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| Table |
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| What a cute turkey! |
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| Turkey butt |
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| Happy Thanksgiving! |
Monday, December 31, 2012
Thanksgiving
We celebrated Thanksgiving this year at our house with Sydney's Nana and Grampa as well as Uncle Matthew and Aunt Katie. Her MeMe, Pops, and Uncle Brent stopped by for a bit as well. We had a nice, relaxing day, and enjoyed celebrating a day of giving thanks for the many blessings we have.
Raleigh Christmas Parade
This year we took Sydney to the Raleigh Christmas Parade. Sydney absolutely loved it! She enjoyed watching the floats, the couple of balloons, cars, motorcycles, horses, dogs, marching bands, and of course Santa. We had a great spot to watch, although we had to hold Sydney the whole time. We didn't think she would make it the entire time, but she did...she wanted to wait to see Santa!
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| Let's go to the parade! |
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| Checking out the marching band |
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| With Uncle Brent |
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| Cheesy grin |
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| Kermit balloon |
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| Nutcracker balloon |
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| Good view from up there! |
Happy Halloween!
It's no big secret that Halloween is kind of a big deal in our house. I think Blake might even say it is his favorite holiday. So needless to say, the month of October was filled with pumpkins, costumes, candy, and a couple ghosts and goblins. Just around the corner from us is a great produce store which has pumpkins and a corn maze during October. While we didn't do the corn maze since we figured Sydney didn't have the attention span/interest this year, they also have some cool activites for the little ones like a hay ride, play equipment and corn crib. Sydney's favorite was picking out pumpkins!
On Halloween, we carved our pumpkins. It was freezing, so I bundled Sydney up and then put one of Blake's t-shirts on her to keep her clothes clean of all the pumpkin goop. Well, that was a waste, and I should have known it. She was intrigued with watching us carve, but she wanted no active part. I shouldn't have been surprised, the girl hates being dirty!
We started asking Sydney pretty early on what she wanted to dress up as for Halloween. She immediately said a "T-rex". I wasn't sure if her two year old mind would change frequently, but she kept saying T-rex for a couple of weeks so we finally ended up buying her a dinosaur costume. She didn't love the hat piece, but she made the cutest T-rex ever, in my humblest of opinions.
Trick-or-treating was especially fun this year. Sydney caught on real quick that getting candy is a lot of fun. We heard "wanna get more candy" frequently. I bet we went to about 10 houses, and she walked and carried her candy bag the entire time. It was definitely a fun time!
On Halloween, we carved our pumpkins. It was freezing, so I bundled Sydney up and then put one of Blake's t-shirts on her to keep her clothes clean of all the pumpkin goop. Well, that was a waste, and I should have known it. She was intrigued with watching us carve, but she wanted no active part. I shouldn't have been surprised, the girl hates being dirty!
We started asking Sydney pretty early on what she wanted to dress up as for Halloween. She immediately said a "T-rex". I wasn't sure if her two year old mind would change frequently, but she kept saying T-rex for a couple of weeks so we finally ended up buying her a dinosaur costume. She didn't love the hat piece, but she made the cutest T-rex ever, in my humblest of opinions.
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| Sophie- also dressed as a dinosaur, per Sydney's request of course! |
Trick-or-treating was especially fun this year. Sydney caught on real quick that getting candy is a lot of fun. We heard "wanna get more candy" frequently. I bet we went to about 10 houses, and she walked and carried her candy bag the entire time. It was definitely a fun time!
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Happy 2nd Birthday, Sydney!
Sydney is TWO! This probably sounds odd, but this year's birthday has been more emotional for me than her first. When she turned one, she was still a baby to me, especially because she wasn't walking yet or even crawling. Now she is a little girl; a sweet, talkative, kind-hearted little girl whom I love more everyday.
We started off her birthday with a stop at Brugger's for a bagel and then headed to the zoo, a tradition we started last year. Like last year, the zoo was not crowded and we were able to see all the animals fairly close up. Sydney definitely enjoyed it more this year than last, but her favorite was a temporary exhibit that wasn't there last time....anamatronic dinosaurs! She was a little apprehensive about them moving and making sounds, but quickly got over it and kept saying "wanna see more dinosaurs!".
The celebration continued with a pizza dinner with MeMe and Pops, opening presents, and eating cake (a dinosaur cake at that!). Some of her favorite gifts were a wagon from MeMe and Pops, a playhouse, and a magnetic ocean creature puzzle.
We also celebrated with family and friends at Pullen Park. The weather could not have been more perfect, although the park was definitely busy because of it. Sydney had a great time celebrating with friends and family...topped off with a ride on the train!
Here are a few things I want to remember about Sydney at 2 years old:
*She continues to amaze me with her language. She speaks in sentences and uses words like reflection and pterodactyl correctly.
*She has finally learned how to jump...after much work on her part!
*She loves to read, I mean l.o.v.e.s. Some of her current favorite books are any Little Critter books, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Noah's Ark, and a Lion King book.
*She is smitten with dinosaurs. She has been saying for the past few weeks that she wants to be a "green T-rex with Bronty (brontosaurs) on the back" for Halloween. (I'm not sure what the Bronty on the back means...)
*Her go-to name is "Freddy". If she gets a new stuffed animal, she asks "What we gonna name him?" and then immediately answers herself with "Freddy". Also, if I don't know the name of something she says "it's Freddy". For example, we were playing with some Disney Princess stickers. I know the names of some of them like Cinderella and Belle, but I'm not familiar with some of the newer princesses. I was telling her the names of the ones I knew and when we got to one I didn't know, I told her so and she responded with "that's Freddy".
We started off her birthday with a stop at Brugger's for a bagel and then headed to the zoo, a tradition we started last year. Like last year, the zoo was not crowded and we were able to see all the animals fairly close up. Sydney definitely enjoyed it more this year than last, but her favorite was a temporary exhibit that wasn't there last time....anamatronic dinosaurs! She was a little apprehensive about them moving and making sounds, but quickly got over it and kept saying "wanna see more dinosaurs!".
The celebration continued with a pizza dinner with MeMe and Pops, opening presents, and eating cake (a dinosaur cake at that!). Some of her favorite gifts were a wagon from MeMe and Pops, a playhouse, and a magnetic ocean creature puzzle.
We also celebrated with family and friends at Pullen Park. The weather could not have been more perfect, although the park was definitely busy because of it. Sydney had a great time celebrating with friends and family...topped off with a ride on the train!
Here are a few things I want to remember about Sydney at 2 years old:
*She continues to amaze me with her language. She speaks in sentences and uses words like reflection and pterodactyl correctly.
*She has finally learned how to jump...after much work on her part!
*She loves to read, I mean l.o.v.e.s. Some of her current favorite books are any Little Critter books, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Noah's Ark, and a Lion King book.
*She is smitten with dinosaurs. She has been saying for the past few weeks that she wants to be a "green T-rex with Bronty (brontosaurs) on the back" for Halloween. (I'm not sure what the Bronty on the back means...)
*Her go-to name is "Freddy". If she gets a new stuffed animal, she asks "What we gonna name him?" and then immediately answers herself with "Freddy". Also, if I don't know the name of something she says "it's Freddy". For example, we were playing with some Disney Princess stickers. I know the names of some of them like Cinderella and Belle, but I'm not familiar with some of the newer princesses. I was telling her the names of the ones I knew and when we got to one I didn't know, I told her so and she responded with "that's Freddy".
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