Our little Sydney is officially 1 month old!  The past 31 days have been nothing short of amazing.  This pas week we’ve had a few new milestones…  I caught Sydney sucking her thumb for the very first time on Saturday.  Although, this won’t be as cute later on when we have to break the habit, it was adorable to see her finally find her own thumb.  She’s also begun to mimic things that we do.  I can stick my tongue out at her and she’ll do the same back to me.  It’s been so much fun watching her grow, it makes even those sleepless hours at night or early in the morning all seem totally worth it.

Grandpa Ross and Mimaw Marci are coming to visit today and Auntie Brandi will be here tomorrow.  We are looking forward to some much needed time with family and just hope that we don’t keep them up too much at night.

I found out on Friday that I passed the third section of the CPA exam.  Which means I officially only have one more exam to go before I get my certification.  Randy starts working half-days from home next week, so we look forward this new change in our schedule.  As always, we’ve included some picture of Sydney below.

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Love,

Darci, Randy and Sydney

Sydney and I ventured out for her doctor appointment on Friday (8/15).  She had a great appointment - she passed her hearing test in both ears (she had failed the test in one of her ears at the hospital but it must have been what the doctor suspected - too much fluid in that ear at the time of the test).  She weighed 8lbs 12 oz and had grown 1/2 inch in height.  She is in the 80th percentile when it comes to her height and the 56th percentile when it comes to her weight.  According to the doctor, she is growing just as she should and seems to be in perfect health!

We’d had a rough week and a half or so with regard to sleep - we were worried that we were experiencing the early stages of a colicky baby.  While talking with the pediatrician, the symptoms sounded more like it may be a problem with reflux rather than colic.  Sydney’s been taking baby Zantac since Friday and has had much more restful nights since then.  We are thankful that we’ve found something that really seems to be helping her!  Of course a post wouldn’t be complete without some more pictures so I’ve included a few below.  Syd has a really cute habit of keeping her big and second toe spread apart like she’s giving you the “peace sign” thus the picture of her tootsies!

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Well we’re halfway through our third week home with Sydney!  Our second week home was great - I am still adjusting to the life of a stay at home mom but am LOVING every minute that I get to spend with our little one!  We anxiously await the minute when daddy walks through the door because we both miss him very much during the day but we are thankful that he is always just as excited to see both of us when he gets home!

We didn’t venture out further than the grocery store by ourselves during the second week - Sydney is on a pretty strict schedule of eating every 2.5 to 3 hours so if I plan to go anywhere, I try to make sure she’s just been fed so that we don’t have to make any unexpected pit stops while we’re out!  We took Sydney shopping with us on Saturday and then spent most of the day at the hospital visiting our new friend Vivian Elizabeth Kent on Sunday.  Vivian is an adorably healthy baby girl and I’m sure she and Sydney will have all kinds of fun together in the near future…until then, mommy Jules and I will have to have play dates!

Now that Sydney’s over two weeks old, we were finally able to cut her nails (yay…no more mittens!) and give her a real bath!  She’s not so fond of the bathing experience yet but hopefully she’ll turn into a water baby like her mom someday!  Yesterday we ventured out to daddy and mommy’s offices.  Everyone thought that Sydney was just adorable and couldn’t keep their hands off of her!  We are so blessed to have such a healthy and beautiful baby girl!  We have a doctor’s appointment on Friday so we’ll see how much weight Sydney has gained!  We’ve posted some pictures below.

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Love,

Darci, Randy & Sydney

Well, we got to bring the baby home Monday, July28.  She’s doing great.  We had a doctor’s appointment on Wednesday.  Sydney had gained back 5 of the 7 ounces she lost after birth.  They said she was doing perfectly.   Rod, Casey and the girls came for the weekend and spent time with Sydney, Darci and I.  We had a great weekend, and a wonderful first week with our baby.  We took a few pictures if you want to take a look.

Thanks for keeping us in your prayers.

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Love,

Randy, Darci and Sydney

It happened, we had our baby July 26-2008 at 5:26pm.  Here are the details:

Sydney Claire Nixon

7lb 15 oz

Here are the pictures - Enjoy.

-Randy, Darci and Sydney

On Monday I had another doctor’s appointment.  After checking me over, my midwife told me that she thought that little Sydney may arrive sometime this week.  Well, we are still counting the days until her arrival!  I have been feeling great though (despite some seriously swollen ankles…or shall I say cankles)!   Staying busy with work has helped keep me from counting the minutes until she’s here.  Randy on the other hand has definitely had a hard time waiting patiently!  We are both just so anxious to meet her!

We took a few couple pregnant pictures, click on the link below to check them out if you dare!  Other than that, all is well here - just trying to stay cool as it is nearly 90-95 degrees everyday!

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Saturday was the day of baby showers!  Our friends from our old small group decided to throw us a double baby shower with the couple in our group who will be adopting a baby around the same time that little Sydney is due!  We were celebrating two new little ones!  We had brunch at our favorite local bistro (J Christopher’s) and then opened gifts and of course ate cake!  We had a great time with everyone and felt truly blessed to be surrounded by such a great group of friends.

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Later Saturday afternoon, Renee (so amazingly creative) threw us a virtual baby shower via webcam!  We got on the webcam at about 3:00 our time and spent about 2 hours playing shower games, eating cake, and opening gifts!  Spoiled was an understatement!  The Montana crew really knew how to throw a baby shower and we actually felt like we were back home with the gang for a minute.  We are truly thankful for friends who’ve always made us feel like family!

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We thought we’d share a few cute pictures of our boys before our new little girl is born!  Baxi and Calvin (aka Kitty Nana) are the best of brothers and really enjoy “playing together” even though it looks like Baxi has Calvin’s head in his mouth!

I am officially 9 months pregnant now!  I had my 36 week appointment today.  We had an ultrasound (didn’t really get any good clear pictures) but according to the ultrasound tech, Sydney is measuring right at average and probably weighs about 6 pounds right now.  My health is still great - perfect blood pressure and a total weight gain of 29 pounds which is right where I should be.  I’ll be going every week now so we’ll keep you posted with any significant developments!

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My office generously and slyly (along with Randy’s help) threw me a surprise baby shower after work this evening!  We met at a local steakhouse and enjoyed appetizers and drinks.  We also played some very fun shower games, including a game where people had to guess how many toilet paper sheets around my belly is!  It’s 11 by the way :)  The partners all chipped in to buy us a glider/rocker and ottoman for the nursery.  All the girls in the office SPOILED Sydney rotten with toys, clothes, blankets and other baby necessities.  I was so surprised when I saw them all there and felt like a special part of the office family.

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Love,

Darci

Well, our nursery is starting to look a little bit like a nursery now, so we thought we’d share a few pictures.  Drop us a line and let us know what you think.  We hung some letters tonight, as well as some teddy bear glamour shots :)  Hope to hear from everyone.

Darci had a doctor’s appointment today, and everything is going perfectly.  The doctor said that the baby weighs 5 1/2 to 6 pounds right now, and that the baby will grow about a half a pound a week, so she should be right around 8 pounds when she’s at full term.

We have a 36 week appointment in two weeks where we get an ultrasound, so I should be putting up some pictures shortly after that happens, depending on if we get good ones of course…

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