My Fish

It has been so hot up here so I finally decided to get a kiddie pool. Sydni loved splashing around and chasing the fish. She knows how to wave 'bye-bye' now and sometimes she can even say 'bye-bye' as she does it. She also says 'oh, dude', and 'kitty' now. She can smack her lips and make a kissy sound but I'm working on showing her how to kiss my cheek. What else... She pulled her self up to standing last Tuesday, I think. We were visiting my dad and he had a piece of furniture that was just the right height for her to grab and pull herself up. It was very exciting. It's looking like we might also see some top teeth here pretty soon. I will post pictures, of course. Til next time...

Finally, a fresh dose of cuteness!

Sydni's first time standing without one of us! These were taken at the end of July, I think.

Below, her trademark move, with the tongue out the side. She's my special grub.






















We hung out with some friends in the park and listened to a bunch of old white guys try to play reggae. The kids had fun dancing and lounging in the shade.


















Picking Jacob up from the field late at night. Imagine the funkiest smell you can and then multiply it by 9.5 and you might get an idea of how rank that office smelled. The men were proud of their funk, though. They felt they'd earned it, and I'm sure they had.







We love to read!



And hanging out with her best big buddy: Chaso.
Chaso and Sydni have a lot of fun together, they keep each other entertained, which is especially nice when we all go out to eat. She's such a good friend to Sydni.

4th of July pics

We hung out...

We Bar-b-Q'd...

We blew stuff up and took pretty pictures.

What I Got

As I mentioned in the last post, we were just down in San Diego last week visiting family. I thought I would post the scant few pictures that I have...
This is us at Sea World. Yay. Sydni was more interested in all of the people for the most part, but when we watched the dolphins jumping up in the air she would get so excited. I can only wonder how she views the world around her. Seeing those dolphins must have been the weirdest thing.

And other than Sea World we did a great many other things... such as playing Guitar Hero

As you can see this game takes a great deal of concentration and Sydni is doing all she can to help. Ok, that's all you get today. Bah ha.

Update...

I just fixed my camera so that it won't make that horrible focusing sound when I record. It was driving me crazy!

I've neglected you.

I haven't posted any Sydni action in over three months. If I ever do that again feel free to bombard me with e-mails.

A lot has been going on and time has just been flying by. The little nugget is 8 months old now and she smiles and chatters constantly. She says 'mama' all the time, but it pretty much sounds like she's saying 'Bob'. She is not quite crawling yet, but I can tell she's discovering some strength in her legs. Once she does start crawling I'll make sure to post a video. Speaking of videos...

This is Sydni with our cat Bently. We'd just gotten home from a trip and both of the cats were so excited to see the baby. And of course she was absolutely thrilled to play with the kitties again. We flew down to San Diego and did not take nearly as many photos as I would have liked. So instead I will just post some pictures of baby/cat extravaganza.

Yeah, that's a lot of cuteness. Needless to say we are having a blast with our little bug. She was nick-named 'The Grub-bug' by her father when she was born because when she was all swaddled up in those white blankets he thought she looked like a little grub you might find under a log or something. She continues to change and enhance our lives in ways we could have never imagined. I've said it before and I'll say it again: I don't like kids, but this one could probably take over the world with awesome-ness. I like to be a realistic parent.

Sunshine?

The other day I took Sydni on her first pic-nic! The sun was out, and even though it was still a little chilly I decided we should take a walk down to the nearby park and enjoy the great out-doors. She seemed perplexed by the big blue sky above her and the lingering winter chill dancing in the wind across her nose. She did a lot of blinking and frowning at first and then moved on to play with her rattle. I think this was the first time I was able to actually take her outside when it wasn't raining and freezing.
This is one of those shots that you hope for but are surprised to get. Zoolander, anyone? This, to me, was the magnum shot. This picture will go in highschool graduation slide shows, any future suitors will gaze upon this beautiful baby photo and someday Sydni will blanche and shy away from her embarassing parents, sick of hearing about what a cute baby she was.

Anyways, the pic-nic was short and sweet, and I really can't wait for warmer weather so that we can go outside and play!