Our gift to Nanny

This year we decided to get a family photo made for my mom for Christmas. Here are a few of the best pictures from our photo session. She loved them!

Santa Came!

Sawyer was so proud to be leaving milk and cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve.

Santa made it to our house and Sawyer is thoroughly enjoying his new toys! Here are a few highlights from Christmas day.

America's Favorite Dancer

The other night we watched So You Think You Can Dance and they crowned "America's Favorite Dancer." I must say that they got it wrong. America's Favorite Dancer lives in our house and his name is Sawyer!
Check out these new moves.

Jolly St. Nick

Well it seems the time has come for Sawyer to be scared of the big man in the red suit. He had dinner with him the other night and when it came time to sit on his lap, well, these pictures speak for themselves. We will try again next year!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

The tree is up, front porch full of lights and garland, presents bought, what a fun time of year! I can't wait to see how Sawyer reacts to Christmas this year. He is going to be so fun! This past month has been very eventful! We celebrated Chris's 30th birthday with a weekend trip to Kansas City. Sawyer had his first sleepover at Aunt Barb and Uncle Doug's and we got to go on a date with our best friend, Ang, and her boyfriend. It was a great time! This past weekend we made another trip to KC and boy was it fun. We ended up purchasing a car on Saturday morning after 6 months of looking. We bought a 2005 Honda Pilot and it is perfect for us! We then headed to Crown Center, out to lunch, and then settled in at Barb and Doug's for an evening of football watching. Sawyer was very entertaining and in the words of Barbara, "quite a hoot!" What is new? Sunday we headed to the cold Chiefs game and watched them get stomped by the Broncos to the great delight of my sister and Eric! It was still fun even though they lost. :)

We finished off the weekend with dinner at Jack Stack and then a drive home in my new car! So fun!

Sawyer just keeps growing and growing and growing! He is getting so tall and is starting to look more like a boy and less like a baby each day. He is really talking up a storm and can pretty much tell us anything he wants. He seems to learn a new word each day. His current obsession is Melmo (elmo) and Marney (barney). He can't get enough!

I tried to get some cute pictures of him for our Christmas card, but am not completely satisfied yet. Here are a couple of decent ones.

I hope you all are having a wonderful holiday season. I can't wait to blog about our Christmas experiences this year!

Its a Papa!

Sawyer's babysitter had a newspaper one day with my dad's picture on the back page and she showed it to Sawyer. He got so excited and just kept saying, "its a papa!" It was so cute! We ended up taking the paper home and he "read" it the whole way home continuously saying, "Mama, its a papa!" Hilarious! :)

My daddy is the coolest!

Sawyer was pretty amazed at his daddy the other night when he made him a huge fort over the living room floor. He thought it was the coolest thing ever, especially when we let him play with the flashlight in the dark fort. It is still up 2 days later and he played in it again last night. Such fun memories! Chris is such a great daddy!

The cutest Penguin Ever!

Here are some pictures of Sawyer at Halloween in his Penguin costume! He was so cute and had so much fun at Grandma and GPa's church! Then we headed to Nanny and Papa's for a halloween party outside, weenie roast and all! It was a great night!

Proud to be a Pirate!

The Branson Pirates had a great season! They lost in the first game of state playoffs to Webb City, a team that hasn't lost a game in 6 years! But the best part is that they fought a great fight and were ahead in the 3rd quarter! They just couldn't pull out the win. Maybe next year! We are all very proud of my dad and the team!

Here is a little video of Sawyer cheering on his Papa's team. He really loves football games!

Chris Look a Like

Everyone has always said that Sawyer looks so much like his daddy. I have always thought they looked a little a like, but never really saw what everyone else saw...until this picture! Everything about this picture reminds me of Chris (even down to the food in the corner of his mouth, ha ha!). His facial expression is almost identical to one that Chris gives me every day. Wow, I think we have a little mini me on our hands. :)

Fall Fun

Sawyer has been having a ton of fun this fall between football games, playing outside, and this past weekend at the Bryant family fall gathering! Here are a few fun pictures of his recent adventures.
Playing in the leaves at the Bryant gathering


Sawyer LOVES football games!

Crazy kid
The only time of the day that Sawyer is clean :)

Painting his first pumpkin at Kaylor's birthday party

Playing football at Kaylor's birthday party. He wanted to wear her new pink Barbie bike helmet!

Sawyer is growing so much and getting funnier every day. He is such a hoot! Everywhere we go he keeps everyone entertained. Every morning and afternoon he sings along to the Veggie Tales cd in the car. He loves the "hairbrush song" and sings at the top of his lungs, even though it doesn't always sound like the words on the song. He also sings to the slower songs with a sweet quiet voice. It is the highlight of my day. He loves to dance and his newest favorite thing is to hide in the pantry and scream when you open the door and "find" him. He is sneaky and ornery, but so darn cute that you can't even be mad at him for a second! I just love him with all my heart! :)

Our little mess maker

I have always been a little compulsive about keeping my house clean and picked up. I think God was thinking about that when he made Sawyer. He is the messiest little boy ever! I have definitely had to learn to loosen up a bit when it comes to cleanliness! Here are a couple of pictures of his latest messes. He loves to empty drawers and cabinets. Just in the past week he emptied all the kitchen towel drawers and pulled almost every book from his cabinet. What a stinker! :)

Growing Boy

We took Sawyer to the doctor today for his 18 month check up. Wow, it sounds so wierd to say he is 1 and 1/2! He is healthy and growing. We were happy to see that he was in the 20th percentile for his weight and 50th percentile for his height! Last time he was in the 10th and 20th percentile for each of these so he is growing a lot! :)
He was not too excited to be at the doctor's office, I guess he thought he was going to get a shot or something! But he got a sucker and we took him to McDonalds for lunch so life is good now.

Tomorrow night we head to Neosho for the first game of Districts. We had a tough loss last week to Webb City, but if we can win the next 3 we will be in great shape for playoffs. Go Pirates! :)

Tough Loss

The Pirates had a tough loss to Carthage on Friday. They played their hearts out through the whole game, but a few bad calls and turnovers led to a loss in the 4th quarter. Hopefully they can turn it around and play a good game against Webb City this Friday!
Here is a link to an article about the game if you want to see details. :)

http://www.bransondailynews.com/story.php?storyID=13461

Groovin to the beat!

I thought you would get a kick out of this video of Sawyer's latest dance moves!

Winning is fun!

The great Pirate football season continues! We won big on Friday against Willlard, 56 to 21! It is so fun to win!

Here is my funny Sawyer story of the week:
The other night Sawyer was in one of his jabbering moods and he was talking a mile a minute and we couldn't understand a word he was saying. We let this go on for awhile and then finally Chris said, "Sawyer, what are you talking about?" Sawyer quickly replied, "I don't know!" It was was hilarious the way he said it with such clarity. We laughed about it for a long time and then he went back to speaking his own "Sawyer" language! :)

M-I-Z, Z-O-U!

We went to our first MU game this weekend and had a blast! It was a huge win and tons of fun!

Go Tigers!!!

Bat Boy

Sawyer has become quite good at battting. We even bought him his first T-Ball Set this weekend. Here is a video of his first attempt. Maybe we see baseball in his future?

Sawyer's Best Friends

Sawyer loves his doggies! Here are a couple of cute videos of him loving on Rocky and Barbie...

Boy Band

Sawyer and Chris have started their own boy band in our living room! They have had tons of fun drumming, singing, dancing, and playing the piano lately. Watch out, you might see them on tour in a town near you soon! :)

Are you proud to be a Pirate? Yes We Are!

The Pirates have started out the season with a bang! They are 3 and 1 after Fridays stomping of Marshfield! The 1 loss was a hard one, but the team bounced back and came back ready to win the next week. We are excited to see what they can do for the rest of the season!

Sawyer has enjoyed the games more than we thought he would. He LOVES cheering and seeing his PaPa on the field after the game!

UPDATE!!!

Wow, it has been over a month since my last post! Life has been crazy busy in Wilks world, but it is starting to slow down now, thank goodness! This past month has been full of a lot of working, playing, and football games. Sawyer loves going to his PaPa's football games on Friday nights. He cheers through the entire game! He shakes the cowbell and clacker as well as anyone else in the stands! He is running around non stop and getting into anything and everything. His personality just gets more defined daily and there is never a day that goes by that he doesn't do something to make us laugh and smile. He is truly a joy!
On the other hand, he has starting throwing small temper tantrums lately which shows us that the "terrible twos" are right around the corner! His first one happened last week at Chris's softball game. He wanted to play with someone's baseball bat and I wouldn't let him because it wasn't ours. He threw himself down and started screaming and kicking. I literally carried him kicking and screaming all the way to the car! His daddy had to have a little talk with him to get him to calm down and go to bed that night. That was definitely not our favorite night, but we got through it and all learned from the experience. Thankfully, these tantrums are few and far between and most of the time he is simply a healthy and happy little boy!
Sawyer is growing tall and learning so many new tricks. He is talking a lot, but we just don't always understand what he is saying! All this to say, life is good at the Wilks household! We are excited about a great start to the Pirate football season and are looking forward to a great fall in Branson.

Our big boy

I don't know why, but this picture seems to make Sawyer look so big! We went to Sams last weekend to get dog food and he decided he wanted to climb up and sit on top of the food. He was very proud of himself. It is all these fun little times in life that make me feel so blessed!

This next picture was just funny. We were driving to Springfield and Sawyer fell asleep snuggling with his sippee cup. It was really cute!

MESSY!

Sawyer has discovered that ketchup is food's favorite companion! He wants to dip anything and everything in ketchup. Here's the problem, when you give him ketchup he treats it like finger paint so you have to be careful where you are when he eats it. Wow, he really is messy!

Water is so fun!

In the last couple of weeks Sawyer has gotten to experience his first trip to the rec plex pool and his first trip out on the lake. He had a blast both times! He loved riding in the boat and playing in the water fountains at the rec plex. Hopefully we can go a couple more times before summer is over! (the funniest thing about these pictures is that the swim trunks he is wearing are size 0-3 months, yep, he is just a little guy!)