September and October

I don't know if I'm ready for another winter yet-but I'd guess i had better start to get there.

here is what we have done over the last couple of weeks.

Jake and I finally got the game we have been waiting a year for....Borderlands 2.

We were so excited that on Sept 22, Jakes next day off work, we planed on playing all day and same for the next 3 days....Sydney of course would make it impossible to do 3 complete days, but we still managed about 13 hours of the game during 4 days-not bad.
To give Sydney something to do we specifically got her a new toy-saved for that weekend.

Infantino Jumbo Shape Sorter Baby Toy. She loved it.

Then on Sept 26th (Wednesday) Lydia came up and we went to Park Discovery...Sydney loved the swing...

This was after 5 minutes of being home.

Then on Saturday, Sept 29th, SUU had their homecoming parade and Sydney and I went and watched it.
Sydney got so much candy-it was like an early Halloween.

She was so hungry and we had tons of candy, so I gave in and let her the Twizzlers

Before the parade even started she crawled up to this girl and gave her a big hug, and then a few times during the parade she crawled up to her and watched with her. Especially when the girl was eating suckers.

 

Sydney got so scared when the fire trucks stopped right in front of us and tooted their horn she practically jumped in my lap. She did the same thing when the 2 high school drum lines walked by. I think Jake needs to get his drums out of storage :)


Then starting October 1st Sydney and I worked at a Pine Nut stand just off the sidewalk on main st....selling ...you guessed... Pine-nuts. It was okay the first two days, but by wednesday Sydney didn't want to be cooped up outside anymore. I couldn't let her just sit on the ground and play because there were to many rocks and it was too close to main st. So my lap or her play pen was the best she got...of course we practiced walking up and down the sidewalk too. Friday was the last day I told the lady I would do it because it was too hard, trying to make sure I had enough food for my little one to pick through and find something she liked and getting her to take a nap was exhausting for both of us.

trying to keep her in the shade so she didn't get sunburned...worked better some days then others. There is normally an umbrella up to help with that, but this day it was so windy it almost tipped the table so I took it down...next best thing was using the car for shade.

one day she was so tired i put her in her car-seat and she started trying to buckle the seat, so for about 20 minutes I let her try and buckle her car-seat. Man is she close-if she angled the pieces differently she could do it all by herself.

Friday, Oct 5th, Lydia came and picked Sydney up from the pine nut stand at about 1 PM. She was going to stay with Lydia til Saturday evening, but I suggested we go to the corn maze in St. George, something I have wanted to do for years.

We got to the Staheli farm at about 5 pm and spent and hour doing all the little kid things. We did the petting zoo, a swing, and a slide before heading over to the corn maze-which you had to be taken to by tractor since it was across the road. We got the corn maze, and only a picture for a map and got lost for ten minutes before remembering, my poor husband had allergies and his face was puffed up and was blowing his nose every 5 seconds. So ten minutes into the maze, we turned around and found our way out (well cut through the corn to get the entrance (hey, it was only 3 rows of  corn away and we were lost :) ). We then headed back to the farm, let Josh and Sydney ride the cow train before heading home.

She was terrified. I used her hand to pet a sheep and she freaked. So we though having Josh and I pet the pig would help her to see it was ok. It didn't.

We were so proud, so she smiled. Jake was trying to get her to hold onto the corn stalk and she wouldn't. Jake moved his hand away so she couldn't walk away. The corn on the ground made is so she was afraid to crawl away. So after a 30 second debate she decided if she was going to remain upright that she had better grab the stalk. And when she did we were cheering majorly for her.

Josh on the "swing"

The corn slide

the face full of fear-almost crying

the bumpiest ride ever-crossing from the corn maze back to the farm

in the maze

almost crying because she had no choice but to grab the stalk (as i said in the above photo) but then realized it wasn't so bad :)

loves her daddy

being thrown from the wagon

the cow train ride

As for my really blury photos...Well my poor camera broke and I sent it in for repair, but it won't get to New York until the middle of this week and so I thought I could go get a cheap camera and that it would be better than my cell phone pictures...Well I was wrong and Jake was right-that technical husband of mine. Well this 30 dollar camera will be returned to Walmart saying it took the crappiest pictures ever!

This pretty little thing is going to be returned....the video camera was just as bad-great speakers but even the videos are fuzzy.

return to me quickly my darling!

And last but not least General Conference weekend.
I only got to watch the morning sessions from both Saturday and Today (sunday).
My  favorite quotes were :
"The Glory of God is indeed intelligence" -Russell M Nelson
"Spend meaningful time with those we love so we don't regret it later in life" -Dieter F Uchtdorf
"Doing is better" -Dieter F Uchtdorf
"It's not a race, it's a journey, enjoy the moment" -Dieter F Uchtdorf


Today (sunday) was a stressful one because I thought I could do laundry in between sessions...Well it turns out I couldn't.
I brought enough laundry for six loads. Well it turned into 11 loads, because 4 washing machines quit on me and I had to move the sopping wet laundry from those machines to different ones...and the coin machine ate my 5 dollar bill. So tomorrow I'm going in to request a refund.

As you can see, the power actually turned off at the very beginning of the cycle...and the machine was full of water. Not to say the least, I came home to wake Jake up...I was upset and just wanted to be finished. It took me 3 1/2 hours to do what normally took me 2 hours.

The learning curve

Well, Since Jake and I are such tech people...our daughter has become one too.

-She can turn on the Xbox (of course its touch screen so that makes it easy)
-she can turn on the Xbox controller
-she knows what a mouse is and how to move it
-and she now occasionally watches netflix with me when it has the right amount of music
-she opens drawers all the time
-she can climb on to the couch
-she can climb up my desk using the cd slots
-she eats paper, and shreds anything that she can
-she walk around trying to blow the whistle (more like she blows really hard and makes the sound she hears when I blow the whistle)


..............oh, and she can dance. She wiggles around, and shakes her arms. It's really cute.
She can walk with me only holding one of her hands. Well, walk in the sense that she can move her feet but never in the direction I want her to go. She pulls books off my bookshelves and tries to turn there pages ...which gets pretty messy.  For some reason my daughter has this thing, where she doesn't mind being read to, if you can read the story faster than she can flip the pages. She only wants to flip the pages, and if she can't flip it one at a time she'll flip to the back cover, turn the book over and start again til she can flip all the pages one at a time.

her Tasmania devil shirt

eating a sucker at my moms house

climbing the cement wall outside

trying to blow the whistle

climbing your high chair

climbing your high chair

riding in a wagon during the Peach Days parade

The Sydney and Banjo game

Sydney and Banjo have this game down pat. Banjo is lying on the grass chewing a stick. Sydney crawls over to him and Banjo has 1 of 2 reactions. Reaction 1: Banjo doesn't react, so Sydney pulls the stick from his mouth, and then tries to shove the stick back in his mouth. Reaction 2: Banjo runs away and Sydney crawls after him to repeat the process til she gets reaction 1.

The last few weeks

-August 14th I finally got around to getting the hand and foot prints of Sydney at "1" years old. I had some from newborn and 6 months and so I wanted something to compare them to. They turned out really good, but this was the adventure. (please excuse the nudity).

-August 24th was Harvey family picture day. We drove up on Friday and stayed the night at my parents house. The next day, we got ready and headed down to Murray City park for pictures at 5 PM. We got some cute pictures, but we'll have to wait til editing is completed to print out any.

-August 27th Rhian and Nicole came down to help Jake fix our fuel pump on the jeep. Nicole and I ran errands while the boys did the hard work. The got everything fixed up right as the sun was going down. The jeep so far works just like normal.

-Saturday (9-1) Sydney and I participated in the Hurricane, UT Peach Days parade.  I got up at 6:30 AM to get ready, shower, and have a diaper bag packed for a full day of fun and we left at 7:40 AM. I was supposed to leave earlier since I had my mother in laws blazer, (which was the vehicle that was going to be pulling the float), which she lent us while we got our car fixed. Got to the Desert Vet (which is the place my mother in law works at and who we were representing in the parade) and immediately got into gear. I changed my clothes (good thing by 8 AM it was getting comfortable outside). And everyone hopped into their perspective cars to head to the spot where our float was supposed to start from. We didn't know the spot or our number because you had to pick up your registration the day of the parade, so I ran ahead to the registration booth and picked up the paperwork. We got in our spot and finished putting the finishing touches on all the little kids. Sydney had makeup put on her face, and I am proud to say she didn't smudge it up at all. By 9:30 AM we started on to the street and started throwing candy. Well we soon learned there was more kids then candy and so the adults started hoarding candy from the kids (on our float) so that it would last the whole parade-which it still didn't. I pulled Sydney in a red wagon, and she did well. She didn't make one noise during the entire parade. We finished by 10:30 AM and headed back to Lydia's house, where we fed Sydney and let her play for another 2 hours before she went down for a nap at 12:30PM.  Sydney woke up at 3 PM, I called Jake then-who was at home sleeping because he got off a grave shift that morning. Jake headed down and got there around 4:30 PM . We then headed over to Peach Days and wondered around all the vendors. My sweet mother in law bought us a Navajo taco which was delicious. We then watched Josh ride a few carnival rides before heading back to the house and packing up to head home. It was a really fun day, but when we got home I got really tired and fell asleep by 9:30 PM.

-Sunday (9-2) We took a family walk to smiths to get some pizza for dinner. It was really nice. I love family walks.

-Today (9-3) I went grocery shopping. I originally had a bunch of errands to run, but I forgot it was Labor day so no one but the grocery store was open so we headed to Walmart. Sydney didn't want to be in the grocery cart, so I got her down and held her hand while she "walked", but she didn't want to walk she wanted to play in the food.  So instead she threw a package of hotdogs on the ground. Whoops. 10 second rule right :)

-Today (9-3) Sydney also fell and cut her gum open. She was toddling around and when is tired she trips really easily. Well she tripped and hit her face on a bookshelf. At first I thought it was her forehead, so I'm playing lovey dovey telling her I'll kiss it better, when all of the sudden she opens her mouth to cry and i see blood. So I start walking to my bedroom where Jake was asleep, I  grab a towel and start wiping blood off her face. We held her and let her cry for a few minutes til I took her to the rocking chair and rocked her to sleep. So far she didn't lose any teeth, but she wouldn't let us check so we won't know if anything is actually wrong til after she wakes up from her nap.