I'm just loving this new phase that Sydney is in - the one where she understands basic commands and still enjoys doing them.
Where's your cup? Go get your bowl. Take this to mommy/daddy. Throw this in the trash can. Get daddy a beer. Ok, maybe not that last one. Afterall she can't open the refrigerator yet.
And she loves to help us. Bring groceries in. Haul boxes to the curb for recycling. She even wiped her spilled milk off the floor with a towel the other day. Then proceeded to shake her sippy cup violently in effort to spill more so that she could continue wiping. Sigh. I didn't say she had this perfected.
Truth be told, she was doing this before we realized. I remember one evening - Fletcher was maybe a month old - Pat and I were trying to eat dinner while Sydney played around and on us. Fletcher started wailing upstairs and I jokingly asked Syd to go calm her brother down. Off she went! She was halfway up the stairs before Pat grabbed her. Sometimes I wish we had let her go just to see what she would have done.
There are some really frustrating things about this stage of her development too. Like not being able to tell me she wants yogurt specifically. Just signing that she wants to "eat", "please." So we raid the pantry and half a dozen things in the fridge before discovering what it is that has turned her into a raging monster. Then all of a sudden something will click and we figure out what her gestures or attempts at speech for the past several days have meant. I'm sure somewhere in that little head of hers she's thinking "come on people, catch up!" This will be a common theme for the rest of her life.
But she's so much fun!
Truth be told, she was doing this before we realized. I remember one evening - Fletcher was maybe a month old - Pat and I were trying to eat dinner while Sydney played around and on us. Fletcher started wailing upstairs and I jokingly asked Syd to go calm her brother down. Off she went! She was halfway up the stairs before Pat grabbed her. Sometimes I wish we had let her go just to see what she would have done.
There are some really frustrating things about this stage of her development too. Like not being able to tell me she wants yogurt specifically. Just signing that she wants to "eat", "please." So we raid the pantry and half a dozen things in the fridge before discovering what it is that has turned her into a raging monster. Then all of a sudden something will click and we figure out what her gestures or attempts at speech for the past several days have meant. I'm sure somewhere in that little head of hers she's thinking "come on people, catch up!" This will be a common theme for the rest of her life.
But she's so much fun!
"Holding" her brother.
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