Sydney had an awesome Frozen 4th Birthday party a few weeks ago on Saturday, February8th! I made her a pretty blue Frozen cake (my first real birthday cake and it took forever!), put up lots of Frozen decorations and balloons, and we had a bounce house for the party. When everyone arrived we had Subway sandwiches ready to eat so everyone chatted and ate for a while. The bounce house was running late, so the kiddos went outside and jumped on the trampoline and took rides on the gator until it arrived. Everyone was so excited once they could finally jump in the bounce house and had a great time. Most of them kept going down the slide over and over again. Sydney had lots of fun and said that she LOVED her Frozen birthday party.
That is all we wanted, so that means the party was a success!
Sydney's birthday cake. I'm SO glad it actually turned out!
Nutterbutter snowmen and snowflake sugar cookies for the party.
The cake table, I thought it looked so pretty. Just perfect for Sydney. :)
Our sweet birthday girl all dressed up as Elsa! Can not believe she is 4 years old now!!!
The big girls all ready for the party!
Nana and Sydney.
Frozen decorations and balloons in the living room.
And, we even had the movie Frozen playing on the tv!
Party favors!
Sara was not a big fan of the bounce house so she stayed inside and watched Frozen. ;)
The girls loved going down the slide in the bounce house!
"That was so much fun!"
Little Aiden was having a great time too!
Daddy took Avery in to bounce for a little while too. She wouldn't get down
and jump on her own, but she loved being held while Mommy or Daddy jumped.
Climbing up to go down the slide again.
Sweet Sydney had an awesome sparkler candle in her cake,
but got pretty embarrassed when she couldn't blow it out.
She got an Anna doll from the movie Frozen, yay! Thank you Oma!
On Sydney's actual birthday, Tuesday February 11th,
we had a pizza party and cookie cake to celebrate!
Turning the big 4!
Sydney loves her sisters to the moon and back. When Jayda is home she always wants to play with her and do whatever she's doing. For the most part they get along very well, but of course have little arguments like all siblings. She also loves Avery so much! She loves to help feed her and take care of her and is so sweet when Avery gets upset or hurts herself.
Sydney is very shy and gets embarrassed easily. She does not like for the spotlight to be on her. At her birthday party she got really embarrassed when everyone sang her happy birthday. I had to take her up to her room so that she could calm down. I felt so bad for her because it was her party and she was supposed to be happy, but she is just really shy. She didn't even want to have a birthday party at school I think because she was embarrassed.
Sydney loves her dogs and especially loves Daisy. If Daisy rides anywhere in the car with us, she always rides with Sydney in her car seat. She enjoys playing outside and jumping on the trampoline. Sometimes when Avery is napping I will take the monitor outside and jump on the trampoline with her. She has so much fun and really likes telling me what to do on the trampoline, like we are in gymnastics class. :) Sydney is really good on her bike and loves to ride around outside with Jayda.
She has gotten so much better about going to school and seems to actually look forward to it these days. For most of the fall she dreaded going to school, and I never wanted to take her because she would get so upset when I would leave. Now she kisses me goodbye at the door and doesn't fuss one bit, it is so nice! I love her pre-school teacher, Mrs. Anitra. She is very calm and sweet and the perfect fit for Sydney's personality. I couldn't have asked for a better first year of school for Sydney! I've recently signed her up to attend pre-k 3 days per week next year so I'm hoping that goes well too.
Some of her interests include Frozen stuff (especially Elsa), baby dolls-she loves to wrap them up and carry them around or push them in the stroller, playing in her kitchen and bringing us pretend food, watching cartoons-paw patrol, max and ruby, and doc mcstuffins, playing on her leap pad, playing teacher with her baby dolls and stuffed animals, doing whatever Jayda does, helping Mommy cook-anytime I'm cooking or baking she likes to pull the step stool up and help me, working the cows with Daddy and Pawpaw, pretending to fix hair in her "beauty salon", read books-I love reading to her because she will actually sit still and listen to the book :), Love that little girl so much!!
Sydney is pretty easy going most of the time (by far the most laid back of the 3 girls). Unless there is something she really doesn't want to do, and then there is no changing her mind. She took dance for a few months when we first moved back to Huntsville. She was so excited about taking dance and wore her leotard everywhere for at least 2 weeks. But, after the teacher tried to make her learn a certain step and she couldn't pick it up, she was done with dance. Didn't go back to class at all again. I was so sad that she stopped, but there was really nothing I could do. Once she'd made her mind up that she was not taking dance anymore and there was no going back! Hopefully next year she will start again, especially since there will be a new teacher (and I think that was a big part of the problem).
Sydney is very smart and is learning her letters, numbers, shapes and colors so well. Pre-school has really helped with that and I am so proud of her! She has started writing her letters and gets so excited to show me when has written something. She'll say "Mommy, Mommy come look, I wrote an S!" She is just taking it all in right now. When I read a book to her she can open it back up and pretty much tell me the whole story just by looking at the pictures and remembering what I'd just read. She has a very good memory! I'm pretty sure I couldn't even do that.
I'm so honored to be Sydney Anne Paschal's Mommy! She is a true blessing from God and we love her with all of our heart! We are so thankful that God has allowed us to raise such a sweet angel girl. Most of her birthday cards said something about how sweet she is and she even got a card that said "When God made you, he definitely added the sprinkles to life". That is so true! We love you so much Sydney Anne!
A few days after Sydney's birthday was Valentine's Day.
Daddy got all of his girls James Avery heart shaped necklaces and they were all so excited!
Sydney helped Avery open up her necklace from Daddy.
She LOVED it and would not let me take it off all day!
Miss Sydney showing off her pretty necklace.
Sydney is always trying to hold little Avery Mae. She got ahold of her for a little bit. :)
Sydney also gave Avery her unicorn for Valentine's Day from Mommy and Daddy.
One happy baby girl!
That afternoon was Sydney's Valentine's Day party at pre-school.
She had a lot of fun with her best buddy Sara!
The girls loved decorating their heart shaped sugar cookies!
Mrs. Anitra and her Monday/Wednesday girls. Love this picture!
Valentine's night was the big girls first softball practice.
Avery thought she needed to practice too. ;)
Warming up.
Daddy is the assistant coach for their team, so I think they are going to have a lot of fun.
Running to catch the ball.
Hanging out in the out field.
Just waiting to get the ball.
Such a sweet little softball player!
3 comments:
Great pictures! Frozen party was really nice. Hard to believe Sydney is four, Avery is one and Jayda will be seven this summer. Going by way too fast! All have a special place in my heart.
Love,
Oma
The party was so fun! You did a great job planning it as usual. I love having y'all so close now so I can watch the girls grow up and especially become great friends with my kids! It's so special for my daughter to be friends with my friend's daughter :).
Sweet Sydney! Love her! I miss all those girlies.
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