Happy Easter!!!

What a fun weekend we had!!  Sydney had a birthday party to attend on Friday night, Saturday morning and Saturday afternoon.  Her social calendar is really filling up these days!  After the parties and lots of cake, we came home and did an Easter egg hunt in the backyard.  We knew it was supposed to rain most of the day today so that's why we did it yesterday instead.  It was her first egg hunt at home because she still wasn't really interested last year.

Then after the Easter egg hunt, we dyed some eggs. We got to use Sydney's super cute apron (thanks Jeff and Becky!) and she had a blast dipping the eggs in the dye. Then she decorated them with stickers. 

This morning when Sydney woke up, she discovered the basket of goodies that the Easter bunny had left for her. Of course she wanted to eat all the candy right away. Then we went to church and after that went over to our friends Justin and Joanna's house for Easter lunch. Everything was so yummy!! It's so hard to get Sydney to sit still for a picture these days so these were the best we got of her.

Sydney's BIG girl room!

We finally finished Sydney's big girl room last weekend. She is loving it and doing great sleeping in her new bed. Craig was such a champ getting everything painted (since I can't help) and now I'm sure he's looking forward to doing Harper's nursery as well. Here are some pics from her new room!

Sydney's 2nd birthday party!

Sydney love loves loves Mickey Mouse Clubhouse so we decided to do a Minnie themed birthday party for her this year.  She loved her party and still talks about it today.   Here are some pics from the bash!

Can it really be??

Our little Sydney Claire turned 2 years old today.  I really can't even believe it.  She is such a little girl now and not a baby at all.  I have to say though, Craig and I talk all the time about how much we LOVE this age.  Everything she does and says is the cutest thing ever.  She amazes us everyday with some new sentence or song she knows.  For instance, she loves that song "5 Little Monkey's Jumping on the Bed" (not sure if that's the official title but that's what we call it).  Well at the end of the song it goes:

"Mommy called the doctor and the doctor said, 

'No more monkeys jumping on the bed!'"

So Sydney says that last line (as the doctor) in a really low voice, almost like she's talking like a man.  It's sooo funny!!!  

For her birthday today, she took cupcakes to school and had a little party with her classmates.  Then Craig and I picked her up early and took her to Build-a-Bear.  In my head, I thought she'd absolutely love making her own bear, but it didn't exactly go as planned.  She was fine picking out her animal (which turned out to be a pink monkey) but after that she seemed scared of everything else.  She didn't want to give the monkey a heart, she didn't want to stuff the monkey, she didn't want to bathe the monkey.  The one thing she was interested in was accessorizing her monkey!  She got a Hello Kitty purse that was supposed to be for the monkey, but really ended up as Sydney's instead.  After Build-a-Bear, we went to the mall playground to let her run around.  After that she threw a royal fit in the middle of JC Penney - I guess she wanted to let us know she was officially 2!  We had asked her earlier what she wanted for dinner and she decided on macaroni and cheese.  So we took her to The Black Eyed Pea for dinner where she got more than her fair share of some mac n cheese.  While we were there, she was sitting next to me in the booth and I guess she leaned down to pick something up and when she did she smacked her eyebrow on the table.  It was so LOUD so I knew it hurt pretty bad.  She was screaming of course but calmed back down pretty quick.  Back home, we sang Happy Birthday and let her blow out the candles on her cake - and eat a piece too of course!   All in all, I think she had a pretty great day!  Her daddy and I sure enjoyed getting to spend it with her!  Here are some pics from our afternoon...some were taken on Craig's phone since we forgot to bring the camera with us to the mall.