Sydbee

Tonight was Sydney's first Halloween and she was a bumblebee! The night started off really well. Here we are right before we headed up to the church for the Fall Festival.

Then she started to get upset so we figured she was hot in her Halloween costume so we took her out of it. Here she is in just her tights looking pretty upset. (Mason--the astronaut--is trying to cheer her up)

Next we ran into Hillary and Katelyn Kouba so we put Sydney's costume back on to take some more pictures. Boy was she happy about that!

Here she is starting to fall asleep on mom's shoulder so we decide it's probably time to head home.

And here's the last picture of the night! She was worn out!

Portrait Princess

Pumpkin Patch

Sick

On Wednesday we got a call from Sydney's daycare saying that she had thrown up TWICE while she was there. So I left work around lunch time to go pick her up and take her home. I talked to the pediatrician and she said to give Sydney 1 teaspoon of pedialyte every 5 minutes for 4 hours. Yes, you read that right--4 hours!! What a beating but thankfully it was working and she was able to keep it down. After the 4 hours were up we were able to double the dosage to 2 teaspoons every 5 minutes for another 4 hours--but really we just did that until she fell asleep that night. The next day (Thursday) I decided to stay home with her and sure enough she threw up again that morning and had really bad diarreah. So I decided to stay home again on Friday and thankfully she was getting back to her normal self! Being sick is no fun for baby or mommy!!

What a fun weekend!!

This weekend we went to Houston to visit our families. We went to Craig's parents house on Saturday and Sydney got to visit with Granny and Papa. She also got to see Aunt Samantha & Uncle Shane, her cousins Dustin, Coltin, Monica & Jessica, and her great grandparents. It was a busy day but she had so much fun. We also got to see how Craig's parents new house is coming along--it looks great! Then we went to my parents house and Sydney got to spend time with Nana, Grandpa, and Great Grandma. On Sunday we went to church and then to lunch at Chili's to visit Aunt Amber. After that we went out to see Nana and Grandpa's new horses. Sydney had such a great time seeing everyone this weekend and so did we. Boy were we exhausted when we got home!

1/2 Year Birthday!

Wow! Another month has flown by! I can't believe Sydney is already 6 months old. She is doing so many new things now. She is laughing a lot and is very curious. She always wants to touch everything especially people's faces. She's also really good at sitting up now and can sit and play with toys for a very long time. We've also tried other new foods. So far she has had rice cereal, sweet potatoes, carrots, peas, bananas and peaches. We will wait a while before giving her peaches again! On Saturday (while Craig was out of town) I thought Sydney and I would go spend some girl time together and run some errands. So I get her all packed up and in the car and we make our first stop right up the street from our place. It was this little consignment store that sales gently used baby items. Well I was only in there for about 2 minutes when I smelled something WRETCHED! I looked down at her in the stroller and she was literally sitting in a puddle of poop! It had exploded out the side of her diaper and it was everywhere. All over her leg, her clothes, the stroller, and then she kept trying to put her hands in it. I'm not usually one to be squeamish when it comes to this but even for me this was awful! Of course there's no place to change her in this tiny store so I have to lay her on the backseat of the car to get her all cleaned up. Needless to say after about 25 wipes, I put my half naked (only wearing a diaper) baby back in her carseat and headed home. And we stayed home the rest of the day and played. I tell you that story because I think it all stems from peaches. That morning was the first time she had ever had them and nothing else had changed....maybe we'll try them again in a few weeks--at least wait until Craig is in town! Back to Sydney--she has got such a little personality coming out now and we just love it! Everyday we are amazed by her and thank God for putting her in our lives. I created a little montage of pictures from 0-6 months so you can see how much she has grown!

She's sitting!

I think we can say that Sydney is officially sitting now! She can usually sit without help or falling down for about 10-15 minutes now. We're so proud!

Sa-Weeeeeet!!!!

Sydney had sweet potatoes for the first time tonight (her first veggie!) and she LOVED them too and ate everything I gave her!