FOOD!

Sidney loves to eat real food now. I think she would eat anything we gave her, except she still only barely has two teeth so I am a little hesitant to give her anything that won't more or less dissolve in her mouth. :)
She has gotten so much better at eating that I am now willing to let Kylie feed her. Kylie loves helping and I think Sidney finds it amusing.
Sidney is also a big fan of hard-boiled egg yolk and really loved the rice she had for supper last night.
Here are some random food photos from this past week. :)

Kylie helping

 

I love how in both photos Kylie has her mouth open

to "encourage" Sidney to open hers. :)

 

Egg yolk!

She grabs it a little too aggressively and usually squishes it,

but still enjoys it just the same.

 

 

A random cute cheerio face

 

Devouring the rice!

 

 

 

Scootering and Muddy Puddles

We went for a walk this morning before it got too hot. We also convinced Kylie to bring along her scooter and ride it on the bike path. - we only have about 10 feet of sidewalk, so she only has dirt road and grass to ride it on, it would be nice to practice on something smoother. - She did pretty good. Only crashed twice. :) And only needed one Band-Aid. (to make her feel better, she was barely scratched.) She got pretty tired pretty quick though and ended up getting a shoulder ride for part of the way back. :)

She was pretty excited to get started.

Watching her go and looking at her from behind,

she looked so grown up today.

(still can't fathom that she has less than 3 months until she is 4!)

 

 

 

 

pretty excited about this shoulder ride

:)

This afternoon Kylie spent some time outside and proceeded to poor lots of water in the new dirt spot - created by her feet since she has figured out how to get on the swing, start swinging and then dragging her feet in order to stop herself - and thus creating a muddy puddle to splash in. She had a fabulous time. :)

Loving every second of it

 

really getting into it

 

love the combo of girly pink toes and MUD

:)

 

And a random shot of the mountains today

 

 

Hope everyone enjoys their weekend. Looking forward to it only be in the 70's tomorrow before we get a couple of days of 90's. Yuck. - Putting in the air conditioner tomorrow!

 



A Pinterest Weekend

This past weekend I needed something to do. So I joined the thousands of people who have made butterflies out of their children's footprints. I am sure this is a pretty popular thing to do, but they are pretty freaking cute.

 

Sidney's was much more difficult to make since she is one wiggly little 8 month old. But I think it was pretty successful.

 

 

Kylie also saw a handprint tutu sorta thing as I was scrolling through the craft options online. We had to make that then of course. :)

 

If you didn't know those are upside down handprints, I don't think you could figure it out. It kinda looks like rogue paint brush strokes, but it is still pretty cute. - I imagine if you did only 2 hand prints you could tell better, but I think we did 4 hand prints.

During Sidney's nap on Sunday Kylie was trying to blow bubbles outside. She has a little bit of hard time still making them and it was a little windy, so they didn't work so well anyways. So I thought I would try out the sock bubble maker thing I saw on pinterest. It was a huge it with her, and the neighbor kids.

 

 

 

 

Our "rainbow" bubbles. The colors weren't as vibrant as I was hoping for.

Maybe more food coloring next time!

 

 

She managed to not get a mouth full of bubbles when she breathed in instead of blowing out one time.  I can't say that for the neighbor girl though. (she was fine) :)

Hope you're all having a good week!

8 Months

Another month has gone by. Sidney is now 8 months old.

She can now sit up by herself, pull herself up, roll over both ways and crawl like a speedy little turtle. :)

She still only has two teeth that are still working their way all the way up. I am getting very curious as to when those are going to come all the way through.

She has figured out that she can move around in her crib and she can be found in an array of positions these days. I have forgotten what it is like to be that flexible! :)

She loves to smile and talk and has developed a sort of small grunt way of speaking these days. She is still super shy around other people and still has a VERY strong preference for me. Mike and I were joking the other day it is because she spent an extra 3 days inside and that has caused her extreme attachment to me. :)

I had to take her in to the clinic two days ago because she had spent the previous 3 nights not sleeping and all day Monday tugging on her ear. She had a slight ear infection. After just one day of antibiotics, she slept like a champ Tuesday night. It was fabulous. :)

Her weight on Tuesday was 16lbs 5 oz. She is now between 27.25 and 27.5 inches. So she is definitely starting to lean out and have more of a build like Kylie. She is the same weight Kylie was at 8 months, but just a smidge taller.

Here are some 8 month pictures from our little photo shoot yesterday. - as evidence of the following pictures, she does not sit still very much anymore! :)

The only photo of her sitting still

:)

 

 

Coming to get me

 

 

 

 

Got me!

 

I love that her mouth is open all the way across the living room. She then proceeded to crawl over me to get to her blue chair and play with it. :) - (you can also tell in the last picture that her teeth aren't even through enough to really see!)

 

 



 

 

The end of library hour

Today was the last day of library hour for the preschool age kids. School is out this week, so the summer reading program starts for the older kids next week.

Here are a few pics from Kylie the last couple of weeks.

Ring around the Rosy

 

Getting stopped by Ms. Lois

Kylie got a little excited and over shot her spot during

duck duck goose. :)

 

Todays story hour - a few more kids - listening to a story

 

Another bout of Ring around the Rosy

 

And a random picture of Sidney from today!

:)

 

 

Hope you are all having a good week!! 

 

 

 

Sidney's crawling Video

Here is a short video of Sidney crawling. It was the best I could get last week.

The background noise is Mike reading a Scooby Doo book to Kylie. :)

I can't figure out why I can't just put the video here like I have in the past. Here is the link though so that you can watch it.


http://youtu.be/sB0ixxNBaZk

Sidney's Busy Week

Sidney has been very busy this week already.

She started crawling on Sunday evening! I of course missed the first crawl, (I ran to town for a min) but she has been crawling ever since!

Mike was so nice and tried to video tape her first crawl, but I forgot to put the memory card back into the camera after uploading pictures and he didn't know where I had put it! :)

Sidney has now proved that she is good at crawling because today she spent a little bit of time crawling all over the kitchen. I don't think anything is safe on my bottom food storage shelf anymore. Same goes for all the board games in the living room. Time to reorganize!

On Monday morning, Sidney also figured out how to finally sit up all by herself! She went from lying on her back to sitting up. She had a "pretty proud of herself" look on her face after she that! :)
She has done it a few times since then, and I found her sitting up in her crib this evening after she took a short nap. Time to lower that mattress!

This past weekend her second tooth also broke through! So now she has her two bottom teeth. Even though the first one is still barely up.

So she got her first tooth about a week later than Kylie got her first tooth and she crawled a week sooner than Kylie did. But they were both crawling before 8 months.

Sidney pulls her self up on everything now and I think I saw her take a couple steps along the couch. Or she could have just been reaching - I'm not sure!
I think she will be walking before Kylie did though. That girl wants so badly to be moving!

I am hoping to have a chance to catch her on video this week to share with you soon!