Does this count as Crawling?!?

Sierra has been trying to creep and crawl without too much success. She usually will end up sticking her butt into the air and either smush her face into the ground or flip herself to one side or the other.

Recently, she's been making reaching motions and grabbing and trying to pull herself forward.

Today, she looks like she's doing the real thing!

Watch me sit!

For the first time, Sierra can sit up longer than a few seconds! (Sorry for the sideways video, I don't know how to rotate it!)

Dave's Early Retirement Plan

Yum Yum Yum

Sierra forgets all about her food when she has her new spoon to practice with!

Feeding myself is fun!

Enjoying some fine wedding tunes

Sierra was unusually fussy at Hannah and Shay's wedding. :(

But the musicians seemed to calm her down....

Squeaking Baby

Some videos from Sierra playing in the hotel room in SF.

For some strange reason, she was especially fond of high pitched squeaking with happiness this weekend....

Look how strong my arms are!

Sierra is almost 6 months! She's rolling around a bit, reaching and grasping... Sometimes, trying to crawl (more like sticking her butt up in the air)...

A very happy girl! Here she is playing on the bed, reaching for her favorite rattle (thanks Aunties Heather and Cheryl!), and showing us how strong her arms are:

Happy Baby in the Crib

This video speaks for itself:

Sierra is big enough to reach and touch the mobile! It's amazing how fast babies grow.

Sierra meets the "Piano" for the first time

Learning to use her hands

March 30 - Sierra learns to use her hands while Mommy goes back to work!

April 4 - Happy 4 months, Sierra!

Sierra chilling in the car, singing and playing

April 5 - Playing in her carseat

Rolling front to back!

BREAKING NEWS!

9:30am 

Sierra manages to roll over from her tummy to her back!

A video clip of her 5th roll:

Avid reader and eater in the making...

Sierra takes after Mommy...

and Daddy!

Laughing and squealing

A couple days ago, Dave and I were doing squats while holding Sierra (Dave was holding Sierra, and I was making goofy faces and funny noises at her). She was laughing like crazy! 

Tonight, we captured her happiness while bouncing on video! Notice the high-pitched squealing. We've never heard her squeal like that before...

Grandma and Grandpa come a'visitin'!

March 18-23, 2009

My parents came for a short visit to see little Sierra and how much she's changed in 3 months! 

Sierra was fascinated by Grandma's dumpling making skills

She really enjoyed all of Grandma's silliness. Wow, if you think I'M loud, you should've seen my mom!

Too short of a visit though. :(

Having a conversation....

Sierra had a busy morning and afternoon strolling all over La Jolla (La Jolla Shores, La Jolla Cove, lunch at Cody's) with Mommy and Daddy. She was telling me ALL about it....

Thumbs are yummy

Happy 3 Months! Celebrating with some Mirror Dancing

Happy 3 months to Sierra!

Sorry that this video is sideways and jerky (hard to do with one hand on a squirmy bouncing Sierra and the other with the camera)... but have a peek at one of Sierra's most favorite pastimes: playing in front of the mirror! She loves to interact with the baby in the mirror... and here you can see the smiles that are so elusive to catch on camera (she's not a fan of the camera as it is always flashing in her face!)

Sierra is"singing"?

She's been fairly vocal since 2 months or earlier. We've had "conversations"... but this is new as of last night/this morning:



She's been a loudmouth all morning!

Mission Bay Sunset

Palm Springs Half Marathon and 5K

Dave and his friends had so much fun at the Carlsbad Half that they decided to run the Palm Springs Half this weekend!

We drove into Palm Springs Saturday morning. Check out the snow-capped mountains along the way. There were tons of rain the week before, we were worried that it would rain this weekend. Thankfully, the storms held off 'til Monday.



Apparently, it was the day of Tour de Palm Springs - a big cycling race ranging from 5-100 miles. Cyclists EVERYWHERE. We walked through the small Expo at the finish line. Fun shopping! Lots of fantastic deals! We gotta find some more bike races to shop for our gear. Much much much cheaper than REI...

Playing with Sierra that night in the hotel.

I decided at the last minute to run the 5K and test how well the stroller works. Technically, you can run with a baby in the stroller at 6 months, when the neck is stable. However, since we bought the infant car seat adaptor, that should work well enough. It actually worked very nicely (as long as the roads are smooth).







My pictures from race day:

Dave in his trash bag staying warm (it was in the 40s!).

Pretty mountains

While waiting for the 5K to start, I caught the Half Marathoners blaze past us!

Dave

Mike

Check out the backdrop of the race...

No pictures of me on the way since it's hard to take a picture of myself while jogging. I kept John's cousin company during the 5K, so the pace was very leisurely. To test the jogger, I ran the last mile pretty fast and passed a bunch of people. That was FUN! :) BOB jogger is very awesome. So smooth! Sierra was zonked out the entire race!

Dave coming in!

Finishing! (Time was pretty good. Around 1:45 again... very consistent)

A minute later comes Mike!

Another minute, there's John!

Becky finishing with an awesome time of ~1:53. Wow, I wish I can run like that.

Baby's first race. What a good girl.

Free advertising for Lexiva (drug that Becky sells)

(Dave and I forgot to bring our Jerseys! Oops! We'll take this picture again, properly, with everyone later on....)