Sophie on the sand.  She was so funny!  It took her a while to figure out how to walk on the large mounds of soft sand!



It was good to go but it was a lot of work, what with stopping to feed Sienna wherever we were at the time, plus getting in her naps, plus she screamed bloody murder one of the nights before bed for like 40 minutes.  I'm sure our neighbours loved that!

We'll probably wait until Sienna's a little older before going on a major trip like that again! But Sophie had a blast and it was nice to see the ocean again!