Already Buddies

Sydni LOVES the kitties already. They have recently been allowed where the baby is (supervised of course). Titus (pic) loves to just come sit next to the baby, and as you can see she likes the company. He even shows his acceptance of the new family member by 'cleaning' her head. Very sweet...

On a Roll

Sydni did this for the first time this evening!

Oh sentimental me

Yesterday I finally put Sydni’s REAL crib together. This whole time she has been sleeping in a Pak n Play at the foot of our bed. For about the past month or two she has been sleeping through the night, waking up around 6am to eat and then go back to sleep. So we decided she’s probably ready to go into her own room, mostly because I don’t have to get up every couple hours to feed her anymore. You seasoned veterans of parenthood reading this know the drill.

She hung out on her little play-gym on the floor while I put said crib together, glancing up at me every now and then, wondering what the heck was going on. Once I had the crib done I had to do some further adjustments to furniture between our room and hers, but who cares about that? Anyways, I found myself feeling strangely sentimental about the whole thing. I wasn’t expecting to, but this transition made me think of the rest of my life as a mother. For the rest of Sydni’s life I will have to let go of her bit by bit until she is a grown woman, hopefully equipped with the proper tools to handle this crazy world. Though I will have to let her go, I can only hope that she doesn’t choose to let me go. I have a whole new appreciation for mothers, mine, Jacob’s and any other mother that cares. I guess fathers go through this feeling as well. Tears well up in my eyes as I write this even now.

When I placed her in the crib beneath the mobile and next to the floating fish that light up and blow bubbles I immediately knew it was the right thing to do. She just lay there grinning up at the mobile and looking to the side at the fish taking in her new surroundings. I think we all slept better last night without having to worry about waking each other up. Even now she is asleep in her room while I get to play on the computer, typing as loud as I want to.

Nisqually

This morning I took Sydni on one of my favorite walks. About 15 minutes from Olympia there's a wildlife refuge in the Nisqually river basin that is abosultely beautiful. It was pretty cold and windy but Sydni was warm against me in the pak. We join a bunch of other mom's and their kidlets on this walk about once every other week or so. This time we saw more wildlife than ever. As you can see in my blurry picture up there^ we saw TWO bald eagles hangin out; but we also saw some Blue Herons, some sea lions and a whole lot of birds of prey such as hawks and falcons. It was great but I can't wait until Sydni's old enough to be able to see all of these things! But for now she can just stay bundled up and cozy, oblivious to the big wide world out there.

Ah Christmas...

Sorry it took me so long to add another post. We were very busy around the Holidays, as I'm sure you all were. I won't write much for now because Blogger is taking forever to load for some reason and I'm very tired. But, as you can see we had a nice cozy Christmas. It was a day for lounging in jammies and eating yummy food. Sydni recieved some of her first baby toys that we are very much looking forward to exploring with her. In the past couple of days she has already shown so much progress with communication. She now smacks her lips and sticks out her tongue in response to us and when we talk to her she coos and and tries to form as many different sounds as she can. I will try to post a better video of her 'talking' pretty soon.

I hope you all had a merry Christmas, and may this next year treat you all well!