Four Months Old And The Results Are...

I took Sydnee in for her four month checkup earlier this week, and she weighed in at an astounding 10lbs. and 6 oz.! What a small baby!!!!! She is growing believe it or not, she is just maintaining the third percentile in everything. The doc asked if we had a short gene in our family and I said, "Yes, my sister-in-law is short." So Kath, you're not the only Voge with short genes!!! At least I get to keep Sydnee small for a little while longer! Although it will be nice when she can finally start wearing the 3-6 month clothes that we have for her!

A Lot of Dinners!

I've had the impression lately that I need to get crackin' on our food storage supply, so I've worked on it faithfully for the past 8 months, collecting one or two items every week. Up until last night, the food storage has been in the girls' closet, but we have so much that it had to be moved to our bedroom so we could add more shelves, and to our surprise, it's pretty filled up! Although, we guess that our food storage is enough to last us only a couple weeks!? But our food storage is growing slowly, but surely! Someday, Cameron and I will have a bedroom that isn't the office and the food storage rooms as well!

Hallie helped us move the food storage out of her room last night before she went to bed, but she didn't see the finished project until this morning when she walked in our room. She was shocked when she saw where we put the food storage and said, "Wow, Mommy, that's a lot of dinner!" She then helped in her own way by adding some toys to fill up the shelves. I project that will be an ongoing game for her since the food storage is out where she can see it (and play with it!) every day.

Feeding Time

Hallie always asks if she can feed Sydnee and since I was always nursing (until lately since I've lost my milk), I realized that she can now feed her! It was a great experience for the big sister... but Sydnee wasn't too happy about the wobbly arm that was feeding her. Hallie's favorite part was burping Sydnee (with mommy's help of course!). She felt so accomplished when Sydnee burped (Sydnee actually just had the hiccups but I didn't dare tell Hallie that it wasn't a burp!). Now, whenever Cameron and I cough, Hallie comes running over to us and pats us on the back saying, "I burped you, you okay now?"

Daddy's Magic Touch

Above: I finally captured Sydnee smiling! As soon as I snapped the picture, she had had enough. Sydnee is the queen of making pouty faces!

Above: Cameron has the magic touch of getting our girls to smile at him by just smiling at them! Here is a picture of Hallie smiling at Daddy when she was a baby... see any resemblance?

Playing House

Poor Sydnee was born to a big sister who thinks Sydnee is her doll, sent to our family so Hallie could be her little mommy! Thank goodness Sydnee just goes with the flow. Daddy put Sydnee in Hallie's doll stroller, and of course Hallie thought that was the coolest thing ever! So we let Hallie push Sydnee around for a minute (yes, she was supervised!) and thankfully Hallie hasn't tried putting Sydnee in her doll stroller since then... yet anyway!