Syona's first haircut

We are running a weeks behind on these blog posts. Don't know where all our time goes, oh yes I do! It goes towards taking care of a baby and cleaning the whole house after the busy day each day, haha. Anyways, I wanted to document Syona's first haircut which was quite an eventful experience. We took her to Lollipops a super cute salon in Saratoga where the kids sit in these little cars. I met Paul and Syona after work, and right when I got there, it was Syona's turn to get her haircut. Of course when she saw me, she wanted our usual Syona muma greeting time with hugs, kisses and 30 second mum mum so she was not happy when we put her in the car. Anyways, I'll let the pics speak for themselves :) But it was a super fun experience for us, she looked like such a big girl when she was done with short little bangs. I'm just happy she can see now! And we even got a souvenir lock of her hair to save with her first haircut certificate :) And of course, she got a lollipop at the end, her first one!

Syona and her monkeys

Syona loves all her play animals. Monkeys are her favorite- she wakes up in the morning and makes the hou-hou sound and bounces up and down. Sometimes when she's eating, and then she plays as Mama monkey and feeds her monkey(s) some milk mum-mum. Like how she interacts with everyone else, she is diplomatic with the monkeys too (if both of them are there, she would feed them both). She gives them hugs and kisses when she feels like they need one. During dinner time, when you ask her to go get her monkey (distraction so that we can get a couple of bites in), she would run and get the monkey and bring it back to you. Then she turns back right away and get the other monkey, without us tell her. Told you she was diplomatic. She doesn't do this just we the monkeys, she likes to get her bear and bunny out of her pen, and if you try to put the bunny away, she'll point at it and say HOP until you bring it back down. Today, she also learned to answer No and Yes. I've been trying that for a while, but today she finally said No - to getting a new diaper.

Words & More

Today she said "oval" and pointed to the shape. I was amazed. We did two puzzles together and she was able to figure out which piece belonged to each puzzle. She also pointed to the moon in the book and said "moon" and kissed the moon like a thousand times. I've now transitioned over to a new team at eBay, which I love, and am working 4 days a week, with Wednesdays off. So today Syona and I went to a free gymboree class and had lunch at fresh choice. I wasn't super impressed with the class and I think Syona liked the music class we took at Harmony better as well. She had her first icecream cone with frozen yogurt on top at fresh choice. I think she really liked being able to hold the cone, although muma had to take it away when she started to smear it on the walls. Syona has gotten pretty confident at walking. She can fill in the blanks with "up" and "down" when I sing London Bridge. Other new words: snake, elmo, goose, dodo (string bean), more. She points to moose, pig, wolf, mouse, and puts her nose in the air like the bear in the book when we say "with his nose in the air".