In case you aren't from the area or have been hiding under a rock, you probably know......it's football season. Here's our girl helping cheer on her Daddy's team at a local HS football
game. GO Admirals!
Sometimes these games last a long time. Here's our girl at halftime enjoying some choc chip cookies. YUM!
And it isn't just the high school teams playing the game...... It's also COLLEGE football season. Here's our girl in some UT orange.
Here she is playing with one of her favorite purses from her Aunt Kristy.
YES!! Her Daddy is so proud she's a football fan....
Here's our girl reading one of her favorite books about dogs. Everyone is convinced she needs a puppy. :)
Our little gal loves to help with laundry. Well, she LOVES to run around the house with her new finds from the laundry pail when we fold clothes!
Some of you have been asking if she's talking... IS SHE EVER!!
Sydney is a walking, talking, climbing little gal these days. She can repeat anything you say and she has a pretty extensive vocabulary for a kid her age! We're reading lots of books and talking about colors and shapes. She's also having fun with crayons and making music via any means possible. She can point to most of her body parts, but her favorite is to show us her tongue and belly button. YELLOW is her favorite color right now. In fact most everything is "yellow" these days. She goes "ape" for bananas. At this point, she can fairly well communicate what it is that she wants- either via verbal skills ("bite"= food, "side"= play outside, "GO" for "let's go") or physically taking our hand to lead us where she wants to go. She's just started using two word phrases like "thank you" and "did it". We can understand her :) and so can Heather. Are we in for a new world or what?!
We let Sydney borrow the ipod for a while last week. She loves music and dancing.
Once she masters all the stellar moves her Mommy & Daddy teach her, we think we found some instructional videos on youtube that may help take her to the next level. Let us know what you think! Trace & Robin
This post is dedicated to hair. Sydney is getting curls and they are SOOO cute. Actually, they are cute most of the time. Her morning hair is more funny than cute, but decide for yourself.
Trace & I are unsure if she'll be upset about these posts when she is older, but at this point it will be a few years before she would be really mad :). Enjoy.
Bubble Head See the curls. I got this seat so that when we play in the floor I can sit back comfortably and read her stories. She has decided this is her spot and baby can sit with her. She pulls my finger and tells me "up, Momma". She's a kid who knows what she wants even at this early age.
Oh yeah, and the picture you'll probably really get a kick out of.
It's ok, Sydney. Like the song says, "I got it from my Momma"......
A couple of weeks ago, the Pate family headed to Asheville to see friends. Trace headed to the golf course with the boys and I hit the spa. Sydney was SUCH a good girl. She sat patiently on my lap for 30 minutes while I got a pedi! I've never taken her before so this was a big deal. We were prepared with books and animal crackers, etc.
Here's our girl sitting pretty waiting for friends to show up at a jewelry party.
Sydney loves stickers these days....and name tags are no exception. Here she is with Auntie Missy trying to tell her about stickers.