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 :)

Sawyer's First Halloween!

Today was Sawyers first Halloween, last year he and I went together as a "mummy"- which was zachs idea and of course he thought that was hilarious.  Sawyer had two costumes this year, he was a dog and a gorilla.  He didnt really seem to mind wearing either costume- he is so good natured.  We didnt take him trick or treating- he is def. too little for candy.  We did put him in his costume and take his to my grandparents house though and he got to see my parents and some of my aunts and uncles as well.  We had some family in town from michigan so they got to see him too and we all had dinner together tonight and yesterday.  I also got sawyer a glow in the dark skeleton shirt that he work today and I forgot untill this afternoon that cooper had a matching costume!  Sawyer loves cooper so of course I had to try to get a picture of them together!

Hay Baby Hay

huge pelicans all flocked togethertons of birds

look momma- I can walk Cooper all by myself!

Im all bundled up in my stroller

In the hayloft- so neat but so dusty!

Sawyers first hayrack ride! Grandpa drove the tractor

Buddies

It was a wonderful weekend in our household. We spent a nice relaxing weekend together. Saturday afternoon was nice enough that all four of us (cooper counts too) got out for a lovely long walk by the lake. There were literally hundered of birds flocked and flying about below the dam and it was quite a funny sight- i suppose they were going after the fish down there. There were tons of segulls and a big group of HUGE pelicans as well. We walked my favorite path and stood on the bridge across the river and watched all the birds swirl around. Sunday was a busy day- we had family pictures taken with Zachs family and Sawyer got a halloween present from nanna after the pictures- he did very well this time and we got a few cute shots of just him for his nine month pictures! we spent the evening at a fall bonfire cookout with Zachs family- it was a blast- we roasted hotdogs over the fire,had a potluck and hot apple cider and Sawyer got to go on his first hayrack ride- I think he liked it too- except I made him wear his mittens and he wouldnt move his arms- I guess he though if he couldnt use his hands, he couldnt use his arms at all- it took him a few hours to get over it but he was still cheerful- just didnt move his arms and hands much lol. We even went up in the hayloft of a 100 year old barn- which was so neat, but so so dusty- I couldnt stay up for very long. It was a wonderful way to celebrate the fall season!

9 Months Old

if you click on this it pulls up bigger and not fuzzy

its hard to believe sawyer is 9 months old today- it seems to have flown by! it sure seemed like the nine months i was pregnant didnt go this fast! seems like it is time for an update so.. at nine months sawyer is def. one of the happiest kids ever and seems to be pretty laid back. his favorite things are animals, cars/trucks/tractors, eating what mommy is eating (and still loves nursing), and being outside. he is getting to be a better napper and ussually takes at least one good long nap everyday- we are still working on making the second a good nap too. he prob weighs between 22 and 23 lbs and is very tall- he is mostly wearing 12 month clothes now and some 18 month jammies. he is pulling himself up more and more but still refuses to crawl in favor of scooting on his butt. he will eat anything but especially loves to feed himself and drink from a cup. his favorite toys are balls- especially a purple ball he picked out himself- his favorite game is to play catch and he can both throw and catch very well already with good accuracy- maybe he will grow up to be a football player. he also loves to talk and seems to sat a few things pretty consistently- mama dada ball dog night night hi are a few i can think of... he can wave and loves to show off that he is soooooooo big as well. he likes to stand holding onto the furniture and occasionally take little steps. and he seems to just get more adorable every second!

Southern Sawyer

enjoying nice weather!

Farmers Market Pumpkins were "sooooo big"

How Sawyer spent each plane ride

This is neat!

Visiting Uncle Marcus at Davidson

Aunt Anna

Sawyer and I headed south this past week to spend fall break with my siblings in North Carolina. Daddy stayed home so it was just the two of us flying together- and it was Sawyer's first plane trip. I guess I wasnt really too nervous because sawyer tends to be such a good natured little guy. Turn out I really didnt need to be nervous- Sawyer slept the entire time on each of our flights! We layed over in Chicago and he woke up as we were landing and looked out the window and laughed and laughed and looked at me as if to say "whoa mom are you SEEING this, this is crazy!" We got our own row on each flight- except for one, which was nice because we needed the extra space. And of course Sawyer made friends with everyone sitting around us each time before he fell asleep - it think the engine noise would just knock him out because as soon as we would start moving- he was out. He loved the airport too- we would walk and look in the shops and he made friends with anyone who would look his way.

North Carolina was so nice and WARM! We even wore shorts a few times and took walks, and got to play outside! It was not fun to get off the plane in Iowa and feel the FREEZING cold air!

We got to see where uncle marcus goes to college which was fun. I think sawyer liked college :) We did lots of shopping everyday and went to the farmers market, trader joes, dean and deluca ect. and went out to eat a lot- including probably the best sushi I can remember- yum! We even got some of our christmas shoppind done- and bought sawyer a winter coat- which is pretty funny actually because it makes him look so puffy.

It was so nice to get to see my brother and sister and sawyer was so happy and had so much fun with everyone. It was nice to get home to daddy after a week though- Zach and I realized that we hadnt been apart for more than a few days since I graduated from college- and we def. missed eachother.