Since the blog is called Sydney AND her family, I thought I'd post Steve's latest toy. He's very excited about it, since he's been wanting one for two years now. And best of all, God provided it for absolutely FREE! Yay!!! Isn't it pretty? Thank you, God, for our piano. I think I see piano lessons in Sydney's future (maybe taught by daddy)!
Blow out your candle Sydney! Steve and I had to help. :)
Uncle Bill gave her a sit-n-spin. She's still trying to get a hang of it, but she will soon.
Steve blew up the pool for the kids to swim in. It got a hole in the top and even though Steve patched it, it wanted to lean. The kids didn't mind though. They played in that water for a good 45 minutes or so. Emma was in there with them for awhile too. 
Sydney really liked opening up her gifts this year. It's neat to see the difference in just one year. She just sat in my lap last year and let me open the gifts. She's so different already! I love my two-year old, while at the same time, I miss my one-year old. I'm so blessed to be able to see her in all these stages. I've loved everyone of them!
Opening her gift from Aunt Sherry, Uncle Kevin, Clay, & Emma. It's a play vacuum cleaner (a.k.a. sweeper!).
We had a weekend of parties for our now 2-year old Sydney! What fun times they were. As you can see, it was a Cookie Monster theme. She loves Cookie Monster. I had in mind to make a REALLY cute cake for her, and, had it worked out, it would have been. Unfortunetly, the leg and then the head decided to fall off---several times. It left a not-so-great looking cake, but it tasted good! Since that didn't work out, I went with cupcakes that came out pretty cute. 
Steve and I wanted to match our Cookie Monster so we all had on Monster shirts (Sydney has on one too even though you can't see it). I think that is probably the last time I'll see Steve in the shirt. ha!! 
I will post even more pictures of the parties tomorrow, hopefully. 
We watched Clay & Emma awhile ago, and we were able to go to McDonalds with them. Uncle Kevin came after work and joined us. They had so much fun in the Playland even though they could only play in the one small section. Even Emma wanted to join in!
