Lots of Stuff
Let me say first off that I wasn't trying to make anyone feel bad for not seeing the pictures of Sydney's teeth before I posted about them here. Most of the time when pictures get posted a blog entry will come the same day. Updating the blog and showing or mentioning the new pictures is the way they get announced.
It just so happened that I took the tooth picture before work one day. I came to the computer to see how it turned out. I saved it, posted it, cropped it, posted that one and then had to go to work. I didn't have time to sit and write out a blog entry for a day or two after. So I was just genuinely curious if anyone saw them on Picturetrail before I got a chance to post the blog entry. (Subtle hint with the link there. New pictures are posted. Only some of them are scattered in this entry.)
But enough of that. Let's get on to really important things.
Monday was Sydney's five-month birthday. You may be shocked to learn that I have a picture of her next to Fievel:
The second picture is Sydney at four weeks. I put that up for comparison. Though you can't really see Fievel's hat in that picture you can still see that Sydney is shorter than Fievel. At five months she is now longer than Fievel. Anne measured her on Monday and she's roughly 28 inches long. That's probably rounded down slightly rather than rounded up.
Her two bottom teeth are well in now, as you can probably imagine. She's now starting to get a top tooth. She almost constantly has a hand (or two) or a toy in her mouth. She's drooling all over. But she's still rarely fussy. (*Knock wood*) When we've been able to get to her mouth to look, one of her top front teeth has definitely started to drop. It shouldn't be long before it breaks the gum. Then the other one will undoubtedly start coming...if it hasn't already.
Sydney still can't roll over on her own, though we are practicing with her. Anne says she did roll from her stomach onto her back on her own once. She hasn't repeated it yet.
Sydney is also learning to sit up.
It's really more like she leans forward until she can support herself with her arm(s). But if Anne wants to call it sitting up who am I to argue?
She does rather resemble a gorilla when she does it, though. I've come to think of it as her "Gorilla-Style Kung Fu." It just popped into my head the other day. I'm not sure why. But I derived it from kung fu movies where they are always using animal-style kung fu of some sort or other.
A week ago Wednesday one of my best friends left from his visit. Neal and I have known each other since high school. We were roommates for ten years. We moved from Michigan to Las Vegas together.
It was great to have him here. We showed him the area a little bit, but mostly we just hung out, played with Sydney and watched movies. It was great just doing that with him.
He really enjoyed meeting his "niece," and she enjoyed meeting him.
This past Saturday I got a call out of the blue. It was my Uncle Dave (my mother's - Grandma B's - brother). I hadn't seen him in a long time (fifteen years?) despite the fact he lives a seven-hour drive away in Portland, Oregon.
Uncle Dave and his lady friend (girlfriend, companion, significant other? - sorry, I'm not sure what to call her) Karen (Aunt Karen?) were thinking of coming over this way. That weekend. He has a pilot's license and he was going to get a plane and fly to the area. Karen and he were going to camp, but wanted to see me and meet Anne and, of course, Sydney.
Sunday they stopped in to see me at work. They flew into Coeur d'Alene because it was too windy further north near Sandpoint where they were planning on going to camp. Despite my best efforts I couldn't get them to stay in our guest room.
They drove north in their rental car and camped at Priest Lake. The next day, Monday (Labor Day), they came back south and we got to visit with them at our home for a little over an hour. They got to meet Anne and Sydney. Karen held Sydney almost the entire time they were here.
Their visit was way too short. They did promise to come back again. Even better, they will try to come back in November. That is when my mother (Grandma B and his sister) will be coming back again. And, with any luck, my grandmother (Great Grandma M) will be coming for a visit with her. Hopefully the chance that Uncle Dave will visit will be enough extra incentive to entice her out. And hopefully the fact that his sister and mother will be here will be enough to get him to come and stay longer.
It just so happened that I took the tooth picture before work one day. I came to the computer to see how it turned out. I saved it, posted it, cropped it, posted that one and then had to go to work. I didn't have time to sit and write out a blog entry for a day or two after. So I was just genuinely curious if anyone saw them on Picturetrail before I got a chance to post the blog entry. (Subtle hint with the link there. New pictures are posted. Only some of them are scattered in this entry.)
But enough of that. Let's get on to really important things.
Monday was Sydney's five-month birthday. You may be shocked to learn that I have a picture of her next to Fievel:
The second picture is Sydney at four weeks. I put that up for comparison. Though you can't really see Fievel's hat in that picture you can still see that Sydney is shorter than Fievel. At five months she is now longer than Fievel. Anne measured her on Monday and she's roughly 28 inches long. That's probably rounded down slightly rather than rounded up.
Her two bottom teeth are well in now, as you can probably imagine. She's now starting to get a top tooth. She almost constantly has a hand (or two) or a toy in her mouth. She's drooling all over. But she's still rarely fussy. (*Knock wood*) When we've been able to get to her mouth to look, one of her top front teeth has definitely started to drop. It shouldn't be long before it breaks the gum. Then the other one will undoubtedly start coming...if it hasn't already.
Sydney still can't roll over on her own, though we are practicing with her. Anne says she did roll from her stomach onto her back on her own once. She hasn't repeated it yet.
Sydney is also learning to sit up.
It's really more like she leans forward until she can support herself with her arm(s). But if Anne wants to call it sitting up who am I to argue?
She does rather resemble a gorilla when she does it, though. I've come to think of it as her "Gorilla-Style Kung Fu." It just popped into my head the other day. I'm not sure why. But I derived it from kung fu movies where they are always using animal-style kung fu of some sort or other.
A week ago Wednesday one of my best friends left from his visit. Neal and I have known each other since high school. We were roommates for ten years. We moved from Michigan to Las Vegas together.
It was great to have him here. We showed him the area a little bit, but mostly we just hung out, played with Sydney and watched movies. It was great just doing that with him.
He really enjoyed meeting his "niece," and she enjoyed meeting him.
This past Saturday I got a call out of the blue. It was my Uncle Dave (my mother's - Grandma B's - brother). I hadn't seen him in a long time (fifteen years?) despite the fact he lives a seven-hour drive away in Portland, Oregon.
Uncle Dave and his lady friend (girlfriend, companion, significant other? - sorry, I'm not sure what to call her) Karen (Aunt Karen?) were thinking of coming over this way. That weekend. He has a pilot's license and he was going to get a plane and fly to the area. Karen and he were going to camp, but wanted to see me and meet Anne and, of course, Sydney.
Sunday they stopped in to see me at work. They flew into Coeur d'Alene because it was too windy further north near Sandpoint where they were planning on going to camp. Despite my best efforts I couldn't get them to stay in our guest room.
They drove north in their rental car and camped at Priest Lake. The next day, Monday (Labor Day), they came back south and we got to visit with them at our home for a little over an hour. They got to meet Anne and Sydney. Karen held Sydney almost the entire time they were here.
Their visit was way too short. They did promise to come back again. Even better, they will try to come back in November. That is when my mother (Grandma B and his sister) will be coming back again. And, with any luck, my grandmother (Great Grandma M) will be coming for a visit with her. Hopefully the chance that Uncle Dave will visit will be enough extra incentive to entice her out. And hopefully the fact that his sister and mother will be here will be enough to get him to come and stay longer.
posted by Tah at 12:05 AM
1 Comments:
Thanks for your wonderful photos. I appreciate them all the more because I don't see my Idaho and Oregon family members very often in person.
What a good idea to take photos of Sydney with her toy, so that we get a good idea of how she's growing and developing.
Much love to the three of you.
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