Dear Sawyer,
Cute thing you said last night: We had some free time so I asked you what you wanted to do. You thought about it for a second and replied, "Hug." And so we did! And then I melted into puddle onto the floor :-P
Not-so-cute-but-kind-of-cute thing you did last night: Daddy and I were talking and you did not like this. I was paying attention to him and not to you and you weren't having it, so you interrupted and yelled, "Stop talking! Only talk for me!" (You meant to say, "Only talk to me.") You wouldn't even let Daddy hold my hand when we were all laying in bed; you pulled his hand out of mine and said to me, "I want to hold you hand!" Whoa, possessive much?
Love,
Mom
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Talk JieJie
Dear Sawyer,
My cute Sawyer anecdote of the day: JieJie was upset about something and crying in her room. You found me in the bathroom and told me that JieJie was crying. I told you to go and talk to her and ask her if she was okay. You left and returned after a minute to report to me, "I talk JieJie okay. I talk JieJie don't cry pwease."
I'm really going to be sad the day you stop talking your cute toddler talk! (And JieJie was okay. She was just a little cranky and sad because it was time to go to bed.)
Love,
Mom
My cute Sawyer anecdote of the day: JieJie was upset about something and crying in her room. You found me in the bathroom and told me that JieJie was crying. I told you to go and talk to her and ask her if she was okay. You left and returned after a minute to report to me, "I talk JieJie okay. I talk JieJie don't cry pwease."
I'm really going to be sad the day you stop talking your cute toddler talk! (And JieJie was okay. She was just a little cranky and sad because it was time to go to bed.)
Love,
Mom
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Teddy Bear Ice Cream
Dear Sawyer,
I know that I am breaking a record for how many times I have posted on your blog in a single month but you keep doing so many cute things! You have always loved the puzzles in your Moms & Tots class and yesterday, you sat down next to the puzzle shelf and completed every single puzzle. There were about two dozen different puzzles of animals and numbers and other various objects and you very patiently removed the pieces from a puzzle, finished the puzzle, placed it back on the shelf, took down the next puzzle and so forth. You literally did every puzzle in the classroom and while that in and of itself amazed me (how many 2-year-olds have that kind of attention span for one activity?), I especially enjoyed the fact that after you completed each puzzle, you stretched both of your arms up to the sky to do a victory pump!
Later on during snack time, you looked really cute eating your cheese crackers, so I took out my camera to immortalize the moment. When you noticed me taking a picture of you, you immediately moved your chair to the corner of the table, rearranged your snack and juice box to straighten them up and posed with this silly, cheesy smile on your face. I'm so glad you like posing for pictures because I definitely like taking pictures of you!
This morning, you gave me another awww moment when you pushed several toy boxes and chairs together, set a bunch of toys around you and asked me, "You want to try i ceam in my i ceam shop?" You had to repeat yourself a few times before I realized that you were asking me to try ice cream in your ice cream shop, haha. Once I knew what you were saying, I said I would love some ice cream and you handed me a teddy bear and said it was my ice cream. Then you picked up another teddy bear, said it was your ice cream and pretended to lick it. Awww!
Love,
Mom
I know that I am breaking a record for how many times I have posted on your blog in a single month but you keep doing so many cute things! You have always loved the puzzles in your Moms & Tots class and yesterday, you sat down next to the puzzle shelf and completed every single puzzle. There were about two dozen different puzzles of animals and numbers and other various objects and you very patiently removed the pieces from a puzzle, finished the puzzle, placed it back on the shelf, took down the next puzzle and so forth. You literally did every puzzle in the classroom and while that in and of itself amazed me (how many 2-year-olds have that kind of attention span for one activity?), I especially enjoyed the fact that after you completed each puzzle, you stretched both of your arms up to the sky to do a victory pump!
Later on during snack time, you looked really cute eating your cheese crackers, so I took out my camera to immortalize the moment. When you noticed me taking a picture of you, you immediately moved your chair to the corner of the table, rearranged your snack and juice box to straighten them up and posed with this silly, cheesy smile on your face. I'm so glad you like posing for pictures because I definitely like taking pictures of you!
This morning, you gave me another awww moment when you pushed several toy boxes and chairs together, set a bunch of toys around you and asked me, "You want to try i ceam in my i ceam shop?" You had to repeat yourself a few times before I realized that you were asking me to try ice cream in your ice cream shop, haha. Once I knew what you were saying, I said I would love some ice cream and you handed me a teddy bear and said it was my ice cream. Then you picked up another teddy bear, said it was your ice cream and pretended to lick it. Awww!
Love,
Mom
Monday, January 22, 2018
Dinosaur Bones
Dear Sawyer,
You visited the American Museum of Natural History for the first time this past weekend and you loved it! You like dinosaurs, so seeing an entire floor full of towering dinosaur fossils was, as you put it, "So cool!" You kept running up to different fossils with a big smile on your face and shouting, "So cool!" And even though I am a grown-up who has been to the AMNH many times before, I was still in awe of just how large the dinosaurs were. Can you imagine what it would have been like to come face-to-face (or, more accurately, human face-to-dinosaur toenail) with one of those magnificent creatures when they were still living? It always amazes me that such gigantic animals once roamed the earth and it was really sweet watching you discover just how gigantic they were.
It was also sweet to hear you tell PoiPoi about your trip to the museum: "I went to the dinosaur 'seum! I saw dinosaur bones! And fish bones!" PoiPoi asked you if I took any pictures of you and you said, "Uh-huh. I say 'Cheese!'" Hahaha, so cute!
Love,
Mom
You visited the American Museum of Natural History for the first time this past weekend and you loved it! You like dinosaurs, so seeing an entire floor full of towering dinosaur fossils was, as you put it, "So cool!" You kept running up to different fossils with a big smile on your face and shouting, "So cool!" And even though I am a grown-up who has been to the AMNH many times before, I was still in awe of just how large the dinosaurs were. Can you imagine what it would have been like to come face-to-face (or, more accurately, human face-to-dinosaur toenail) with one of those magnificent creatures when they were still living? It always amazes me that such gigantic animals once roamed the earth and it was really sweet watching you discover just how gigantic they were.
It was also sweet to hear you tell PoiPoi about your trip to the museum: "I went to the dinosaur 'seum! I saw dinosaur bones! And fish bones!" PoiPoi asked you if I took any pictures of you and you said, "Uh-huh. I say 'Cheese!'" Hahaha, so cute!
Love,
Mom
Thursday, January 18, 2018
Soccer Star
Dear Sawyer,
Cute things you said recently:
- "Can I have a snack? Yes or no?"
- "Can you read for me?"
- If I ask you to do something, you sometimes contest it by saying, "I am [fill in my request word-for-word.]" See examples: "Sawyer, stop throwing your toys." "I am stop throwing my toys!" "Don't jump on the bed." "I am don't jump on the bed."
- You were squirming around on the changing table while I was changing your diaper and I told you to stop because it wasn't safe. You replied, "I could be fall."
- When I was pouring milk for you, you asked me if I could mix it with orange juice. I said that would taste gross. You responded incredulously, "Yeah, that no make sense!"
Cute things you did recently:
- Started soccer class!
GuhGaw started taking soccer classes when he was 2, JieJie also started when she was 2 and now it is your turn to don the Soccer Friends' signature red jersey! You had your first class today and I was very impressed with how brave you were. You were a little hesitant to walk over and sit with the coaches by yourself but when they waved you over and I told you to go, you did. And you proved to be an excellent listener for the entire class. You followed all of the coaches' instructions perfectly! I could tell that you were often tempted to pick up the balls and throw them into the goals but you knew you weren't allowed to use your hands so each time you wanted to, you balled your hands into fists, pulled them away from the ball and continued kicking the ball with your feet, even though that was a little more difficult for you. I was very impressed with your self-restraint, especially when the other boys in the class kept picking up their balls.
You seemed to really enjoy soccer and after the coaches gave you stickers at the end of the class for being a good listener, you ran over to me with your face absolutely beaming! You were so excited to show me your stickers! Go Sawyer!
Love,
Mom
Cute things you said recently:
- "Can I have a snack? Yes or no?"
- "Can you read for me?"
- If I ask you to do something, you sometimes contest it by saying, "I am [fill in my request word-for-word.]" See examples: "Sawyer, stop throwing your toys." "I am stop throwing my toys!" "Don't jump on the bed." "I am don't jump on the bed."
- You were squirming around on the changing table while I was changing your diaper and I told you to stop because it wasn't safe. You replied, "I could be fall."
- When I was pouring milk for you, you asked me if I could mix it with orange juice. I said that would taste gross. You responded incredulously, "Yeah, that no make sense!"
Cute things you did recently:
- Started soccer class!
GuhGaw started taking soccer classes when he was 2, JieJie also started when she was 2 and now it is your turn to don the Soccer Friends' signature red jersey! You had your first class today and I was very impressed with how brave you were. You were a little hesitant to walk over and sit with the coaches by yourself but when they waved you over and I told you to go, you did. And you proved to be an excellent listener for the entire class. You followed all of the coaches' instructions perfectly! I could tell that you were often tempted to pick up the balls and throw them into the goals but you knew you weren't allowed to use your hands so each time you wanted to, you balled your hands into fists, pulled them away from the ball and continued kicking the ball with your feet, even though that was a little more difficult for you. I was very impressed with your self-restraint, especially when the other boys in the class kept picking up their balls.
You seemed to really enjoy soccer and after the coaches gave you stickers at the end of the class for being a good listener, you ran over to me with your face absolutely beaming! You were so excited to show me your stickers! Go Sawyer!
Love,
Mom
Monday, January 15, 2018
Stop, Drop and Roll
Dear Sawyer,
Cute things you did today:
-We were at Ellie's house this afternoon for a play date and Ellie's bedroom faces the LIRR tracks, so a train zoomed by every several minutes. You missed seeing the first few trains because they were already gone by the time you waded through the mountains of toys all over the floor to get to the window. When you finally did see a train, you were so excited! And I mean, REALLY excited! You said, "I saw train! I saw train! Let me tell the guys!" The "guys" were JieJie and Ellie and her two sisters, who were playing the living room. You ran out to the living room, pointed excitedly to your chest and exclaimed, "I saw train! I saw train!" Your eyes were so wide and your smile was so big and it was so adorable!
-When we first moved into our house, I decorated your room with Snoopy wall decals. You have kind of outgrown Snoopy, though (*sniff sniff), so I put up new Thomas the Tank Engine decals last week. While you were in your room by yourself, you peeled a few of them off and rolled them into a ball. And you described this action to me by laying down on your mat, rolling back and forth across it and then getting up and saying, "I roll them. I roll them into a ball." Thanks for the bonus visual, sweetie!
Love,
Mom
Cute things you did today:
-We were at Ellie's house this afternoon for a play date and Ellie's bedroom faces the LIRR tracks, so a train zoomed by every several minutes. You missed seeing the first few trains because they were already gone by the time you waded through the mountains of toys all over the floor to get to the window. When you finally did see a train, you were so excited! And I mean, REALLY excited! You said, "I saw train! I saw train! Let me tell the guys!" The "guys" were JieJie and Ellie and her two sisters, who were playing the living room. You ran out to the living room, pointed excitedly to your chest and exclaimed, "I saw train! I saw train!" Your eyes were so wide and your smile was so big and it was so adorable!
-When we first moved into our house, I decorated your room with Snoopy wall decals. You have kind of outgrown Snoopy, though (*sniff sniff), so I put up new Thomas the Tank Engine decals last week. While you were in your room by yourself, you peeled a few of them off and rolled them into a ball. And you described this action to me by laying down on your mat, rolling back and forth across it and then getting up and saying, "I roll them. I roll them into a ball." Thanks for the bonus visual, sweetie!
Love,
Mom
Sunday, January 14, 2018
Apologies
Dear Sawyer,
You and JieJie were playing together in your room and started fighting over something. JieJie got angry and stormed to her room and I went into your room and asked what happened. You said, "DiDi pull JieJie blanket. We fight over der" and pointed to a spot next to your toy shelf. I told you, "You shouldn't fight with JieJie. She's your sister." You replied, "DiDi say sorry. Can I go say sorry?" I said you could and you ran over to your sister's room and said, "JieJie! Sorry."
Thank you for apologizing!
Love,
Mom
You and JieJie were playing together in your room and started fighting over something. JieJie got angry and stormed to her room and I went into your room and asked what happened. You said, "DiDi pull JieJie blanket. We fight over der" and pointed to a spot next to your toy shelf. I told you, "You shouldn't fight with JieJie. She's your sister." You replied, "DiDi say sorry. Can I go say sorry?" I said you could and you ran over to your sister's room and said, "JieJie! Sorry."
Thank you for apologizing!
Love,
Mom
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