Fun Videos

Here are a couple other fun videos I have taken recently. One is of him jumping in his bouncy house at his birthday party and the other is of him dancing along to American Idol the other night. He is always good entertainment for sure! :)

A month's worth of updates!

I am a little behind on my blogging, so here is a month's worth of updates in one blog!...

1. We celebrated our risen Savior by taking Sawyer to an Easter egg hunt at Don and Linda's church, unloading the basket of goodies that the Easter bunny brought to our house, and going to Nanny and Papa's for brunch on Easter Sunday. Sawyer had a lot of fun and that was the start of his gift receiving extravaganza!

2. We celebrated Layne's 29th birthday by going to dinner at Cantina Laredo...yummy! It seems like we went out to eat every day that week! The birthday boy and girl got totally spoiled!

3. As you probably know, Sawyer's birthday was the day after Layne's and we took him to get his favorite food for dinner...pizza! I think we all gained about 5 lbs that week! He had a birthday cupcake and got to play with his new art table. He is quite the artist! The next day all our family and friends gathered for a sporty birthday party to celebrate our 2 year old! He had a blast playing ball and getting a ton of new toys and clothes! He was not a fan of the birthday candles, as you can see by the video below, but he enjoyed everything else about his birthday! The party was at my mom's office and now when we go there he wants to know where the party stuff is, ha ha! :)

4. After a fun filled 2 weeks of celebrations, eating out, and gift receiving we have spent the last week or two just playing, cleaning (our house looked like a toy tornado hit it), and getting ready for our vacation to Mexico in 2 days!!!! We are so excited to spend a week on the beach, but so sad to be leaving Sawyer behind. He will be in great hands with Chris's aunt, but we will miss him ALOT!

5. Sawyer had his 2 year checkup last week and he is a healthy little boy. He was average height, but as we all know, a little on the skinny side. He is in the 20th percentile for his weight, but still growing like a weed every day. He has huge feet so maybe someday he will grow into them! He is, in my opinion, the cutest and funniest little boy I know! :)

I think that about sums it up! What a fun month!!!

Our little cookie monster

Today, unlike most days, I woke up and things were running smoothly. Sawyer woke up a little early, but he was in a good mood and cooperative. I actually had time to fix my hair and put on makeup, which is a rare occurance these days! I was feeling really good as I loaded him in the car and we headed into town, ahead of schedule. He wanted to eat crackers on the way to the sitter's so I gave him some. Next thing I know I hear loud crunching sounds and giggling. I turn around to see Sawyer holding his cracker with both hands and crushing it into his mouth like Cookie Monster eats cookies. He was having a blast and cracker crumbs were flying everywhere. By the time we got to the sitters there were crumbs all over the back seat, in his hair, in my hair, covering his face and clothes, and all over the floor. He thought it was great! I was not quite as amused, but still got a little chuckle out of it. We took some time to clean him up before taking him inside, but he was still a mess when his sitter saw him. She gave him a "wiper" bath and he was good to go. My car, on the other hand, took a little more work. I got myself and my car presentable again and headed into work, 30 minutes late. Ugh! The funny thing is that I just got a text message from his sitter saying "Sawyer is running around in his daiper while his clothes are in the wash. He ate lunch like a cookie monster too!" ha ha ha ha ha, all I can do is laugh at my little buddy! :)

Surprise!

Last weekend we had a fun little surprise party for my Dad's 60th birthday. There was a great turnout and he had so much fun telling stories and reminiscing. It was such an honoring and special time!

2 is coming fast!

Wow, I am amazed at the fact that my baby is turning 2 next month! I am also amazed at the fact that he is potty training himself without us even trying! He has gone multiple times on the potty and last night he went in there and tried to go without my help...what a big boy! :)

Now there is a part of 2 that I am not looking forward to, the terrible part. We have seen a glimpse of that a few times recently, hopefully he is just teasing us (as my aunt Becky said)!

Here is a picture of Sawyer being a big boy. He got a book off my shelf and took it with him to the potty, a study on finding God's purpose for your life, ha ha!

My baby doesn't look like a baby anymore

These pictures say it all. Sawyer is getting so big and changing from a baby into a little man. It makes me happy and sad at the same time. I don't want him to grow up but it is so fun to see him in this stage of life, learning new things all the time and figuring out how to do things on his own. He is always coming up with silly things to say and is always entertaining us and amazing us. Just last night we were at dinner and the lady was going around the table asking for drink orders and he shouts out as clear as can be, "I want tea!" Everyone laughed and he just looked at them like, "What? That is what I want to drink!" ha ha. So, he drank tea with his meal :)

Sweet moments of motherhood

Motherhood has been full of very sweet moments, but I think the moment I had with Sawyer last night was the sweetest yet. We had gone to dinner with my family for Eric's birthday and Chris was headed to play a basketball game so Sawyer and I headed home, just the 2 of us. When we got there it was close to bedtime already so I got him in his jammies and asked if he wanted to watch a little Barney before bed. He said yes of course so I tucked him into my bed and turned on the movie. I hadn't even pushed play yet when I heard the sweet little voice, "momma, momma." I said, "what buddy?" Sawyer goes on to pat the pillow next to him and say, "lay down." He wanted me to lay by him to watch the movie, how could I refuse? So I curled up in bed next to him and watched Barney. After I layed down he scooted close to me and put his arm around my neck, pulling me close and kissing my cheek. Wow, all of the sudden every stress, worry, or heartache in life was melted away by this sweet little boy. I love him so much and look forward to many more sweet moments of motherhood.