Relaxing weekend at home

This past weekend we had no plans and it was fabulous! Saturday we went to the farmer's market, had breakfast at a coffee shop in town, I enjoyed some snuggle time taking a nap with Sawyer, we went to the pool and grilled out for dinner. Sunday I felt like miss homemaker. I made cake pops as a test run for Sawyer's birthday party, cleaned, did laundry, made egg salad and cut up lots of fruit and veggies for the week! All while yummy bbq ribs were cooking in the crock pot. It's so nice having a weekend like that! We are on the go 3 of the next 4 weekends so it was good timing.

Sawyer - 10 Months!

Another month has gone by and our not so little Sawyer is now 10 months old!

You are a jabber jaw.  Just about everyday daycare tells us how "talkative" you are.  We can't wait for her to be able to talk, she has lots to say!

Climbing away in the chair.  So much for sitting still for a picture!

Once again, talking away while trying to pull/eat your sticker.

She knows when she's being silly and she laughs now.  Way too cute.

At 10 months you are:

-In 12 month clothes.

-In size 3 diapers and size 4 at night - we had a couple of leaks!

-Weigh 20 lbs 2 oz.

-Pulling yourself up on things and you're getting good at it!  

-Stands well while holding onto things and tries to let go but can only stand for a couple of seconds before falling over.

-You have 8 teeth.  Yes, we went from 3 teeth to 8 teeth in one month.

-Sleep?  See above.  We went from 3 teeth to 8 teeth, enough said.

-Loves finger foods.  Latest favorite is strawberries but she also loves cheese!

-Loves her sippy cup.  She gets just giddy when she sees me filling it up for her at dinner time.

-Still loves pee-a-boo.  

-Quite the talker.  I wouldn't say she says any words yet but you def here da-da and ma-ma within all the babbles!

-Starting to point more and starts to grunt a little or jabber when she points at something specific.  

-Crawls!  You started army crawling this month and you love crawling after Maple.  Her world will never be the same now that you can get to her whenever you like!

-Planks. Its the way she gets back up on her hands and knees.  We keep waiting for her to bear crawl on her hands and feet!

-You're now a tummy sleeper!  Sometimes you sleep on your side but most mornings when you wake up you're on your tummy.

-Loves her walker.  She books it in that thing!

-Waves, sometimes. Typically its after the person leaves. 

-Clicks her tounge on the roof of her mouth and will immitate it if you do it.

-Thinks its the funniest thing when daddy blows her kisses. She giggles like crazy!

-Likes to turn the pages herself when being read to. Usually one right after another without even giving you time to read whats on the page!

Sawyer your personality comes out more and more each month.  We love watching you grow into such a sweet little girl.  How did we get so lucky!?

A few recent pictures

She's finally decided she likes to be on her tummy and she's on the move!

Loves playing with her zany zoo.

Teeth, teeth and more teeth.

8 of them, they just keep coming!

I could take pictures of this little girl all day long.  Although she would much rather me play with her :)

So cute.

Cute outfit - thanks Rose!

Playing in her crib.

And yes, she's a chewer!

Hardcore teeth brushing going on here.

Wildwood Wildlife Park

Last weekend we headed over to Merrill for the weekend to visit Alyssa, Bryson and Carson.  The highlight of our trip was our visit to Wildwood Wildlife Park, or as I knew it growing up, Jim Peck's.

Sawyer just loves animals so she had a great time!  I can't wait to take the kids back next year :)  We've decided this will be an annual trip and I'm sure it will get better every year as the kids get older.

A big ole pig greeted us when we got into the park.

Next were a bunch of goats.

Smiley girl was already having fun!

The dad's showing Carson and Sawyer the goats.

She is pretty giggly when she gets to pet dogs and it was no different with the goats!

More goats!

She loved petting the giant rabbit.

These guys walked across the way to get food brought up to them.

Showing Sawyer the baby bunnies.

Getting ready to feed the bears some bear juice!

Feeding the bear.  I have a picture somewhere of me doing this as a little girl, I'm going to have to find it!

Jeremy's turn.

There were tons of deer walking around - they were so friendly!

Checking out the albino deer.

Love these two!

Feeding the animals some critter crackers.

Peacocks!  There were tons of them.

Sleeping kangaroos.

She wanted to pet the deer through the fence - he looks like the mount on the wall in our basement (which she loves to point at and giggles when be take her over by it).

This panther must not have liked Jeremy.  Prior to this picture Jeremy was showing Sawyer the panther and he sprayed pee all the way from his cage onto Jeremy's shorts/leg.

Friendly deer coming to check out the kiddos.

Getting ready to feed the deer.

Jeremy with an albino deer.

Carson feeding the deer some critter crackers.  The deer was up in his grill though!

She did so great at the zoo but was definitely tuckered out by the end.  She couldn't quite make it to the car.

Here is a picture of the kids playing later that day.  They played so well together and they are more and more fun to watch play each time we get together :)

We had such a fun trip, thanks for having us Alyssa, Bryson and Carson!

Grandma B's July visit!

As usual, couple weeks behind on the blog.  My mom came to visit the weekend of the 20th and so did her good friend Jane and her son, Matthew, who is also my brother's friend. 

Being that it's summer and fair season has started, what better to do then head to a fair?  So we headed over to the Waseca County fair.

Sawyer having fun at the petting zoo - she just loves animals!

First cheese curd!  No...she didn't really bite off of it, we just gave her some pieces of the cheese.  She loved it!

Matthew, Mom, myself and Sawyer at the fair.

Sawyer's first ride.

Jeremy will be doing the next ride, I get too dizzy on rides like this!

We played BINGO and I won!

So excited to be eating squash!

Playing with Matthew and Libby.

We had a great weekend!