Funny Moments

Sleepy Head

Mmmmm. Kiwi tastes soooo good.
Eating the Ravenclaw bracelet I got with the last Harry Potter book. I got Gryffindor, Slytherin, and Ravenclaw. This is the only one she really loves. At least Potter is a part of her daily diet!

Eating hot taco rice. Um, yeah she's excited about food.

Visit from the Parents

My parents came to visit a week and a half ago and we did lots of fun things. First we took a trip to the zoo.

Sydney got pretty tuckered out by the end! We ended up with a zoo pass though, so we're totally excited to go back a lot!
Sydney decided she was in a snuggly mood that night
Believe me - it's unusual! This girl is pretty independant and mostly pushes away and cries if you try to snuggle her. I think she was too exhausted to fight it!
We also went on a few short little hikes at a state park not far from here. It was fun, and Syd's first time hiking, although it was really interesting doing it with the front carrier on! I kept feeling like I was going to trip over something! Thank heavens I didn't!
It was lots of fun to have them here and we're glad they were able to make the trip out!

One of My Weirdest

I don't dream hardly ever. I know most people that say this actually do dream and just can't remember them, but for the most part, I don't think that's me. I've had more dreams in the past year than in the 8-10 years combined, and I think I've still only had about 5 that I can remember. Anyway, I had a weird one last night and I thought I'd share before I forgot it.
It was raining like crazy here at my house and my parents were visiting (they actually did just leave, I'll post pictures soon). They came in my back door and informed me there was a raccoon in my backyard. I went to look and saw a giant prickly porcupine walking away on my patio. I couldn't see the raccoon though, so I opened the door (My dream self is brilliant) and spotted another prickly guy in the back of my yard, 4 lion cubs cuddling under one of our back bushes, and a badger making his way for the house! I quickly shut the door and half-squished a mouse in it. Not until seeing the mouse did I scream. I reopened the door, kicked the mouse out, and noticed that 2 of the lion cubs were sitting inside my back door. We had to grab them by the napes of their necks and toss them out the back door. At that point I realized that my scream had woken Sydney up and was really ticked (not about the ridiculous animals in my yard, just about my baby being awake. Then I woke up to Sydney actually waking up for real this morning. Weird.

Happy Father's Day!

I know it's the end of Father's Day, but I wanted to say Happy First Father's Day to Aaron!
He is such a great daddy and Sydney loves playing with him so much. She loves that he throws her in the air and feeds her his pancakes in the morning. She's got him all wrapped up and he loves it, and so do I! Thanks for being such a great dad Aaron! We love you!

First Swim!

Today Sydney went swimming for the first time ever! We went to our friend's pool which was so great. The shallow end goes down to about 1 inch of water since the edge of the pool is level with the sidewalk right at first. This meant I got to set Sydney down and let her sit in the water and figure it out. She started out confused.

Then she realized it was pretty cool.
There were these great little fountains that only shot up about 1 foot. Eli and Sydney both enjoyed them.
They were her favorite part

We did go out a bit deeper too (see, it goes to my ankles!)Doing some real "swimming." She actually paddled her arms a tiny bit even!
She was really excited to get wrapped in a towel afterward. She loves to be snuggly and was a tad cold at that point.

We got semi-dressed to eat some snacks.

She left these on just long enough to get a picture.

All in all we had tons of fun! We'll go back to the pool soon!

Going Places

This kid is going places, seriously. She uses lots of ways to get to where she wants to go, but still doesn't seem to get too far from home! Sometimes she goes by sea,

Sometimes she rides a zebra (our great neighbors gave us this. She can't use it on her own yet but really likes it anyway)
Sometimes she's biker baby (again, not on her own - her feet aren't on the floor!)
Slinking was a favorite mode of transportation for awhile. She started out sitting up completely in this picture. This is where she ended up. She grew out of that phase pretty quickly though.
Jumping is her current favorite. Our great neighbors also gave us their Jumperoo and Sydney thinks it's the greatest ever. Her poor little leg muscles would just about give out after a couple minutes when she first figured it out though, and she would just lay down because she was all tuckered out! FYI, she still doesn't get the Johnny Jump-up. She sits and stares at us like, "um, this is boring. Can I go back to the one with toys?"
Crawling - yeah not so much. She just looks cute in the pose. Which we put her in.
She's pretty convinced balloons can get her off the farm

But in the end,she's not too unhappy to stay where she is. Especially when daddy shares his toast and jam with her!