Nine Months

Sydney - You are NINE months old!!!!  

How did that happen so fast??? 

You had your 9 month check up right before Christmas!

You are lbs, and tall 

You wear 6-9 month clothes and size 2 diapers during the day and size 3 at night.  

You are a GREAT eater!  Woohoo!  You eat every table food we put in front of you!  You have had eggs, rice, tomatoes, strawberries, blueberries, apples, squash, green beans, peas, carrots, and bananas!  You still love baby food but eating more table food.  Hope that your good eating habits continue. 

You have just two bottom teeth.  I'm sure you will have some top teeth soon!

You take two good naps a day.  You start out your morning nap in the car on the way home from the gym (during the week) and transfer to your bed once we get home.  You take a good long nap in the afternoons usually from 2:00-5:00.  You are ready to go to bed by 6:30.  

You sleep great through the night and mostly sleep til I get up at 7:30 or sleep until about 8/8:30 on the weekends!  

You are such a sweet baby.  You sit up really well and love to watch your silly brothers play.  You love when they play with you and talk to you!  You smile from ear to ear.  It's really the sweetest thing.  You are not crawling yet but I'm sure you will be very soon.  

You babble a lot and love to say Dadadada and sometimes say momma.  You are pretty smitten with your daddy and smile so big when he walks in the room!  I love watching y'all together.  

You reach up for me to pick you up.  You do pretty good sitting on the floor and playing with your toys until you realize I'm not right beside you and usually making dinner.  

You are pretty good when we go out even if you get tired.  We don't go out to eat much with you but you love to go shopping!  

You do great in the church nursery and gym childcare.  You usually have one good hour in you then your done.  Usually that's because it's around nap time.  You are so sweet and everyone says you are such a good baby.  

You pretty much look like Colton with a bow at this age.  I need to do a side by side comparison.  Though you look mostly like Colton, all three of you look alike!  

I am so aware that babies grow up way too fast so I'm trying to cherish every moment with you.  I want to enjoy you at this age (I really do love this age) and not wish it away when it's difficult.  

It can be crazy and loud with you and your two brothers but I would have it no other way.  All too soon you will be five and starting kindergarden waving to me from the school bus.  Cue the tears!!!!

You are so so sweet and just the most wonderful baby!  We are so blessed to have you and couldn't imagine life without you!  We love you so much baby girl!  

Christmas Parties

 

Sydney and I went to Colton's school to attend his Happy Birthday Jesus party!  Colton was excited to see us and we were happy to be there.  

This boy LOVES cupcakes.  He couldn't wait to decorate his cupcake.  

My future little baking helper!  

Colton, Sydney and I went to Ryan's school to celebrate in his class Christmas party.  He has the best teacher this year and we just love her.  We couldn't ask for a better kindergarten teacher.  

Ryan and his fun class!  

Love this sweet, sweet baby girl so much! She is such a JOY and just a delight.  She gets sweeter by the day.  

Kicking off our first day of Christmas break at non other than Chick-fil-A!    The boys and Sydney enjoyed some yummy lunch.  

Christmas Time is Here

 Here are a few things that happened in December! 

These two cuties (twins) before church one sunday!  

I'm obsessed with Christmas clothes for Sydney.  They are just too cute and adorable!  

 Sweet baby #3 falls asleep in the car all the time.  Thankful for a baby that sleeps week in her car seat (I was parked in the garage and unbuckled her top clip before I took this pic).  

We packed three Operation Christmas Shoeboxes - two boys and one girl naturally!  The boys had a great time picking out things to go in their shoebox.  

We had lunch with Ryan at school.  We love to surprise him and just show up!  

Sweet baby girl before church on sunday!  LOVE this outfit!

December was a very busy month for my cookie business.  I made about 26 dozen Christmas cookies and five birthday sets.  Whew!  It was crazy and good!  Sydney helping me bake one night in the kitchen - future baker!

Love these sweet boys in their matching pjs!  

 It's a shame Colton has no personality, har!

I took the kiddos to the Brentwood library!  The boys loved it! 

We painted Christmas ornaments for our tree, and gifts for the grandparents!

Check out that amazing Christmas tree.  

  Couldn't love her more! 

Matt went to Cincinnati for the Bengals/Steelers game so me and this chick were left in charge.

Bedtime and storytime.  Ryan getting some sweet time with Sydney.  She is completely enthralled with her brothers and is pretty crazy about them.  She smiles and laughs at them all day long.  I pray these three will always be close.  They love each other so much!

Thanksgiving 2015

What a great Thanksgiving 2015.  

Unfortunately Sydney got sick at the beginning of the week and was diagnosed with RSV.  Poor baby was not feeling good at all.  First time baby girl has been sick.  

She doesn't look too sick here but I sure do love this sweet expression.  Those eyebrows are so expressive.  

I got to attend Colton's Thanksgiving Feast at preschool.  His class were the native americans.  It was so cute and fun

Colton and his little friends Andrew, Olivia and Olivia's little sister.  

Ryan had a Thanksgiving program this year for the whole kindergarten.  

It was SO cute and adorable.  They sang their little hearts our and had the best time.  

My parents came in town to celebrate Thanksgiving with us.  

We took them to the Cheesecake Factory Wednesday night.  

Matt and his littlest Bengal fan!  

I was so excited to use our new dining room.  It was perfect and so nice.  We had a delicious meal and have so much to be thankful for.  

The littlest turkey!

Sydney has been sleeping so much but she joined us for a little bit after lunch.  

On Friday I took my parents to Uncle Bud's Catfish Cabin.  My family loves some catfish and Uncle Bud's did not disappoint.  Yum!

These two hamming it up.  Man they have the best hushpuppies!  Matt stayed home with Sydney since she was under the weather.  

It was a wonderful Thanksgiving.  We have so much to be Thankful for!

 

8 Months

Sydney - You are EIGHT months old!!! 

You weigh 16 lbs.

You are wearing 9 -12 month clothes.

You wear size 2 diapers during the day and size 3 at night. 

You wake between 7:30-8am.  You drink a bottle and eat some fruit with cereal.   You take another 6oz bottle at 10am.  You take a morning nap in the car, on the go or sometimes at home.  You eat a fruit or veggie and a 6oz bottle.  You take and afternoon nape around 2pm-5ish.  You eat dinner - a veggie and some of whatever we are having to dinner.  You then take your last bottle around 7pm.  

You are a great eater.  You are eating all stage 2 foods and you eat everything we feed you.  You love bananas, carrots, peaches, sweet potatoes, squash and pears in baby food.  You have started eating some real food.  You love cheerios and puffs and yogurt melts.  

You are so content and such a happy and sweet baby.  You love to watch whatever is going on around you and don't want to miss anything.  

You sit up great unassisted.  You don't need the bobby or a pillow behind you anymore.  

You have the sweetest personality and so loving.  You love for me or daddy to hold you.  You hold your sweet little hands up for me to pick you up.  

You love when I sing and play songs with you.  You smile so big and laugh.  You love singing and dancing.  

You take two daily naps.  You take a 30-60 min nap in the morning (depending on if we are at home or on the go) and a good 2-3 hour afternoon nap.  You go to bed at 7pm and sleep great through the night.  I am SO thankful you are a great sleeper.  

You still just have two cute little bottom teeth.  

You are pretty easy to take places.  You sleep great in the car, thank goodness, and pretty content being toted around everywhere.  

Your brothers love to talk and play with you.  They are so sweet with you and I love watching them interact with you.  

 I can hardly believe that you are already 8 months old.  Time is just flying by.  I want to soak you in ever day.  It's true what they say, "babies don't keep".  I just want to snuggle you all day and stop time.  

You are doing new stuff every day.   You are the sweetest baby girl and you bring us so much joy!  We love you so much and are crazy about you.