Sydney Fuller

Scrabble

Taught Sydney how to play Scrabble on the iPad. Kind of a fun game. I am terrible at it. I use 3 and 4 letter long words all the time. However, Sydney somehow with no help busted out this 6 letter word down the right side of the board. See it? Its in the dictionary.

Dominos

Grandma Hakes got the girls some dominos this year for Christmas. Sydney could be found off in the corners making different mazes to knock down. Let’s hope she is better at dominos then her Daddy was at her age. I’ve heard the stories…it wasn’t pretty….

Christmas in Indiana

Once again, we traveled back to the Midwest to visit our family for the holidays. Everyone lives in the same city so its a nice one shot deal to cover a lot of visits.

Christmas

Christmas always comes early at our house since we are in Indiana on the holiday itself. So the night before was all about the preparations.

Check out that loot! The big item this year was the pillow pet. Santa brought each of the girls two. Great job Santa!

Sydney isn’t a hunter but she received a stuffed head to hang on her wall at the cabin.

American Heritage Girls

The Joining Ceremony for the new American Heritage Girls troop was today. Sydney received her first few badges and had to say her pledge. The last few months of the troop meetings were spent helping the kids memorize their pledges and teaching them what the different parts meant. So tonight was all about their achievements as an American Heritage Girl.

Each girl was called up individually to get their badges and get a photo with their leader. It was quite a night.

At the very end of the ceremony Sydney was asked to stay on stage. Reagan was then asked to come up on stage and join her sister. Sydney, a TenderHeart, had to pledge to be Reagan’s guide and support throughout her last year as a Pathfinder. It was cute.

Christmas Program

It was once again time for the annual school Christmas program. This would be our third year watching Sydney and her classmates do their thing on stage. The class would practice their song for weeks in advance of the show. So by the time the day actually comes the whole family has the song memorized. But, its always fun seeing the whole gang perform together on stage. We’ve known most of these kids since they were toddlers. How they have grown.

Line ‘em up!

Showtime!

Secret Dancer

Sydney often makes the claim that she is going to be an artist or a dancer. She can’t decide yet. She loves her iPod and is getting into older music. However, we started noticing a trend where we would come into a room and she would suddenly be standing still and look guilty. So Kim started peaking in on her with a video camera to see what was going on.