something to be thankful for...

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

I have been reflecting upon the past year today. Thinking of what it was like to have a two week old for Thanksgiving last year and then what it is like to have a one year old this year. I am thankful for this past year. He has grown so much, become such a little boy.

Some of the things he has been doing recently are just amazing me. I mean truly amazing me. And I don't want to brag, because truthfully it is not about what he can do and others can't. Or what he can't do that others can. Each child is their own person and will develop in their own unique way. Ok, off my soapbox...

He says no less than 12 words.

Mama (so proud of this one)
Dada
Nana (banana)
hat
bebe (all babies including himself)
bisbe (frisbee)
juce (juice)
papa (grandpa)
baba (brother)
light
mmmmmmnnn (cow)
ball

And I think there are more but I can't keep up with all of them

He is so loving, and into everything. He is pretty stubborn, wonder where he got that one. And most of all he is the greatest gift ever.

Thanks for reading my thanksgiving ramblings. I hope that you feel as blessed as we do! :)

Big Birthday fun!

We had a very small dinner for Sawyer's birthday and we had a smash cake for the little guy. I was soooo excited for this. I really wanted to get some good pictures of the night. I was also excited to see the little guy enjoy his night. And he did. We had a meal of his favorite foods; roast chicken, sweet potatoes, and peas, with rolls too! Then mommy made a whole wheat healthy type of carrot cake and let him go at it...


This is what he does when we ask him how old he is. seriously!



This is a shot of the cake that I made for him! :)



He is checking it out and thinking, "now what am I supposed to do with this?"



"Oh I see, I eat it, okay."


"Now I am really getting into this!" Notice his brother and my mom and dad in the reflection of the window, how cool!



"This is some good stuff!"



"All done!" We took well over half away from him, by the way. :)


So that was Sawyer kid's big day. Thanks for looking!

He's 1!

This is a letter for Sawyer that I have written for him. I hope in years to come it is not just mommy cheese but can be for him a special reminder of how much we love the kid.

Sawyer, you will always be my baby boy, but today you have become my little toddler. I have been preparing for this day for a few weeks and you pretty much forced it on me when you decided to start walking at 11 months. haha. But that is you little guy, always forging ahead, always out to find the next exciting thing. You know, we have this toy area for you in the house and one of the biggest joys of your day is not playing with the toys really, it is just pulling EVERY.SINGLE.TOY out of the organized bins that are there. And as you have now realized because you are old enough to read and know that mommy is a organizational freak. So I look at you pulling one toy out after another and you are not even looking at them long enough to decide if you want to play with you are just tearing through and not completely content until every toy is in the middle of your rug, and I realize the joy of the experience is not the toys, it is the work that you are doing to get them all out. You are more excited by plastic food storage container than you are by anything made by Baby Einstein. You will knowingly walk over to the stairs, you are not supposed to climb on your own and get as close as you can to climbing and then turn and look at me and see if I care, or if I will come and get you, or if I will tell you, "NO!". Then you will throw this sly smile my way and head on up if you can find a way though the gate. You could eat and eat and eat and eat. I regularly hear from other, "how could he eat that, he just had dinner...." it doesn't stop you. I think you get that from your uncle Achilleus. And that curly hair. Oh that curly hair. Fuzzy head, q-tip head, curly bob are all common nicknames from us. And we love it. I just hope that it stays and you don't hate it.

So I say all this, Son, that you might get a glimpse of the massive amount of joy that you have brought into our lives. You are the biggest and most wonderful thing that has ever come into my life. One year ago as I lay in the recovery room, very drugged might I add, and I started to contemplate life with a baby I don't think I could have imagined a better year to toddlerhood. So, my baby, as you turn one, I am blessed that you call me, "mamamamam" and I have great joy as I look into the many years to come. I love you Sawyer. Always, your Mommy.

I've got laundry skills.

So I was doing some laundry the other day. I was washing some towels and such. Well I had some extra room and I threw in one of our blankets too.

This blanket was an older red one of ours and I had no idea that it would bleed all over EVERYTHING. We have got plenty of pink towels now. Haha!

So as I am moving everything over to the dryer I notice that I turned one of Saywer's onsies pink and I was really bummed. I had ruined one of his shirts... only then I realized which one I turned pink...



And then it was just funny. :)

roses.

So my husband shaved his head. For a Halloween costume. No big deal, right? WRONG.

We have family pictures in a week. I have been thinking and planning and shopping for these for months. We are not just heading on down to the local JCPenny for studio shots. Nope we are having our AMAZING wedding photographer come to our house and take the kind of pictures I hope to one day get close to taking.

And he shaves his frikkin head. What the heck?

So I was pretty upset. And then I was a little hurt because he didn't seem to care that I was upset. It was a vicious cycle. All along I knew we would recover. It wasn't that bad. But I was pretty upset for a while there. And then he bought me these...




And I was all better. :)