Sydney Fuller

Play Date

CJ stopped by today to drop off a few early birthday gifts for Sydney. What a guy.

CJ’s attention span for his lady soon reached its end when he saw that Sydney had some cars and trucks. The boy loves things with wheels. Oh, and the other thing he loves — things on the celing like fans. We have a large ceiling fan and he had to keep getting a look at that big thing.

Lunch On The Go

I ran Sydney to her Friday morning school thing today. When I returned to pick her up, they said she slept for about an hour of it. She is as tired as the rest of us I guess. Anyway, she didn’t get to eat her lunch at school. So when she got home we opened up the lunchbox and she took all the containers and started carrying them around. Its so cool to do this apparently because you can eat anywhere — like on a slide!

Wow. Posting 2 days in a row. I bet I am almost out of the woods with my mother-in-law now.

Bye Bye Ye Ye

Time for Ye Ye to go bye bye. Is it scary that I am starting to talk like my kid? It is this secret kinda language thing I guess. Ye Ye picked up a few nice presents for Ne Ne while in town. One was this pink feather boa. I am not sure if Ye Ye wants Ne Ne to grow up to be a stripper or what.

Aunt Stephanee sent along some early birthday gifts. Thanks, Steph! Sydney has enjoyed working with the notebook so far. This will be good as it will educate her so she will have something to fall back on if the stripping business doesn’t go well.

Webcam Update

Ok, Syd’s webcam is now back up and running. Mom decided that since Syd was turning 2 years old, it was time that she not have the camera in her room anymore. Although, it was a nice mechanism to allow us to see if she was really napping or just playing. Oh well. So the alternative location is the new playroom. Syd should be there during watching hours often anyway. So have a look at the first live glimpse of the new basement playroom.

Bath Time With Ye Ye

To help out a tired Mom and Dad, Ye Ye has been giving Ne Ne her bath. You almost need an instruction manual to give Syd a bath because we have to go through a whole set of games in the tub. Sydney has to go through each letter of the alphabet and say what it is. Then you have to draw about 20 different pictures on the tub wall with crayon and she tells you what they all are. I am no artist but Syd believes they are all what I tell her.

I Love You, Baby

I Am A Big Sister

Sydney got to meet her new sister, Reagan, late last night.

No Mama?

Sydney wonders where Mama went. I know.

Hi Ye-Ye

Grandma showed up tonight to keep Sydney busy during the event. We managed to forget the camera for the reunion. After about 1 minute in the car together, Sydney told Grandma “No Pa Pa” — kinda of in the tone like “did you forget him?”.

So then Sydney and Grandma started warming up to each other. But while Charlee was talking to Kim, Sydney was trying to get Charlee’s attention. “Ye-Ye! Ye-Ye!”, said Sydney. Apparently, Charlee is now known as Ye-Ye. We think this kinda means “Lady Lady”.

Luckily Mom and Dad get straightforward names. For the rest of you, it seems you will be named at random based on caveman sounds.

Flashlight

Ribbit Ribbit

Sydney got a few gifts in the mail from Grandma and Grandpa Coburn. Creepy crawly things like snakes and frogs — this girl’s favorite things!

If you happen to see Sydney, ask her to do her frog impresssion for you!

For Ne Ne?

Sydney got a few gifts today from Aunt Jamie and Uncle Kevin. These were a bit hit! We love to play with the sticker “babies”.

Haircut

Welcome to Ne Ne’s House

Sydney got her birthday present today. They guys showed up this morning to assemble it. It took them a few hours. Had to dig up part of the yard. Lots of power tools sounds. Sydney got curious and got up to take a look by herself.

At this point, she realizes what is going on and its like magic: Mama, Dada, its a wee. Its a slide. She was amazed that such wonderful things were being built in her yard. Its like Ne Ne’s own playground. Wow! Time to play.

Mom did Sydney up on this deal. Its got a swing, a glider, a rock wall, a ladder, a gang plank, a slide, monkey bars, and 2 clubhouses. What more could you want? Under the slide there is the enclosed clubhouse. There is a door around to the left. This clubhouse is known as Ne Ne’s House. That’s what she says. And the dogs — well, they have to go in there constantly under Ne Ne’s demands. Sometimes she shuts the door on them and leaves them locked inside. The dogs are becoming her slaves.

Now you see why we needed a gang plank! Dakota and Wyatt needed a ramp to get up in the clubhouse. After we showed them how to do it, they spent the rest of the night hanging out up there. They can see farther out into the fields around us from up there so its like the dogs are in some tower in their castle on the lookout!

When it was time to come inside tonight, Ne Ne cried like crazy — More wee! Tomorrow is another day. She will be excited when she sees the monster playset is still there.

Mad At Dad

Another date night at Red Robin — they have balloons. Mom seems to want us out of the house more and more lately. So Sydney was mad at me most of the dinner. When you talk to her, she makes this pouty face and then turns her head away from you.

Finally, the ice breaker — some kid lost a blue balloon and it flew up near the air return in the ceiling. It was bouncing all over the place. And then Sydney noticed it — Oh, no! Bebe’s blue in sky. Oh, no!

Baby Wee

We finished getting all of the baby gadgets out this weekend. Syd thinks they are for her amusement. Who cares about a baby, these are all mine. She especially loves to push her baby dolls in the baby wee.

My Awesome New Room

We have already announced the fact that Syd is now sleeping in her own big girl bed. But, we haven’t posted the pictures of the finished room. Here you go. After a lot of work Syd’s room is done and she loves it. She never even comes out in the morning until we yell at her to come eat.

Here is a picture of Sydney in her bed. We have a rail in the middle with two entrances onto the bed. It is cool to hold onto each side of the entrance and swing off onto the floor. Mommy tells her it is not safe to jump off the bed from personal experience but she doesn’t care. She is a stunt professional.

Here Syd is playing in her tent. We have designated this as the dollhouse play area although she also loves to chase the cats and dogs through the tent.

Sydney has her very own cat perch in her window. The cats are always waiting in line for their turn in the window seat.

Here is a good example of the room theme. We have a picket fence around the entire room filled in with various flowers, bugs and other critters. Here is Syd’s Meow and bunny.

Here is another wall. This one is home to her one of her two favorite animals the “fro” or frog as we call it.

She even has her very own mural of her buds Coco and Wy.

Here are her bookshelves filled with the only crap allowed in the bedroom. She gets her books out to read and puts them right back up where they belong. She is making an attempt to keep it half way clean though there are other things we can’t seem to keep off the floor.

Here we are modling our beads which are kept in one of the bins on the shelves for easy access. Isn’t she pretty!

Here is the wall above her bed. She calls the letters above her bed See see. I don’t think she gets that it is her name. She calls herself Ne Ne and these letter are for Sydney. Who’s that?

Here is the pile of stuffies at the end of her bed. Sydney knows every animal that is supposed to be on the bed and if one is missing there is a complete search before we can soundly go Ni Ni, (Night Night). Notice the Snake above her bed. This is the second of her two favorite animals. We LOVE frogs and snakes, I think she has a little bit of Uncle Ben running through her veins.

Best of all, Syd has her very own fish tank on her dresser. It is complete with three african water frogs, four fancy tail guppies and two dalmation platys. We don’t really care about the fish at this point, its all about the frogs. These frogs live in water 100% of the time and only go up for air a couple of times an hour. They swim around and kinda just float in the middle of the tank in a suspension like matter. Syd likes to knock the tank to get them to move, they don’t like that too much.

That is the complete room tour but we didn’t stop there. We had to spiff up her bathroom as well. Here is a small example of what was done in there. We have dogs, cats, pawprints and bones that match the shower curtain in various places throughout the room. Very cute.

Hope you enjoyed the photos. I know Syd will love giving you all the grand tour when you come to visit her this month. Oh, and maybe she will introduce you to the new Be Be due in NINE DAYS, if she has time.

Update Poop

Last night Mommy and Sydney were having a blast playing in her room. Then out of the blue Sydney grabbed her crotch and said, “Poo poo Momma.” I said, “Do you have to go Poo poo?” She said Ok and ran to her toilet. She very quickly put her Dora toilet seat on the toilet and I pulled off her pants. I put her up on the throne and voila she pooped in the toilet. Wow, we screamed and clapped and made a big to do about the poopy in the toilet. She even got to wipe her own butt, a big deal for her. Daddy got home from the neighbors house just as we were celebrating and got a first hand look at the poop. She has pooped in the toilet once before, but we think it was just good timing as we just put her up there just for the heck of it. This was the first poop on the toilet where Syd actually made the call to go on her own. Daddy wanted to post a picture of this first poop on the blog, but I decided to spare you all this photo.

Save Us From The Wee

Momma, go wee? Dadda, go wee? Wee? Wee? Wee!!!

This child is consumed with the wee (swing). All she wants to do is sit in it with her “tools” and ride. Today I think she was in there for about 90 minutes straight!

Swing Your Brains Out

Sydney fell asleep in the swing today.

School Day

Sydney loves going to school on Fridays.