Sisters

I wanted to do a quick little post about my sweet girls and their sisterly love for one another. Now that Sydney is getting a little older, communicating more, interacting and playing more, she and Jayda are having so much fun together. They do everything together and Sydney admires Jayda SO much. I think Jayda must have some sort of spell on Sydney because whatever she tells Sydney to do or say, Sydney does it! I guess that's just called having a big sister. It is actually pretty funny. Jayda will ask Sydney for something, like a toy, and she will tell Sydney "say sure Sydney" and Sydney will say "sure" and hand it to her. It is amazing! I'm sure one of these days she will start fighting back and saying "no way" but for now it all works out. Sometimes Sydney does say no and she can hold her own when she wants to and that is pretty funny too because she is such a tiny little thing but she will let you know if she doesn't want to do something. Oh, and Sydney totally thinks she is such a big girl. I really believe she thinks she's 4 years old too. She tries to do everything that Jayda does and copies every.single.thing. It seems like Sydney has grown up so much faster than Jayda did because she has her big sister around to learn from. They love to hide together all over the house. Some of their favorite spots are under the dining room table, under the bar in the breakfast area, in the pantry, behind their play kitchen in the playroom, behind the little blue chair in the playroom, in my closet under daddy's dress pants just to name a few. Sometimes they will play hide and seek together or separately and sometimes they just hide from me to be funny. I can usually find them pretty quickly these days. They love each other SO much! It amazes me what a strong bond they already have at this early of an age. It is no surprise since the first time Jayda saw Sydney she held her and hugged her for about 10 mintues straight and would not let go. Jayda was in love with her from the moment she met her. Jayda has always taken care of Sydney and loved her to death and Sydney knows that for sure. Anytime Sydney needs or wants anything Jayda will be the first one to take care of her, such sweet sisters!

2-11-10, First time they met.


Lately they have been doing a little more running around the house together and being very loud and crazy. They get out Sydney's little push toys with wheels and push each other around the house yelling and screaming and bumping in to things. I feel like I'm constantly saying "Calm down girls, too loud!" Can't imagine what it would be like with boys! They have a ball together though that is for sure. They also like to get into weird things together and run around. One of Jayda's favorites right now is Sydney's crib sheet. They pretend that is their "house" and they both get in the sheet and walk, or trip and fall, around the house. They also like to do this with blankets. Jayda thinks it is really funny to pull Sydney around on the blanket and Sydney just laughs and laughs. Another one is the hoola hoop. They get into the hoola hoop together and run around all over the house being silly. It is so funny to watch them and see the things that they come up with together. More recently they have started playing post office. Sydney goes into the playroom and shuts the doors and Jayda delivers her "mail", aka magazines from the kitchen, through the slot in the double doors of the playroom. Then Sydney opens up the door and says "book, book" so Jayda gets the old magazine from Sydney and runs full speed to the kitchen to get a new magazine for her. Pretty funny to watch. Another favorite thing they like to do is pretend to drive the "car" together, which happens to be our little entry way table that is up against the wall. They both crawl under the table and each sit down on the bottom bar. Jayda gets the keys to drive the car and they drive to all kinds of places, the grandparents house, sonic, heb etc. Too cute! It is so nice that they have one another play with and don't constantly bother me all the time. I remember when Jayda was little she always wanted me to play with her. Now she has Sydney to play with so it has been SO nice! We definitely have our days when things don't go so well, or they aren't so nice to one another, or they both decide to have a fit and cry at the same time, but for the most part they have a blast together and I love every minute of it. Last week at school Jayda busted up her knee on the playground. That night when it was time for bath Jayda did not want to get in the tub because she was worried her knee would burn in the water, which I understood. She kept crying and crying saying she didn't want to take a bath and on and on so I had to do some adjusting to bath time that night and we finally got everybody bathed. The crazy thing is that Sydney starting crying in sympathy for Jayda. I had never seen her do this. And I'm not just talking a little whiny cry, I'm talking full out boo-hooing tears flowing down her face like something was really wrong with her. She felt so bad for Jayda hurting and crying that she got really upset. It was the sweetest and most sad thing ever. I even started crying because I felt so bad that Sydney was crying for her sister, so there we all were. All 3 of us, myself and 2 little wet naked jaybirds, huddled together hugging and crying in the bathtub. Now that is what I call sisterly love! I could go on and on about the 2 of them together, and I'm sure I will have many more stories to tell, but for now it's time to get little sister up from nap so that we can go pick up big sister from school. Oh, and did I mention how much I LOVE raising 2 little sisters?!

Playing (with mommy's phone) together before bedtime.


Snacking together at Jayda's soccer game. Lil' sis has to have a snack too after all that cheering. Sydney loves to yell on the sidelines "Doooo Jay-de!!", which means GO Jayda.


They like to both frown and/or run away when mommy ask them to take a picture. They think it's funny to drive mommy crazy. I thought they looked so cute together the other morning before church with their matching dresses and twinkle toes, but I guess they weren't feeling it so much.


Now that Jayda is playing soccer, guess who else wants to play also?


You guessed it!


Here are a few recent pics I've taken of Sydney while out playing at the park.

Getting a little drink at the playground.


Driving the airplane, watch out!


Sydney LOVES to feed the duck-ducks at the park, and have a little snack herself too.


"Cheeeeeese!"


Some pictures of Jayda at her 2nd soccer game.

Doing a little warming up before the game.


YAY!!


Hard to see Jayda in this picture, but this was her scoring her first goal in her 2nd soccer game. She got tripped up a bit but got right back up and scored a goal. She scored 3 of the 4 goals that her team made in their 2nd game. Yay!


Get that ball!


She's learning how to take the ball away...not bad Jayda.


Finally got a half way decent picture of Jayda by herself before church.