Give Thanks

We have been trying to keep busy and go out and about and visit friends during the day because I want Sawyer to get used to being around other kids since otherwise most of the time it is just him and me, or him with zach, grandma, ect. He loves other kids so I think he will be just fine :) We had a really fun playdate with one of my friends from work- we went and played with her neighbors adorable golden/ yellow lab puppies and they were so sweet and adorable! They started out with a dozen puppies and there were four left- they all already had homes and were waiting to be picked up! I bet they will grow up to be very nice dogs!  Sawyer of course loved them because he loves dogs, but one of them got a bit rowdy and scratched his cheek and then he was done with them.  He still loves his Cooper dog though!

So far we have had two thanksgivings and two more celebrations tomorrow.  Sawyer seemed to enjoy his "first" thanksgiving celebration with my family on Saturday but he pretty much likes anything where he gets to eat and gets a bunch of attention.  It was wonderful- I love spending time with family whenver I can.  We had the most delicious meal, and this is what I like to call our "Martha Stewart" Thanksgiving because my aunt always makes everything so beautiful and I think that makes things even more fun!  Sawyer ate pretty much the whole spread and liked everything, of course sweet potatoes were probably his favorite but he even ate some smoked salmon and seemed to like that too.  Yum! 

This year I have so much to be Thankful for- how wonderful is that!!??  Every year I am especially thankful for my wonderful family- I have always loved the holidays because that means even more family togetherness time!  This year I am so thankful for Sawyer- last year he was just a large belly bump and now he is an energetic, healthy, growing baby boy and there is nothing I am more thankful for than that.  I am thankful that Zach is a wonderful daddy to him and will be there to teach him as he grows.  I am thankful that I have a warm home, and food to eat because many people are not so lucky this year.  Happy Thanksgiving!

My favorite things..

..includes playdates!  And we had two this week- what could be better than that!  Monday my friend Katie from work came over with her son Brandon who is about 6 months older than Sawyer.  The boys actually seemed sort of interested in each other which was so cute!  Katie also fixed my sewing machine for me- turns out the needle was just in backwards (somehow I thought I had checked that first but I guess not...oops) so now I can sew things again!  Yay!  Today we had a playdate with two friends from HS and their adorable children!  There were 6 kids total and it was so fun to watch them all together.

Give me a Sign!

For the past few months Zach and I have been (when we remember- which hasnt been as often as I had hoped for) doing sign language with Sawyer- eat, drink, more, and milk.  Last night Zach noticed Sawyer doing the sign for milk, but I thought he was just waving.  Today I saw him do milk again, but we were saying bye to some playdate friends so again I thought he was trying to wave.  Then a few minutes later he did "milk" to me agian and I said milk?  And signed it back to him- he excitedly did "milk" again right away- and since it was naptime I took him and layed him down in our bedroom and asked "milk?" with the sign and he signed back "milk" right away and made excited sounds.  I let him nurse and he happily ate and fell right asleep.  After he woke up he signed "milk, milk milk!"  and I fed him some lunch (even though we have been working a whole different sign for eat)  and he seemed happy.  Perhaps he will start doing the rest of his signs soon as well.

Dog gone fun!

What is this? 

Finally crawling on his hands and knees- wearing a bib mommy made him and eating chicken- so silly!

I LOVE all these toys I found in here momma!

Now that Sawyer is finally crawling all over the place he is into EVERYTHING and his main targets seem to be the dog, and the dogs "stuff"  yesterday while I was making dinner and Sawyer was in the kitchen with me he crawled over to the dogs bowl and grabbed a hand full of dog food- my hands were covered wit raw chicken juice so into his mouth it went, and after washing up I fished out three chewed up peices, YUCK!  Today back over to the dog bowls it was but there was no food, so instead sawyer SPLASHES like crazy in the dogs water- of course again while my hands are covered in gunk and I cant grab him- time to move Coopers bowls- poor doggy!  Then after the water bowl incident he opens up the lazy susan and pulls out all the potatoes- and finally I let him have at the tupperware cabinet and he pulled out ever peice he could reach and he LOVED that game- he pushed the peices all around the floor.  What fun!  Its strange but when he crawls, he looks so much littler- and so so sweet. 

Sawyer had his 9 month Dr. appoitment today and lucky boy didnt have to get any shots- yay!  He did get his finger pricked so they could check his hemoglobin but he didnt even seem to mind the poke- he just didnt like me holding his arm still!  Then he got a bandaid and he kept sticking his bandaid finger in his mouth- so I took it off and checked and it seemed like it wasnt bleeding.  Next thing I know I look down and there is blood on my jeans and his finger is bleeding everywhere and he wont let me hold pressure long enough to get it to stop so we eneded up with blood on the books we brought to leave and blood on mommys clothes!  Next time I guess Ill just let him chew the bandaid. Sawyer is now a whopping 23lb 30z and 29.5 inches tall- 84% for both height and weight!  Big boy!  Im still not sure how zach and I have a kid who is almost in the 90th percentile!  He is now scooting himself around more and more on his butt and can crawl backwards and army crawl forward.  He has figured out how to go from his belly to sitting and from sitting to being on his belly so he can pretty much do whatever he wants now which means he is into everything- I think it makes him quite happy :)