This Girl...

(Yes, no diaper in this picture)

...is just too adorable. Sydney just turned 18 months the beginning of this month. I figured I'd better write about some of the fun things about her at this age because they grow and develop so fast, if I wait till she is 2 she'll be past so many of these cute phases and onto others.
* I think SHE thinks we live in a clothing optional home. Probably because she sees her brother and sister running around in their underwear whenever we're home. (I consider it their way of dealing with the Las Vegas summer heat.) She has taken it one step farther though. I can't keep this girls diaper on her. She is constantly taking it off to "be free." The biggest problem with this is that she isn't potty trained, so more than once just last week I got to clean up some yucky messes from her bedroom. Yes, "Yucky." She loves to be naked. I guess I can't get too upset because I remember looking through our family albums and seeing a picture of me naked because my mom said she couldn't keep clothes on me. I always stripped and ran around the house. The other day Rebecca had been playing and came running through the room yelling, "gotta go pees, gotta go pees!" (That's normal for our house) A few minutes later I went upstairs to see where Sydney had wandered off to. I found her stripped diaper sitting in the hallway at the top of the stairs, but no Sydney. I found her in my bathroom sitting on the toilet, pulling on the toilet paper roll. She looked at me and said, "Pees." So now, every time she strips her diaper she says, "pees" and fights getting her diaper on until I let her sit on the toilet for 2 seconds to go "pees." (Am I giving too much information? Sorry if I am. I figure most people reading this are moms, you've been through it.)

* Sydney LOVES to draw with markers. She especially loves to draw all over her arms and face.

(Case and Point)

* Her favorite game is Duck, Duck, Goose. Whenever I'm sitting on the ground she'll get a smirk on her face, stand up, and walk around start patting everyone on the head saying, "Dutt, Dutt." It is too cute. She gets so excited to run around.

* She is my pickiest eater by far at this point. She mainly eats yogurt, dinosaur chicken nuggets (and they have to be the ones from Albertson's, the softer ones.), mac and cheese, and occasionally a nutrigrain bar. Drives me crazy.
* She is talking so much more. She THINKS she is having full conversations. Sometimes she'll say a whole group of words to me, (I have no idea what she's saying) but there is total inflection in her voice like she's having a conversation.

* She's started nursery. Hates the first 2 minutes, but after that she's fine. She loves to show me the papers she draws on during class.

* She loves baths and showers. Without fail, if the tub water goes on she's there within 2 minutes from anywhere in the house. This fits perfectly with her love of being naked.

* She's our biggest tease so far too. Rebecca teases, and has a great sense of humor, and Hayden LOVES to laugh so much, but Sydney teases non stop. And you can see in her face she knows exactly what she's doing.

* She loves music, singing and dancing to music. In church whenever we sing a hymn she looks up at the chorister and waves her hand along with the chorister.

I love this little girl. I'm so happy she's part of our family, and so fun to have around.