Friday, January 28, 2011

The Red Dress....

No..."IT" hasn't frozen...Yes, I am updating my blog! Crazy I know!

I will eventually do a Oct 31st - Jan 25th update soon I hope.  Right now I am going to write about the past few days. 

Wednesday, Jan 26th, we got a little surprise....well, actually 2 little surprises.  Sydney cut her two bottom teeth.  Jeff surprised me with lunch on Wednesday.  While I was eating, he decided to entertain Sydney.  She was all smiles for him and that is when he saw them!

She was not very pleased when I tried to take a picture of them though...


They have barely poked through, but what a pain they have been for us!  For the past several nights, she has woken up every 2 hours.  We are not use to that anymore.  Jeff is pretty good about taking his time with her so I can sleep a little.

Grannie Whitford (my Dad's Mom) gave my parents a little red dress back when Susan was a baby.  Susan had her baby pictures taken in it.  Later I had my pictures taken in it.  When Susan had her first girl, Emily, out came the red dress again.  All of Susan's girls, Emily, Kate, & Kari, have had a picture taken in it.  I would estimate they were all around 6 months old or so...old enough that they can sit by themselves.  I have been a little worried.  Sydney is almost 9 months (I KNOW!!) with the development of an almost 6 monther but with the height of an almost 9 monther!  I have been waiting and waiting and waiting for her to sit up by herself.  I have been stressed though that if I wait too much longer she will not fit in this little red dress.  So today was the day...with coupon in hand for a free picture, I decided that sitting up by herself or not we needed the picture taken. 

I sat just outside the camera view on the floor by Sydney.  I held her up, balanced her, made her smile, and let go... here is the result:


Can you say "TIMBER"?!?!?!  I heard the photographer say, I got it! and then conk, Sydney was flat on her back and started crying!  Needless to say, she didn't want to try sitting up by herself anymore.  We took a few more shots of different poses.  It was really hard for me to choose which ones I loved, cuz I really love them all!

Little attitude (with a dimple...)

The Popeye smile....












Love the chubby legs!







(now I wish I had some fake nails!)




Raspberry anyone?


Love those dimples!

2 comments:

Rebecca said...

They turned out really cute. She is getting so big!!

Todd and Amyjoy said...

So cute Jill! I am glad that you have a daughter to carry on that tradition!!!