Spawnie

We had our ultrasound on Thursday, and everything looked good.  With Sydney, we didn't want to know the sex beforehand.  We discovered that when referring to the pre-baby we didn't like to say "it".  So one night we were out at dinner and Cherilyn said "I could eat more if it weren't for your tubby baby."  Tubby stuck for Sydney.  We wanted something to come about naturally with this pregnancy as well.  One night when Cherilyn was feeling especially under the weather she said "This is because of your spawn."  She tried not to get it too stick, but it has.  This baby is currently Spawnie.  The top boy name is once again Aloysius and the top girl name is Ephigenia.  Wishy and Iffy for short.  Any input on names will be as appreciated as they are ignored.  Here's Spawnie.

High Leg Kick!

This one was cool because we saw the hand moving forward and then Spawnie's mouth opened to accept the thumb

Hip Hip Hooray

Sydney has begun to develop some dance moves.  Her favorite is to the Hip Hip Hooray song from Super Why.

Muppets

Sydney has begun to dance to different music that she hears.  We've been trying to play more music for her at home.  Two of her favorites are thankfully not annoying.  They are from the Muppets.

The Chills of Winter

The temperatures have been delightfully un-Minnesota recently.  This weekend the temperature was in the 60's.  So for the first time we took Sydney out to the playground in our neighborhood.  She had a lot of fun watching a group of kids playing a game called sandman.  Which as far as I could tell was a lot like Marco Polo in the swimming pool.  She also really enjoyed going down the slide.  She was able to go down the slide with out one of us holding her on the way down.  We've found that she has very good balance.  Or at least better balance that we expect.  I've stopped jumping up everytime she seems to shift when she's on the edge of the couch.  She looks like she crawls along the edge, but I've learned that she knows where that edge is and how to avoid it.  I was lacking in my duties as a father in that I forgot the camera at the playground.  Next time I will be sure to document the occasion.  On the way home she wanted to run alongside us rather than ride in the stroller.  She ran 4 of the 6 blocks home before she decided that she would rather sit.  I was very impressed.  She's very stubborn when she wants to do something.  Unlike her outgoing personality, I am able pinpoint where she gets her stubborn mindset.