Visit and Trip

In my last post I neglected to mention that one of Sydney's molars that had been threatening to break through had finally emerged. Of course, it's almost three weeks later now. Sydney now has all four molars through at various stages. That makes twelve teeth she has. There are the eight in front (four top and four bottom) and the four molars - one on each side top and bottom.

Today Grandma B left to go back home. She had been here a week.



It had been about six months since Grandma B had last visited. Sydney changed a lot in that time. But Sydney took to Grandma right away and they had fun all week.



Grandma B spent most of the week down on the floor playing with Sydney and crawling around. They both had a great time and it was fun watching them together.

The first week and a half of April Anne and I took some vacation time. We had Sydney's first birthday party, which I've posted about. We also took a short trip from April 8-12 to the Oregon coast.

The first day we drove to Portland. We stayed overnight there and visited briefly with my Uncle Dave. He set us up at a hotel room just a couple minutes from his workshop. We went out to dinner and then got a tour of the workshop where he makes trumpets.

At the Chinese restaurant we went to we asked for a highchair for Sydney. This is what we got:



She seemed to enjoy it well enough. We were wondering how old the thing was and trying to determine how many ways we had to worry about her potentially injuring herself on it. But I had to take a picture of it for posterity.

Uncle Dave really liked spending time with Sydney. In fact, he even let her play a trumpet! (No, not really.)



The next day we drove the rest of the way to Newport, Oregon. Along the way we made a stop in a park and Sydney got her first experience on a swing. She really enjoyed it.



The hotel we stayed at had a swing set and Sydney got to swing both by herself and with Mommy.

The Oregon coast is beautiful. There are several pictures posted over in my photo album. By now you should know how to find it. I don't have captions on the Oregon trip pictures as of this writing, but I should in the next day or two.

On the long drive to and from Oregon Sydney was very good. She did a lot of this:



There were only two times when she got really fussy. But as soon as we were able to stop and get her out of the vehicle for a little while she was fine.

For her birthday Sydney got a nice bathing suit.



We took the opportunity of the hotel's swimming pool to give her the chance to "swim" for the very first time. As much as she enjoys bath time and splashing in the water we were pretty sure she would like the pool. She did.



All in all it was a good trip and we had a lot of fun. Sydney did have some minor going-to-sleep issues in the hotels, but by snuggling with her on the bed until she fell asleep she was fine. She would pretty much sleep through the night (like she does at home) except for waking up to have her diaper changed (like she does at home). It was just that going-to-sleep part (especially that first night) that was a little touchy.