New Pictures & Update

This is definitely her mad face!

After her outburst!

Dane wanted to snuggle with Sydni - I just love the sweet look on his face.

This little rascal works and works to get turned over on her tummy to sleep. I lay her on her back most of the time, and this is how I find her every time!

We've had a good last couple of weeks, and Sydni continues to grow bigger and get sweeter. Our sweet girl did have a very rough weekend, though, and she really gave us a scare. Early Sunday morning, she starting having blood in her diapers, and we spent most of the day on Sunday going to the ER and Pediatrician to find out what was wrong and how to make it better. She is doing better now - the poor thing had a little tear in her bottom, and it is cleared up now, for the most part. We are still waiting on test results to make sure there is no infection. It was so hard seeing her in so much pain, though. She just cried and cried most of the day Saturday and Sunday. I felt so badly for her.While we were at the Dr.'s office Sunday afternoon, we did find out how much she weighed, though. At 5 weeks and 3 days old, she weighed 9 lbs. 13 oz., so she had gained over 2 lbs. since her 2 week appointment.

Yesterday, Dane and I decided to make some homemade peanut butter cookies, my favorite! I wasn't quite sure how we were going to manage it, though, since Sydni decided she wanted to be awake and held most of yesterday. I remembered my Snugli pouch thing that I had with Dane, and I thought that I would give it a try to see if she would tolerate it for any length of time. She fussed for just a few minutes, but once she got used to the feel of it, she leaned back and fell right to sleep. So, it was nice to be able to hold her and use both of my hands to make cookies, too!





Then, last night, we met some of our friends and their kids over at the Splash Park in White Oak to eat supper and let the kids play. I thought it was the opportune time to let Sydni wear her tankini for the first time. I forgot to take her picture while we were there, but I did remember right before I changed her out of it. I think that she is super-cute in it!

Our bathing beauty!

Lately, I have seen several blogs that show how much kids favor their parents, so I thought that it would be fun to do that, too. I think that it is very apparent that Dane looks so much like his Daddy as a little boy, so it will be neat to see if he continues to favor Lane as he gets older.

Lane

Lane and Dane last Christmas

Lane at 5 years old

Lane

Dane

I also thought it would be fun to compare how much Sydni looks like Dane as a baby. When Sydni was born, I didn't think they looked that much alike. Actually, though, if it weren't for the bow on Sydni's head and the girly clothes, it would be pretty hard to tell them apart in pictures, I think. Anyway, I just thought this would be fun to see on the blog. I added one of me around 2 or 3 years old, too, just for fun. I'm clearly the odd man out in our family!

Look! I'm 1 Month Old! / 2nd Annual Biscuinut Showdown!

And, what a month it's been! Our girl Sydni turned one month old today. We had a great Sunday, and we were able to share it with Lane's parents, as well as his brother and nephews, which was nice. Sydni's doing so well. She's growing so much, she's eating well, and she's starting to focus her eyes more and more on specific objects. We've gotten little glimpses of her sweet smile, but we're still looking closely for her first "official" smile, where she is smiling in response to something. I can't wait! I put her down to bed a little while ago, and I just realized that I hadn't weighed her today, so I can't give an update on her growth stats. I'll try to get that all done tomorrow and document it then. So far, we're thrilled with her and are so glad that she's such a special part of our family!






Since the NFL season is fast approaching, Lane's Fantasy Football league held its draft tonight to officially kickoff the upcoming season. If you will recall from my post last August, I do not particularly care for this event, as it completely consumes Lane's time. So, Caleb, our nephew, and I decided last year to create a tradition of our own, when we prepared, named and ate our culinary specialty, Biscuinuts! Most of you will know them to be those wonderful homemade donuts made from the cheapest canned biscuits. Well, periodically, throughout the year, we have made them together, and we really do enjoy our time together, and we take great pride in our effort and the finished product. This year, we continued our tradition and broadened our biscuinut line. All year, we have toyed with the idea of filled biscuinuts, which posed to be a great challenge. We had our plan in place, and we were ready for the challenge and anxious to see the results of our ingeniuity. After Small Groups tonight, we quickly headed to Wal*Mart to purchase the necessary items, one of which was a food injector. Well, our endeavor was a grand success, we are happy to report. We made one batch of regular biscuinuts with holes in them, followed by a batch of blueberry, cherry, and vanilla pudding (our favorite, by far) filled biscuinuts! Our injector took some practice getting used to, but it ended up working fantastically, once we got the hang of it. Tyler, our other nephew, joined in the fun this year, too, so we think that the biscuinut craze we have started is definitely catching on like wildfire!

Sneaky Sydni!

Here's some pictures of my two favorite kids from earlier today...Dane was so sweet as he laid down beside his sweet little sister.





"I may look sweet, but I've got some tricks up my sleeve. Watch me pull my brother's yellow hair (as he calls it)! He has no idea what's coming!"

Caught red handed!

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Spiderman!/A Summer Rainstorm/Sleeping Beauty(ies)

Life with two kids is becoming more and more normal to us now. Sydni will be 3 weeks old on Thursday, and she's doing really well. She's only waking up once during the night, and she goes back to sleep fairly quickly, so she's being very nice to her parents so far! At her 2 week checkup last Thursday, she weighed in at 7 lbs. 11 oz., which is a 1 lb. 2 oz increase over her birth weight. She measured 20 1/4 inches, which is a 1 1/4 inch increase since birth. Her Dr. told me that she looks perfect, and I'm sure he knows what he's talking about, so I believe him!






Over this last week, we've spent a lot of time playing around the house. Dane and I made superhero masks one day, and that was lots of fun. Then, Wednesday night, we had a quick, hard thunderstorm, so Dane decided to cool off outside in the rain with his rain slicker and boots.









Over the weekend, we headed up to Paris, TX, to attend the wedding of our good friend, Julie Shelton (now Hays). It was good to see and catch up with some of our great friends from Deer Run, too. Rachel made Sydni the cutest onesie and matching receiving blanket, so I had to get a picture of them together. Thanks, Rachel!





We spent Friday night at the Holiday Inn in Paris, much to Dane's delight. After his trip to Harding with Lane this summer, Dane absolutely loves hotel rooms! Sometimes, he even refers to his bedroom as his hotel room. So, of course, he was thrilled with our accommodations. Saturday morning, Dane and I went to Denny's to eat breakfast, and we came back to find Lane and Sydni sleeping in until 10:00! Good girl, Sydni!



We're very glad to be back home, though. I think I'm more tired than I thought I would be.