Tuesday

First- yes, I changed the look of the blog again. I liked the stripes that we had going for the last couple of months, but it had changed the way my pictures posted and I was getting frustrated with it. I hope this one will work better for me. We'll see.

It took us a couple of weeks to get back into the swing of things after our vacation. To begin with, Sydney & I went to Vacation Bible School the week we got home. She was TIRED, but she was a trooper and did great. She moved up into the "crawlers" room in the church nursery that week and I think she enjoyed being in a new room with new kids. She may be the smallest one in there, but she's holding her own and has done great in her new class. Her VBS teachers said she loved going on walks and listening to the music in worship with the big kids.

Last week, we went to our first Gymboree class. It was great- I was so impressed! We were in Play & Learn 2 with other 6-10 month old babies. Two of Syd's friends from playgroup, Caroline and Evan, also went to the class. All three of them seemed to have a great time. We sang and played soccer and played with scarves and a parachute and popped bubbles and see-sawed. Sydney crawled up a step for the first time there, too!
And speaking of crawling, Sydney is all over the place. She really took off after we got home from Hawaii and she was back in familiar territory. We can't turn our backs for a second. She's also pulling up on everything these days, and has even tried taking a few steps while holding onto something! I'm definitely motivated to vacuum a lot more these days.

This was supposed to be a busy week for us, with fun stuff planned every day; we've been side-lined by a yucky stomach bug though. Poor Syd has had a rough couple of days. I thought this afternoon that it was all over and she was in the clear, but the bug came back to bite after Syd ate dinner. It has been so hard seeing her feel bad; she's been just pitiful. I hope the worst in behind us now and we can resume our previously scheduled activities soon.