Happy Valentine's Day and Happy Seven Months!!!

 

This year, Sawyer turned seven months old on Valentine's Day!  What a precious Valentine's gift we have this year!  She is definitely our little sweetheart.  I decided to dress her in various shades of pinks and red this year to go to school.  I think she looked rather cute.  We also took two dozen Krispy Kreme doughnuts to her teachers!  Hopefully, this will make her the favorite :)

At seven months old Sawyer can:

• sit up on her own
• eat stage 2 baby food
• sleep all night (about 12 hours)
• drink water from a sippy cup, with help of course
• walk all over the house in her walker (She LOVES her walker!!)
• blow her motor boat (mouth noises)
• she still loves her green paci!
• loves to pet Bella and Tater Tot (Piper keeps her distance)
• Loves to play with her toys
• Wears a size 3 diaper
• 9 months clothing, but pushing 12 months
• Refuses to keep socks and soft sole shoes on

Happy Seven Months Sawyer Rhea!  Mommy and Daddy love you bunches!!!

Swinging Makes Me Smile.....

On Sunday we had beautiful weather and I thought it would be a perfect day to take Sawyer to the park for the first time.  I love introducing her to new things and activities.  It is so much fun to see her reaction.  Anyway....Spencer and I picked up a sandwich and headed to Wald Park in Vestavia.  We had a little picnic and then introduced Sawyer to the swing.  She LOVED it!  She smiled and giggled, and cackled.  She thought it was so much fun!!!  Spencer and I loved watching her precious little facial expressions.  April, Ramey, Owen, Henry, and Mary also met us there.  We had a great time and are looking forward to many more adventures and park hopping!!!

  Mary!!!!  The boys were having too much fun running around for me to snap their picture :)

Tubes?.....I think so!

So....since about the first of December, Sawyer had been battling an ear infection.  We tried three different rounds of antibiotics and even the three day rocephin shot.  Nothing seemed to work for this baby!  We just could not kick this ear infection.  So after battling for more than 10 weeks, we were sent to an ENT!!!  Thank goodness!  We went on a Friday afternoon, and if the doctor could have done them that day he would have.  Her ears were sooooo bad!!!!  So, we scheduled them for first thing Monday morning.  Actually, we didn't schedule them, they had to just work us in.  Yay for tubes!!!

Mommy drinking her java!  We had to be there at 6am!

Bundled up and ready!

Passed out before going back!  So sweet!

I don't have any pictures once she returned.  I was too happy to have her back safe in my arms!  She did great!  So far so good!  Let's pray this is the only set we will have to have!  Spencer had three different sets!

Happy Six Months!

As of January 14 Sawyer is now six months old!  Time has flown by.  She grows and changes so much everyday.  Spencer and I cannot even begin to think where our lives would be without her.  It feels as if she has been here all along.  We had our sixth month shots, and to our surprise she did not run a fever.  However, we are still battling an ear infection. 

At six months old Sawyer:

• Eats a fruit for breakfast in the morning and a veggie in the evening.  Loves peaches, pears, apples, banannas, sweet peas, sweet potatoes, squash, green beans (girl, loves to eat)
• Attempts to drink water from a sippy cup (we would rather play and throw it on the floor)
• Can roll over from belly to back and back to belly
• Sleeps all night (because she can roll to her belly)
• Goes to bed around 6:30PM and sleeps until about 5:30 or 6!
• Naps only about two hours during the day
• Coos and giggles
• Loves to play peek-a-boo!
• Loves Bella and Tater Tot
• Is now wearing a size 3 diaper!
• Wearing 6-9 month clothing
• Size 2 shoe
• Can sit up and balance on her own (not for too long though)

 

Only with Daddy's help!

 

 

Happy New Year!

Yes, I realize it has been almost a month since my last post.  However, in my defense, we have been battling an ear infection that just refuses to go away (more on that in another post). 

We had a great time over the holidays and rang in the new year at The Farm.  We are so excited to see what 2011 has in store for us.  2010 was fabulous, but we are looking forward to sharing 2011 with our precious baby girl!

Girl, has some facial expressions!  So sweet!

Sawyer's First Christmas.....and it was White!

As we all know it hardly every snows in Alabama, but this year, on Christmas day we had snow.  It didn't stick or stay around too long, but it sure was nice to see the "white stuff." 

We spent Christmas Eve with Spencer's side of the family.  Mimi, Pop, and GiGi came down for the day.  We went to a noon service at the Harrell's church, and then all came back to our house to enjoy dinner and gifts.  It was such a fun time and Sawyer loved every minute!

Gearing up for the festivities!

Henry, Sawyer, Owen, and Mary

Gigi, Owen, Mary, Pop, Henry, Mimi, and Sawyer

Sawyer, Mommy, and Daddy!

Sawyer and Daddy!

Look what Santa brought Sawyer!

My parents came over right after we got up and did our little family Christmas.  Mom brought her wonderful sausage balls.  They wanted to see what Santa had brought Sawyer.  We visited for an hour or so, then they headed home and we got dressed and ready to head out to their house for Christmas and then dinner at Joycie and Dougie Boy's.

Loving her new toys and mat Santa brought her.  Santa knew she needed a mat to play on because the tile floor is a little too hard :)

Yay!  I got my new carseat!  We are going to be in it sooner than later!

My own toolbox so I can help Daddy!

Standing in the snow like a bunch of crazies just to document Sawyer's first snow :)

One of the highlights of Christmas this year was Santa traveling through the neighborhood on the firetruck! It was so much fun.  Sawyer got to see him as he went up the street, but then he came back by right in front of the house.  It was so fun!

We had a very Merry Christmas and are truly blessed to be able to spend this time with our families! 

I'm a big girl now!

It's official....Sawyer is now eating stage one baby food and she is loving it.  A month or so ago we started her on cereal and she liked it, but she liked it better in her bottle.  Dr. Farr told us we could start on her stage one when she was around five months old.  I decided to wait a week or so after she turned five months and start it while I was off for Christmas break.  She is loving it.  We started her on sweet potatoes and then tried bananas. We have also tried sweet peas and carrots.   She is doing great and is so cute when she eats.  I have also started giving her some bananas in the morning.  She must be going through a growth spurt because she is eating about every 2 hours.  

With that said, she has also started sleeping through the night.  She goes down between 7 and 8  and wakes sometime between 6 and 7.  The first night she did it, I jumped up at 5:45 because we hadn't heard from her.  She was fine, just snoozing away. 

She is also able to roll on her stomach all by herself.  I also believe this is why she is sleeping so well.  She loves to sleep on her belly.  Dr. Farr said it was fine for her to sleep on her belly, because she can roll from tummy to back and back to tummy all on her own.  She is growing and changing so much.  We are loving all these new adventures.