A day at the Beach

Thought I had better get caught up on the blog since we are getting ready for visitors & will have more to say soon! Julia arrives this next Saturday after Thanksgiving (yippee!) & Sydney & I will meet her in Kota Kinabalu. Sunday we will take a boat to Gaya Island & stay at the Gayana Eco Resort in an ocean front chalet until Tuesday when we return to Miri. Check it out!
http://www.gayana-eco-resort.com/gayana_site/index.html

Then Ken's mom is coming to spend Christmas with us & my folks are coming mid-January to celebrate Sydney's first birthday. We are excited to have everyone & get some travel in as well.

Here are some photos from a Sunday afternoon at the beach by the Piasau Boat Club we had last week. Good times. :) The doggies love it. So do we.

Crash & Wolfie chasing crabs

More Halloween 2009

This photo is not Halloween but who cares - Go Texans!

Sydney was not sure about Halloween once she saw the adults dressed up!

Our fallen angel.

Daddy the hotel guest & his angel.

Kenny's angels.

Pictures from heather

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Hi Sydney!

She learned to wave last week & I was lucky to catch it the first day.

Last Few Weeks Every Day Stuff

This blog should now be called Life with Sydney (in Malaysia). :)

Here is her first pancake breakfast. Yummy!

She has 2 bottom teeth that have broken the skin & another 2 on the bottom getting ready to come in.

A day on the boat on the Miri River with friends

Right before attending her first birthday party for her friend Sebastian.

After her first birthday party - sleepy baby!
The Halloween costumes I bought last year for 9-12 month olds from Target (while I was pregnant) don't fit her - she is too long! Tall baby! Happy Halloween anyway. :)

Back to the boat - yes we know she doesn't have on a life vest but they don't make them here. We took good care of her.

On her way to the boat! Yippee!

New iphone

Trying out my new iphone!

Sydney is growing like a weed & our trip to Mulu

Our Trip to Mulu

Syd & Ken ready for a hike in the rain forest

This photo cracks me up - she looks so tiny!

Sydney is not sure of these tribal dancers!

We had a great time. Come to find out the caves at Mulu are not like the ones in Texas that you just park & walk into, these are a minimum of an hours hike away. So Syd was a bit young for this trip. We enjoyed the hotel pool & a nice boat ride though. The boat ride took us to a long house that was not what we imagined either. It was just us & the boat driver & tour guide & the long house was crazy poor & sad. It was nothing like the television ads with the tribal people all dressed up & weaving baskets & smiling. This one was just hot, wet, dirty, poor & had tons of little kids playing with sticks and dirt. And we saw a puppy with a huge head wound. Not what we were hoping for.

Ken had more fun than I did overall. Imagine that.

Here is the link to more photos:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28275582@N08

Sydney is 8 months!

Please stop the time from going by so fast! Our munchkin is already 8 months, saying momma & dada - maybe not knowingly to us but she says it. She stands up & loves walking along the couch or anything else she can get her hands on including us. Her favorite things to play with are the pets (oops) & shoes. And she is getting her first tooth on the bottom right. She can eat bread & Cheerios & other little things we put on her tray.

She is a hoot & we are loving every minute.

She sits up strong now.

I was not going after the kitty!

She got a new car seat for her birthday! Yippee facing forward!