Changing

Oh man the last couple of days have been tough. Sydney is growing and it just feels like Ty and I have been missign the boat in adapting. It's like we finally get something down and then Sydney outgrows it or just needs a little different style. I'm still so use to the little newborn that was sooo hard to take out and would sleep so much during the day.
Sydney is almost 7 months and she is finally able to stay awake 2.5 - 3 hours between naps. We are in the process of dropping a nap and going from 3 - 2. Poor Sydney has been mad about going to bed so early because she is just not that tired and it took three rough days for us to figure it out. So this morning she was up from 630-830, napped for two hours, then will go down from 130 - 330. We will skip her third nap and probably just put her down at 7 instead of 730 since she will be tired. I've been reading that the reason she is getting up so early (615 this morning) is that she is getting too much sleep during the day. So long gone are the days of 5 hours of sleeping. Now we are down to 3.5 - 4. It's a good change but I just need to stay alert and not miss the boat.
I kept telling Tyson " I just feel like we are doing it wrong" and it really did feel that way. All of the sudden it felt like we had no idea how to help her. It sucked.
Sydney is growing and is more aware of what is going on. Shes' so funny! She can tell when Ty and I leave the room for her to nap and sometimes she cries in protest because she wants to keep playing. Sad :(
She's also sooo much funner. She laughes at everything. she loves to give really wet big kisses which is so sweet it melts my heart. She loves to look at herself in the mirror.

She. Is. Awesome.

Moving Pictures

I wanted to post some pictures of us moving/preparing the new house for the Gerbers.

Here is  recap of what happened:

1. Found out March 28th that Tyson got the promotion.

2. Old manager moved out March 30th

3.Tyson started April 1st

4. Work on the apartment started April 5th. We got new carpet, paint, flooring

5. Tyson painted the entire downstairs April 15-17th

6. Tile and Flooring came in April 19-21st

7. We moved out April 22nd

8. My parents came in April 28th.

Yeah we were cutting it close. My mom was amazing and organized lots of my house.

The photos show that the apartment needed lots of TLC. The former manager was not very

clean and had a dog. The new carpet is amazing upstairs and downstairs

is all tile. We bought a area rug so Sydney could play.

Chilling Around the House

Top Things I've Learned As a New Mom

 Story time @ Barnes and Noble.

Top Ten Things I have learned as a New Mom
1. You will not die when you have  a baby. For some reason I thought I would be the first woman to  turn to ashes when her baby is born and not letting her sleep.
2. You are smarter and stronger than you think when it comes to your baby. You really will get to know them best
3. Simplify your house and life so you have less stress
4. Losing that baby weight it hard work. No shortcuts, just guts and running
5. Your husband won't die if he watches the baby alone. In fact, he will love you more for it
6. Babies are funner than I ever imagined
7. Babies need more sleep than I ever imagined
8. Formula will not kill my baby and you are not a bad mom if you can't breastfeed
9. Your marrige can be richer and funner after a baby
10. Parenting is a total team sport. My husband is hotter now because he helps with Sydney.

Happy Thursday

I love how chubby Sydney looks here. She is only 16.3 lbs people!



Pretty typical Thursday, but it's still been an awesome morning. Thrusdays are my Walking Thursdays. I get together with Allyson and Cindy and we walk,. Today we walked 3.5 miles, burned 400 calories and just had a blast. Sydney was an angel -even when I was suppose to feed her at 11 and found out her fomula RAN OUT and I ran back to the car for my emergency stash - she never made a peep and was so happy. We came home and played, read books and got pictures of her eating her toes.

Tonight I head to an elementary school to see Melissa's kid do a presentation and then we owe the Scottorns chinese for helping us move some stuff. Overall it's been a good day.

Awesome Friends

We were so excited to move, but also exhausted. Our awesome friends the Meakins invited us over for dinner the day after we moved. It was soooooo nice to not worry about cooking dinner. I'm pretty sure we lived off cereal for the first three days. We had hot dogs, salad and smores. It was also awesome to be able to leave the house and forget about unpacking for a little bit. They are awesome. BTW Ben built that fire pit ALL BY HIMSELF! It was awesome.

Family Pictures

Here are some awesome pictures from our family picture session while my parents where here. They turned out awesome. My only regret is not being able to get some of just Sydney and some of her and I before she fell sleep in total exhaustion. My sweet baby.