Sydney's 2nd Birthday

Can you believe it's been 2 years already since Sydney came into our lives?! It's crazy! In celebration of Sydney's 2nd Birthday, we had a birthday party and invited some of her friends and family over to the house for an egg hunt (since it's so close to Easter). Everybody seemed to have a lot of fun... until Sydney had to blow out her candle. For some reason when everybody starting singing "Happy Birthday" to her, she didn't like it at all. In the picture, you can see the pout on her face and her flushed cheeks. When it was all said and done, Sydney had a great time and I think the other kids did too. Before you know it, she'll be three!

On an additional note, Sydney went for her 2-year check-up. What a HUGE kid she is! She was 36.25 inches tall and 35.25 pounds. That's a big 2-year-old. To look at her, you'd think she was much older. I have a feeling she's gonna be taller than most of the boys....

Daddy's Sick.... Yea!!!

So, Daddy was recently sick and had to take a few days off of work. Although Daddy didn't feel that well, we still got to play together and have lots of fun! One of Sydney's favorite things to do right now is play with Play-Doh! Here is a pic of Sydney playing with some shapes that we made. I don't know if you can tell in the pic, but she is holding a bright pink giraffe which had to eat something... so then we had to make some trees. Her absolute favorite animal is the dolphin. Of course there always has to be water for the dolphin to swim in. She so cute!

A Day with Mommie.

Last Friday, I took the day off knowing how busy our weekend was going to be to spend some extra time with Sydney. I tried to plan a fun outing to McDonald's playworld only to find out it's for ages 3 to 12. Now usually we can get away with something but because of the way this thing was constructed, all we could do was play with the end of the slides. And of course we made the best of it. Sydney had fun yelling and listening to her voice echo and just looking around in amazement at this jungle of colors.

Just for the fun of it, more pictures!

What's that sound, Daddy?

Sydney's newest favorite line. Anytime she hears ANYTHING out of the norm we get. What was that sound? I think for at least 5 minutes striaght last night she repeat the following lines:

"What was that sound, choo choo?"
"What was that sound, car?"
"What was that sound, truck?"

Over and over and over... Actually for the first two minutes t was only car and choo choo. So I thought I would ask her if it was a truck? to throw her off but she just added it to the mix. It was TOO funny. Just like my daughter, she thrives on communication even when she doesn't know how to express herself she'll name off everything she sees! Two morning's ago, she calls for me when she woke up. So I walk in and greet her with a "Good morning Sydney, did you sleep well?" She pauses, looks around and says "binki?, butterflies?, blanket?, blanket?, (because there's two in bed with her) pillow?" And that's how her day started. And this girl LOVES to talk on the phone. Whether there's someone on the other line or not. Her newest best friend is that nice lady on the phone that tells you "If you would like to make a call, please hang up and try again." They talk all the time! haha

I'm sure I could read back over the months to see how many times I typed this but "I love this stage!" I love the communication, the intential hugs and kisses, the playing ball, pretend play, etc. etc. I swear she's more and more fun everyday.

cousins!

pictures pictures pictures!!!

Okay So it's been awile since I posted pictures so we'll have tp ask daddy to fix them! The one's above are Sydney's impression of the pied piper!