Fun weekend Wrap

This weekend the weather was so nice that we had to take advantage of it. I was getting ready to do my usual Friday night shift and my cell phone rang. The CDF wanted to know if I wanted to take call for the night!!! OF COURSE! I told stephen to put some shorts on and get ready, we are taking Sydney to the park. I like to take Sydney to different places and get her out of the house and Stephen has never been with us to any of our excursions because we usually do them during the day and he is at work. So this was going to be our first family outing to do "Sydney stuff."
Daddy I think we might need to be a little bigger to do this one!! Stephen was trying to call Sydney up the climbing wall! LOL

Sydney loves to slide!!

This was the last picture I got of Sydney at the park that evening because I got THE CALL! =( We were at the park maybe 15 minutes and my cell phone rang....I thought surely not! O yea work needed me to come in and I felt so bad for Sydney. She was having so much fun and I didn't want our outing to end. I promised Sydney we would come back the next evening since it was my fault it was cut short. She fussed a little but handled having to leave so soon after we got there.

Saturday afternoon we were in the house and I had just got up and I heard the sound of my childhood. Guess who was in my neighborhood??? The ICE CREAM TRUCK!!! I have such fond memories of being excited and the rush of getting your money in time to catch the ice cream man before he came back around. My cousin Mary even busted her chin open trying to run after the ice cream truck to get him to stop!! She still has the scar to prove that story! SO When I heard the music playing I yelled at Stephen to grab some money and I grabbed up Sydney and my camera of course....Stephen said what are you doing with that(the camera)? I said I have to get her first ice cream truck experience on film!!! He just rolled his eyes LOL. We ran outside in time to meet the truck and I was more excited than Sydney was I think!

Sydney picked out a rainbow sherbet push up for her first ice cream. She thought is was very yummy.
And yes she is still in p.j.'s. When Stephen takes care of her on the weekends she normally stays in her pjs unless they go out somewhere!

As promised, after getting cleaned up from our ice cream we went back to the park! Sydney on the way to the park kept saying...play, play, play!! She took off running when we got there. There were a ton of people there of course since it was a Saturday and so nice outside.
Daddy unsure I guess if she can go down the baby slide by herself. He was so funny because he really doesn't know how independent she is when she goes to places like this. She will go down the big slides all by herself and I just let her. Stephen is so protective over her and was right by her side at the park. I just sat back and watched. I have to share this story it's too funny. Sydney was on the baby slide and was standing at the top and there was a little boy up there with her and we were sitting around the bottom of the slide and Stephen says to me what is he doing. I said I don't know they are probably talking. The next thing I know Stephen is running up the slide and yells as he is going up HEY!! NO!! Grabs Sydney and comes down. Stephen wasn't yelling at Sydney, he was yelling at the little boy Sydney was up there with. Apparently he was hitting her but Sydney wasn't crying. I told Stephen to calm down and he said I don't care, he doesn't need to be hitting Sydney!!! haha. I laughed so hard. I said you have to expect thing like that to happen when there is a large group of kids! Stephen has a lot to learn. thank goodness there wasn't a big a mean daddy around for that little boy. We stayed at the park for about 1.5hours and had a good time.

Just a swinging!!

Girls ONLY!!!

Last night a group of girls I work with went out to say goodbye to two girls that are leaving to go to Texas to go to CRNA school. We went to On the Border to eat and have a few drinks. I rarely drink so I took this picture so I could prove that I actually finished my drink!

Holly G., Michalee(one of the girls leaving) and me!

Kristen and I. Kristen is also going away to school. I look so white compared to her!!!

This is another group shot. We decided to go outside after we ate and hang out some more. After we left On the Border we decided to go watch a movie. We saw The Proposal. It was so nice to go and do whatever I wanted without having to worry about Sydney! I think I need to start having a scheduled girls night out more often!!!

Fourth of July

We had a great fourth of July. We went to my sister, Holly's house and had a cookout and the kids swam and we had lots of desserts and then we did fireworks. The only slip up was that Holly forgot to put the sugar in the home made ice cream! lol. Dad had to work and mom wasn't feeling good so they didn't get to come to the party. Sydney had a blast playing on the scooter!

Lauren, Sydney and Jack

A group shot of all the cousins!

Sydney being silly Chillin and waving her flag Love this lil girls expressions!

Holly and Sydney

Sydney's bow This is the only time Sydney will get to wear a two piece for a long time. The only reason she got to wear it was because it was a hand me down from holly and it was the right colors for the fourth! Stephen doesn't think little girls should wear two piece suits! I agree.

Sydney finally relaxing in the pool. For some reason she doesn't like to get in the pools but loves to take baths? We are working on it and hopefully soon she will love the water.

Sydney even let Alexis take her into the big pool on the fourth! She didn't put up too much of a fuss and hung out with the Alexis and Jack for a few minutes!

I bought all the kids these silly straws and the all loved it. Sydney of course had to use her straw as well so we put milk in a cup for her and she thought she was big!

One little monkey jumping on the couch!!! Two lil girls making sure she doesn't fall! lol

I don't know what it is about smoke bombs but kids love them. They love to run through the smoke until it got in Brooke's eyes then it wasn't fun anymore!

Sydney and Daddy cooling off with a treat! Sydney is getting her eye teeth on top so she is keeping her fingers in her mouth these days.

Hanging out before we start the fireworks Missy with Reagan and Brooke. We spent the night trying to keep Brooke's dress on so we wouldn't get any boob shots.

Stephen with Sydney watching the fireworks. Sydney fussed a little bit with the first two that we did but after that it was all smiles and clapping when the would go off. All the kids hung out in the back of my truck and watched fireworks.

First Craft

Today I watched my sisters two youngest kids while she took Alexis to the dentist. They had a great time playing together. After my sister got back and we had lunchand then we had craft time. We made tambourines!! We used paper plates (decorate how you want), tape, stapler, and Cheerios to fill between the paper plates. Sydney has really started to color and enjoyed coloring on the paper plates. Reagan finished coloring her plates first and we started to put Cheerios out on her plates and Sydney started to sneak Cheerios off her plates!!! Girl loves to snack!! After we all finished our projects they loved shaking them to make noise and I told my sister have fun on the way home with THREE tambourines!!! haha.

Everything that is FUN!!

Sydney just turned 18 months and loves to be outside!!!

She loves it when you count to three and yell GO!!!!

Sunday, Nana and Papa (Self) bought Sydney a new swimming pool!! She took a nap while Stephen and I got it ready for her. This is Sydney when she first saw her pool!

The pool even has a slide. The water was really cold and I don't think she wanted to go but of course Stephen sent her down anyway!!

WOW.....that water is cold!!!

Everytime we spend time outside, Sydney waves bye bye to everyone passing by!

Day dreaming!





This was the first time EVER that Sydney "smiled" when I asked her to for a picture!!! I love the little face she is giving!!! TOO funny

The second smile was much cuter!!! Does she come with a straw because I would sure like to drink her up!!!!

Tubes Surgery Day

This was pre-op photo shoot!!
This was in pre-op still. Goofing off.

She was very loving before she went back.

This was the surgical nurse that took her back.

This was after I held her for aprox. 2 minutes then she started to cry some. When we walked back there to the recovery area there was probably 5 people around her and I thought something was wrong because where I work when there are lots of people are around something is going on. Then after we saw her on the stretcher this guy told us to have a seat here and started to get a towel out. I thought to myself..does he know that's my baby over there and why am I sitting way over here and why do I need a towel? After he started talking about how she might get sick and one of the other nurses started to bring her over to me I thought ...okay I get it now (LOL)!!! She still couldn't hold her head up yet and was like a little newborn again. Soon after sitting with me she started to cry a little. The nurses said they didn't want to give her over because she was so cute with her pretty big brown eyes....awww(sorry I can't do without her). All in all she did great and I was surprised that she didn't get upset more than she did. Everyone from doctor to family was trying to prepare me for her screaming and not being able to console her but she did perfect!!! Thanks for all the prayers for Sydney.