Sydney at 2 Years Old!

Sydney is such a sweet little munchkin! She is fun loving and likes to be loved on. When she is tired or just wants some affectioin she gets her "bankie" and comes up to me and says "tan you hold me?" It is so sweet and so hard to resist. When you say "I love you" she responds back with "wuv you too". Melt my heart! Sydney absolutely adores her big sister Jayda and always wants to be with her. It is the sweetest thing, and Jayda wants to be with Sydney too. Jayda always wants to wake Sydney up in the morning because she just can't wait to see her. I'm not saying they are sweet too each other all the time, they have actually been getting into it a lot lately (I think because Sydney is getting older and can fight back), but they do love one another more than anything else. Sydney is quite the chatter box, and likes to ask lots of questions (about everything). She speaks in mostly complete sentences, it is so cute. She can count to 10 easily and roughly sing her ABC's. She knows most of her colors too. Sydney loves to color, with Jayda of course, in coloring books and always wants to use the markers. Regular crayons are not fun for her. She also likes to use the markers on things other than coloring books like cabinets, walls, step stools, rugs, the floor, and chairs so that has been fun finding all the spots she's marked on days later and then trying to scrub them off.

Oh, and I almost forgot she is doing really well potty training. It hasn't been as big of a deal to potty train Sydney as it was with Jayda, I guess because she sees Jayda doing it all the time and wants to too. I started putting her on the potty one day about a month ago and she went right away. I was so excited. But, then I tried putting her on there the next day and she wasn't interested. I figured she wasn't quite ready and I didn't want to push her. Again, I was still wanting her to stay a "baby" so I was in no hurry to get her out of diapers. I waited about a month or so and tried again. This time she seemed to like going on the potty much more, and I added a candy incentive. I guess I should of thought of it sooner because she LOVES "tandy". She was so excited to get candy after she went to the bathroom on the potty and has been doing a great job ever since! She is wearing pull ups right now and I will probably switch her into panties pretty soon. It was such an easy transition for her, and me, but I also think she was ready for it and that made a big difference. Doesn't hurt that she is a candy lover too!

She talks all day long nonstop. She even has started talking at naptime and has not been taking a nap at all the past few days because she is too busy carrying on a conversation with herself. It is pretty cute, but it would be nice for her to nap again since the evenings are very rough when she doesn't. :) Some of her common phrases are "tan (can) I wear Jayda's shoes?", "I don't like dat noise", "tan I watch Mi-mouse?", "where Jay-ja go, where daddy go?", "tan I have my bek-fast?", "tan you come play wif me?", "I wanna wear my ni-gown", "tan you get dat for me?", "I nee go potty", "what dat sound?", "who dat?", "where we goin' mommy?", "I wanna read books", "can I seep with my te-ey bear?", "watcha doin'", "it's o-tay froggy/baby/barbie/mermaid-I dot you (it's ok, I got you)", "I don't like croc-diles", "I don't like dat pecka (wood pecker)", "I wanna pick Jay-ja up from tool (school)", "tan you come wif me to det (get)..." and I could go on and on.

Sydney still loves the outdoors and always wants to play at the park, or even in the front yard with her toys. Her favorite thing at the park to do is swing...forever. I usually have to force her off the swing after at least 20 minutes because I'm tired of pushing her.

Sweet girl swinging with her mermaid. She always wants to swing with something.


"Push my higher mommy!"


She also enjoys pushing her babies in the swing at the park. She could do this for hours.


She's a little climber too like her big sister. She can climb pretty much any piece of playground equipment and is pretty fearless like Jayda too. And, she won't let me help her at all. She says "No mommy, I do it by myself!" Don't know how I ended up with 2 little fearless monkeys! They definitely got that from their daddy! She loves going down the slides too, and sending her baby dolls or barbies down as well.

Although she likes being outside, she is a very girly-girl. She likes to play dress up, fix her hair, put on "make-make", wear fancy shoes, and put on dress up jewelry. She is still a complete shoe fanatic! She always wears 2 totally different shoes. They CAN NOT be the same shoe or she will have a fit. She likes to wear Jayda's shoes mostly and usually picks some sort of cowgirl boot/flip flop or ballet flat/tennis shoe combo. Not real sure where her since of style came from (not mommy), but she definitely knows what she wants and does not want you to mess with her. She doesn't like getting dirty or bugs. If she falls down outsdie and gets dirt on her hands she yells for me with her hands up in the air saying "yu-ey (yucky) mommy!" It's so funny since she likes being outside, just doesn't want to get dirty. She sure can't get her shoes or clothes dirty heaven forbid! She is very aware of "dirty" stuff around her. If she sees anything in the house like leaves, dirt, or bugs she leans over and points to it and says "Ewwww, poop mommy, tan you det it?" So of course I pick it up and she says "yank you (thank you) mommy." So sweet!

She too likes to sing and dance around the house like her big sister. She likes to put her hands up in the air and shake her little booty all over the place. And while she's dancing she yells "shake a booty, shake a booty!" Think she gets most of her moves from Jayda since they look just alike when they dance. It is too cute! She imitates everything Jayda says and does, pretty much like a mini-me. However, if Jayda does tells her to do or say something that she doesn't want to she doesn't mind saying "NO, NO Jay-ja!!" So, although she does copy Jayda a lot, I am glad that she has a mind of her own, even at 2 years old.

Not a very good pic, but they were dancing to some music in my room with my hats on and thought it was hilarious!


Sydney likes playing with Jayda's friends too and acts just like one of them. She plays right along by their side and I really do believe she thinks she's 4 years old too.

I love these pics of Sydney with big sister Jayda and friend Jane playing in the recliner!


They were having so much fun reclining! Who would've thought a chair could be so entertaining to 3 little girls!


We love our sweet little Sydney and have been so blessed to have her in our lives these past 2 years. She is such a loving, caring, and tender hearted little soul and I can not imagine any of our lives without her in it!