Can’t call it baby blogging anymore. This is kid blogging. (I used to do this regularly, but that was long ago, especially in blog years.)
I love these photos, which I found on the camera’s memory card. My guess is that Bean was the photographer, although it might have been Charles.
Sydney is actually as accomplished and eager a tree climber as Maddox, but I think the pics of Maddox came out a little bit better.
More photos under the fold.
A bit out of focus, but still worth posting because that grin is so purely Sydney.
Maddox has a beautiful smile, too, but she isn’t as free with it as Sydney is. Maddox is more reserved; she’s observing, withholding judgment, considering. I’m a big fan of hers.
Click through to see big versions of the pics.
Watch out – you’ll get busted for child neglect because you’re letting your kid climb a tree without wearing a helmet and a safety harness.
I love the tree pictures. My brothers and I used to play tree tag in a big maple tree on the property line next to the street when I was a kid. We had a little vegetable stand underneath it to sell produce to the passing cars that we had raised in our garden (we’re talking a 1/4 acre here).
I can’t believe that’s Maddox! I think the last time I saw her, she was strangling a pug puppy. That is–fondling a pug puppy.
Heh. Just before Chaz left, he commented that he thought that tree (which was just pruned this past winter) could have had a lot more of those lower limbs thinned out. Now that I see these pictures, I’m really glad that we didn’t go that route with that tree!
Love it.
That’s Maddox? She’s huge! And, of course, beautiful.
I love Sydney’s “I AM IN MUD” smile. That is pure concentrated mischief.
—Myca
Yup, those particular pics were taken by me. While Sydney was jumping around in the mud barefoot, she kept saying, “ewww, this is like, so totally gross!!” That’s when I started encouraging her to also say “grody to the max” and “gag me with a spoon.” Which she says, but has no idea what they mean.
Ha! I actually literally LOL’d.
I also love the combination of, “Ew this is gross!” With, “And now I’m gonna do it some more!”
—Myca
:D 95% of my RDA of cute.
Gosh, they’re big! I remember the baby pictures of the two of them, and thought they’d be stuck that age forever.