Adam Lambert and Nellie Oleson

Yes, the title of this post is "Adam Lambert and Nellie Oleson." An odd pairing, I know, but what do Adam Lambert and Nellie Oleson have in common? (that's a question I never thought I'd ask) They have my little Sydney in common. At least in one respect. The other day Sydney got into my make-up and took out my eye-liner. She had good intentions, I'm sure, but here is what it came out as...


See? Adam Lambert likes to bust out the eye-liner, too, or in his case I think it's called guy-liner. Second, Sydney likes to have me curl her ponytails in the morning. On Tuesday her little curls were so blond and the way the one on her right side kept in perfect curl form and fell forward just reminded me of Nellie Oleson's curls!


I almost hate to make that comparison, because Sydney is nothing like Nellie Oleson, it was just the hair!


It's been a busy week. I was doing some laundry and Sydney of course wanted to help. This is what she does when she's getting the laundry out of the washing maching to put in the dryer...

So cute! And then we have been getting her room ready for her new big-girl bed, and she got a new dresser, too. She loves it, as you can tell!

Very Grown-Up, Indeed

Today Sydney is officially 2 and a half. She is getting to be so grown up! I can't even tell you what a difference the last 6 months has made. She talks in sentences, she can joke around, and she is becoming a huge help to me, even at a young age. She puts her dishes in the sink, she helps me with her silverware when I unload the dishwasher, she put her laundry in her basket and helps to put the laundry in the washing maching, too. She even helps me with dinner almost every night. And when I say she "helps with dinner," I mean she stands on her stepstool and samples whatever I am making and generally gives out orders and helps with stirring sometimes. It's very cute! She is quite the little chef. Today she helped me make bread (my first attempt at homemade bread and it was SO GOOD)and some homemade soup. She loves to sample the cheese from the soup, and she helped me "mush," aka knead, the bread. When she was done, she had some blueberries with her lunch and we had a good laugh over what they did to her hands and face! I am so pleased with how responsible she is becoming, but I miss my baby, too!




Here are some more random pics from a recent picnic we had at the park. I meant to share them last time and forgot.

"Beach" is Not A Bad Word

A few weekends ago Chris and I decided to take Sydney to the beach for the day. She was so excited, even though she had no clue where we were going, and she kept yelling out "Beach, beach!" Except it sounded like she was shouting out a not very nice word, a word that we definetely don't use in this house. It was so cute and Chris and I kept having to cover our mouths when we were laughing! It was such a nice day, by Oregon standards anyway. It was sunny, only a tiny bit windy, and not too cold. We had lunch, did some shopping, played on the beach, and went for a very long walk. On the way home, Sydney fell fast asleep, no doubt exhausted from her strenuous day of being adorable.

The water was a bit too cold for her.


A pathetically sad little sand castle, but still cute, nonetheless.




Doesn't she kind of look like Emma Thompson here? Weird much?

Long Time Coming

Hello, faithful fans of Happy Wills Family! I know you must be so thankful to finally see something other than a picture of our toilet! I am sorry for the recent lack of posts. My Aunt Carye sent me an email today to check up on us since there hadn't been a post in almost a month. She gave the following reasons for our absence from the blogging world:
1. Been co-parenting the twins with Melissa.
2. Are in the first trimester of your next pregnancy and just to exhausted to type.
3. No longer willing to put the work in when you get no responses or visits from your Aunt Carye.
4. Decided that Sydney is simply too special to share with the rest of the world and we must wait for her biography to come out when she is 7.
Clever, but no. For the first reason, I am happy to report that Melissa, the twins, and the entire Marteney family are doing great! I was over there today and her house was cleaner than mine, actually, and I don't have three children under the age of three like she does. She's pretty much wonder woman and while I do go over to fold the occasional load of laundry and snuggle with a baby, she's doing great and doesn't need the help like she did on bedrest. For the second reason, I am absulotely, positively, NOT pregnant! While we have been thinking and praying about expanding our family, the time just hasn't been right for us yet. And as for 3 and 4, no responses are required, I really do enjoy blogging, and the biography is a good idea! Actually, it's just been a really busy month. Sydney was really sick for about 2 weeks and got to go see her doctor twice in a week, and got put on her first antibiotic. She's much better now, but it was a rough 2 weeks for our girl. I worked a lot more the last month, and then there was the starlight parade and the beach, which I will post some pictures of soon. In the meantime, here are some very random pictures from the last month.
My aunt and grandparents came to visit a few weeks ago. Sydney hitched a ride on Grandpa's walker. She knows a good thing when she sees one!


We have been having really nice weather lately. Here's Sydney ready for a picnic lunch we went on in the middle of May.


My mom recently won her re-election to the local school board. I always think it is so fun to vote for my own mom! Here is Sydney with our ballots.