Our little family

Our little family

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Sydney @ 22 Months Old

I have been meaning to do a post about Sydney for a while now, but have had a hard time finding a moment to sit down at the computer and write it down. Finally got a chance to jot down a few things about our sweet little girl. Sydney has a lot of energy and runs pretty much everywhere that she goes. She is a live wire when she wakes up, and most of the time for that matter. Sydney is such a happy little girl and rarely ever gets mad. She is easy going and just goes with the flow, most of the time. The only time she gets mad is when she's hungry, tired, or if Jayda takes something away from her that she's playing with. Sydney LOVES Jayda more than anything and it is so sweet. She hugs Jayda all the time and wants to play with her always.

Jayda put a dish towel in Sydney's sleeper and they were laughing SO hard because Sydney had a "big booty". They are hilarious together.


She copies everything that Jayda does, and says. She also copies everything anyone else says, it is like having a little parrot around. When Jayda is gone to school Sydney tells me "miss Jayda". She also says "miss daddy" when he is gone to work and asks "daddy home?" a lot. She is talking so much these days. She started putting two words together around 21 months and just started putting 3 and 4 words together. The first 2 words that she said together was "hold me", go figure. She likes to be held a lot when she's tired, scared, or just wants some lovin'. The first 3 words she put together was "my turn baby". It is so hilarious how she says it too! She says this every night at bedtime when they brush their teeth and it's her turn. She likes it to be her turn do things and says "my turn" often throughout the day. And then today she put 4 words together while we were eating lunch. I had put some ranch dressing on her plate and she asked me "put cheese in there?" because she wanted to know if she could dip her cheese in the ranch dressing. It is amazing how much she is learning and picking up right now and she is just so much fun. Some other common words/phrases she puts together right now are:

"Hi Jayda/daddy/mommy"-she says hi to everyone and usually waves also. When she gets up the morning and sees Jayda for the first time she always says "Hi Jay-ja!"

"Shoes on/shirt on/pants on"-after breakfast every morning she likes to take her pj's off and put her "shirt on" and "pants on". She likes to get dressed for the day and doesn't like staying in her pj's, it's pretty funny.

"Jayda's shoes"-she loves to wear any and all of Jayda's shoes and puts them on first thing when she wakes up, and throughout the day.

"My shoes"-she says this a lot when she wants her shoes on, or when her shoes fall off and she's trying to get them back on. She is definitely a shoe fanatic and always have to have them on (hmm, wonder where she gets that from?). Also, she doesn't EVER wear matching shoes, they have to be 2 totally different shoes and/or sizes. A lot of times she will be walking around the house in one of my high heels and one of Jayda's dress up shoes. I guess she likes variety.

Cheesing so hard while giving Jayda a hug that she had to close her eyes. Notice the 2 totally different shoes she has on.


"No mama/daddy/Jayda"-Sydeny uses this one A LOT and doesn't mind telling you No!

"Owside peez"-she would live outside if we let her, absolutely loves playing outside. I love how she is learned to say please when asking for something, so cute!

"Help me"

"C'mon mommy/daddy/Jayda" and pulls our hand to wherever she wants us to go very insistently and will keep saying it and pulling you until you finally do what she wants you to.

"In here" whenever she wants to go somewhere like the playroom, into her room, or even into the kitchen cabinets.

"Get baby"-she carries baby dolls around the house ALL the time. Usually she has one in the storller and holds one.

Playing dress up with her baby. She always has a baby doll in her hand.


"Get you"-she also likes to push (or more like shove) things into us, like baby strollers or toys with wheels. Yah that's not so fun for us, but she just laughs and laughs, until the toy gets taken away. :)

"Eat bkfast"-that's usually what she tells me when she wakes up in the morning.

"Like mowers"-she does not like when the mowers are outside and always says "like ____" when she doesn't like something (think she's a little confused).

"Shut door/open door"-Sydney always shuts any doors that are open. No matter where we are she will shut the door behind her, or behind anyone else.

"Tata mama/daddy/jayda" for thank you. She has very good manners and almost always says thank you when given something.

"Watch me"-she likes to say that when she wants you to see something that she's doing or proud of like eating her food or being silly.

"Uh-oh mama/daddy"-she says this a lot when she falls or whenever something goes wrong.

"Up there" when she wants to put something up on the counter, or climb up on top of something.

"Two markers" because she loves to color and always has to have 2, one for each hand.

"Right back"-she likes to tell us that all the time when she is going somewhere to let us know she'll be right back. It is so cute!

"Wait me!"-Sydney always wants us to wait for her and never wants to be left behind. She has to be right there with us for whatever we are doing, so sweet!

And that's just a few of the sayings that I can think of off the top of my head, she talks a lot! Also, since she has this new found vocabulary, she has started babbling and talking FOREVER when I lay her down to sleep. It has been taking her 1-2 hours to fall asleep in her crib at night, and has just started doing the same thing at naptime. She doesn't fuss or anything, just talks and talks. We can hear her in her room saying "No-no mama, hi Jayda, play baby, hide Jayda" and much more. I acutally just got her up out of her bed today after she talked for an hour because we are going to have to pickup Jayda from school soon. Guess she may stop napping soon...at least she'd go to bed at night, hopefully!

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

It's Almost Christmas?!

Where has the time gone? I can not believe it is almost Christmas! It seems like ever since November hit, time has been flying by for us. And, I don't think it's going to slow down until after the new year. But hey, we sure are having lots of fun getting ready for Christmas. I'm going to have to do a little catch up since I haven't posted in a few weeks, so here we go...

The weekend before Thanksgiving we went to The Woodlands for Riley's 4th birthday party at Pump it Up. The girls had a BLAST and it was so fun getting to see the Ssanders fam again!
Jayda with Riley and her cousins at the party.


Sydney had so much fun bouncing around in all of the bounce houses!


That same weekend was also Justin's birthday. To celebrate we went out to a karoke bar on saturday night to have a little fun. Big thanks to Nana and Pawpaw for watching the girls so that we could go out for the night!


The girls were up first...We sang "Sweet Caroline" (Justin put in that request for us to be mean because Lourdes hates that song), and then we had to do "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun".


And then we made the guys go up too! We requested "Family Tradition" for them. We had a great night and had a good laugh watching the boys up there singing!


On sunday we went out to Benihana for Justin's birthday dinner. Everything we had was so good, I love that place!


Our little fam at dinner all ready to eat some yummy food!


What a cute family pic!


Justin was teaching Jayda how to eat with chopsticks at dinner. She actually did pretty well and liked eating with them.


And Sydney thought it was hilarious to put 2 soup spoons in her mouth at the same time. She is such a silly girl.


Singing happy birthday, I love it!


Jayda always likes to get in Sydney's crib when she wakes up and snuggle with her. I was finally able to get a picture of them snuggling.


Doing a little "cooking" in the kitchen on Thanksgiving. This was the only picture I got over Thanksgiving, can't believe it!


After we got home from Thanksgiving we went and picked out a new Christmas tree. Jayda wanted to get one with colored lights, and because I love color too, we went with a colored light tree. We got some new (shatterproof) ornaments this year and they are also very colorful, and just had to get a big purple bow to top it off. We have a very girly tree, go figure.

Jayda loved decorating the tree!


They went a little crazy with the icicles, but had so much fun!


Playing in the tunnel at the park last week, so cute!


Such a big girl!


And little sister wanted to give it a try too.


On December 1st we went to the Sugar Land tree lighting in the Town Square. There were lots of activities for the kids down there and the girls had a blast.

The girls riding on the little train at the tree lighting.


Jayda and Keirsten liked the train ride.


Sydney was having lots of fun too!


The girls joined in to do a little hoola hooping. Jayda loves to hoola hoop, especially now that she has figured out how to do it.


Sweet girls waiting for the tree to light up.


Unfortunately after our fun night out at the tree lighting Jayda woke up with a stomach virus in the middle of the night. Sydney got it the next day and then so did daddy. It was no fun at all and everyone felt horrible. Jayda was taking care of daddy while he was sick, what a sweet daughter!


After several days of the girls being sick and having no fun, I decided to let them put on their Christmas dresses and take a few pictures with the Christmas tree. They were both in a great mood and gave me lots of smiles, which was so unusual and so nice!

Smiling so pretty for mommy in their pretty dresses!


Sweet sisters loving on each other.


She looks so grown up in this picture. I can't believe she is almost 4 1/2!!


Silly little munchkin was blowing bubbles at me and then laughing so hard about it.


Checking out the jingle bell ornament that she made at school.


Today I took the girls for a haircut. Jayda was really needing one and while we were there I went ahead and had Sydney's first haircut done. It didn't start out too well because she was not a fan of getting her hair washed. Poor thing was crying and wanted no part of it.


But, after she got her lollipop she was perfectly fine with getting her hair cut.


Getting her hair all brushed out and ready for her first haircut.


How stinkin' cute is that?!


First haircut, yay!


She did so good and sat there quietly with her lollipop.


"Ta-daaaaah!" All done getting their haircuts, so pretty!


When we got home they wanted to try on their new Christmas shirts for their picture with Santa tomorrow. Jayda asked me to take a picture of them with their outfits on, so cute!

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

A Little Dress Up & Oupa's B-Day!

Sweet girls playing dress up, I love it!


They love to fix Sydney's hair like she's the baby doll or something, it's so cute.


Guess they thought Sydney needed some bows in her hair.


Jayda wanted to put bows all in her hair too, silly girl!


The girls had their first dentist visit last friday. They both did very well and Jayda did such a great job setting a good example for her little sister. They were excited to put on the sunglasses and love their new princess toothbrushes!



Saturday was Oupa's birthday so we headed up to Huntsville to celebrate. My mom, Jayda and I went out to a craft show that afternoon and did a little shopping. We had Oupa's favorite dinner that night and opened up his presents and had cake and ice cream, yum! We had fun celebrating over the weekend!

Jayda got Sydney a mini pillow pet while we were out shopping. As soon as she woke up Jayda gave it to her and she hugged it and wouldn't let go, melt me heart.


This is what Sydney looks like when she wakes up, check out that hair!


Helping Oupa open his bday presents.


Oupa got a new hat and gloves for this winter, yay!


The girls with Oma & Oupa on Oupa's big day!


Being silly with Oupa.


Jayda always wants Sydney to come and sit with her on the couch when she wakes up. This is what they look like most mornings, such sweet girls! We are so lucky!