Happy 9 Months

Sydney turned 9 months old last week! She weighs 19 lbs 5 oz now. Height- 35%, weight, 55%, and head size >95%! That's our smartie pants. :)

Sydney has been a very busy girl lately. She is still not crawling, but she is so close! Any time now. She manages to get around mostly by going backwards. She is also really trying hard to pull up, and she can almost do that herself.

Silly face!

Lake Weekend

Two weekends ago we went to Summer's lake house with three other couples and six kids age three and under. We had a great time! Lots of pictures, most of the kiddos.

The kids, I mean the guys, had fun with the slip and slide! It turned into a competition- BJ thought the victor should be on the featured video. Congrats to Beau for winning the water slide luge!

New Tooth and New Carseat

Sydney's second tooth came in on Sunday. Picture below!

Sydney can pick little pieces of food up to eat now, and she loves turkey.

Being silly (and messy) at dinner

Here are her teeth- both on the bottom. The second one is barely out, so you can really only see the first one.

Our little Longhorn


This is how I found her both mornings this weekend.

We put her new carseat in this weekend. She loves it!

Happy Birthday to Me

Last week I turned 30! We celebrated at home on Thursday and went out for dinner as a party of 3 on Saturday. Anyone want to babysit so we can have a proper night out??? Just kidding, hopefully in the next month or so we'll round up a sitter. BJ (and Sydney) did a good job on the birthday festivities. Once again all I asked for was for Sydney to sleep all night... didn't happen. Maybe for Christmas.

Sydney enjoyed the wrapping paper and card envelopes.

Photo Shoot Pictures

Here are some pictures from Sydney's photo shoot about a month ago when she was 7 months old. Some were on the photographer's blog, if you looked at that, but were so cute I had to post them here!

Happy 4th of July and First Swim

This was Sydney's first 4th of July. Our friends Jesse and Emily were here for the weekend with their baby. Fun times for all!

Sydney hanging out with Witten




BJ grilled some ridiculously huge and delicious steaks - not sure the picture does it justice!


We took Sydney swimming for the first time today. She enjoyed it! Thanks for the swimsuit and cool floatie thing, Granny!

And just for fun-

Happy 8 Months and First Tooth

Sydney is 8 months old this week! Her first tooth popped out last Thursday! I'm still trying to get a picture of the tooth.

Sydney has been sticking her tongue out all the time lately

BJ was throwing plastic rings up to the top of the living room ceiling, and Sydney was laughing like crazy. This went on for at least ten minutes, and I caught the tail end of it on video. This clip is about a minute.

"I'm ready to crawl!" Not really...

because she can only go backwards! This is an action shot!


Then she went over to eat the couch. What a nut. She will really be on the move before we know it though.