Life with Sydney Harper: Here goes....

I was sitting here thinking it's been more than a month since I updated the blog and finally have a little time so why not do it now?? I logged on and realized it's actually been over 3 months since I last updated!! Where does the time go?? To the family and friends back home I am really sorry for not keeping you all in the loop. It's been a busy few months but things are calmer now. Sooooo here goes the latest on the Goldstein home front.......Sydney is now 8 1/2 months old. It's so hard to believe. She is on the move, crawling all over now. She started sorta crawling a month ago but could only move backwards. The next phase was a few weeks ago when she began to move forward, but only by doing a series of one step crawls and then plunging forward in a belly flop, then back up on all fours for one step and plopping forward on her belly again. It was just this past week that Syd started actually crawling forward and after a day or two of realizing she could do it, she is now a total pro!! She isn't pulling herself up onto things yet, but is trying so that is only a matter of time. She can also walk when you hold her hands, which she's been able to do for a while now. It's all really exciting but also scary as there is a whole new set of dangers and things to worry about with her being mobile. Her sleeping is going great. We did sleep training about 2 months ago and we got super lucky as she took to it pretty much immediately. Now we just do her normal night time routine (dinner, bath, book, bottle) and give her kiss, say "night night Sydney" and place her in bed. She doesn't cry and just goes to sleep. It's been so great and gives us a nice break at night to get stuff done or just relax. Naps are the same. We know we are lucky as not everyone has this experience when trying to train their babies how to sooth them selves to sleep. I'm sure we'll get more than our share of some other difficult stage to make up for it. ;-) Let's see what else....we finally hired a new nanny. We loved our last one, Ute, but she needed full time hours so she took a job with another family. It was really hard to find a replacement as she was amazing, but we finally did and her name is Kathleen. She's super sweet with the baby and just a really nice sweet girl so we are very happy to have found her. Sydney LOVES her and is all smiles and giggles when she sees her. That's a good sign she's in good hands! Speaking of, Sydney laughs all the time! She is such a happy easy baby. Her personality is showing more and more now. She's definitely out going and loves to talk (babble) all the time. She has a sense of humor and loves to be entertained with silly faces, silly voices and daddy's tickle monster attacks! She can be impatient at times and lets you know when she isn't happy. She loves to eat, as obvious by her healthy physic! Actually she is in the 50th percentile for her weight so she's just perfect! She is now eating finger foods, mostly steamed veggies and ripe pieces of fruit. She still eats her normal baby food too. She drinks water from a sippy cup and still gets her "ba ba" after every meal (I stopped nursing at 7 months due to low milk supply). Last but not least she is completely done with her passy, but LOVES her thumb!!! :-)

That's all I can think to update on for now. Below are lots of pics from the past 3 months, with the most recent pic below and going backwards from there.

This was earlier today.

It's hard to see, but there is a penguin clip in her hair that I just ordered for her. I loved penguins as a child and saw a little girl in AZ Syd's age with a very similar one. I found this clip on line from an Etsy artist located in Sydney, Australia. It's so cute!!

This was a few days ago. It reminded me of the scene in Forrest Gump. Seth didn't know I was taking the picture and I just thought it was sweet to see him and Syd hanging out on the porch together like this.

This was about a month ago. Her hair is getting so long and is curly so she has a little fro. I love it!

This was 4th of July weekend and in the morning with her crazy hair! We were in San Diego visiting our friends and this was in the hotel room. I was feeding her breakfast on my lap in bed and told Seth to take a picture of her crazy hair. She did the biggest cheese ball smile ever!

These are the friends we visited, Lily Matt and their daughter Nakissa. Nakissa was obsessed with Sydney and wanted nothing but to hug and kiss her. It was adorable.

Syd in her 4th of July dress, a perfect hand me down from miss London Sky! Thanks Mayor!!! ;-)

Syd and Zayd playing together

Our good friends Belal, Maria and their son Zayd.

Daddy and his baby girl. Love this sweet pic!

Sydney at 7 months.

My co-worker and dear friend Natalie with Sydney. This was a retro pool party Natalie and her husband Jeff had for their 10th wedding anniversary. I found this cute sorta retro looking suite at Target for Syd.

Syd - 6 1/2 months. She loves this walker!

Syd and Ute (her previous nanny)

May 2010...back home in Indiana. Syd with her Bubbe and cousin Hannah.

More friends in Indy, April and her daughters Alli and Carly

Syd was the first of 3 baby girls born with in 6 months between Seth and his friends. This was so cute to see them all together!! We took a ton of pictures and this was one of the best ones. It wasn't easy to get them all to look at the camera, not to mention which one as all the parents were taking photos at the same time, paparazzi style!!