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!
Hallie started soccer last week!! I can't believe she's old enough to be doing little sports league's! Her team is called "Little Kicker's" and her coaches are great with the kids.
They play fun games to get them to kick the ball as they run and they use great soccer/kid lingo to get them to stop the ball by putting their foot on top of the ball when they say, "Squish the bug!"
It was so dang cute to watch their first practice last week. Cam and I were giggling the whole time because they were just so dang cute when they'd stop running just to turn and wave to their parents. 
Then the dads got to go out and practice passing the ball to their child at one point which is what Hallie and Daddy are doing in the picture below. At the end of soccer, they let each of the kids line up to score a goal and most of the kids weren't kicking the ball hard enough to get it into the net, but Hallie did!!! Watch the video to see our little kicker!
