Playing at the Park

We take Sydney down to the Elementary School's playground in our neighborhood a lot to play. She loves going down the big slide while we're there. Here are some pics we took from the other day.

Watch Jackson...

Sydney is doing and saying the CUTEST things right now. My new favorite is that when she is playing in the backyard, she'll say "Watch Jackson." Jackson is our dog so she is telling him watch whatever she's doing; swinging, going down the slide, kicking the ball. It's really cute. She also says "watch mommy" and "watch daddy" when she wants us to watch her do something. I feel like she is getting so big now. This morning, when she woke up, the first thing she said was "nose stuffy." I love that she can actually explain herself to us now. This is such a FUN age!!!!

Christmas 2008

We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! Ours was fantastic and very busy as usual. We had a total of 5 Christmases. It started Christmas Eve with Craig's dad's family, then Christmas morning with my immediate family, Christmas afternoon with my dad's family, back to Craig's parents for an immediate family Christmas Friday night and the last one was Saturday morning with Craig's mom's family. Whew! Thankfully our friend Daniel let us borrow his SUV so we could get back with all our (read: Sydney's) gifts! We were packed to the gills when we drove back from Houston. Santa brought Sydney a new play kitchen and a 2 foot tall Minnie Mouse (her favorite character). She also received books, clothes, baby dolls, a doll stroller, and many other toys. It's pretty cute watching her with all her new baby dolls. She wants to change their diapers, swaddle them, rock them, etc. I think she's getting ready for her new little brother or sister! :) Here are some pictures from all our Christmases. It appears that we got a little lazy as the days went by with taking pictures....ooops!!!

Big Sister!

That's right!!  Sydney is going to be a big sister!!  I've been meaning to post this for a while now but by the time I was out of the first trimester, we got busy with Christmas shopping and and Christmas traveling, that I didn't have much time until now.  I'll be 15 weeks tomorrow...due date is June 25th.  We got to see our little beating heart at the 7 week appointment and then got to hear it at our 11 week appointment.  We are VERY excited and can't wait to find out what we are having.  I think we'll find out the end of January.  So what do you think?  Take my poll below.

Fun at the park with Katelyn

Katelyn came over a few weeks ago to play with Sydney so we took them to a park near our house.  Katelyn is about 9 months older than Sydney and you can tell that Syd totally looks up to Katelyn.  It's fun to watch them play together.

Fall fun!

This is our first Fall in our new home.  For those that haven't seen it yet, we have 3 gigantic, beautiful trees in our yard.  Definitely one of the things that first attracted me to the home.  Well, with big trees, comes LOTS of leaves!!  This was the first day we raked.  Sydney had a blast playing in the piles of leaves!

Sydney's in gymnastics now!

Sydney is a very active little girl, so we thought it would be a good idea to get her involved in some kind of activity.  I found a really good deal (for around here at least!) for a gymnastics class.  It's a parent/child class once a week on Thursday evenings.  Craig tries to make it but doesn't usually get there until around 6:30 and the class starts at 6pm.  I completely under estimated what a huge workout it would be for ME!  I'm constantly reigning her back in or chasing her down.  She doesn't quite understand the organization of it all but I'm sure she'll get it after a few more classes.  Each time she gets to jump on a trampoline for a while, then they stretch, then we usually do a couple of circuits which might include doing some rolls, climbing, & jumping.  At the end of class they get to run and jump in a giant foam pit.  This is definitely her favorite thing to do so far.

Thinking about jumping in!

Now, trying to climb back out...

Swinging!

At the end of class, all of the kids sit down and get stickers and stamps.  Sydney LOVES that her teacher puts stamps on her feet!

Aggie Game

Craig and I went to College Station last month to see our first Aggie game in a loooooong time!!  We met up with some friends from college while we were there so it was fun to see everyone again.  Craig and I went down to the game without tickets figuring that we could just buy them when we get there.  Afterall, the Aggies aren't exactly in high demand this year.  So we went down to Kyle field and sure enough, there were a lot of people selling tickets.  We knew we wanted to be on the Alumni side for sure (on the student side you have to stand up the whole time and let's face it, we're old and 2%ers).  The first person we talked to was selling 4 tickets in the Zone for $200...yea, right.  We moved on.  The next guy we talked to had 2 tickets in the front row of the alumni side in the end zone.  The tickets had a face value of $70 each.  He told Craig to make an offer so Craig offered him $70 total for 2 tickets...and he TOOK IT!  Yay!!  All the rest of our friends were in the third deck of the Zone (opposite end zone from us) and directly facing the sun.  They were miserable!  Guess it pays to wait sometimes!  The first half of the game was a little boring but the second half picked up and the Aggies WON!

Here's how close our seats were to the field.  Lucky for us the Aggies scored every touch down in our end zone!

Kyle Field

The Fightin' Texas Aggie Band

Us!