Botello Family Christmas!

Wow! Things have been so hectic the past few weeks. It has been so great, though. Siena definitely had a wonderful first Christmas, and just having her with us proved to be the best gift ever! I totally loved seeing her excitement every time she tore into the wrapping paper. She got really good at opening them, too! I am going to try to put a few of our top pictures on here. There are just so many! I want to try to give you a glimpse of how much we all enjoyed the time together. We found Siena a small tree to start for next year. I thought silver and pink would be a cute color scheme.

Here's a video of her playing with her phone Aunt Freda and Uncle Rick got her. She loves pressing buttons on the remote control, cell phone, or keyboard. So, she loves this thing! Thank Freda and Rick!

I love the fact that, now, Siena's bottom two teeth have come in enough that when she smiles really big, you can see them. It makes her look even more adorable, and big! So, here's my favorite "tooth" shot.

She is learning to use her tongue, too. So, when she gets tickled, she'll start sticking her tongue out after every laugh. She does it so quickly, it's hard to get a picture, but here's one.

Tommy also took Siena to the pediatrician yesterday for her 6 month check up. I was excited because, for once, I wasn't the one sitting in on the torture of shots! Tommy said she did wonderful and was smiling at the nurses after 5 seconds, though. She had her vaccinations and also her first round of flu shots. Siena now weighs a whopping 20 pounds, 12 ounces and is 27 1/4" long! I really need to find that growth stunt potion! Any help would be appreciated.

Baby's First Christmas!

First of all, I just want to apologize for how long it's taken to sit down and blog. Things have been going great, but it's just been busy like most people's lives around this time of the year. We have officially started going through the teething phase for about a week and a half now. Her first bottom two are coming through. You can see the tops pretty good now. I feel we are still blessed with the best baby. We have experienced some crabbiness with her, ALOT of drooling, and some fighting sleep at night. It really hasn't been as bad as some of the stories I had heard, though. I hope it continues to be this easy with the remainder of her teeth!

She loves giving kisses right now. By kisses, I mean, grabbing both sides of your face, pulling her open mouth to you, and latching on! It's the funniest thing. I did happen to get a video of her doing this to my mom. As you can tell, Mom thought it was hilarious!

Here's another fun video of us giving Siena some melt away strawberry yogurt bites. They taste just like strawberries; so we assumed that she would enjoy them. Boy, were we wrong! Please note that this was about the 4th attempt on getting her to like them, and she made this face every time!



As for Siena's first Christmas, we have made sure to get lots of pictures of her in all of her Christmas attire. We had so many photo ideas that it was hard to narrow it down. We took a pretty good amount of them here at the house, but we did opt to have some taken with a photographer so we could have some family shots. I also put a picture of her opening her first Christmas present. She's really been enjoying ripping paper here recently. What perfect timing for Christmas!