Hey there big boy...sitting all alone ;)

I can finally sit on my own and play with my toys!



















Hi momma, im busy playing right now!



















I dont WANT to go to bed




















I dont know what to think about this home made teething biscut





















Honestly not much has been going on this month which is why there hasnt been much updating going on either. We have just been enjoying hanging out at home mostly. Sawyer sits up on his own all the time and has been for the past few weeks now which has opened up a whole new world of playing for him and from what I can tell, he is thrilled. Daddy also hung up Sawyer's swing a few weekends ago and he LOVES it. We do a lot of playing outside now. We also have our baby pool up but we have only been in a few times- we have it set up so that in the afternoon it sits in the shade from our deck and honestly it has been too chilly outside for me to want to play in it! We did enjoy spending time with a good old friend this past weekend before she moves to California, and we are enjoying many birthdays and anniversaries this month also including mommy and daddy's anniversary next week!

4th of July

We headed back down to the ozarks this past weekend to celebrate the 4th of july and it was a good thing that we did because apparently it was all of 65 degrees back home on the 4th- which is nuts! i guess it was nearly a record low! my cousins from texas were visiting and apparently they were drinking hot cocoa they were so cold!! it was in the 80's at the lake and we actually had a few good hours of nice boating weather. zach, sawyer and i drove down friday night after i got off work which was nice because sawyer slept almost the whole way down but sucked because zach and i were both so tired. on saturday the weather seemed like it was going to be crummy but it cleared up around lunch time!
sawyer with uncle ben



















we were going to hit the mall but when the sun started to shine we all decided to go boating instead and the day turned out really nice! I can't say whether sawyer liked the boat or hated it...he fell asleep everytime it was moving so im assuming he like the noise and vibrations but perhaps he hated it and wanted to tune everything out. We went out all day long and he was cheerful the whole time so I like to think he enjoyed himself.

We saw some people cliff jumping while we were out boating. This was nuts! This guy in the picture had to have jumped at least 50 ft! I was afraid i was going to have to save someones life! No one from our boat jumped off these- Val and I made sure of that, but the boys were heckling the jumpers pretty good- one guy chickend out and climbed all the way back down- even after a little girl jumped off next to him!














Beth and the boys did their own cliff jumping when we got to haha tonka springs. These were a little less scary. Here is Zach mid jump.














Sawyer enjoying the boat with Grandma-he did awesome all day long!



















Sawyer feeling grandpas scratchy face (he loves to touch faces)














Sawyer looks like his is trying to wave














Sawyer and grandpa























After we stopped at haha tonka springs we headed down to bear bottom resort and some of the kids rode on the water slide. The drunk people there (im assuming they were drunk) could not get enough of sawyer and we literally got almost mobbed by a bunch of different random people while we were walking in and again while waiting to use the bathroom. I at least assumed everyone was drunk because they were all admiring sawyer like they had never seen a baby before in their lives... we had some wonderful appetizers there and then decided to hurry home because it was starting to get overcast- good thing we did because it started to POUR rain as we were leaving but we got ahead of it and boated home without another drop. We all got ready and went BACK out on the boat to watch fireworks. It was about 930 and past sawyer bedtime so he didnt even notice them because he nursed and then fell asleep...guess we will have to wait until next year to see what he thinks about them.

Thats a "wrap"

So I said in my previous post that I also made some baby wraps and slings and Anna wanted some pictures of them...I had Sawyer in one of the wraps this afternoon while I was cleaning up the Kitchen after I made him some green beans and I got a few pictures. (He HATES the blender and needing a little cuddling to feel better). He loves to be in any kind of cuddly wrap so he feel right asleep. It is actually really comfy to wear even though he is getting really heavy because it helps to spread the weight out across the back instead of just on the shoulders. I can also tie it so that he can ride around on my hip or so that he can face 'out' instead of in like this. He can also ride on my back but I dont know if I will try that or not...and there are are few other but I have not tried those either. I think I actually like to use the wrap for the hip carry better than a sling- it is really secure. I really dont have to hold on at all!

Here he is close up.















and head tucked in so he can snooze and be more secure

Side View of him snuggled in there

Front view

Me trying to show how it all works..

The back (also I cut like 6+ inches off my hair two weeks ago!!)

Later Gater

I have been feeling the creative bug again lately so i drug my sewing machine up from the basement and i fashioned myself a baby sling- which turned out not half bad and worked pretty darn well also! And then i proceded to make myself 4 baby wraps, and another sling. And then I made Sawyer a T-shirt and two burp cloths- I didnt MAKE the t-shirt or burp cloth, rather just cutened them up a bit. I also am making sawyer some fabric blocks to play with.

His T-shirt front and back "later gater"

whale burp cloth

my adorable assistant and his new 4th of july decorated burp cloth

Good Friends, Good Fun

Zach and i enjoyed a weekend spent with friends in the ozarks this past weekend. sawyer stayed with grandma val and got to go to corn carnival and to visit great grandma karen. the report from grandma was that he loved the corn carnival parade and all the lights at the carnival. zach and i also had a great weekend away. it was SO hard for me to leave Sawyer but i really did end up having a great time. it was apparently the hottest day at the lake since 1951 on saturday!! we spent most of the weekend floating in the lake and enjoying some adult beverages- something i hadnt done in over a year! it was great for us to get together with all of our buddies at once- that is hard to accomplish for 9 people who all live in different states! we will be heading to cancun with the same group of friends- plus leeann and caleb, next march! this made me even more excited for that. it was great to get home and het my hands on sawyer again though! i missed him like crazy! he is heading to the ozarks with zach and i again next weekend for the 4th- im guessing he wont like fireworks though..

5 months old!

I honestly can't believe it has been 5 months already but what an amazing 5 months they have been. Sawyer can sit up on his own now- he does take his share of falls however and the sitting dosent last more than a few minutes without help but he gets better at it every day. He LOVES to sit up and does mini sit ups in an attempt to get to the sitting position. He loves to eat food and wants to drink out of any cup that I am drinking out of. He loves flowers, and being outside and loves the swimming pool. He just recently has seemed to take great interest in Cooper and likes to pet coopers ears. He has found his feet and likes to grab at his toes like they are the coolest thing ever. I think that he gets even more handsome every month! His hair is very very blonde now like mommy. Daddy still makes him laugh more than anything! He is such an amazing and wonderful little boy and Im still loving every minute with him!!

$5 worth of sweet potatoes..

gets you this much homemade baby food!

Each of those is enough for two days...thats a lot of sweet potatoes! good thing sawyer really liked them! he did NOT seem to like the squash i made though...he made the yuck sound and spit it out.

The only yucky part...sweet potatoes go in, and what comes out ALSO looks like sweet potatoes. fourtuatly he only poos every three days now (like clockwork lol) and he is the messiest eater because he insists on holding the spoon.