Dear Sawyer,
I really can't leave you alone anywhere anymore! You were sitting in your floor seat in your room today, JieJie was playing with you and I went downstairs to get some water. While I was in the kitchen, I suddenly heard JieJie call out, "DiDi fell down! DiDi fell down!" I raced upstairs and Daddy ran out of his office and when we got to your room, we saw you crawling around on your belly on your playmat with your seat strapped on top of your body and looking like a cushy turtle shell. You had leaned so far forward in your seat (probably reaching for a toy) that you had flopped onto your stomach, taking the seat with you. You are getting so big and strong! (And props to JieJie for alerting us so quickly!)
Love,
Mom
Sunday, January 24, 2016
Friday, January 22, 2016
Stuck In Bed
Dear Sawyer,
You are one step closer to crawling! A couple days ago, you pushed up on both your hands and your knees for the first time. You can't move forward yet but you can definitely move backward, as I learned tonight. I usually hold you in my lap while I read bedtime stories to GuhGaw and JieJie but you were so squirmy tonight, I put you on your belly in the middle of JieJie's bed and then sat on the floor next to the bed with your brother and sister. We were all sitting facing away from you with our backs leaning against the bed when you started going, "Unh unh unh unh!" I had never heard you make that noise before and when I turned around to look at you, your whole body was stuck in between JieJie's mattress and the foot of the bed! Oh my god, oh my god! Just your head was sticking out above the mattress--you had shimmied backward on the bed and fallen into the gap between the mattress and the foot of the bed! I immediately pulled you out and you were fine, but gah, you totally freaked me out!
Love,
Mom
You are one step closer to crawling! A couple days ago, you pushed up on both your hands and your knees for the first time. You can't move forward yet but you can definitely move backward, as I learned tonight. I usually hold you in my lap while I read bedtime stories to GuhGaw and JieJie but you were so squirmy tonight, I put you on your belly in the middle of JieJie's bed and then sat on the floor next to the bed with your brother and sister. We were all sitting facing away from you with our backs leaning against the bed when you started going, "Unh unh unh unh!" I had never heard you make that noise before and when I turned around to look at you, your whole body was stuck in between JieJie's mattress and the foot of the bed! Oh my god, oh my god! Just your head was sticking out above the mattress--you had shimmied backward on the bed and fallen into the gap between the mattress and the foot of the bed! I immediately pulled you out and you were fine, but gah, you totally freaked me out!
Love,
Mom
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Things I'll Miss
Dear Sawyer,
Now that I have a 3-year-old and a 5-year-old, I realize that you do a lot of adorable baby things that I will miss when you get older. I'll miss the way you rub your face on my shoulder when I'm holding you and the way you squawk like a pterodactyl when you're trying to talk. I'll miss your drooly smiles and the super-fine baby hairs on your head. I will miss the way something as simple as a button can fascinate you for a long time. I will miss how a game of peekaboo will make you burst out laughing as if it is the best game ever.
I'll miss the way your head and body wobble a little when you're sitting up on your own because you're still mastering the art of sitting up on your own. I will miss the way you look up at me while you're nursing. And I will especially miss how your tiny body feels--all curled up and warm and emitting that intoxicating baby smell--when you fall asleep against my chest.
I don't want to be missing those things yet, so don't grow up too fast, mmkay?
Love,
Mom
Now that I have a 3-year-old and a 5-year-old, I realize that you do a lot of adorable baby things that I will miss when you get older. I'll miss the way you rub your face on my shoulder when I'm holding you and the way you squawk like a pterodactyl when you're trying to talk. I'll miss your drooly smiles and the super-fine baby hairs on your head. I will miss the way something as simple as a button can fascinate you for a long time. I will miss how a game of peekaboo will make you burst out laughing as if it is the best game ever.
I'll miss the way your head and body wobble a little when you're sitting up on your own because you're still mastering the art of sitting up on your own. I will miss the way you look up at me while you're nursing. And I will especially miss how your tiny body feels--all curled up and warm and emitting that intoxicating baby smell--when you fall asleep against my chest.
I don't want to be missing those things yet, so don't grow up too fast, mmkay?
Love,
Mom
Sunday, January 3, 2016
New Tricks
Dear Sawyer,
Happy new year! You have started 2016 with a new trick: push-ups! You were on your belly today and pushed up onto your hands for the first time. Are you going to start crawling soon?
Also new is the way you now stick the tip of your tongue out to lick and play with your top lip and how you jump so hard in your jumper, your feet lift off of the ground. You look so cute when you do these things! Not cute? The fact that you have started biting me occasionally when you are nursing. Uh, ow.
Love,
Mom
Happy new year! You have started 2016 with a new trick: push-ups! You were on your belly today and pushed up onto your hands for the first time. Are you going to start crawling soon?
Also new is the way you now stick the tip of your tongue out to lick and play with your top lip and how you jump so hard in your jumper, your feet lift off of the ground. You look so cute when you do these things! Not cute? The fact that you have started biting me occasionally when you are nursing. Uh, ow.
Love,
Mom
Saturday, December 19, 2015
Hyper Guy
Dear Sawyer,
Fun: After you woke up and nursed this morning, we were playing in my bed. I was laying down and you were doing tummy time on top of me and smiling at the silly noises I was making.
Not Fun: You suddenly vomited twice while you were perched on top of me and covered my neck, chest and hair with spit-up. Uuuggghhhh.
In other news, you're becoming so curious and interested in the world around you. You're constantly watching Daddy, your siblings and me and whereas before you'd just sit in your floor chair as a silent observer, you now scoot your seat over to the nearest toy box or bookshelf to explore their contents. You love touching things and feeling new textures and reach out for whatever you can grab. And wow, you have a pretty strong grip!
You're also quite the hyper little guy now. You light up with delight when I hold you up over my head and make you "fly," jump so hard in your jumper that you often run out of breath and squawk so loudly and forcefully sometimes that your face turns red. Whoa, easy!
Love,
Mom
Fun: After you woke up and nursed this morning, we were playing in my bed. I was laying down and you were doing tummy time on top of me and smiling at the silly noises I was making.
Not Fun: You suddenly vomited twice while you were perched on top of me and covered my neck, chest and hair with spit-up. Uuuggghhhh.
In other news, you're becoming so curious and interested in the world around you. You're constantly watching Daddy, your siblings and me and whereas before you'd just sit in your floor chair as a silent observer, you now scoot your seat over to the nearest toy box or bookshelf to explore their contents. You love touching things and feeling new textures and reach out for whatever you can grab. And wow, you have a pretty strong grip!
You're also quite the hyper little guy now. You light up with delight when I hold you up over my head and make you "fly," jump so hard in your jumper that you often run out of breath and squawk so loudly and forcefully sometimes that your face turns red. Whoa, easy!
Love,
Mom
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Solid Meal
Dear Sawyer,
After six months of a breastmilk-only diet, you finally had something different today and tried your very first bite of rice cereal. And you didn't like it! You made a "Ew, what is this?!" face when that first spoonful went into your mouth but then you gradually warmed up to it and finished the whole bowl. Hello solids!
You're definitely going to need more food now because you are growing so much and becoming more active with each passing day. You currently wear 9 months-sized clothing and are always moving something, whether you are banging your hand on your high chair tray, scratching the couch cushions (I think you really like the sound that makes), scratching your own head, waving your arm and smacking me in the face while you're nursing (yeah, could you stop that?) or jumping up and down really, really excitedly in your jumper. And you are so strong that when you are sitting in your floor chair, you push off with your legs and can move several feet across the floor all on your own (the first time, I wasn't in the room and yelled at GuhGaw for pushing you in your seat and he said you'd moved by yourself--and then I saw it for myself!). Goodbye days where you always stay where I leave you!
Love,
Mom
After six months of a breastmilk-only diet, you finally had something different today and tried your very first bite of rice cereal. And you didn't like it! You made a "Ew, what is this?!" face when that first spoonful went into your mouth but then you gradually warmed up to it and finished the whole bowl. Hello solids!
You're definitely going to need more food now because you are growing so much and becoming more active with each passing day. You currently wear 9 months-sized clothing and are always moving something, whether you are banging your hand on your high chair tray, scratching the couch cushions (I think you really like the sound that makes), scratching your own head, waving your arm and smacking me in the face while you're nursing (yeah, could you stop that?) or jumping up and down really, really excitedly in your jumper. And you are so strong that when you are sitting in your floor chair, you push off with your legs and can move several feet across the floor all on your own (the first time, I wasn't in the room and yelled at GuhGaw for pushing you in your seat and he said you'd moved by yourself--and then I saw it for myself!). Goodbye days where you always stay where I leave you!
Love,
Mom
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Six Months!
Dear Sawyer,
Has it really already been six months since you were born?? Happy half birthday, baby bear! You always brighten up my day with your sweet smiles, infectious belly laughs and all-around cuteness and I love you so very much. You are such a happy, good-natured baby and you always have a big smile for anyone who says hi to you. You are so content, whether you are swinging away in your swing, bouncing up and down in your jumper or just lolling around in your crib while listening to your music box. You enjoy chewing on your fingers (and whatever else you can get into your mouth), grabbing my or JieJie's long hair (we don't enjoy that so much, though), looking at books and playing with wind chimes, rattles and your toy laptop.
At six months, you are showing signs of being as active and energetic as GuhGaw (uh-oh!). You are always kicking your feet and when you're laying down, you wiggle around excitedly like a little worm. And just last Monday, you rolled over onto your belly by yourself for the very first time! At first, you grabbed the bars of your crib or pushed your feet against them for leverage when rolling over but now you can easily flop onto your belly on your own--and do so every time I put you in your crib. You like being on your stomach but there have been a few times when your arm got stuck under you and you started crying out in frustration when you couldn't pull it out. Oops!
Love,
Mom
Has it really already been six months since you were born?? Happy half birthday, baby bear! You always brighten up my day with your sweet smiles, infectious belly laughs and all-around cuteness and I love you so very much. You are such a happy, good-natured baby and you always have a big smile for anyone who says hi to you. You are so content, whether you are swinging away in your swing, bouncing up and down in your jumper or just lolling around in your crib while listening to your music box. You enjoy chewing on your fingers (and whatever else you can get into your mouth), grabbing my or JieJie's long hair (we don't enjoy that so much, though), looking at books and playing with wind chimes, rattles and your toy laptop.
At six months, you are showing signs of being as active and energetic as GuhGaw (uh-oh!). You are always kicking your feet and when you're laying down, you wiggle around excitedly like a little worm. And just last Monday, you rolled over onto your belly by yourself for the very first time! At first, you grabbed the bars of your crib or pushed your feet against them for leverage when rolling over but now you can easily flop onto your belly on your own--and do so every time I put you in your crib. You like being on your stomach but there have been a few times when your arm got stuck under you and you started crying out in frustration when you couldn't pull it out. Oops!
Love,
Mom
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