Friday, December 15, 2006

TGIF

I picked Sydney up early from Diane's today because she had 100.1 temp & was very fussy. We decided on Wednesday that she was cutting her top teeth in, and I think she peaked today. I gave her some Tylenol this morning just in case, and 5 hours later Diane called me to ask if she could give her some more. After I brought her home she was just happy as can be (she had Tylenol in her system & Mommy by her side).

Here she is playing w/ her reflection in the oven.I took this pict as she was climbing up me (I make for a great jungle gym these days). You can see the remainder of the bruise between her eyes. Earlier this week she was sitting on my lap in front of the computer. I unplug the keyboard to the desktop so she can bang away at it while my laptop sits one level higher on the desk safe & sound (its the only way I get things done before she goes to bed). Well, she threw the keyboard on the floor & immediately dove after it. She bonked her head on the edge of the keyboard shelf. Needless to say, there were some tears shed. I took her to the nearest light switch to distract her & it worked like a charm. Nothing makes her happier than switching the lights on & off. She's not so good at the "on" part, but loves the "off'.
She also likes to drink from an open cup like a big girl. I can't drink anything in front of her w/out her reaching for it, so she gets her own big girl plastic cup in addition to a sippy cup at meal time. The sippy gets flung to the floor & she grunts and points for the open cup. She is actually learning to drink from it, but its quite a mess. Just look how soaked she is at dinner tonight-and I only gave her 1/2 a cup this time!!I don't think this picture is large enough on the blog for you to see, but she actually did break through one of those top teeth this afternoon.
I was trying to put her laundry away before putting her to bed tonight. Sydney thought this was the best game ever. She made up the rules, which were apparently to get all the laundry away from Mommy as fast as she could while throwing them all over the floor. She was relentless and very determined.....reaching for every last piece.... (notice the pile behind her getting larger)
until the very last sock was out! Whew, all done!Then the game was to put things on your head to see what fit.
And if it didn't fit, then just roll around in the big pile.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Baby Parade @ 10 months





Yeah, yeah......so she'll be 11 months in 5 days. And, yes, I haven't put up a parade in a few months. But give me some credit, I did at least take the pictures on time & get them downloaded onto the computer.

I've been slammed at work lately, and I don't expect it to get better for a while. I keep praying that I'll win the lotto & Jeff and I can just stay home all day long & waller around with Syd in our PJ's. I don't even buy lotto tickets, so I'm really asking for a miracle-but hey, they do happen, right?

Monday, December 11, 2006

Quick Update

Dancin' w/ Daddy


Smile for the camera!
She loves to hug her baby lion. He's the "toy of the week".
Here are a few picts we took of Syd in her Christmas outfit.

We went to T-Rex at the Legends & Syd was so excited to see all the dinos.
She opened her first present from the Wilson's. To our surprised she participated more than we expected.