My girly girl

Sydney is definetly a girly girl. She loves the mirror - when she was little and would cry, if she could see herself in the mirror, the crying would stop. She loves shoes like every other girl, but at 21 months old she dreams about shoes, she said shoes the other night in her sleep. Everyday when she gets dressed, she has to go and check out her outfit in the mirror to approve. She love to shower, but her favorite part is putting lotion on after a shower. Lipgloss is also a new found favorite. She has a purse that she carries around with her toy key, wallet, and cell phone. She is also loving hats. Everytime we go outside - she always reminds us that she needs her hat.

T-shirt dress

Here is Syd's newest dress. I was bored one day and went through my box of material and found an old t-shirt and loved the stripes. My old t-shirt looks a thousand times better on Syd - the dress was really easy to sew and with a bit of ribbon it looks really cute.

Wall Tattoos

I love wall tattoos. I have loved these since I first saw them - my problem is that we have a small apartment and I've had problems finding the perfect one. While at the inlaws last week I finally found one that works for us. It was a task and a half putting it up with all the small pieces. But I'm happy with how it turned out.

Sydney's Summer Adventures

The last weekend in August we had a Women's Weekend with 20 women from David's family. We spent the weekend in the Harz region of Germany. We rented what once was a farm house - so there was plenty of room and a nice fenced in area for the kids to play in.


The week following the Womens weekend Syd and I spent it at David's parents. We had a couple days of super summer weather - so Syd lived in her little pool in Oma and Opa's garden.


Sydney loves to go to car rides - one of her favourite things to say is 'auto fahren', which means drive car in English. She would always run to the driver's seat and try to get in before anzone else. So on our way back to Stuttgart we took a couple pictures of Syd driving.

David's job

David finally has a full time job. As of the 17th of this month he's a Research Assisstant at the University of Stuttgart. He's working the department of Hydraulic Engineering.
Here's the link to his profile in the University.

Medicine Soothers

Sydney recently had tonisillitis which meant medicine. We tried everything possible to get her to take her medicine and swallow more then she spit out. What ended up working best was a medicine soother we bought when she was a couple months old to give her colic medicine. This made the 5 days of medicine somewhat managable. Sorry that the picture is fuzzy - but you get the idea of what it looks like.

Sydney & Destiny

Sydney's little friend Destiny - often called "Desty" is going back to America. Sydney is not happy over this news. Sydney and Destiny have been getting together to play since January of this year. So before Destiny and her mom headed we spent a day at the zoo with the girls. They loved it, they had tons of fun chasing each other and running ahead of everyone else. It was a very sad good-bye when the day was over. Hopefully we can keep in contact over skype. Here are some pictures from their many adventures together.