Meet Sydney, the first female child in the Johnson family since they came over from Sweden many, many moons ago.
Syd, who calls herself “Yid”, also answers to Sweetheart, Pumpkin, Miss Thang, Hands Off! and Syd Precious. Offer her some blueberries or some almond milk yogurt and a spoon, and she’ll thank you in sign language while simultaneously requesting twelve consecutive rounds of “The Monkey Song.” She is an avid reader, loves to take her dolls sledding down the stairwell banisters, watering the garden and climbing — like her dad.
In the coming years, we look forward to teaching her study hacks, how to harvest seeds, all the songs in Bruce Springsteen’s canon, that pasta is not really your friend and, yes, everyone poops.