Sydnee Turns ONE!

Sydnee turned one on Friday! I can't believe how much my baby has grown and how fast time flies. Every month, I took a picture of Sydnee next to her Winnie-the-Pooh so we could see how much she's grown and it's been fun looking at how big she's gotten even though she's still only 14 pounds. She'll always be my baby, I love that about her!

Sydnee got phone calls on her birthday from both grandma's wishing her happy birthday. We celebrated Sydnee's first birthday on Saturday by inviting some of our church friends and neighbors over for a barbeque, some cornhole games, swimming and hanging out. There were about 28 people that came it was such a great turnout, and little Sydnee didn't even know they were all there for her.

I had to do some sort of theme for her big birthday party, so I decided to do a ladybug theme, hence the ladybug cupcakes which turned out so dang cute if I do say so myself.

We weren't quite sure what Sydnee would do with eating her first cupcake, let alone her first real table food and believe it or not, she ate about 3/4 of the cupcake by herself... apparently I was just feeding her the wrong things!? Then Sydnee had a few sips of Sprite to top off the night (much to my discresion) and we were prepared for her to throw it all up a few hours later but to our surprise again, she held it down and had no allergic reactions to anything. It was a great birthday!!

After tearing apart the cupcake, we opened gifts. Hallie got Syd a swing that Daddy hung on the tree and Mommy and Daddy made her her baby scrapbook of her first year. In the picture above, Sydnee is loving the shoes that the Stewart's gave her (let the shoe fetish begin!?) and she also got some books from the Routsong's and toys from the Lewis's and our wonderful neighbors. It was such a fun day, thanks to all who came to celebrate Sydnee's big day!