Color time with Daddy.
Not a very good pic of her skirt, but she is wearing her new pink skirt from GG.
Cuddling with Nanna...
Playing in the water at school.
Another Kincaid trail... Sydney kept yelling at Tucker as he would run up ahead of her and not turn around and wait.
Tucker checking out something on his side, Sydney on hers.
Future medical transcriptionist like Mommy??? This position will probably be obsolete by the time you are old enough, Sydney.
We came home to Ms. Keeli and Sydney just finishing up frosting a cake they baked together while we were out. Yum!
Gotta get every last bit of that frosting!!!
Sydney wanted Brian to read to her, but then halfway through the book decided she wanted to read herself. I'm at the table trying to study and these two having a reading war (yes, both were reading out loud) weren't helping matters.
Trying to handle the basket...once there were a few items actually in it, she started pushing it as it was too heavy to carry. She just had to do it on her own though... :)
She is just too cute!!!
**Summer Tidbits**
~Sydney still loves school. We have found that we cannot say her teacher's name, Ms. Amber, before breakfast otherwise she wants nothing to do with eating and wants to immediately go bye-bye to see her. And, as you can imagine with that being said, it is sometimes a bit of a struggle to get her out the door to come home at the end of her little day. It literally takes us close to 10 minutes to leave as Sydney has to hug EVERYONE; teachers, classmates, older kids who might be passing by, and other parents coming to get their children. It's a little ridiculous. Cute, but ridiculous.
~Water update: It has now progressed from sounding like "I-go" to "Why-go." So, at least we are getting the W sound in there. If she slows down talking she sometimes gets the T in there, but that is rare.
~Speaking of water... She just kills us with her water having to be "FRESH." If her cup has been sitting out for awhile, she will bring it to you and say "FRESH" wanting you to dump it out and get her fresh, cold water. Where she gets this stuff, who knows.
~Snacks... Sydney loves the Annie's brand organic bunny crackers. We get a box of them at Costco and it comes with four different flavors in indivual snack bags. Well, this summer she has decided that she loves the cheddar flavor the most (her father concurs!). She started sitting on the floor with the box and would pull out one bag at a time trying to find the cheddar bunnies. The thing is, the cheddar flavor comes in a purple bag- same as the chocolate chip flavor. The graham and brownie are in different colors. She is a smart cookie and wasn't going to let the purple bag fool her. She started pulling out the purple bags and would look at the front of the bag where the picture is, then look at the side of the box where it has all the types shown, and would match up her cheddar bunnies that way. This was funny and cute until it dawned on us that there are only so many cheddar bags in the box! We started to dread the day when the only purple bags in there were chocolate chip. The day came and, as expected, it was a disaster. There was crying, a little tantrum, and finally, with total reluctance and some attitude, the picking out of a different flavor. She grumbled the whole way through the rest of the box. We had bought these snacks on sale at Costco, so we still had another whole box in the pantry. Currently she is a happy little bunny snacker as we just opened the new box and she has rekindled her little cheddar love affair...but, deja vu will be setting in soon enough I'm sure...
~Sydney now uses the possessive sense of names... It crept up on us, but we finally realized that when she was talking about something of mine or Brian's, she would say "Mommy's" or "Daddy's." It's just crazy how that stuff is just picked up and learned... Amazing.
~Our girl likes to read and likes to sing... It is just a total crack-up when she is singing either Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star or the Alphabet Song. They both have the same tune but depending on the words, or letters, she is saying, we know which song she is singing. It is hilarious.
~Sydney quickly went from her standard answer of "No" to every question to "Huh?" Anything you would ask her and she would say "Huh?" Oh my goodness...that will drive you batty!! Thankfully it only lasted for about a week or so. (it was a LONG week!!) Now she will pretty much answer correctly with either, "No.", "Huh?", "Yep.", or "Ummmm." She makes us laugh... Her newest thing that really just puts a smile on our face is when you tell her to do something and she responds with "K!"--with a little sing-song note...or will say "Okay!" It is really sweet and it makes you just want to hug her. It's a very innocent response--I don't know how else to describe it.
~Veggietales! She is just now starting to actually watch Veggietales, but what she really loves is her Veggietales book. She goes crazy for Bob the tomato and Larry the "Cumber." (she can't say cucumber...so it comes out Cumber! So cute!!) She points out all the peas, squash and Laura the carrot...oh, and Madame Blueberry. Pa Grape is fondly called "Papa!" as he has a mustache just like her Papa. I'm telling you-Sydney is cute!!! So precious.
~And, for the newest tidbit... Potty training! No, I'm not doing it at home...although she was ready to start doing it at home about a month ago. I have just been dragging my feet and not wanting to take on that next phase. I had stated a long time ago that I would rather wait until she is beyond ready and will train in a short time, than drag it out for months on end. Well, she pretty much tells you now if she has peed or pooped and will tell you to change her diaper. That's all fine and good until she says she peed again, after having JUST changed her. I just want to look at her and say "Look, that diaper costs a pretty penny and can hold another pee or two...come back then!" I would tell you that of course I don't say that to her, but I think I actually have a time or two. What?! Anyway, last week when I went to pick Sydney up from school I was told, in an excited manner, that she went potty like a big girl. The next day they informed me that she went potty like a big girl multiple times that day. I felt like my daughter was going behind my back! "Well, if Mom won't train me at home, I'll just have to do it at school!" All joking aside, I am so proud of her, of course, but will wait to really work on it after we get back from our mini trip this next week. That's all I wanted...to be able to travel with diapers!! She's not even 2 for crying out loud!
Okay, that's all for now! Summer has passed...let Fall begin!
