Scott, Kristen, Maddi and Sydney!!

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so serious :)

love this face.

My monkey! Very proud of her self :)

Maddi looks like she's going to do something sneaky...and Sydney knows somethings coming...

They can't all come out perfect! This one makes me laugh every time I look at it! Poor Syd!

These faces make me SMILE!!!!!

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Such a blog slacker!

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Well, below it says "to gram" b/c these are the pictures I uploaded to walmart.com and had sent to Gram- she just picks them up at her local walmart all printed and ready for enjoyment! and this seemed like the fastest way to update! Blogger is soooo painfully slow when it comes to uploading pictures, so hopefully this has worked!
All is well with us, just keep pluggin alot with our day to day things. Most of the pictures are from our most recent (yes our 2nd trip to maine this year!) We went for Hannah's wedding, and then stayed a while. These girls cant get enough of their grammie and grampa. I have TONS more pics, but by now most people are on Facebook, and I am better about loading pics onto that. Its just faster.
Anyways, thats all for now. Hope all is well with everyone!

to gram 5\2010, by Kristen Baker

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I'd like to share my Walmart Digital Photo Center photos with you. Once you have checked out my photos you can order prints and upload your own photos to share.

Our Maine Trip! (Jan 15-Feb 9 2010)

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I love this one. checkin out her amazing Grammie.

The girls had JUST woken up! i had to wake them up to get off the plane. But they were sure happy to see their grammie & grampa!!

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"my cookie!"

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Grampa and his girls....minus Maddi, who was off taggin along with the boys..

Hugs for Uncle Ryan

Kenzie & Maddi having fun

Story time...followed by bedtime :)

Maddi and London...and their off!!

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Great Aunt Cheryl did this just for their DADDY!! their battle of Jazz vs. Celtics!

Cute girls

LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS ONE!!!

Girls night...in. Mom spoiled us and made us white chicken lasagna (the best) and all of our favorite desserts. SHE ROCKS! It was a fun night to get to know eathother more, and..no kiddos :)

From Grammie, Maddi's is the white one "Princess" and Sydney's is "Lady"

The Birthday Girl! (just a little late posting right?)

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My BABY is ONE!!!!!! She is my little sweetheart that I can't get enough of. We are so blessed to have this angel in our lives everyday. She has such a sweet smile that warms us. She LOVES her big sister Maddi, who loves her so much in return. Maddi calls her "my baby".

Peek-a-boo!

This is her on her actual birthday (ignore that the date says the stinkin 22!) Her Birthday was Jan 21. I think my camera has something against their birthdays!!!!) Outfit from her sweet Grammie Sue.

We sang Happy Birthday to Steve, London & Sydney... she was very excited :)

We had a party in Utah before we left for Maine since Scott wasn't able to come- he couldn't miss all the birthday action for his baby girl! and I'm happy with the way her cake turned out, and it was easy! so easy I did it for both parties. tehe.

Christmas Sunday!

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My sweet girls!

BIG kisses. :)

Our Family.

Maddi and her cute christmas dress (thanks Gummie!)

Sydney. She is such a sweetie!

Disney's On Ice~ Princess Classics

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i LOVE this face.

Maddi's 3rd birthday is coming up, and so we decided this would be awesome to do for her birthday! As you can see she had lots of fun, and loved seeing all the princesses. It was fun for us to watch her and her expression-filled face. Sydney was a wiggle worm and got very tired, but we had a great night. We love Maddi so much and love to see her happy and excited, she's such a sweetie.

Which princess is this? Daddy's favorite..

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By the way, this little monkey took 2 steps on her own! (nov.13) She's getting so big!

HALLOWEEN! My lovely BumbleBee her precious Flower!

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Love this face.

Mommy and Maddi

Me and my girls!

Mommy kisses for Sydney

Daddy and Sydney

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She can fly! She's a bumble bee after all :)

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First Tooth! 10/26/09

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Syndey now has a tooth! Her bottom left. We dont have a picture yet..it's not through enough to really see...just the littlle buds popped through. I have mixed feelings about this... though I'm glad she's getting teeth (and i have no choice in the matter :), I will miss the cute little gummy mouth.

Diaper head is 9 months old :)

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My little Syndey is 9 months old! Did you notice the date on the picture says its 2005?! HA! Our camera reset, and I forgot to fix the date...obviously. Anyways, here she is Oct 21, 2009. She had her checkup yesterday and she is 27 inches (25%) and 17lbs 3oz (10%) so she's kind of a peanut but nice and healthy! We love this girl.
Maddi will be 3 next month, seriously hard to believe. Both girls had flu shots yesterday, and Maddi didn't even cry! She was so brave getting her "big shots" (thats what she called it) even though the big kids around her were blubbering babies (I hate needles myself I have to admit).

Afterwards we did fries and a shake...even her baby got a bandaid (Maddi loves band-aids) whether there is blood or not, she will ask for one if she gets hurt! Silly girl!

Randoms..

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How to eat cupcake :)

Happy 4 Years for us! (Oct. 6 2009)

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Maddi playing outside

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The little mark under her nose/above her lip is from a picture frame falling and happening to hit her right there...though it had already healed quite a bit. I took her to the hospital (it was night time, and a sunday) and they glued the falp of skin back up to where it was supposed to be. ehh..

This one makes me smile. I suppose she thought it was funny to make me chase her while in high heels.. :)

Big 'ole tree!

Busy Sydney

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My baby is growing up so fast..

Maddi doesn't know what Sydney is thinking yet... but Sydney does!

And there she goes...

She did end up with quite the handful. Maddi pays attention to what Syndey is doing more closely now..

Sneeky little thing and she knows it. :)

Before Church

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Where do you think you're going? If I have to sit here, so do you!

Loves her sister.

My sweeties.

Crusin' Babe, Fun at Uncle Matt's!

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I love this face.

This was so much fun for Maddi! And fun for me to watch her. She pushes a pedal with her right foot and it goes backwards or forwards depending on what you have the button on top switched to.

My busy 8 month old baby.

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Sydney starting sitting up for sort periods of time, the end of July (after we got back from maine) Since the beginning of August she had it down. and now... she is a crawler. she was a good scooter/army crawler for quite some time, but Sunday Sept. 27 she started real crawling and now hasnt stopped. She tries to get into everything.

busted. good this it was empty! :)

Daddy's Jazzy Girl!

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Scott is still a die hard Jazz fan, and loves to see his girls supporting his team :)

growing, growing...

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Sydney playing in her crib. Now that she stands in there we need to lower it down to the bottom.

Sydney before church, I managed to get enough hair into a little pony to get a flower in!

My happy girl.

My sneaky girl. Scooted under her crib to see what she could get into.

My sleepy girl, cuddling her teddy bear. (she says it like Ty-beer..i LOVE how she says it.)

WE'RE STILL HERE!!

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blog catch up!

WOW. I can't believe I havnt posted anything since june! We went to Maine for 3 1/2 weeks from June to July. Some amazing memories for the kids, lots of fun, laughter and craziness, with some sadness-hard times, mixed in as well. (joe got married! and my loving Uncle John passed away while we were there.)
But, you know me, I'm a picture freak, so I took SO many pictures there, it was over whelming to do blog posts! Then, right after we got back we moved! enough said? so I put it off. and put it off.. and then put it off some more! and it only got harder to catch up! so even though I like posting pictures individually it was just too much, so a slideshow it is! Most pictures are from Maine, and some are fairly recent. more recent ones to come :)

Already good friends.

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My loves.

I am so grateful for these sweet beautiful faces and for their little giggles when they play. I sure do love these girls.

Just hanging out and having fun together.

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pics of the girls....what else?!

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Liking the floor a LITTLE more- now that she can roll... Cheese!

She thinks Sydney is so funny!

Her shirt says "sunshine lollipops and rainbows" (Grammie Sue loves that song, so when I found this shirt I got it b/c it reminded me of her.) But Maddi's face does not reflect the meaning of her shirt in this picture, and well, it just makes me laugh.

Maddi showing Sydney what to do....

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Look out! She's rolling!

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Our weekend cabin get-away...

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Daddy and Sydney taking it in.

A bunch of my nieces and nephews... those that were at the cabin anyways.

Tired girl, she played so hard and had tons of fun!

Our attempt at a family picture for my b-day (yes, the stinkin camera is a day off again..!)

Scott and the chipmunk

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First, he baited it with cooler ranch doritos...who knew chipmunks loved them?! Then....he waited....

and caught it!

and they put it in the bunny's cage... but dont worry, they let it go after a minute.

Cutie Pie

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Random Pics...

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Laughs

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First morning waking up in her new bed!

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I was trying to catch a pic of her still sleeping, b ut her door squeeked the whole way open (it never squeeks like that!) so she opened her eyes right as I snapped the pic! but this is how she was..

Stretchhhhh.... i love her feet.

Just set up her new bed (May 1)

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She wanted to "go nuh-night" as soon as we had it set up!

Happy girl!

Her new pillow too, its soo soft!

Holy Catch Up!!

2009-04-29T01:21:00.002-06:00

Why do I do this to myself? It's no secret that I take ALOT of pics, but since I do I always need alot of time to organize, upload etc. So I really should post more often, a few pics at a time, when I take them. Instead of doing this..posting a month's worth of pics at a time. Which takes FOREVER b/c blogger uploads them so S..L..O..W.. its kinda annoying. I know I could do more slideshows, but like the pictures up there seperately. Anyways, here's whats been going on since Easter.

Maddi and Kingsley holding hands. So cute. We went to Thanksgiving Point's little animal farm. It was very fun, though Maddi was a little afraid of some of the animals at first.

This is my new time-out spot! Okay, just kidding, its to far away from the house for one thing, and she can get out of it herself for another. bummer. ;)

Sydney came along for the fun and was a good girl sitting in the stroller, and even stayed awake the whole time!

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Maddi was soo happy and excited to get to ride a pony! Though she doesn't look it here b/c her ride was over (2 laps around..phh..not very long!) and she didn't want to get off.

Big cow.

It's all fun and games...

until someone gets hurt...

I when I was going through the pics on my camera, I couldn't believe I got a pic of her falling! Just shows you how fast things can happen. Of course I tossed the camera once I saw she was falling but apparently I clicked it first. kinda funny. Well, funny isn't really the right word. Anyways, she was okay, a few bumps but no blood. She's a tough girl, and usually more coordinated than this, but there were geese (to the right of where she was) and one made a loud funny sound, and well, the picture explains..she looked and wasn't watching her next step. Poor girl.

And popcicles to finish off the day! So fun! Thanks Leesa and Kingsley!

Think she's ready for a big girl bed? (I'm not!)

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She does it quick and easy, but usually only through-out the day. She likes to get in there and read books. She (so far) stays in bed for naps and bedtime. We will be putting her in a big-girl bed as soon as we can get our hands on a truck! I don't think I am ready for that change, but I don't really have a choice.

And her new jammies that I just love. Her Grammie Sue has some matching purple ones. ;)

Fun and cuddles

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Maddi likes her "pack-pack"

"I love Daddy....he loves me.."

My little artist!

All finished! A masterpiece!

My Sweetie Pie.

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Enjoying the sunshine.

So cute.

My Bubbly Girl! I love her.

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Blowing Bubbles!

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Happy Easter!

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We had a wonderful Easter Sunday, Maddi had fun hunting for eggs, and the girls looked too cute at church in their matching dresses from Grammie Sue!

Just wanted to take a moment and share that I am so grateful for my Savior, and for his sacrifice for me, that I can be forgiven, and that my wonderful family can be forever. Hope everyone had a good Easter Sunday!

The first hunt!

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So, the grocery store by our house does an Easter egg hunt for the local kids every year.. and we got there just a few minutes late and all the eggs were gone! (All the big kids had full baskets...stinkers!) Anyway, some employee saw her empty bucket and dumped a half a bag of milky ways (YUM) in her bucket. So as you can see on her face, she was very happy!

PURE SWEETNESS!

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awwww!!!! love it. love it. love it.

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kisses and love

I LOVE how Maddi is looking at Sydney here...so sweet.

i love this one too....

and this one.....

okay, i love all of them!

My girls..

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sisters are fun to have

Such a helper...

Maddi's been on a book binge this past week. i love it. also, nice bed head huh??

Happy Bithday Daddy! and happy 2 months Sydney!

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Daddy got a Guitar Hero game for his birthday! (Metallica) Maddi cheering him on ;)
Also, the date says 3/30 on Scott's pic, and Sydney's says 3/22. Well, I dont know what is wrong with our camera! but I check the date every now and again since I know it messes up and goes a day off...and it did it again!!!grr... It should have been 3/31 and 3/21 on the pics.

Maddi sharing her chair with Sydney. tehe.

Well, we tried to take the binky out for the pic, but she just screamed, so big 'ole binky in her face for the cute picture... oh well.

My Beautiful Girls!! All ready for church!

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AWWWWWW......love it!

All Smiles!!

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This just makes me laugh...Maddi gets so loud, Sydney doesn't know what to think... haha..

This one makes me laugh too..!

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Time to play outside! It's spring!

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The last week the weather has been AWESOME!!! This was even 7:30 in the evening and she only needed a light sweatshirt! Though last year Maddi was fearless of the TALL playground...however this year she has realized just how high up she is, and is a little afraid. But everytime she gets better and more comfortable.

How is my baby 2 months old already?!

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Disney On Ice!

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Me and my girls....and yep, Sydney slept through almost all of it!

Happy girl with Daddy!

This was when it first started, she was actually afraid for a minute... it was cute and she quickly changed her mind! she loved it!

It was so fun for Scott and I b/c we got to see Maddi all excited and soo happy! Unfortunately the battery in our camera died after the first 10 minutes!!! Bummer, b/c she only got more excited! What a fun night for us. Thank you Baldwins!!

Cute stuff...

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These pictures just crack me up! We were laying on the bed, and I started laughing b/c Sydney was pulling some funny faces, so Maddi started laughing too... which made me laugh harder, then she laughed harder..and so on.. meanwhile... as you can tell from Sydney's face she was a bit surprised and didn't quite know what was going on! Her cute little face with her eyes popping out just makes me laugh! And Maddi LOVES holding hands, so Sydney may not have a choice as to whether she will like it or not... Maddi has already made that decision for her! They are so cute together, I LOVE THEM!!!!!

awww...pout!

Sydney playing on the floor...

My loves..

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Maddi loves to dress up!

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Maddi's cute outfit from her Great Aunt Alice in Maine! Thanks! Oh, and she wore the skirt 2 days in a row, she loves to be dressed up...we need to get her some fun play clothes!!!

Sydney's first Sunday at church!

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Well, I finally took Sydney to church, (becides her blessing day...which we only went to Sacrament meeting). It was fairly uneventful =) kind of like before I had her, except it took longer to get ready, and instead of holding her in my belly, I held her in my arms....she slept the whole time! What a good girl! And Maddi got to enjoy nursrey, like always!

My sweet girls!

aww..kisses =) Maddi loves to kiss her head!!

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After church, and yes thats b-ball on the tv in the background!

our camera died before church so we charged it during church, and got a few before naps!

Mommy and Sydney

Daddy and Sydney..also ready for naps...=)

Sydney smiles..

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Sydney is ONE MONTH OLD!!! Already!!! She is such a sweet, good baby, and we are so HAPPY to have her.

I caught a smile! Too cute!!
Watching her butterfly mobile...
still watching...its so pretty and fun!
little smirk =)
skinny little legs!

Going to church with Daddy!

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So poor Maddi hadn't been to nursrey since 2 weeks before I had Sydney. I didn't want her getting sick...(if you read my previous blog entries you'll know this approach did me no good anyway!!) but, we were feeling very guilty about her not going b/c she LOVES it! So I stayed home with Sydney one last week, but Scott took Maddi. So, anyways, here is her cute dress from Great Grammie Cooper!

My Valentine Girls!

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Busy Maddi!

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MoRe PiCtUrEs......

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Sydney's Blessing Day!

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Make a Smilebox slideshow

Well, Sydney went back to sleep and Maddi is jabbering away playing happily in her her crib...so I decided to try and get this las post done real quick! yay, I did it! Same story with this slideshow of pics =) though ther aren't as many!
Sydney had a wonderful blessing day! Thanks for all the family and friends who came to see her on her special day. She is our sweet angel and Maddi was very happy to have all her family at church with her! Her beautiful dress was made by her loving Grammie Sue! And the pictures of just Sydney have the special blankets made by her great grandmothers. They were made and used for Maddi's blessing day, and now it was Sydney's turn to be wrapped up in their warmth and love since her great grandmothers couldn't be there in person. The white one was made by Great Grammie Allen, and the pink one be Great Grammie Cooper.

Pictures...

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So here was one suggestion I got for posting a bunch of pictures... its just a slideshow through smilebox (thanks michelle!). It goes kinda slowly though the pictures so you can click the arrow to look at the next picture..also some of them I couldn't zoom out more..sorry.. anyways, I just need to do a post with her blessing day, but I think I hear both of the girls waking up...nap time is over!! So I may have to do that one another day! But here's about 60 new pictures to see (hey...out of 700-800, thats not that bad right?!!!) hmm... I don't know what I'd do with out things being digital!!

First slideshow of pictures (i know there's a ton!)

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Make a Smilebox slideshow

too many pictures!!!! but not in this post... sorry!

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Oh my..... so i have signed on my blog several times, to start posting new pictures and i just can't! we (okay...I) have taken somewhere over 700 in the last 2 weeks... i dont know where to start. of course im not looking to post all of them, but come on...how are you supposed to choose favorites when you take that many?! Also, you can only do 5 at a time and blogger takes forever to load them! (that really drives me nuts!) so i am just going to figure out how to do a slideshow of some pics... (advice welcomed!!) but that will have to wait..Sydney is calling me now =) life is good, though we really miss grammie and grampa!!!!! thanks to all who have checked in on us and sent well-wishes!! pictures soon.... only one for now...

Here's the story....book....

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Poor sick Maddi in the hospital! But she actually looks better here b/c she had been on the IV for while..

Scott in Maddi's hospital crib...

And me...just in a different part of the hospital!

Well, where to start?? So I think I last posted that I was supposed to be induced on Wed. Jan 21 unless the baby had already come...(which of course she didn't!). So, the Sunday before the induction date Maddi woke up from her nap early, and when we went in her room...she and her crib were COVERED in throw up!!!!!!!!!! I about died! I had even kept her home from nursery b/c I was afraid of her getting sick right before I had the baby! seesh. So, poor Maddi was so sick and couldnt keep anything down. Grammy Sue got here Monday evening and was just in time to help us take care of Maddi, who was just getting worse. By Tuesday we took her to the Dr. b/c she hadnt keep anything down since Sunday. We ended up needing to bring her to the hospital where they could give her an IV and watch her over night. Giving and IV to a 2 year old, well lets just say its not easy. It took 2 nurses, me, my mom and Scott (he had to step away a few times...poor daddy..) to hold her down for them to draw blood and get the IV in. It was completely heartbreaking. She cried and begged "let go, let go!! help!, hold you..." anything to make us stop... Well, apparently that was stressful enough to send me into labor. About 7pm (ish) we were just hanging out in Maddi's hospital room and I was feeling mighty uncomfortable, but decided that it simply couldn't be labor...not then...and tried to talk myself out of it, ignore it...but nothing worked then they were getting worse... (ANY other day before then, I would have been completely happy to have had her!!) So, about 11:30pm (on tuesday) Mom and I left Scott to stay the night with Maddi in the hospital. I was going to try and sleep as much as I could (though I was fairly certain I was going to tell them I would hold off on being induced b/c of Maddi being so sick). So went to bed about 12:00am Wednesday morning, only to be woken up by the phone at 1:30am by Scott who was completely sick and throwing up at the hospital....

So mom went to the hospital, and Scott came home to sleep...poor guy was SOO sick! I was still having contractions, and they were still getting stronger.. so much for sleep...so I called my doctor and he wanted me to go in and get checked out. So by 3am, we were going back to the hospital...only, I couldn't drive of course, and scott hardly could b/c he was so sick. We made it there, and Scott waited in the waiting room so he wouldnt be spreading his sickness to all the other expecting moms/nurses, me...etc.. I was dialated to a 3 and 90% effaced. This baby was coming within the next 24 hours. I sent the sicky home to sleep (and throw up and what-not) since i figured I'd be in labor for a while... my sis-in law came to keep me company and help me. (THANK YOU!!!!) They gave me medication to speed up the contractions (I figured since she was coming anyway, I better just get the medication and not be in labor for 24 hours like I was with Maddi!) I also recieved and epidural b/c the contractions were getting so bad. I LOVE the epidural, and plan on using one every time =) anyways, by later that morning I was dialated to a 5, and then they broke my water, and I went from a 5 to a 10 in an hour!!!!!!!!!!! I called Scott, he came, and he was covered in hospital gear and a mask, and stood in the corner of the room with the camera. After about 15-20 of pushing we had our little girl!! Scott only looked at her from a distance, got to see her little face and then had to leave. That was very sad and hard for me (I'm sure for him too). I was so happy to finally have the baby and so worried about Scott and Maddi. and worried about me and/or the baby getting sick... (Maddi was released from the hospital right before I was about to start pushing). Anyways, Scott and Maddi are better, baby and I are home and well, thank goodness! What a crazy time! Though, I am very grateful mom was here, my labor was much easier this time (and recovery!) and that my family is healthy again and I have 2 beautiful girls! I am also glad the hospital is under 10 minutes away!!

Sydney has been wonderful, and Maddi's been adjusting as well as can be expected. (though she says NO alot and screams...) thats sure getting old! =)

WHEW!! Anyways, (sorry that was sooo long, but I'm glad I have this all written down now, its easy to forget times and details..)

Sydney Marie Baker!!

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Welcome to our sweet little girl! She was born on 1/21/09 at 10:45am. She was 7lbs 10oz and 18inches long! There is kind of a long story behind her coming here, but I will save that for another day.. but she's here and healthy and my labor/delivery was much easier and shorter than it was with Maddi. Maddi loves her baby sister but is having a little bit of a hard time b/c she still can't really touch her b/c of being sick... (part of that long story I was talking about). Anyways, here are a few pics for now, and I will be updating over the next few days as I get the chance!!

As promised..belly picture!

2009-01-16T23:32:00.002-07:00

5 DAYS TO GO!!! YAY!

(No, I didn't dress up just for the picture..sorry..) We were going to our niece's wedding.

Almost done....

Flower Girl

2009-01-16T23:21:00.002-07:00

Maddi was a flower girl tonight for our niece Mariah!

Mariah, Brady, and flower girls Maddi, Taylee and Sophie.

Aww.. hugs for the bride!!

Maddi and Sophie were supposed to follow Taylee (who is 4) down the aisle. Maddi followed her (VERY SLOWLY), and Sophie went the opposite way at first. She got turned around, and then her and Maddi decided that it was "a mess!" and were trying to pick up the flower pedals Taylee had already dropped along her way... they continued to do so until I had to go get them and lead them out! It was funny and cute. I didn't get any pictures of that though (b/c I had to go to the front and coax them toward me, and eventually just grab them!) but I know other people got some...so I need copies!

Night-Night Babies!!

2009-01-16T23:00:00.002-07:00

Come on Mom! Can't you see I'm trying to sleep?!!

She loves her babies...

Almost baby time!!!

2009-01-16T11:36:00.005-07:00

No I'm not in labor... (I wish).....
Well, I keep meaning to have Scott take a picture of my belly, since this pregnancy is almost done! But we've been slackers.. I promise I will take one sometime this weekend! I only have until THIS Wednesday to go!!! YAYAYAYAYAAY!!! If she doesnt come by the 21st, then my doc will induce me. I was 2 1/2cm dilated and 70% effaced as of last Monday (I was 2cm and 60% the Monday before that) So I am excited (sort-of..) for my appt this Monday to see if there has been anymore progress. I guess its doesnt really matter since either way we should have her in our arms by Wednesday night or Thursday morning!! We are so excited! and nervous about the big changes this will bring, especially for Maddi! Still no name, and she won't have one until we see her little face! Her blessing day will be Feb 1, she will be so young and tiny, but thats when Grammy Sue and Grampa are here. Mom comes on Monday! YAY!

Temple Square Christmas Lights!

2009-01-06T00:22:00.000-07:00

LOVE this picture...

I love her face here... hahaha...

All bundled up...it was VERY cold... but very beautiful...

Christmas Morning!

2009-01-06T00:08:00.000-07:00

Probably the last year WE will have to wake her up for Christmas... next year I bet she'll be waking us up..

"Awesome!!" was the word that came out of her mouth...we didn't even know she knew that word!

"Fishy" from Grammie and Grampa in Maine, she LOVES him!

New things to color with...we almost couldn't get her to open anything else after she saw these... (they are actually little paint brushes..) Good choice Santa...you know her so well!!

Maddi's favorite movie has been Sleeping Beauty, which she calls "seepin" or "no touch" because Princess Aurora isn't supposed to touch the spindle of the spinning wheel... so Maddi yells "NO TOUCH" at her with great concern... So Grammie Sue sent her the Sleeping Beauty barbie doll =) after every present maddi opened she gasped! no matter what it was... Christmas was so FUN with Maddi!!!!!!!!!!

CHRISTMAS LIGHTS!!

2009-01-05T23:58:00.000-07:00

This was her reaction when we finally turned on the christmas lights!! And pretty much has been everytime since. All she says when we drive in the car and see lights on the houses is "look!! pretty lights!" its so sweet.

So happy about the lights....

Helping Daddy decorate..

This was her reaction when we were all done decorating the tree! sad huh? She just kept asking for "more, more??",but the tree had enough =) and we only put the breakable ones on the top half, so out bottom half was pretty bare, since most of the onces we have aren't exactly for little kids!!

Putting up the Christmas tree!

2009-01-05T23:34:00.000-07:00

Well, Maddi LOVES the Christmas tree!! She was SOOO excited

while we were putting it up! What a good helper =)

These last two pics is how I found her "relaxing" on our bed, watching

a movie.. I just thought it was too cute!!

Pictures Pictures Pictures...what can I say....

2008-12-12T17:06:00.001-07:00

I love this sweet face!!

And me...34 weeks!!!!!

Family Pictures!

2008-12-12T16:49:00.000-07:00

Well, this is a funny shaped pic, but it was a good one of me and Scott (not so great of screaming Maddi) and we dont have any pictures of just us!

This one is just hilarious! It was SOOO nap time when we did these pictures, thats why Maddi isnt really smiling in ANY of them!!! stinker..

What a ham!

2008-12-12T16:34:00.000-07:00

She finally did it...snuck in the bath with her clothes on while I was getting things ready... it was quite funny...she actually didn't know what to think, if she was supposed to be seious incase she was in trouble, or laugh b/c she was funny...
I just laughed..it was pretty funny!

Where's Maddi?? It was cute, we look over at her and all we see is this little foot sticking out the bottom of the bag... she was being completely silent in there, until she started peek-a-boo!

Random Things...

2008-12-12T16:14:00.000-07:00

Sleeping children are the sweetest!

Silly girl climbed in the tub to play with her clothes on (no water) she thought she was pretty funny..

Going for a walk with Daddy on Thanksgiving..

Looks like trouble huh?! She is leading Bailey into the room where Skippy (Matt and margaret's bird)is, she is rather obsessed with him!!

Maddi's 2 Year Pictures!

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I think this bottom one is my favorite... but i also love the top one too, and the one where she's holding the flower up by her chest and looking away from the camera! ah! I love them all. There were a few more, but I couldn't even order all of these! It's a shame they charge an arm and a leg for pictues.. oh well...
Maddi did pretty good after a few mintues, at first she was very serious so I was afraid we weren't going to get any with her beautiful smile...but then the photographer tried to snatch the flower away (playing of course) and didn't get it away from Maddi, so Maddi thought it was fun teasing the lady by holding the flower out and pulling it away from her while the photographer "tried" to get it....that how we got most of the smiles. Though it was still hard to get Maddi to stay in one place and not run around and play like she wanted to! On a side note, I didnt think the flower she had was very pretty..but its how we got the smiles, so I figured I could live with it!!

2008-11-25T23:06:00.000-07:00

2 years of our wonderful, happy, fun loving Maddi! We feel so blessed to have her. Here is how she has grown! The day she was born,(the pics say the 26th but the date on our camera was a day off!!) Then her first birhday, and then today!! What a big girl! We love her so..

New Dress from Grammie and Grampa!

2008-11-24T21:50:00.000-07:00

Grammie and Grampa sent such a CUTE dress!! She had just gotten up from her nap when we opened her package, she's a little mellow and messy hair, but oh-well, she still looks so cute, especially in that dress! THANK YOU!! Also, Aunt Cheryl sent the Baker's apron and hat! Thats as good as we got for pictures of her in it for now. We'll try again when she is more awake!!

Package from Maine!

2008-11-24T21:39:00.000-07:00

Maddi got a package from Maine! Thank yous to Grammie and Grampa, Aunt Cheryl, Aunt Alice and cousins Jared, Kenzie and Zander! Maddi had lots of fun opening her gifts and looking at the colored pictures just for her! (It made her want to color!)

Birthday Party #1!!

2008-11-24T21:24:00.000-07:00

Sunday night we had Uncle Matt & Margaret, Zach, Kacie, Bailey, Addison, Tori, Courtney, Andrew, and Brynn come over to celebrate Maddi turning 2 tomorrow! We had lots of fun and Maddi got some fun toys and cute clothes. She got a Mr. Potato Head and she thought she was hilarious when she pulled the pieces off of him (the picure with the big smile is her laughing b/c she did it) Also, she got to hold little Addison (with help of course) and was very concerned when the baby cried..."baby cry", "no cry" she would say. It was cute... good practice! =) Also, when we sang happy birthday to her, as I brought the cake up to her she said "hot" and turned away from the candle! It was funny.. she also sniffed the cake instead of blowing the candle out! Silly girl!

Sunday again!!

2008-11-24T21:14:00.000-07:00

It was pretty cold out, so I took pictures fast once I took her sweater off!(so we could actually see the dress in the pictures). As you can see in one of the pictures she is kind of bent over with her hands together..she was said "coold!" So we stopped and put her sweater on and went inside for lunch!

"nummy" pancakes!

2008-11-24T21:08:00.000-07:00