9 months!

dear sawyer,

you are 9 months old! you are the most fun, laidback baby i know. so fun and smiling all of the time. you are getting so big! we just went for your 9 month check-up and you weighed 18 pounds 7 ounces and were 27 1/2 inches tall. i can't remember your head size, but it's in the 75th percentile... you have a big noggin right now. you are wearing 6-9 and 6-12 month clothes and size 3 diapers. you LOVE to eat, but are super picky. you hate most vegetables and aren't a big fan of trying new things. right now, you are loving peach yogurt, cheerios, any fruit, and apples with chicken. you love to bang toys on everything and make noise, climb the stairs, and get into everything. if mama tells you "no", you just laugh and get into everything even more. you say mama and dada now (you said dada first) and love to clap. you think it's hilarious when you clap and people say "yay!" makes you clap even more! you still think your sister is the coolest person you know... i hope this lasts for a while! you are crawling like a madman, standing up for long periods of time (holding on to nothing!), and have started standing up from a sitting position without pulling up on anything. it's only a matter of time before you start walking and our lives become even more chaotic! you are such an incredible blessing to our lives, and we love having you around!

love,

mama, dada, and hadleigh

roar.

8 (and a half) months!

this is a little belated... but my favorite little boy is 8 (and a half) months old! sawyer can only be described as a hot mess. he is into everything -- pulling everything off bookshelves, climbing on the fireplace, climbing up the stairs... he's everywhere. but he has the sweetest personality and does nothing but smile and laugh all day, so you can't help but let him do whatever he wants :) he's finally starting to look like he's getting bigger... wearing 6-9 or 6-12 month clothes and has just upgraded to size 3 diapers. he eats two meals a day right now and loves bananas and mum-mums. we tried some baby food with chicken tonight and that was not a hit at all. we're working on using a sippy cup... so far, he hates his cup, but he'll do anything he can to get ahold of hadleigh's and take a sip of whatever she is having! he has decided that he is too busy for bottles. it routinely takes an hour to finish a bottle now, and we're lucky if he completely finishes one a day. he is having too much fun bear crawling everywhere at warp speed, pulling up on everything, and starting to let go and stand on his own!! he loves to play with anything that he can hit and make noise with, loves climbing, and loves loves his sister. this week, he started to reach for you when he wants to be held, and it is so precious. loving every second with my hot mess :)

up!

sawyer pulls up now... onto his feet. this is a pretty regular thing in our house as of the past few days. uh-oh.

tiny.

tiny went for his 6 month check up today (a month late) and is just that... tiny. with a big noggin.
he weighed 15 pounds 2.5 ounces, which still puts him in about the 5th percentile. he's 26 inches tall (around the 15th percentile). i can't remember the measurement for his head, but it's almost in the 70th percentile! wow.

seven months.

little man is 7 months old! i skipped his 6 month blog and he has seriously changed so much in those two months! he's babbling all of the time (or "talking" in a scream), getting into everything, and CRAWLING! he is all over the place and such a mess. the second picture says it all -- he is ornery and all boy. he started crawling at 6 1/2 months and he's already trying to pull up on stuff. he's only been trying for the last 2 days, but he's already mastered pulling up to his knees and trying to figure out how to get on his feet. wow. he's ready to be on the go! sawyer is currently wearing 3-6 month clothes and they are actually starting to get tight (yay!) and size 2 diapers. we're eating stage 2 baby food every night -- he loves anything with bananas. i've started giving him baby mum-mums and he is actually starting to eat some of it rather than just mush it into his hand. he loves taking baths, being read to, being tickled, and pulling sonny's ears (poor dog can't catch a break with both hadleigh and sawyer around!). he's such a sweet boy and is always smiling or happy. seriously. rarely do we ever hear him cry anymore -- if he does, you know it's naptime. he is such a blessing and i can't wait to see what the next month brings!

horse says neigh.

the first weekend of august (our first as illinois residents), our park district hosted an event called "party in the park." it had a ton of games for kids, pony rides, and a petting zoo. hadleigh got to go on her first pony ride and feed some animals in the petting zoo. she had so much fun riding the horse -- she kept telling jered that horses say neigh, and she was petting the horse the whole time!