New Big Girl Bed!

It was like Christmas in September!!! Haha We had decided to get Sydney a new big girl bed in preparation for Baby #2 which will be here before we know it! October 28th is right around the corner!! Friday night Jeremy and I stayed up until 1:00am trying to get Sydney’s new bed together because of our crazy mommy thought it was a necessity to get done this weekend on top of having a house full of people the next day, fundraiser prep Saturday night and serving dinner for 90 people on Sunday at our church. Of course this needed to be done this weekend! Haha God love my husband, I appreciate more than he’ll ever know… mainly because all he normally hears anymore is can you do this, when will you do that! I think one of the worse symptoms on pregnancy is nesting. It not only affects you and makes you completely neurotic about things but it affects the people around you who have to deal with you! Haha But I think Jeremy can agree it was all worth it to see the smile on Sydney’s face the next day when she came into her room to see the “special surprise” mommy and daddy had waiting for her!!!

Pictures

I HAVE TO TELL YOU ALL, THIS BROWN AND WHITE DRESS WAS WORN ON MY NIECE AT AGE 4. MY 2 YEAR OLD FILLS IT OUT QUITE NICELY!

PUZZLES!

Our newest fascination! Recently we found a 25 piece regular puzzle that we decided to get out for Sydney. Not having any expectations since the age on this was for 3 + we thought it would be something new to look at. I figured mom and dad would sit there and put it together while Sydney watches was not what happened. She dove right in putting the pieces right in place, we managed to find two more puzzles, which were left over party gift from her first birthday, so we cracked those open and she went to town! This has now become our newest fascination, hours upon hours have been dedicated the past few weeks to putting these together. We decided to kick it up a notch and whip out a 63 piece one, again no problem. It’s amazing what this kid can do! Only bad thing in all this is that we are finding she has dad’s determination and mom’s patience. She up for the challenge but get quickly frustrated if things aren’t fitting in place. She sometimes quick to give up and yell “no mommy, you do it!” As she holds the piece out sternly. But overall, she’s does really well on her own.

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!

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

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!

Inner Harbor

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