Miss Manners

Today we went to the evening Ash Wednesday service with Sydney.  She was great for the first 3/4ths of the service.  Then she got tired and wanted to let everyone know about it.  However she did announce her presence twice earlier on.  Both times she chose pauses in the service when it was silent.  The first time during a pause I heard a prolonged bbrrrrtttt.  The 2 girls in front of us turned around, and all I could do was nod.  Yes, she did just fill her diaper.  Thank you for your concern.  The second time was just before we went up for ashes.  This time it was a loud Burp.  I love it.  She's our girl, that's for sure.

During the days Sydney and I have been hanging out.  I've been painting my Tau miniatures while she sleeps.  She's also been trying to help me find some new shows to take the place of Lost and 24.  Beth asked me about that when we visited them.  I think I finally have an answer.  Chicago Code.  It's great so far.  It's almost a tamed shiny version of The Wire(nothing is as good as The Wire) with it's own unique spin on things.  I've also been re-watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer which is great as always and all current vampire shows and movies should be ashamed of themselves.  Castle is also a good show, mostly because of Nathan Fillion.  He'll always be Captain Mal to me.  Enough TV talk here are a few cute pictures of Sydney discovering her lady bug feet.

Cherilyn is Hilarious

As you can tell from these pictures.  Cherilyn is obviously the funniest person on the whole planet.  This Video shows it even better.


Little Bunny Foofoo from Cherilyn Wicks on Vimeo.

I love it! But all that hilarity will tire out a baby

Getting Handsy

Lately Sydney has been getting much better at using her hands.  Before she would just flail them about and watch her "under the sea" fish fly around, but now she is starting to slowly and gently touch the fish.  She can't quite grab them yet but I'm sure that is skill is going to be learned next. It's pretty cute when she's doing this. Sometimes she'll have the two outside fish in her hands. Then she'll quickly push her hands together flinging the fish about. I don't think she realizes that what she is feeling is two different things. Anyway here's a video Cherilyn took this weekend


Working with the hands from Cherilyn Wicks on Vimeo.

Bockfest Weekend

This weekend I went to Bockfest at the Schell Brewery in New Ulm.  I had fun with pops and my sistah, but it was hard being away from little Sydney.  Thankfully Cherilyn sent me these pictures throughout the day.

This one was right in the morning after she had first woke up

Nap time

This one was my favorite.  It brightened up my day.

And then we have her first attempt at sitting in a Bumbo.  She's not quite there yet.

Mohmas morning off

Cherilyn had the morning off again today so I went in to the doctor to get my flu shot and a booster. I got to come home to two smilin' ladies and then we gave Sydney a bath. I like these pics so I wanted to share them now.

Bath Hair!

I think this is one of my new favorites

A Tale of Two Blowouts

Today I was pondering to myself..."Beth has so many poop stories. I wonder if I'll get to blog any poop stories"...And with that I jinxed myself. Not that this is nearly as good as any of Beth's poop stories. Like this one......Click here mom. .  So we were going about our business.  Cherilyn had this morning off so we got to sleep in.  It was so great, we were having so much fun.  Cherilyn dressed her in this fabulous outfit with a very small hat.

Outfit #1

 Please note the picture subtitles, they will make more sense as we go.  Sydney was having a great time playing under the sea, and she didn't have to just listen to me sing the first line over and over again because I downloaded the actual song.  Hooray iTunes.  I was playing Red Dead Redemption for the first time in awhile and all was good.  Hooray Playstation!

What do they got? A lot of sand

We got a hot crustacean band

The eve of eruption

 You'll notice that as I played she is on my lap.  I noticed a warm feeling localized directly under Sydney.  When I checked under her I discovered that she was fairly well soaked.  Then looking down at my jeans I noticed that I was too.  Fun times, Hooray PeePee!  So I went up and changed her.  During this process she is extremely happy.  Changing time is always her favorite time.  I noticed that the only thing that really got wet was her pants, so rather than change everything I put on new pants leaving the same (onesy, onzi, one-z, onesee?)  Does anyone know how to spell that?  Anyway here she is after that ordeal.

Outfit #1.33333 repeating of course

Leroy Jeeeeeeenkinsss!!

She seems fairly happy at this point

So after the costume change things were good once again.  At least for a 1/2 hour.  At this point she is screaming and inconsolable.  Now I'll mention that when I put on her pants they seemed extremely tight, but they were brand new from Old Navy and the tag said 6-12 months.  I had to roll them up 3 inches for her feet to stick out.  I was hoping that they were ok.  I even tried another pair of jeans that were also from Old Navy.  This would be outfit #1.66667.  Hooray Old Navy! Nope no huzzahs this time.  She was still cranky and uncomfortable.  I took off her pants and immediately was greeted by an expulsion of gas and liquidy solids.  Now the whole outfit was finished.  So for the betterment of us both I got rid of the pants and gave her a much more comfortable elephant outfit to wear.

Outfit #2

Hooray for Bowel Circulation

Expressing my true feelings about Old Navy

 Everything was great after that.  But honestly Old Navy, do you expect infants to be anorexic?  Seriously my 3 month old can't wear something that is supposed to be good up to a year, and don't give me any of that "Well look how big you are Dave" junk.  That is a load of diaper filler. I think I'm done with Old Navy.  I found the Spider-man shirt for her there.  But otherwise they haven't been good to me over the years.  Normally my pants and shorts from there only last a few months before the pockets rip out.  Good Bye Old Navy.  I won't miss you.  With that I close my first poop story, and I can only hope that in the future my encounters with poo will be documented as wonderfully as Beth's.

G-pops gets giggly

I finally learned how to put videos on here. This is our favorite video so far. It's from the baptism weekend. Sydney was playing with G-pops and she was laughing like crazy. After a few minutes of enjoying the spectacle I realized that I should record it. So I was able to catch the last few giggles of the gigglefest. Enjoy.

Sydney and G-pops Gigglefest from Cherilyn Wicks on Vimeo.

Basketball is now officially over much to Sydney's chagrin. She loves watching the players run back and forth down the court. Yesterday she came to our team pizza party. The players played some teachers, but Sydney decided that she was hungry and followed that up with naptime. I guess she can tell the difference between a fair game and a blow out. Teachers 97, Students 54