Halloween 2009 - Heigh Ho Heigh Ho

Halloween pictures can be found in my Facebook album.

The O's recently moved to San Diego! Andy did his PhD in the same lab (you may recognize him in some old Diaz Lab/NYC posts from years back), graduated, and got an awesome job in San Diego. It feels great that a bunch of our good friends from Sinai are relocating to Southern California (i.e. Heather and Cheryl!).

They have a 2 year 3 month old, Lilly. She is SUCH a sweetie. So good to Sierra. She lets Sierra play with her toys and really watched out for Sierra this evening. Since Sierra couldn't walk up to doors and do trick or treating the "right" way, Lilly learned to trick or treat (a whole new phenomenon for her, but she was a quick learner! - The stages: 1. silence, 2. grab candy, 3. grab candy and say thank you, 4. say trick or treat, grab candy, thank you, 5. run to house, trick or treat, grab candy, thank you, 6. "another house?" etc. etc.) and quickly started to share her loot with Sierra!

Sierra's new best friend

Sierra was covered in a mound of candy by the end of the night!

Pai pai so! (Clapping!)

Also, some videos from yesterday:

Playing

Encouraging Sierra to practice walking with the remote

First Steps

We saw Sierra take her first tottering steps last night!

10.5 months

Here are the first videos that we managed to capture.

When a hand goes near her mouth...

We've conditioned our baby to do the following:

First trip tp the playground

10 months 1 week

Splash Park

Second time on the swing... Sierra was very interested in the little girl next to her.

First time checking out the playground.

Watching big kids... Practicing walking.

Gotta watch out for her habit of eating everything!

Climbing stairs

Stuffing Her Face

10 weeks and 1 week old.

Sierra likes to stuff her mouth
(reminds me of someone I know... ahem, DADDY)

"Mom"

Eating Adventures

We haven't been great at capturing all her first eating moments (check here and here for older posts), but here are a few that we have gotten. It's pretty amazing how quickly babies turn into more adept eaters.

Sierra is a good eater (she better be!). She's had rice, oatmeal, peas, carrots, green beans, sweet potato, potato, bananas, peaches, pears, apples, watermelon, wheat bread, cinnamon raisin bread, eggs, tomatoes, cheese, cream cheese, chicken, beef, cheerios, chex, broccoli, cauliflower, pasta, pasta sauce, yogurt, and a bunch of Gerber crackers. But so far, we have managed to find ONE food that she was not a huge fan of after the first bite - AVOCADOES.

Here's a clip from August 19, 2009. She was 8 months old.

That was Grandma Liu laughing in the background.

Sierra would make gagging actions and her whole body would shiver occasionally. We should try it again sometime and see if she would like avocadoes more now (probably would if it was guacamole!)

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This is how Sierra usually looks when eating.
(August 29, 2009)

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Fine Dining

Sierra is perfectly comfortable munching away on carrots and bread in middle of a fancy restaurant. (September 13, 2009)

Gimme more! Gimme more!

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Ba Ren - last night of Grandma and Grandpa Huang in town - Almost 10 months old!
(September 29, 2009)... She has a history of wanting to chomp away on the camera...