A house divided

You know how some people have those "house divided" license plates? We don't have one of those, but we did have a bit of a divided baby for game day... Hunter sported his Georgia Tech blanket and a Georgia hat.

He's here!

Little Man has arrived!

Hunter Daniel Chase arrived Sept. 20, 2012 at 2:32 am. 8 lbs, 4 oz. 21 inches long.

Off to school

A couple of things to note:
1.  her preschool is at our church.  so that's been a bit confusing to her.  hence her answer of church when I asked where she was going.
2. apologies for the shaky camera work -- the only way that I can video her these days is if I turn the camera screen around so she can see herself during the 'taping'

Our Preschooler

Sydney was very excited to start preschool this morning.  All morning she kept reminding me "Mama drop Sydney off, go home".   When we got to school, she walked right into her classroom and didn't look back -- no tears or anything! :)

 

She's officially a preschooler!

Parrot

Sydney is quite the talker these days.  And she's also a little parrot.  She's quick to copy ANYTHING that we say and throw it back at us at a later date....

Examples:

(driving in the car, when a car pulled out in front of me)
Me: "Oh come on!"
Sydney (from the backseat):  "Bad driver!  Mama, Look!  Bad driver!  Sydney tell driver 'no-no'.  Driver, No-No!"


(as I was walking down the stairs, the dogs started wrestling and keep bumping into me)
Me: "Hey!  That's enough!"
Sydney: "Mama?  Rough day?"

My name is...

Little Miss likes to refer to herself in the third person (and a third person nickname at that).  Pronouns are proving a bit confusing, so sometimes she just sticks to "Syd".  Probably heard most often in "No mama! Syd do self."

So, we've been working on what her name is.

She gets a little impatient with us since we ask her so much (she probably thinks we're pretty dumb since we "can't remember" and have to keep asking), so I've been having some trouble getting it on video.

Sydney-isms

I love Sydney's phrases and words that don't come out quite right.  Her Sydney-isms crack Dan and I up on a regular basis.

Unfortunately (or I guess, fortunately) she's starting to lose some of these, but I wanted to document them so that Dan and I can reminisce at some point :) ...

• "Dub-Dub" (aka the letter "W") has been recently replaced with the proper name for the letter. That was a sad day.  We used to ask her 'what letter is this' on a regular basis just to hear 'dub dub'
• "Peeps"  She uses "peeps" for 'people' or for 'somebody'.   As in: "hear peeps cut grass" ('I hear somebody cutting the grass') or 'peeps running'.   I think this one may start to phase out pretty quickly because when we ran an errand last week, I came to a red-light and someone started yelling 'move people! move people!' from the backseat. :)
• "Rengy".  Aka 'orange'.  Sydney learned her colors a while ago - she could pick them out if you asked her to point to a certain color. And she could name most of them (all except for orange).  She's only started saying 'rengy' in the past month or so.  This may have replaced Dub-Dub as my current favorite.  We ask her 'what color is this' when pointing to an orange item all the time.
• "PGs" (pronounced like pee-gees aka PJs).  Somehow the J and the G got confused, so she wears "Pee-gee's" to bed at night.
• "Lella" Despite being able to say the B sound, Bella's name has remained "Lella".  (Bentley, by comparison, is in fact "Bentley".  with the B sound.)
• "Them's".... We had a playdate the other morning and when her friends left, Sydney told me that they were going to "drive to them's house".  
• "Nam" - aka banana.  Not terribly sure how she got 'nam' out of 'banana'.