Beaches

It's almost here we keep telling her. No, not like the Florida Keys of February we explain, with it's rocky shoreline and reef laden waters. No, this is the real beach she is about to experience. The wide, hot on your feet, shell scattered beach. The lay in a hammock under the cottage beach. The relax and do nothing beach. The picnic at sunset beach. The why don't we live here all the time beach. The South Carolina beach. Of course she won't really understand what we mean until she digs her own heels into the sand a few inches and feels that coolness below. She won't understand until she feels the breeze just as the sun sets behind a never ending ocean. But soon she will and I'm sure she'll never want to leave. It should make for some good pictures :)

Tubes

Hopefully the tide of ear infections has reversed as of Wednesday when Sydney had very tiny ear tubes placed. The placement took about 10 minutes and this picture is about 30 minutes after the procedure. She was a little groggy and bobble head like but soon returned to her waving ways as shown here. The nurses all just got a kick out of that and we had a good laugh at her hospital gown and booties she's wearing here.

Father's Day

So what does a dad do on a Saturday night before a second father's day when he knows he doesn't have to get up early? He watches golf (yeah for a US Open on the West Coast), follows that up with some baseball (yeah for the Nationals playing on the West Coast) and peruses pictures of the reason he gets to celebrate father's day. So here are some of the pics I took today of Brady and Sydney as we said goodbye to the Miller's before the long drive tomorrow. I thought the black and white was funny because it almost looks like some old photo and they are in jail together. If you picture a tin cup and "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" it's pretty humerous. The last photo is just part of our daily fun as she decided that kissing the clear gate we have set up was hysterical.

 

Refreshingly Cold

Sydney clapped and clapped at the site of her new pool. The bright blue against the green grass of our small front lawn, an eye catching site of refreshment from 100 degree heat. Even the hose filling up the bird bath sized pond was an attraction to this little girl. I had tried to place it such that half was in the sun, to heat the ice cold water from the pipes, and half in the shade to protect that pale skin we love but it would have taken hours to warm up, so in she went. And out just as fast capped off with baby sized shiver, something so adorable we were almost tempted to put her back in to see it again. So in went daddy and with patience and an imperceptibly slow lowering motion we both got used to the water and had a fun time fighting the heat.

Friends

As usual, Sydney had a wonderful time at the party we went to this past weekend. Sadly, it was the going away party for some of our best friends J&B and Sydney's friends Brady and Ainsley. She was pretty torn up but Elmo (in the background) and this monkey eased the pain. What I actually liked about this picture was that it captures a little bit of the couch in the background. That now old blue and white couch that has been in our circle for a long time. It was in the first house we all got together after college and the townhouse that followed that. It saw Saturday parties and lazy Sundays, many a house guest crashing on the cushions and a couple of moves. Sometimes it's that meeting of old and new, our old couch and our new baby that make you look at a photo just a bit longer. Now it makes the long move to New York and with it our friends, but with any luck we'll see them both very soon and often.

Healthy Again

What do you when your daughter has a 103 fever for 7 days? Well, you don't take a lot of pictures, hence the little break but we're mended and back to smiling and waving at everything. This was the one picture I did take, if only to remember a 7 day event which included cold washcloths and bottles and bottles of baby Tylenol and Motrin. On the upside, if there was one, a baby with a 103 fever sleeps a lot...and I have never gotten so much accomplished in 7 days...well, since last May at least. So now back to trips outside and hopefully some pool pics one of these weekends.