Paityn HATES her car seat. That shouldn’t surprise us because Sydney did too.

Want to know what it’s like to ride in the car with us? Here you go – put this on a loop for 45 minutes while you drive, and see how insane you are when you arrive at your destination…

Hope she grows out of this one soon!

Emily: Oh my goodness you are such a big girl – are you ten years old?
Sydney: No, I’m three!
Emily: Are you sure?
Sydney: Yes! I had three candles on my cake!

After Sydney visited her mommy and Paityn in the hospital, we were on our way home and Gramma Tammy offered to buy McDonald’s for dinner. Sydney said she wanted ice cream and black milk. I have no idea where the black milk thing came from. She may have had chocolate milk at one time, but maybe only 1 time in her life, and it was probably a long time ago. We asked her what black milk was, but she didn’t describe it – she just kept saying she wanted black milk. We figured she meant chocolate milk, so we got that for her, and she got to drink it on the way home. The whole way home she kept talking about her black milk:

“I love black milk”
“The sky is black, and my milk is black”
“Black milk is not bad for me”
“Do you like black milk too?”

When we got home and she could see her milk, she looked in and said, “Hey! This milk is brown, not black!” Not really sure where she’s seen “black milk” before, or where she ever heard of that, but her heart was sure set on it!

This happened back in the late summer, but I wanted to make sure to remember it. I don’t remember what exactly she did, but we were playing outside and Sydney wasn’t behaving. She had already had a couple of timeouts on the doorstep, but apparently they weren’t doing any good. I thought maybe a timeout inside would be more effective, so I went to bring her inside, and she went limp – classic 2 year old move. I had no choice but to pick her up – the way I picked her up she was laying on her stomach across my arms. As I opened the door to bring her into the house, she shouted out, “Superman!” Of course Emily was laughing which didn’t help me from trying to keep from laughing too. I’m not exactly sure where she picked that one up. The only thing I can think of is that her Uncle Aaron will sometimes fly her around and maybe he tells her she is superman, but it had been a very long time since he had done that with Sydney – they have amazing memories, that’s for sure!

We wanted to bring Sydney to a few of Emily’s doctor visits so that she could hear the baby’s heartbeat. Sydney is pretty healthy so she really doesn’t go to the doctor’s office very often, but apparently she could remember it just fine. I’m not exactly sure if she said it when we went into the waiting room, or into the exam room, but at one point she sniffed the air and said, “It smells like doctors in here!”