Milestones
We've had some milestones over the last couple days.
First and foremost, just hours after my last entry Sydney crawled for the first time. It was hesitant. It was only a few "steps." But it was crawling.
It was in her bedroom after her bath. She wanted to get to something and Mommy called me up (and Grandma and Grandpa M) to see her as she managed her first crawl.
For two days she was very hesitant about it. She didn't really crawl unless she saw something she wanted. She wouldn't crawl just to crawl or because she wanted to get somewhere or just explore. She had to have a specific target in sight and out of reach. And even then it wouldn't be very far.
On Thursday we had the baby gate (we only have one so far - we need two more) at the top of the stairs. We were each doing something and Sydney had free reign of the hall and rooms. She zipped around here and there. That was the first time she seemed to crawl just to crawl and hasn't stopped since.
Wednesday, of course, was Sydney's first birthday. The party was Saturday, but the official day was Wednesday. That meant it was Fievel picture time.
It was tough to get her lengthwise on the blanket. She wanted to roll or lift her legs up. Unfortunately, the one picture I had of her stretched out cut off her feet.
Gah!
Bad Daddy!!!
*Sigh*
Well, we can still see that she's huge.
And here's the obligatory picture of Sydney on the bed with Fievel and Octopus.
As stated previously, these will be the last pictures of Sydney with Fievel taken on a regular basis. She's big enough now it's not needed. She's mobile enough now that the pictures are almost difficult to get. Soon she will start walking and we can maybe get her in a doorframe for marking.
Thursday was Sydney's one-year check up. The doctor told us what we already knew: she's huge. Her official stats put her slightly shorter than our rough measurement of a few months ago. But she's still big.
Sydney's length is 32 1/4 inches. (We estimated she was about 33 inches.) Her weight is 25 pounds, 10 ounces.
Both of those stats put her in the 95th percentile with a little "up arrow" next to it. That means she higher than 95th percentile, but they apparently don't have the figures to tell us exactly where she is percentile-wise.
Today was a beautiful day. It was sunny and around 60 degrees Fahrenheit. We took a walk. New houses are being built as a new phase of our housing development. Luckily, they don't really affect us or our street, though we can hear the construction behind our house. But we headed over there to look around.
One of the construction guys had his black lab with him while he was out working. Sydney got extremely excited about the dog. She giggled and laughed and reached out for it. It was friendly and so was its owner. He went over and talked to Mommy and Grandma M. (Grandpa M and I were separated from them for a minute.) I caught up to see the end of Sydney's excitement. It was really something.
On Saturday morning we're leaving on a short vacation. We're going to drive to the Oregon coast. This will be Sydney's first long car trip. It will also be the longest she has been away from home. But Mommy and Daddy will both be right there with her, so we don't anticipate (m)any problems.
As always, there are more pictures over at Picturetrail than I posted here. Head over and you can see wonderful pictures of Sydney with Grandma and Grandpa M. And that includes one of Sydney giving a raspberry to Grandpa M!
First and foremost, just hours after my last entry Sydney crawled for the first time. It was hesitant. It was only a few "steps." But it was crawling.
It was in her bedroom after her bath. She wanted to get to something and Mommy called me up (and Grandma and Grandpa M) to see her as she managed her first crawl.
For two days she was very hesitant about it. She didn't really crawl unless she saw something she wanted. She wouldn't crawl just to crawl or because she wanted to get somewhere or just explore. She had to have a specific target in sight and out of reach. And even then it wouldn't be very far.
On Thursday we had the baby gate (we only have one so far - we need two more) at the top of the stairs. We were each doing something and Sydney had free reign of the hall and rooms. She zipped around here and there. That was the first time she seemed to crawl just to crawl and hasn't stopped since.
Wednesday, of course, was Sydney's first birthday. The party was Saturday, but the official day was Wednesday. That meant it was Fievel picture time.
It was tough to get her lengthwise on the blanket. She wanted to roll or lift her legs up. Unfortunately, the one picture I had of her stretched out cut off her feet.
Gah!
Bad Daddy!!!
*Sigh*
Well, we can still see that she's huge.
And here's the obligatory picture of Sydney on the bed with Fievel and Octopus.
As stated previously, these will be the last pictures of Sydney with Fievel taken on a regular basis. She's big enough now it's not needed. She's mobile enough now that the pictures are almost difficult to get. Soon she will start walking and we can maybe get her in a doorframe for marking.
Thursday was Sydney's one-year check up. The doctor told us what we already knew: she's huge. Her official stats put her slightly shorter than our rough measurement of a few months ago. But she's still big.
Sydney's length is 32 1/4 inches. (We estimated she was about 33 inches.) Her weight is 25 pounds, 10 ounces.
Both of those stats put her in the 95th percentile with a little "up arrow" next to it. That means she higher than 95th percentile, but they apparently don't have the figures to tell us exactly where she is percentile-wise.
Today was a beautiful day. It was sunny and around 60 degrees Fahrenheit. We took a walk. New houses are being built as a new phase of our housing development. Luckily, they don't really affect us or our street, though we can hear the construction behind our house. But we headed over there to look around.
One of the construction guys had his black lab with him while he was out working. Sydney got extremely excited about the dog. She giggled and laughed and reached out for it. It was friendly and so was its owner. He went over and talked to Mommy and Grandma M. (Grandpa M and I were separated from them for a minute.) I caught up to see the end of Sydney's excitement. It was really something.
On Saturday morning we're leaving on a short vacation. We're going to drive to the Oregon coast. This will be Sydney's first long car trip. It will also be the longest she has been away from home. But Mommy and Daddy will both be right there with her, so we don't anticipate (m)any problems.
As always, there are more pictures over at Picturetrail than I posted here. Head over and you can see wonderful pictures of Sydney with Grandma and Grandpa M. And that includes one of Sydney giving a raspberry to Grandpa M!
posted by Tah at 10:42 PM
1 Comments:
so funny (odd) that our daughters are at opposite ends of the growth scale spectrum. Here, Emme is barely on the bottom side of the growth charts and Sydney is barely on the top side. Imagine seeing them together! :o)
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