Mmmm

We made a trip out to one of the local restaurants yesterday and Sydney again found that the table was the tastiest part of the trip. Her teeth have become fascinating to her. She plays with them all day long with her tongue and gnawing at a table is about as good as a trip to the candy store apparently.

Round and Round

Sydney got to experience her first Carousel ride, courtesy of her friends Gabby and (hidden) Mallory. So many of these firsts to capture it's nearly impossible. I read a passage in a book recently that I thought was a good metaphor where the writer likened memories passing to an art lover running through a burning museum trying to grab as many pieces as possible but knowing he could only carry so much before it was gone. Maggie reminds me to remember this during the 3 am wake up calls when Sydney is sick.


Photo credit: Skye Sultan (the multitasking mom of the two on the left)

Easter

Happy Easter!
We've had a busy weekend in the Sydney household. Maybe it's all the bananas she's been eating or something in the air but development seems to be the theme. Yesterday she couldn't stop waving and waved at everything including doors and windows. She has a cute beauty pageant or maybe Queen of England sort of wave with a little wrist action combined with the full arm movement.

She's been standing a lot more as well and we're trying to get her to push her little buggy around the room. Now she starts to get upset if we don't stand her up and put her against something to hold on to, so I'm accelerating my plan to install gates.

And finally, more a development for Maggie than anything else. I think she's been waiting since exactly 60 seconds after we found out we were having a girl in the ultrasound. She bought the hair ties when Sydney was about two weeks old and at last yesterday she pulled up that little crop of hair, measured it in her head and decided "yes!, the time was here". An internal dialogue I could see in the excitement of her eyes so she told Sydney to hold on one minute, raced upstairs and only moments later had the couple strands of hair bound up as she had always dreamed. Sydney didn't mind it and was accomodating for the pictures. Incredibly, she did not try to eat the rubber band.

Tortocolis

Honestly I felt resigned. I knew it was coming. I'd seen it for years and I think I'd joked about it as a young adult that my offspring were screwed. And on that note, I packed up Sydney and we headed on to her first eye appointment. At her sixth month appointment, the pediatrician had noted a head tilt and said it might have something to do with her eyes but we'd watch and see how it progressed. In knew it. I let out a deep knowing sigh then, so when the nine month appointment came and went it was no shock that it would potentially be her eyes. Tortocolis was the potential culprit, a word of which I'm still convinced is some sort of joke and has something to do with turtles. Of course, this was only the first I told myself, then the obligatory bad teeth for which we better just start a savings account now. We have an FSA and DCA, so why not a BSA (Braces Savings Account). Mom couldn't stand to go as she's averse to anything eye related. Like many parents we have our specialties listed out. I'm eyes, puking and blood. She's just about everything else. So I had the pleasure of sitting in the waiting room with 5 other mothers and their kids. I think I was getting looks of admiration but it could have been pitty. And after all was said and done, the dilation drops administered, the waiting in the room, the poking and prodding, incessant rubbing of her eyes, it turned out my resignation was premature. A sigh of relief as I heard the results. She checked out just fine and all we're left with is a mild case of tortocolis and a hope that her teeth come in straight.

Happy St. Patty's Day

Happy St. Patty's Day from our little mischievous one.

Fridays

Sydney
loves her Fridays when mom is home to go out for walks. As "good clothes" don't go to day care this is also the day to dress up fashionably or just in things we don't want to potentially lose. So we stepped out and grabbed a few photos before the walk of her in a little Clemson sweatshirt that Maggie used to wear as a baby. Momma's so proud.

Evolution

The natural evolution over millions of years was swimming in water to crawling on land and finally to walking. While most babies still test out the crawling stage before moving on, our little one seems primed just to jump straight into walking and skip nature's due course. But maybe this is evolution as well and eventually crawling will be a thing of the past. Now the fact that she will only eat bananas seems to either be a jesture to Maggie who has filled her room with monkeys, or the fact that you really can't escape your past. In either case, we now call her our little monkey.

Here we captured her "american" evolution which is riding lazily in a car. Not pictured is the evolution of horrible bed head which her hair is now long enough to accomodate.