Girly Girl!

I did not grow up a girly girl but I'm raising one! I don't know where she gets these girly moments, but she's having more of them than I ever have! (However, she seems to have her rough and rowdy moments too!)
Jill, from work, gave Sidney Kate this purse. Talk about new fun! We immediately how to see how many balls she could fit in there! This is the first purse she has worn on her shoulder...she normally puts them halfway up her arm.

I'm amazed that she can walk all around without it falling off! That's skill at an early age!

Grandma Mary was visiting and Sidney Kate found her purse. It was too heavy to tote around but she sure did try! Somehow she got caught up in the act of putting on lipstick. Grandma Mary had to give her many layers of it!

Amen!

Kevin and I always hold hands before we eat eat, pray, kiss then begin our meal. Well, when Sidney Kate came along and was able to eat with us we involved her in our tradition. We try to hold her hands, but sometimes it ends up being an arm (see Kevin's hand in picture below), pray and then kiss her...I'd say she's been doing this with us for quite sometime. One day in the past two weeks we looked up from praying and noticed she was ready for her kiss. The next day I had my camera ready to see if she'd do it again...she did!

Yes, that's spaghetti already on her face-she's not so skilled in the waiting to eat part. But she has all the other steps down pat!

Ahh Memories...

At our recent play date, Grayson gave Jill and I a memory back that we had lost. Senior Week 1999! Josh and Andrew had graduated high school, I had finished my freshman year at ASU and Jill and Grayson had finished their junior year of high school. Off to the big MB we went! Apparently we hit up one of those photo booths...

10 years later we've remade the moment...as children play among us! Stay tuned 10 years from now for another update...

I Wanna Stay!

Write this down!!! Today was the first day Sidney Kate ignored me as I entered her daycare to pick her up. She looked at me and went about her playing. She and Kaleb were in a corner talking to each other and banging on Kaleb's crib. She had no intention to leave with me or even acknowledge my existence. I guess I could have been sad over it, but I was so happy that she enjoyed her friends so much that she'd rather stay and play.

I made several attempts to pick her up-her response was to quickly squat and let out a fake cry. Or I'd ask her if she wanted to go-to which she'd say, "Uh uh." Anita even called Kaleb over to her so I could better reach Sidney Kate-still she just stood there and played as though I was no where around. When she saw Kaleb getting further away she reached for him and did her 'Come back' hand motion.

I finally picked her up and dealt with the fussiness. It subsided quickly and we made it home so she could play with GG. What a moment!

Forever Children Photography

Ann Katherine Welch, of Forever Children Photography, has taken all of Sidney Kate's first year pictures. She even took my maternity pictures. Click here to go to her website. If you watch the slideshow you'll see one of Sidney Kate's One Year (Cake) pictures. She does great stuff!!

Saturday Ice Cream with Brett Continued

Here is Brett...looking stunning in his new cupcake bow! I believe he pulled it from Sidney Kate's hair and someone put it in his. Shhh...don't tell his Daddy!

I can't tell you how this happened...but we sure begged them to continue until we could snap pictures!
hahaha...shhh (again) Don't tell Kevin! haha

I missed the kiss shot, but you can see it here.

She pushed him away after she'd had enough. Classic!
(We'll just show this one to Daddy!)

Saturday Ice Cream with Brett

Aunt Jill, Grayson and I enjoy ice cream socials and the past year there have been a few more members of the party! We decided to meet over at Brett's house and play in his way fun playroom!
This picture looks like Brett is showing Sidney Kate how things work. haha!

Brett has this chair that Sidney Kate really liked! She would go over to it frequently for a rest.

How funny is this?

We've all seen cute, but this tops it!!

Oh the New Things To Do

Nevermind that I folded all those clothes...Sidney Kate thought it was her job to pull them all out. But she did later go back and put them back in the basket for me. Another hobby of hers is going into our closet and pulling all of Kevin's socks out of his drawer and putting them in the dirty clothes. It looks like a bomb went off in there when she finishes!

Saturday for lunch I made her a banana sandwich. Instead of cutting it up I thought she might like to try holding it...she did pretty good! Toward the end she realized there were bananas in the middle, so she just started pulling them out to eat.

Could she fit more in those cheeks?

This was entertaining...she had her sippy cup of milk and I brought my lunch over to the table (with my cup of tea). She saw my cup and started pointing and making some noise. I offered her the sippy cup and she did her infamous head shake no and push away technique. So after several tries I decided to put her milk in a cup, that's what she wanted! Mercy...
*Note the cup is from Josh and Jill's wedding...HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!! 3 YEARS!!

Back Home!

We're back home and getting into our routines again. We once had the perfect way of getting Sidney Kate to sleep without fussing (thank you Baby Whisperer) now we're back on the battlefield. She really doesn't like Kevin come nighttime. He has been the one 'forcing' her to sleep. He's been managing this by holding her as she watches TV in the living room. She's not a fan. Now, if we all lay on our bed and watch TV, she'll drift off peacefully...see picture below. But like everything else with her-it will change in a month! For now-I'll take it!

There are some mornings when I get her all dressed and I just think, "You're the cutest darn thing in the world!" So I take pictures...this was one of those mornings. (Yes, I know-she's cute every morning!)

Of course, after a day at daycare she comes home with a new, stylish hairdo. Cracks me up! Of course, I know how those ladies feel-battling a one year old who loves to pull out those bows! You just have to survive with her sometimes-and they do a great job!

Flip Videos

I know you've all be patiently waiting for me to post some of the flip videos I took...well here goes!

This first one is of Sidney Kate chasing Rylan around the deck. That was probably the safest place for her to be (minus the splinter issue). She and Rylan have really taken to each other and you can tell in this video!!

Another example of their interest in one another. When they first met, Rylan didn't want anything to do with Sidney Kate because she was a girl. And now they are to the point they play cars together! So precious!

The night that Brittany and Mitchell arrived we had a big dinner together. It was Liz and Marty's night to cook and I'm pretty sure poor Uncle Marty spent the entire night down there cooking and didn't eat a thing! Well, after we finished eating we made the good parent decision to put Sidney Kate on the table. We ended up with some pretty funny videos!

First video...kiss the girls and wave bye bye!

More kissing! And smelling and clapping!

and one for Uncle Keith!

Our horse adventure!! Sometimes pictures don't do things justice...hopefully these videos will!

Our Trip in Video

I only had pictures from my camera and the ones I took from Liz's Facebook. If you want me to add any just let me know and I'll remix the video.

Our Night With Rylan

After a week with Rylan, Sidney Kate is really (in our opinion) trying to say Rylan. It sounds like "Rie" or something similar. It's so cute!

Our final night at the beach, Uncle Keith and Emily went to the Darius Rucker concert and Rylan got to hang out with us! After eating pizza with the house we headed off on our adventures together!

Here we are at the Gap Outlet. He pushed Sidney Kate around in a stroller until I was finished shopping.

Here he is on top of one funny looking horse! I told him that his Mommy would think it's sooo funny! He thought it was a great idea! We attempted to put Sidney Kate up there with him but she didn't want to hold on as nicely as he did.

Nice hat!

Showing his muscles!

Here we are going to get our surprise we told him all about. He wanted to know if Sidney Kate was going to get a surprise too. When we said yes he was so excited!

Ice cream!!! What a perfect ending to a perfect night of fun!