I Can be Cute...See!

Sierra is so freakin' happy all the time and it's taken her FOR-EV-ER to start laughing (which she's been doing for a bit now like a big girl). She used to pant like a dog or cough which we discovered was a form of laughter for her but I've never caught it on video until today. We were playing peek-a-boo with her looking for me over the side of her crib and laughing hysterically (is that how you spell that?) when she could finally see me again...



She's so freakin' cute, I could eat her face!

The Many Psycho Faces of Sierra Smith

We must admit that Sierra is one cute kid...except when she does this...



And this...or this...um, this?...

And of course hopefully she'll learn (no thanks to her dad) that the following are not very becoming either.

Random Cutenesses

Just a few pics I couldn't not share. She's getting so big...

This is Mommy and Me stay home from work day! So much fun.

Girlfriend had some, still has some, crazy diaper rash so all weekend ( this is so old that "all weekend" means like a month ago) she hung out in her birthday suit, even though it was Easter, and just showed us tricks all day. She is SO talented:

St. Patrick's Day was fun. It was dress Sierra up like a boy day! Oh my gosh, my little baby looks like a boy! I can't help it that she doesn't have any hair! I bought this super cute shirt that says "I'm Charming" on it, and coupled with jeans she looks like a hot little man. Joe always wanted a boy so now he has the best of both worlds. Girl one day and boy the next. Am I giving my kid a complex?!

This is all TOTALLY RANDOM did I mention that?
So Girlfriend has a cute little boy friend. Yes, those are two separate words. Boy...friend. Not boyfriend. Jones Raisor is her little friend, we've featured him as the super baby on our blog before. Remember? The one that crawls monkey style who is 2 days older than Sierra and who is about to start walking any day now when Sierra isn't even crawling? Yeah, that's the one. They are so cute together. He tries to steal her toys and she mauls his face with her little hands. Adorable.

Joe is going to kill me for putting this picture up but I think she looks like a little freak, in a cute way. This is what you get when you mix chocolate and picture taking. Are we bad parents for putting up fugly pics of our kid? (ok, am I a bad parent?)









Last but certainly not least, and I promise I'll be more diligent...Sierra's big new trick that she'll never do again because she's so lazy! Her daddy is SO PROUD of this. "Ta-Da! Here I am! Look at me!" She's so awesome! And what a cute bum too! (don't stare pervs!)

Up Close and Personal

The picture you have all been asking for...check out those daggers! She's so cute. Two more are coming in on top but we haven't been able to get a good shot of those yet.

"My, what Big Teeth you have!"

My baby is cutting three, count them...one, two, three teeth! She won't keep her mouth open long enough to let us take a really long look let alone take a picture so you are going to have to take my word for it. The front middle right incisors starting coming in like 10 days ago followed by its neighbor the left incisor. Then much to our surprise Joe discovered yesterday that she is getting a top left incisor that is not the front tooth, but the one just to the side of it. She is a tooth making machine. And she's not crying, fussy, crazy or anything. She's so cool!

Video Response to the Paget's "Alphawesome!"

Sierra watched Solei's video and got jealous. We don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, but our baby is pretty smart too!

Mexico or Bust

We put our pictures up from the vacation FINALLY. Scroll two posts down.

Peek-A-Boo! I See You!

Oh what fun we have with Daddy! Our little girl is hilarious!

Baby Food!

It is true that we have been giving Sierra big people food to suck on and chew on and make a mess with, but I figured it was about time to actually feed her and help her work on that thing we all call swallowing. This week is the perfect opportunity because I'm working from home today and tomorrow so I'll have 4 full days of working on this with her until I let her Daddy and her Grandmother start on this fun new stage.

So here you have it...

Breakfast was bananas (I should have given her broccoli for breakfast but it just doesn't seem like a breakfast food to me). I know she likes them but I didn't think she would do this good. She ate the entire banana that I made for her. Yes, I made for her. My baby-food processor is the bomb (thanks mom). She downed half a banana in no time and loved every bit of it. She even opened her mouth after swallowing each bite. And the amazing thing about it all is that she would suck the food off the spoon like a big girl, I didn't have to scrap it off her gums to get the food in her mouth. She's a champ!

Then for lunch I decided to mix it up a bit. All the books say (and yes I go by the books) that I should introduce one new veggie every couple of days to ensure there are no allergies blah, blah, blah. Well, I think that's stupid so for lunch we had

Corn, brocolli, and cauliflower. Yummy!




So, yes, a lot more got on her during lunch than breakfast and she wasn't really feelin' all the veggies, but it's a start.

Gotta love her!

My 1st International Vacation!

We figured you'd want a blow by blow of our very first family vacation so here it is.

We hopped a plane in Atlanta for Cancun but there was some waiting before hand in the airport. Good thing we all LOVE food because that's what we did to pass the time - eat!

Then it was time to get on Sierra's very first airplane! How exciting! I was actually a little scared considering I didn't know how she was going to behave. She's super chill however I don't want to be "THAT LADY" whose child is screaming bloody murder on take off and landing. How terrible. She LOVED the airplane. The fact that she can stand up and smile at the people in the row behind her really made her go crazy! She was SO HAPPY about that. Someone to smile at her other than her parents and grandparents. What a treat. She loves strangers. Especially smiling ones. She did great though. Take off, landing, air pressure, didn't phase her at all. My ears bothered me more than they bothered her. She was all smiles the entire trip. She didn't even have a nap the entire day.

We got to Cancun and to our hotel with little incident, ok, there was one but we don't want to talk about it, and of course we devoured the entire room service menu when we got there. I think for the 4 of us (duh, my mom and step-dad traveled with us) we ordered 8 entrees. We are big fatties, but that's what you do at an all-inclusive resort...EAT!

The next couple of days were a blur. All we did was eat, Eat, EAT!!!

They had all kinds of great food there. I had pink grapefruit, bananas, oranges, nachos (yes, that's true), and anything else I could get my hands on. And trust me, I wanted to eat EVERYTHING. Daddy and Papa Ron LOVED the buffets and Mommy loved teh sugar french toast, but nothing is as healthy as the fruit I ate all week long. This is what I looked like every meal with all this food. A baby's paradise!


By the time we left I was stuffed, but in between meals I found time to do some other things.

I spent some quality time at the pool with my family. Don't worry, I put on alot of sunscreen so I didn't get a sunburn at all. So I showed off my bathing suit to everyone and everyone LOVED me! Perfect strangers wanted to hold me and love me and be my 'Auntie' and 'Grandma'. People are so silly. I was the talk of all the ladies at the resort though.

I learned how to swim too! It was awesome! I had my swim assistant so I could chill in the pool at not have anyone bother me. I look like I didn't enjoy it, but trust me, I did! I had so much fun. I don't know why I have such a weird look on my face. I am so silly. I would just kick my little feet and be lazy in the pool while everyone watched me. It was like being in a huge bath except it was a little colder than my bath, ok, a lot colder than my bath. I took a few dips without this thing and dunked myself underwater. Not to shabby for my first time.

I watched some cool shows and made some new friends while I was in Cancun as well. (check out that one dancers butt...it's like a ham...HUGE!)

Grandma really liked the show. I thought it was pretty sweet too. They changed their outfits like every time they did a new dance. They clucked like chickens sometimes too when they were excited. It doesn't look like I enjoyed myself, but I did!


I met these characters on my way to the beach. I wasn't even scared of them. They were on their way to a wedding. They throw fire!
And then...I FINALLY made to the beach. I had been to the beach in Florida before, twice, but I wasn't old enough to go on the sand and now I'm finally old enough! I'm big! Check me out, you better believe everyone on that beach was!

I had my sun tan lotion on, my sunglasses, and I was such a looker! I loved the feel of the sand on my toes...and my hands, the sun on my face. This is the life!
So, after all this fun we were exhausted. We had a great time and I can't wait until we can go again next year! Only 333 days until we leave!