Mexico Pictures

Here are a few pics from our Mexico trip! It was so beautiful there and we had awesome weather the whole time we were there! Enjoy!

Five Months!

Yep thats right! Sydney is FIVE whole months old today! She is growing so fast and getting so big!

The latest on Sydney:

~She now eats pears or other ground up fruit with rice cereal and LOVES it.
~She giggles for us on a daily basis now and it is ADORABLE.
~She "screams" (a happy scream) when we play with her and when we pretend like we are eating her extremeties. (We do this only in the privacy of our own home however because if we did it in public people would probably think we were nuts.)
~She loves her sleep!
~She is not a fan of riding in the car
~She loves faces. Grabbing them. Eating them. Slobbering them.
~She loves going on walks and riding in the stroller.
~She is small for her age and for now is still wearing 3-6 month size clothes.
~She enjoys sitting in her bumbo seat.
~She still isnt quite sure if she likes the bath.
~She does not like sitting through church meetings so you will often find us wandering the halls on Sunday.
~We LOVE her SO much and cannot imagine life without her!!

Mexico!

A few weeks ago Marshall and I headed to Cancun for a little vacation! We were there for a week and let me just say it was SO nice to be in the warm sunshine again! We left early Wednesday morning and flew out of pasco and we arived in Cancun about 5 that same evening. When we got to the resort we were a little disappointed because the room they had for us had 2 full size beds instead of a queen or king like we were supposed to get, so the 2 of us slept in 1 full size bed for a week! The room also was pretty old and kind of dirty feeling, when you turned the hot water on in the bathroom it turned a brownish color which was quite gross. In the first day we were there we used the word ghetto to describe the place MANY times. Kinda disappointing. This is the picture the website had, which doesnt look half bad, but the room definitely wasnt this nice.

Anyhow it ended up being ok because we didnt spend a lot of time in the room anyways, and we ended up really liking the resort. It was right on the beach, and the beach was beautiful! It had some yummy restaurants and a nice really big pool. They also had a few shows at night that we went to that were pretty good. The 2nd day we were there we went to the flea market in town. That was an interesting experience. You walk thru the flea market and the people that work in the shops stand out in the hallways and try to get you to come into their shop, they say stuff like my things are almost free and let me have a chance to rip you off. No joke. And once you get into a shop they will do just abouth anything to sell you something. If you show any interest at all they will try to barter with you on the price. Marshall bought a pair of sunglasses there and at first the guy wanted $48 for them and marshall ended up paying about $15. They seriously try to rip you off. At one store marshall was looking at a tshirt and the guy that worked there had the shirt in a bag trying to put it in marshall's hands before we could even say no we dont want it. It was crazy! I was definitely glad to get out of there! Then we walked across the street to look at a mall, where we were approached by a man that asked if we wanted to buy some party cocaine. Oh my goodness! You will be happy to know that we declined. HAHA! The following day we went to Xel-Ha and Tulum. Xel-Ha is an all inclusive place that has snorkeling, wildlife, dolphins to swim with, and much more! We got to go snorkeling which was a lot of fun! It was my first time and I loved it! After that we visited Tulum which is some sncient Mayan ruins right on the coast which was pretty cool too.

Another day we went to town to another shopping plaza where there was an aquarium, which ended up being really small, but it was cool because we got to pet sharks and sting rays! We also got to watch some dolphins perform which was way cool! Some other things we did were, hang out at the beach, hang out by the pool, we went on this paddle boat which was fun but we both got sunburned pretty badly! But it was cool because the water was shallow in spots and we got to see some neat fish. One of the days we took a bus to Playa Del Carmen where we spent some time at the beach. All in all it was a fun vacation the downside was Sydney did not go with us and we missed her so so much! I will post pictures later!

Pictures

Never Again

So last week I had my 6 week checkup with my doctor. As I was getting ready to leave I thought to myself....We are only going to the doctor's office and back, we shouldnt need the diaper bag. Well as we were sitting in the waiting room Miss Sydney projectile vomits ALL over, I had never seen her throw up so much before! So here I am sitting in the waiting room with Sydney who is now soaked all over with throw up along with the blanket i had over her. So what do I do? Nothing. Except for wipe her down with the small part of her blanket that was dry, that's all I could do. Lesson learned. We will never leave the house again without the diaper bag. End of story.

Sydney's latest favorite things

~Licking or sucking on anything that comes close enough to her mouth
~Smiling! but we have yet to get a picture of it!
~the bath
~sleeping for longer periods of time at night
~cuddling
~music
~riding in the car
~looking at windows or anything else that puts off light

1 month

I cant believe my baby is already a month old! She is actually 5 weeks now and it has gone by so fast! She is such an amazing little girl that we love so much! Here are some things about Sydney:

~She loves being awake during the day and USUALLY sleeps pretty good at night

~She loves her binky sometimes and sometimes she hates it

~The times when she loves the binky she likes to hold onto it with her hand while sucking on it

~She is getting really good at holding her head up

~Everyone says she looks like her daddy

~She LOVES to be held

~She loves to cuddle

~She has the prettiest blue eyes! (just like her daddy)

~She hates sleeping in her bassinet and is most often found sleeping in her car seat which she loves!

~She is constantly making her mommy and daddy laugh with her facial expressions and noises

~She loves looking out windows

~She hated the bath at first but now loves it

~Still hates diaper changes

~She is very wiggly all the time!

~She still wears newborn size clothes at 5 weeks old

At her 1 month checkup yesterday (she was actually 5 weeks) she weighed in at 7 lbs 13 ounces and 21 inches long, which is how big some babies are or smaller than some babies are when they are born! She is in the 10th percentile for weight and the 30th for her heighth so she takes after her mommy in her size! She brings so much happiness into our lives we just cant get enough of her!