last month i bought sawyer a star wars book. i'm not sure who was more excited, scott or sawyer. it has since become his favorite book, he calls it 'star-ers.' it is a simple board book with pictures of some of the main characters. sawyer knows all of their names and likes to point out the 'white babers' that a few of them hold. my favorite page is the picture of princess leia. sawyer calls her, 'mama princess.' who am i to correct him??

being a parent is a blast. i'm sure it helps that we have a stinkin' cute toddler. sawyer is growing so much in so many ways. he can recognize all of his letters and numbers up to 9. he can count to 12. (he goes higher, but all of the numbers are one-teen after that.) he loves books and tries his hand at reading, but only on the books he has memorized. :) (it's my blog, i can brag if i want to...right?) he also enjoys going outside to play at our park and loves to go bike riding, thanks to his pop-pop and gra-nana's generous christmas presents.

on our recent trip to las vegas, my aunt darrelyn gave sawyer his 1st 'big boy' bed. he loves it and has taken one nap and slept one night in it. we are planning on taking down the crib after i finish school in 2 1/2 weeks. for now though, it's another play area.

my favorite thing about being a mama right now is watching sawyer's personality grow. just the other day i was laying on my stomach and sawyer was sitting on my back. he slid down onto the floor and said, 'mama, fun! mama slide!' he does thing to make us laugh, like in this picture, he found 3 binks, gave me 1 and put the other 2 in his mouth. he pulled them out long enough to say, 'i funny.'

last sunday, we decided to watch america's funniest home videos. sawyer laughed so hard, scott and i were falling off of our chairs. it took us a good 2 minutes to calm down ourselves. we recorded it and rewatched it so that we could get sawyer on film. by the end of the video, sawyer is forcing his laugh, but you get the idea of the original hilarity. the part he is watching is a montage of people falling during gymnastics.


it is amazing how quickly time flies and how much babies change. sawyer talks more and more every day and continues to surprise us with the things he knows. it will be fun to be able to spend my days with him for the next few months.

i have been trying to post for the last month and have been 'denied' at every attempt. i had a really funny video that i wanted to post, but i can't seem to find a way to get it off of my phone and onto my computer. i can get the pictures off of my phone, but not the videos. any ideas?? then when i decided to post something else, our computer crashed. this has never happened to me before, and i was a little ticked, to say the least. well, scott has a very nice friend who came over and gave our computer an 'update.' he did an amazing job and now i am able to finally post a little something.

sawyer has a book called 'teeth are not for biting.' at the end of the book it says, 'teeth are not for biting. teeth are for smiling.' there is a picture of a family where everyone, even the dog and cat, are smiling. sawyer loves this book, especially the end. we always point out the people and their nice smiles. as a result, when we tell sawyer to smile, he smiles like the picture in the book. as you can see from the pics, it is hilarious. whenever we bring out the camera, he starts 'smiling' like this.

i know this isn't much, but it is all i have for now. hopefully, the next time i post it won't be such an ordeal!