December | 2013 | Adventures with Lisa & Kevin

Sirena’s second Christmas was a total blast–it was so amazing to see how much she had grown from last Christmas (see photos at this link) and how much she started really understanding what was going on! The funniest thing was that every time she saw a picture, a toy, a lawn ornament, whatever of Santa she’d call him, “Ho, ho, ho.” 🙂

However, she was not the Jolly Man’s biggest fan in the slightest. Case in point…photos from out front of my mom’s house where a Santa on holiday was hanging out for the month…

Trimming the tree with Aunt TT…

We decorated reindeer sugar cookies before getting started on the ornaments.

Just like Mama, she couldn’t resist!

I’ll give you two guesses to choose which ones Sirena made…

Admiring her work

Making silly faces in the ornaments with Mama

Showing TT some ornaments

Hanging out with Dee too!

Breakfast with Santa at Rancho Los Alamitos…

The weather turned downright nasty the morning the Breakfast with Santa event at Rancho Los Alamitos was scheduled but we didn’t let it get us down and made a fun (albeit muddy) morning out of it.

You know you’re at a rancho when they decorate with farm animals, lol!

Sirena’s not looking too impressed…

But what did impress her?…

A horse, of course.

Isela, baby Luna, and Christian trying to keep dry

Mom and Steve dancing the rain away

Christmas Eve with the Delmar family…

She wasn’t quite sure what to do with all of these things wrapped in paper, but eventually she got the hang of it!

Tina’s looking less-than-excited that I got a pocket knife from my Mom, lol!

Christmas morning with Mom, Dad, and Auntie Jessie…

“Oooh!”

Christmas Day with the Edmonds family…

Loving her Hello Kitty piano book from Grandma and Grandpa

One of many new airplanes she inherited

Cuddling with Grandpa

Needless to say, all of the holiday festivities wiped this girl out!

Our 2013 Christmas card:

Dear Sirena,

I really can’t grasp the fact that we have an 18 month old on our hands! You’re a full-fledged toddler now and the little person you’re becoming is pretty amazing.

Unfortunately, your eighteenth month started off a little rocky. For four days you were vomiting and had diarrhea, you couldn’t hold any food down and that led to you being really dehydrated. We took you to the doctor’s and we had to make the decision to give you an iv to get fluids in you. That experience was one of the hardest so far in this adventure we call parenting–it was downright torturous for you but it was also pretty traumatic for me and Daddy who had to help pin you down while they put the needle in and then try to comfort you as much as you could handle while the iv did its job. Luckily the torture was not in vain and you recovered pretty quickly after that. But then you developed a double ear infection (your first experience) so now you’re on antibiotics (your first experience with that too) and it seems that you’re finally on the mend.

On a lighter note, Daddy and I are blown away by the vocabulary you’re picking up on each moment of the day. You’ve begun naming things yourself and some of me and Daddy’s favorites are: Baby (blankie), baba (pacifier), boo-boo (booty), Lalo or Laloo (Lola), and “Maaah-meee” (Help please, More please, Yes please, Up please).

Christmas is only a couple of weeks away and you are really getting into the holiday spirit. Every time you see anything vaguely related to Christmas (picture of Santa, Christmas tree, Christmas lights, etc.) you quickly exclaim, “Ho, ho, ho” like the little Christmas elf you are.

Love,

Mama

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