Apple!

The other night, the family was sitting at the dinner table, eating.  Sienna was in her high chair in between Daddy and Mommy and Finley was across from her.  We had been eating for 5 minutes or so when Sienna started reaching and saying, "Apple!  Apple!"  I kept thinking she was reaching for the salt and pepper shakers and that she thought they were apples - although I certainly knew she was smarter than that, especially since she can now count to eleven!  All of a sudden, a lightbulb went off in Daddy's head and he said, "I know what she's doing."  He grabbed her hand and she reached for mine, and we all realized that she wanted to sing the Johnny Appleseed song.  We had to sing it several times, of course, after that cuteness!  Oh, the Lord IS good to me :)

Ears Are Good!

No pics for this post, but SiSi had her ear-tubes-follow-up a couple of days ago and everything looks good.  She passed her hearing test with flying colors and improved a ton from her before test.  She clearly can hear because she asks Momma to sing any number of her favorite songs - ABCD's, Itsy Bitsy 'Pider, Rock-a-bye-baby, Bringing Home a Baby Bumble Bee - and matches pitch perfectly.  Naturally ;)

Pigtails for SiSi!

Sienna has had only a teeny weeny trim since she was born and Mommy thought it was much easier to let her "bangs" grow out while she is a little stinker rather than wait until she is older like we did with Finley.  After spending a girls' weekend with the cousins/aunts/grandmas in Sioux Falls (where she clearly had a blast in the pool), it was clear that she was very over her top-of-the-head ponytails.  When we returned home, Mommy caved and gave her a bigger trim of the bangs, which left her smiling from ear to ear.  This morning, we were able to put her hair in her very first pigtails ever and she left them in all day so she must have loved them as much as we lover her.