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Today we had thunderstorms. When I picked her up from school, her teacher informed me that she had gotten a little upset when there was thunder. When we got home, we had a talk about thunderstorms. I informed her that I liked them. She said, "I like them, too." I said, "You do? I thought you cried a...

My cousin Courtney got married on Friday, May 6. Sydney and her cousin Kendall were the flower girls. Mike and I have been really nervous about the wedding. Sydney is still so shy that we were afraid she wouldn’t walk down the aisle. We had explained the whole process to her, and she seemed excited ...

Last Wednesday I got a call from the daycare around 10am telling me that Sydney had thrown up twice and I needed to come pick her up. "Great," I thought. "Stomach flu." I retrieved her and when we got home, she was exhausted. I put her to bed and she passed out for about 2 hours. When she woke up sh...

More quirks: Jewel and the Pineapple Sydney loves to go shopping at our favorite grocery store, Jewel. Sometimes she will randomly ask to go to Jewel, just like she asks to go to the park. Lately she likes to ride in the part of the cart where the groceries go. She does not really like it when I fil...

One thing I have been working on with Sydney is getting her to understand that sometimes, when she makes a decision, it's final and she can't change her mind. For example, this morning, she wanted me to cut her toast in half, so I did. She immediately changed her mind and asked me to put it back tog...

What is interesting to me is that although Sydney knows exactly when she needs to poop, and tells us, she seems to have no clue about peeing. The connection between her bladder and her brain has not been made. While she was wearing training pants, they suddenly got wet and she had absolutely no idea...

Sydney has become Little Miss Bossy lately. She is always telling us to sit down or get up or MOVE! In her defense, I do tell her what to do quite a bit, too. And if she doesn't obey, I'll count to 3. She knows what that means, and I have rarely gotten to 3. The other day at the park, she wanted to ...

The other night while in the bathtub, Sydney discovered her nipples and asked me what they were.

"Nipples!" I told her.

"Nimmles?" she asked.

"Nip-ples," I said.

"Nimmles?"

"Nip-ples."

"Neemles?"

"Nip-ples."

"Noomles?"

"OK; let's just stick with nimmles."

The Olive Garden on Friday was really a complete debacle. That is the worst behavior I've ever seen out of Sydney at a restaurant. It started out really badly with two things Sydney hates: a crowd and waiting. The entire evening was destined for failure. But once I took her and her cousin Kendall ou...

That was a really, really long trip. And based on how Sydney did while I was gone, I hope I don't have to do it again any time soon. Although I admit it was kind of nice to get back into the international travel I was doing before Sydney was born. I racked up plenty of frequent flyer miles. And I wi...