Sydney Red Riding Hood

I have been waiting and waiting for Sydney to be able to fit into this outfit! I got it at her baby shower and thought it was the cutest thing I have ever seen! Finally it fits!

Sydney's Party

Sydney's party turned out rather well despite the fact that it almost got canceled! Poor Sydney threw up a couple times in the middle of the night late Friday night/early Saturday morning. We waited to see how she was doing on Saturday morning and decided she seemed okay. We went ahead with the plans and got all the food and took it to the park. It was a little windy at first and cold in the shade, but we moved the picnic tables into the sun and it warmed up quite nicely. It turned out to be a beautiful day.


Some uninvited guests came to the party! These big-horned sheep come down from the mountains and invade Hemingway Park all the time.
Sydney wasn't too sure about this cake at the party. Normally, she loves chocolate and would have dug right in, but she didn't have much of an appetite since she wasn't feeling 100%.

She sure loved all her presents.
Family friend, Naomi, brought a pinata for the kids. Sydney was not too sure about hitting Dora with a stick! She did like her spinning top toy that came out of it though!

How Can My Baby Already be One????

I can't believe Sydney turned one yesterday. It seems like we were just holding her for the first time....(wistful sigh....)

We will officially be celebrating her birthday tomorrow with a party at the park, but she did get a cake last night. We went to Thanksgiving dinner at Marie Callenders with Jimmy's family and Aunt Darlene brought Sydney a cake. I wish I had the video camera, but here are some pictures:

Independence

I know with age comes the need to exhibit independence, but why does it have to be so messy?? Here is Sydney, a few days shy of one year old. Lately she has been quite insistent on trying to feed herself. She did empty the bowl, but I just don't know how much yogurt she actually got into her mouth.

Ninja Sydney

Doesn't it look like Sydney is going to Karate chop someone in this picture?

Birthday Invite Photo Shoot

Jimmy and I were trying to take a cute picture of Sydney to put on her birthday invitation and here's what we got.






Even though some of them came out okay, we chose not to use any of them. We decided to use one of the crazy headband pictures from my last post. Now I guess I should put the invitations together since I need to send them out. For a guy who wasn't too excited about Sydney's party at the beginning, he sure is getting into it now. He keeps listing off all of his friends that he is going to invite!

Here are some cute pictures of Sydney. She wore this headband for all of about 2 minutes!