Dear Sawyer,
I was walking around your room today putting away all of your books and toys and you were crawling around right behind me, immediately taking them all out again. *sigh*
Love,
Mom
Saturday, May 21, 2016
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Almost 1
Dear Sawyer,
Two weeks from now, you will be 1 year old! That's crazy! This year has gone by sooooo fast and you are growing into such a fun little person. I don't even remember what you were like as a newborn because you are so big and active now. Here are some things about you at almost-1-year-old:
-Often, you reach for me and say "mama." It's probably just a coincidence since it's a little early for your first word, but I like to think that you are already addressing me :-)
-When GuhGaw and JieJie climb into their beds at bedtime, you wave bye to them and make a kissing noise with your mouth.
-You have four teeth now.
-When you are happy and excited, you scream at ear-shattering decibels.
-You still looooooove being tickled!
-You think it's hysterical when you burp or sneeze and then try to make yourself burp and sneeze again, but you actually just make a growling sound.
-You love to eat and get soooo impatient when you see your food while you are waiting to be fed. You start whimpering, fidgeting in your high chair and leaning forward frantically. Dude, chill!
-You love Mum-Mums and snack puffs and can easily feed them to yourself. I have to be careful how many puffs I pour onto your high chair tray, though, because you will stuff all of them in your mouth at once if I'm not watching you.
-Speaking of Mum-Mums and puffs, you get really excited when I'm carrying you and we walk past the snack cabinet where we keep them. You point to them and ask for them by urgently saying, "Ungh ungh ungh!"
-You like opening your dresser drawers, pulling all of your clothes, sheets and blankets out and throwing them onto the floor. Actually, you love pulling anything--toys out of your toy box, books out of your bookshelf, tissues out of the tissue box--and throwing it onto the floor. You embrace not order but chaos--if I put plastic coins in your piggy bank, you immediately take them out and scatter them around your room; if I put all of your picnic basket toys inside the basket, you pull them all out; if there are toys and books on the coffee table, you will walk around it and methodically throw everything onto the floor. Cleaning up after you is pretty pointless, as you destroy the room as soon as I straighten it up!
-Like GuhGaw and JieJie when they were babies, you don't like wearing socks and pull them off every chance you get.
-You already know how to crawl up stairs. Uh-oh.
-The other day, you managed to push the sling bookshelf in your room--which was full of books, by the way--all the way from the wall to the middle of the room. You can also do pull-ups on the side of your crib, pulling all of your body weight up with your arms while you lift your feet in the air. Well, hello there, baby Hercules.
-You are so adorable when you flop onto your belly and just lay there contentedly kicking your feet.
-You are also adorable when I say "No no no!" and you respond by shaking your head no and smiling.
-You are especially adorable now that you have started posing for pictures. When I say, "Say cheese!", you tilt your head up, smile and scrunch up your face like this:
-Today while eating, you insisted on holding your spoon and feeding yourself. Agh! Stop trying to grow up so fast!
Love,
Mom
Two weeks from now, you will be 1 year old! That's crazy! This year has gone by sooooo fast and you are growing into such a fun little person. I don't even remember what you were like as a newborn because you are so big and active now. Here are some things about you at almost-1-year-old:
-Often, you reach for me and say "mama." It's probably just a coincidence since it's a little early for your first word, but I like to think that you are already addressing me :-)
-When GuhGaw and JieJie climb into their beds at bedtime, you wave bye to them and make a kissing noise with your mouth.
-You have four teeth now.
-When you are happy and excited, you scream at ear-shattering decibels.
-You still looooooove being tickled!
-You think it's hysterical when you burp or sneeze and then try to make yourself burp and sneeze again, but you actually just make a growling sound.
-You love to eat and get soooo impatient when you see your food while you are waiting to be fed. You start whimpering, fidgeting in your high chair and leaning forward frantically. Dude, chill!
-You love Mum-Mums and snack puffs and can easily feed them to yourself. I have to be careful how many puffs I pour onto your high chair tray, though, because you will stuff all of them in your mouth at once if I'm not watching you.
-Speaking of Mum-Mums and puffs, you get really excited when I'm carrying you and we walk past the snack cabinet where we keep them. You point to them and ask for them by urgently saying, "Ungh ungh ungh!"
-You like opening your dresser drawers, pulling all of your clothes, sheets and blankets out and throwing them onto the floor. Actually, you love pulling anything--toys out of your toy box, books out of your bookshelf, tissues out of the tissue box--and throwing it onto the floor. You embrace not order but chaos--if I put plastic coins in your piggy bank, you immediately take them out and scatter them around your room; if I put all of your picnic basket toys inside the basket, you pull them all out; if there are toys and books on the coffee table, you will walk around it and methodically throw everything onto the floor. Cleaning up after you is pretty pointless, as you destroy the room as soon as I straighten it up!
-Like GuhGaw and JieJie when they were babies, you don't like wearing socks and pull them off every chance you get.
-You already know how to crawl up stairs. Uh-oh.
-The other day, you managed to push the sling bookshelf in your room--which was full of books, by the way--all the way from the wall to the middle of the room. You can also do pull-ups on the side of your crib, pulling all of your body weight up with your arms while you lift your feet in the air. Well, hello there, baby Hercules.
-You are so adorable when you flop onto your belly and just lay there contentedly kicking your feet.
-You are also adorable when I say "No no no!" and you respond by shaking your head no and smiling.
-You are especially adorable now that you have started posing for pictures. When I say, "Say cheese!", you tilt your head up, smile and scrunch up your face like this:
-Today while eating, you insisted on holding your spoon and feeding yourself. Agh! Stop trying to grow up so fast!
Love,
Mom
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Catboy
Dear Sawyer,
Newest developments:
-You currently have three teeth.
-You are still not sleeping through the night regularly but did get a good chunk of rest last night from 10:30pm to 4:45am, your longest stretch yet.
-You were doing this weird thing yesterday where you licking the palm of your hand and then wiping it on the side of your face . . . like a cat.
Love,
Mom
Newest developments:
-You currently have three teeth.
-You are still not sleeping through the night regularly but did get a good chunk of rest last night from 10:30pm to 4:45am, your longest stretch yet.
-You were doing this weird thing yesterday where you licking the palm of your hand and then wiping it on the side of your face . . . like a cat.
Love,
Mom
Friday, April 1, 2016
10 Months
Dear Sawyer,
You turned 10 months old today! You are such a happy, playful baby and it is so fun spending time with you every day. You smile and laugh all of the time (especially when you sneeze; you think your own sneezes are hilarious!) and when you get excited, you wiggle your whole body around. You also bounce up and down when you hear music, have learned to wave side to side (instead of just up and down) and are getting your first top tooth!
Love,
Mom
You turned 10 months old today! You are such a happy, playful baby and it is so fun spending time with you every day. You smile and laugh all of the time (especially when you sneeze; you think your own sneezes are hilarious!) and when you get excited, you wiggle your whole body around. You also bounce up and down when you hear music, have learned to wave side to side (instead of just up and down) and are getting your first top tooth!
Love,
Mom
Monday, March 21, 2016
(Not) Sleeping Through the Night
Dear Sawyer,
GuhGaw started sleeping through the night when he was 4 months old and JieJie has always slept through the night, even when she was a newborn. But you, my youngest child, you are almost 10 months old and still waking up every 2 to 3 hours at night. *siiiiiiigh* Except last night! You slept in your crib from 11:30pm to 4:30am, at which point I woke up to silence and wondered why you hadn't woken up crying (I wake up when you cry and I wake up when you don't cry because if you're not crying when you're usually crying, I'm scared something is wrong--that is being a mom!). And you must have heard my thoughts because a second after I thought that, you woke up crying. Doh!
Love,
Mom
GuhGaw started sleeping through the night when he was 4 months old and JieJie has always slept through the night, even when she was a newborn. But you, my youngest child, you are almost 10 months old and still waking up every 2 to 3 hours at night. *siiiiiiigh* Except last night! You slept in your crib from 11:30pm to 4:30am, at which point I woke up to silence and wondered why you hadn't woken up crying (I wake up when you cry and I wake up when you don't cry because if you're not crying when you're usually crying, I'm scared something is wrong--that is being a mom!). And you must have heard my thoughts because a second after I thought that, you woke up crying. Doh!
Love,
Mom
Sunday, March 20, 2016
Waving Bye
Dear Sawyer,
You just learned how to clap a few days ago and now you clap all the time when you are happy, when I say "Yaaaaay!" and when I do random things like shut the refrigerator door (I guess I do do a pretty good job of closing the door, huh? :-P ).
You also wave goodbye a lot, even when you're busy! I was nursing you on the couch tonight and JieJie was sitting next to us and doing FaceTime with GongGong. When you heard them saying bye to each other, you waved bye as you continued nursing. Haha! So cute!
Love,
Mom
You just learned how to clap a few days ago and now you clap all the time when you are happy, when I say "Yaaaaay!" and when I do random things like shut the refrigerator door (I guess I do do a pretty good job of closing the door, huh? :-P ).
You also wave goodbye a lot, even when you're busy! I was nursing you on the couch tonight and JieJie was sitting next to us and doing FaceTime with GongGong. When you heard them saying bye to each other, you waved bye as you continued nursing. Haha! So cute!
Love,
Mom
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Dear Sawyer,
I just booked a location for your first birthday party because you are somehow turning 1 year old in a few months . . . wha? This year is going by so fast and you are growing so big and you are acquiring so many new traits every week! Your most recent ones:
-You have outgrown your 9-months-sized clothing and currently fit into 12-months clothes.
-You can crawl pretty quickly now, so Daddy had to install a baby gate in the doorway of your room.
-When I come into your room while you are playing on the floor, you immediately crawl over to me, grab my legs and pull yourself up.
-You wave goodbye to people when they are leaving the house.
-You recognize your pediatrician as that big man who gives you the painful shots, so you start to panic and whimper as soon as you see him enter the exam room.
-You can stand up on your own for a few seconds.
-You like baths so much that you cry when I take you out of them.
-You like me so much that you cry when I leave the room.
-I often sing "If You're Happy And You Know It" to you and make you clap your hands at the right spots in the song. Today, you clapped at the right spots all on your own!
Love,
Mom
I just booked a location for your first birthday party because you are somehow turning 1 year old in a few months . . . wha? This year is going by so fast and you are growing so big and you are acquiring so many new traits every week! Your most recent ones:
-You have outgrown your 9-months-sized clothing and currently fit into 12-months clothes.
-You can crawl pretty quickly now, so Daddy had to install a baby gate in the doorway of your room.
-When I come into your room while you are playing on the floor, you immediately crawl over to me, grab my legs and pull yourself up.
-You wave goodbye to people when they are leaving the house.
-You recognize your pediatrician as that big man who gives you the painful shots, so you start to panic and whimper as soon as you see him enter the exam room.
-You can stand up on your own for a few seconds.
-You like baths so much that you cry when I take you out of them.
-You like me so much that you cry when I leave the room.
-I often sing "If You're Happy And You Know It" to you and make you clap your hands at the right spots in the song. Today, you clapped at the right spots all on your own!
Love,
Mom
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