island routines..

our man Elmo!!!

The boys (Jacques & Bird) woke up early this morning to surf up north and Sienna and I decided to stay here and do our island routine.

Our routine goes like this: she wakes me up between 7-7:15 (6-6:15am jersey time). I put the coffee on and make her a 10oz bottle of formula while she watches her favorite: ELMO. While the coffee is brewing I give her the bottle and then back to Elmo. It's nice time for both of us. I get to drink my coffee, check e-mail, blog, facebook or whatever I feel like. And she gets to watch her favorite monster. When we used to put it on for her she would just stare in amazement. Ha, now she cracks up at Mr. Noodle and hums along with the songs. It's amazing to see her development. There's nothing better than Elmo in her eyes. I have tried to show her some other shows and she's not into them. Good for us! He is educational, diversified and entertaining (even for Jacques and I, we know every word!). After Elmo is done we go for a walk... down our dead end street that consists of three hills (the last being the hardest), a couple horses, sheep and about 30 dogs. When you walk by the first house the first dog barks, then every house after is a secession of doggies. Sienna loves it, and Shannon and Coop sometimes come, too. But the best part of our daily walk is her naptime! By the time we turn around to go back to the house she is getting sleepy. It puts her out like a light. Woo hoo. Baby's fed and sleeping. Time to do some chores. I putt around the house doing laundry, cleaning floors, taking out the trash, etc. It's like you have to be super anal around her if not you get these lil ants all around the place. Mom you will be proud!! we haven't left dishes in the sink since the first week we were here! It must be the coffee (strong PR coffee) and the strenuous walk that fires me up to clean. Oh yea, and no TV = no Wendy Williams! By the time baby wakes up the boys are home and we get ready for the beach. Mommy gets to get her surf on while Sienna and Jacques play on the beach. It works out great.

Sienna in her stroller at Middles, around 6am!

Sometimes Sienna and I will come with Jacques and company on their dawn patrol sessions.. We wake up before the sun gets up and hope into the car. Sometimes Sienna stays awake for a little until I give her a bottle in the car. Then she sleeps until we get into Isabela (about 20 minutes from Rincon). We bring the stroller to a beach called "Middles", where Jacques has all the sick barrel shots from. Jacques goes surfing and we eat breakfast on the beach, then go for a walk. It's a tough walk through deep, soft sand. We walk for about an hour, which puts her to sleep. (catching onto the pattern? walks = sleep for baby. walks= excersize for mommy.) She sleeps maybe an hour or more, wakes up, plays in the sand for a bit. If she wants to go in the water (which she sees the ocean and points and says "that" "that" "that") we walk down to the tide pool right north of the beach. It's knee deep and super warm. Sienna LOVES going into the water. I have just started to "dunk" her underwater so she gets used to it. They naturally hold their breath and the lil munchkin loves it! She's going to be swimming soon, she wants to go on her own so bad! She's like "ok, Ma, get off ...let me go!"

We can't wait to see everyone when we go back for Christmas. I am excited for her to see all the Christmas decorations.. she's going to be asking a ton of questions! Love you guys. xoxo

.. time for our walk, Elmo's done!!