Sydney is 6 months old today – one half of a year! She can pretty much sit by herself without any help, and if she does start to fall over she can catch herself. She can pick up smaller things with her thumb and pointer finger pretty well. She is also really starting to enjoy her books. She has always shown interest in books before, but she is very content to sit for a long time and look at books.

Sydney is starting to enjoy looking at herself in the mirror. She gets very excited when we bring her into a bathroom where she can stand on the counter in front of a large mirror. Usually she puts both of her hands on the mirror and dances and laughs. Today, she got very quiet and leaned in to kiss the other baby – it was very cute. She did it over and over again, and I managed to get this picture:

Today we took Sydney on our first airplane trip. Our seats were in the very last row of the plane, which was nice, because then there was no one behind us. We boarded early because they let people with small children get on the plane first because we take more time. We were settled in our seats when we saw a man coming to the back of the plane – he was sitting in the last row on the other side of the aisle. When he found out he was in the very back of the plane and glanced over and saw Sydney, I heard him say to woman he was with, "This is going to be the worst flight ever!" I was secretly hoping that Sydney would scream the whole flight just to oblige him, but she was a little angel!

She was pretty tired when we got on the plane but was looking around and wouldn't fall asleep. Once the plane started moving she cried a little bit because she was over-tired, I think, but only for about 30 seconds. All of a sudden she just crashed and slept for more than half of the flight. When she woke up, she ate some food and it was about time to land. The flight went great!