Thursday, August 20, 2009

Painting...







“Help daddy? Help daddy?” is all we here now since we have left her do what you see here. Most of you know how neurotic I am about having a dirty kid or a smelling kid…thanks to Lori my coworker, she taught me right! She always said…”nobody likes a stinky baby!” Which is SO true! Have you ever held someone’s baby and they were dirty, or smelled like puke? Or another pet peave, is when their nose is crusted shut from snot build up! Man I hate that. All I what to do is go to town cleaning that kids nose so they can breathe! I’m sure the mom wouldn’t be offended at all right! So I don’t dare… SO needless to say, whenever I take Sydney out, she dress properly, hair’s done usually with a bow in it (marketing opportunity), her face is washed, we do a nose check, and we slap on some good smelling baby lotion if need be. I guess from Lori teaching me that it’s now a reflex! Haha Whoa now there’s a tangent at best! Haha My WHOLE reason for saying this was because here’s some pictures people rarely see of my daughter, in scrubby clothes full of paint! It was great! Jeremy was priming the walls and we went in to see him when Sydney asked “help Daddy paint?” so we looked at each other pondering the situation. And Jeremy says “well now’s to time to let her help, she can’ t ruin anything with primer?” So off I go to find clothes that she can paint in…which let me tell you was hard to find! We don’t have what people would call “play clothes” She plays in what ever she wears…and rarely get dirty so therefore we are missing that category from out wardrobe! So I found and sweat shirt and stretch pants that were Chloe and Emma’s and a pair of “older” socks. And we had a ball! So much fun that even Mimi had to get in on the action! Haha Sydney has SO much fun and so did we watching her!


Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Tuesday night was "financial services night" at the Williamsport Crosscutters Game. Thanks to State Farm, we got free tickets for the game! Great opportunity to spend sometime with my nephews! These boys are the best! So well behaved, so funny and so sweet to their cousin Syndey. We had SO much fun and looking forward to doing this again sometime!
Thank you Aunt Tammy for my new hat and pom poms!!









This is Boomer, Sydney's new best friend. If Boomer was not in sight, Sydney was asking for him. She was funny, she loved him from a distance but as soon as he got too close, her "where's Boomer?" turned in to "No Boomer!" haha




Friday, July 17, 2009

church camp

This is where Sydney spent the week of Church Camp, in the passenger seat of a golf cart or on Toby's four wheeler. By Wednesday people just started to pick her up. They knew if she saw them she would ask for a ride so they didn't even hesitate they just picked her up. I started to think that the drivers enjoyed it as much as she did! Above is Bro Cluster from the State College area, him and his wife areto of the sweetest people I know! They would drive up and ask her "go for a ride?" Sydney would hop right up and off they went!

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Inner Harbor




What a fantastic time we had at the aquarium! Sydney was in Fishy Heaven!!


Thursday, July 2, 2009

It's been awhile!





So sorry everyone! Boy how time flies! As you can see she's changing from month to month! We've just been overloaded with activities and life that I haven't had a chance to check in! But I couldn't wait another day to get you some pictures and tell you about our recent success! About two weeks ago we made a drastic change in Sydney's bed time routine. Which consisted of Mommy and Sydney passing out on the couch watching whatever may be on that night! What a great routine huh? We have found over recent weeks that the television was no longer soothing but now a stimulant that kept her little peepers from closing. So one night when I had it. Daddy took our little girl upstairs and put her in her crib awake. I was terrified, not knowing how long he was going to have to endure the screaming, whining and negotiating. yep, negotiating, I think that night she asked for everything under the moon! haha Milk, crackers, candy, couch, tv, hugs, kisses, and of course mommy and daddy's bed that I have recently given in to. So after about 35 minutes of this, I assumed it was success due to complete exhaustion. Since it was 12:00 am when Jeremy was able to sneak out. When Jeremy said we are going to take her up from now on and put her to in her crib awake I thought he was nuts. So of course I agreed only if he would take her up each night. Which he did, consistently now for two weeks! I am SO incredibly lucky to have a partner in my life, not just a husband. Last night was the topper, Jeremy was running late from music practice and at around 9:30p Sydney turns to me, kisses me and says "night night mommy, sweet dream." So I asked her, "Sydney, do you want to go up to your bed?' She said, okay mommy and proceeded to walk towards the steps!" No crying, no yelling, no need to pry her from my arms! So I at least asked her, may I carry her up so I could get at least one more squeeze in before she goes to bed. I asked Jeremy..."why have we waited until now to start this?" Why do any parents? We so often find excuses as to why, well she's not ready, it's not convenient, she won't we tried once. Well, I'm now up to try anything!!!

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Fun With Markers




PICTURES!