6 months already!

Our peanut is 6 months old already. I cried the night before as I was boxing up more clothes he has outgrown. I know everyone says it goes so fast but man they are not kidding. I felt like I was pregnant FOREVER but since the day our little Sawyer was born the days are just flying by. Our little man is sitting up, crawling, giving the sweetest kisses, eating solids, saying "mama" and "dada" (he only says Dada in the crib, it's so cute. David thinks Sawyer is begging him to come rescue him out of his crib! haha), smiling at anything and everything, and FINALLY laughing! He used to never laugh but recently he laughs at everything, it's so fun and the best sound in the world. We fall more and more in love with our little guy each day. We feel so blessed that God gave us our sweet Soy Bean!

B-A-N-A-N-A-S! (& carrots, peaches, green beans...)

This post is so so late, but better late than never right?!

We started solids a few weeks ago when we were in AZ visiting Grammie and Opa (David's parents!) Sawyer was one hungry baby to say the least. From the moment we started he hasn't looked back! He grabbed the spoon out of my hand and started shoveling it in on his own...apparently I wasn't moving fast enough. We started with Bananas and have since conquered many other fruits and veggies. David is just dying to give the kid meat but I'm just not quite ready for that! I don't know why but I feel like once he starts eating meat he is officially a big kid (I'm desperately trying to hold onto my baby days).

Below are some pics of his first foods and our sweet visit with David's family!

I got this Mom

 

 

 

 

Are you serious? I really get to have this?

He loved their little dog Lily, every time she barked he would just laugh and laugh

 

Giving Grammie kisses. He loves grabbing your face and giving big kisses!

Trying to crawl...

Sawyer is 5 months and 3 weeks old and is trying SO hard to crawl! I fear my life is going to get much busier in the very near future. He is hilarious now, for a while he has been getting up on his hands and knees but he has just been hanging out stuck in that position. Tonight he started really trying to move all around. He gets so frustrated because he just wants to go but doesn't know how yet! My sweet girlfriend Natalie was here visiting tonight and she got to see Soy in action! She got some great video clips of him really moving around, hopefully I can get those up here soon! Here is a video of him trying to figure it out. He is not crawling yet but he is definitely moving all over! Go Soy Go! You are almost there buddy! 

Houdini Baby

We have our very own Houdini Baby. Seriously, this kid can break out of anything! Even in his newborn days, Sawyer would bust out of his tight, special swaddle blankets. We never knew how he was doing it, but he would somehow pop his feet out and get at least one, if not both arms out. When we used disposable diapers he would wiggle so much in his crib that his diaper would wiggle right off of him, it would be still fastened but down around his knees! And now his favorite thing is busting out of his clothes during "nap" time! Almost every time I go to get him he is only semi dressed! I don't know how the kid does it...I would love to set up a camera in there and watch him so silently wiggle out of his clothes! This was him today when I went to get him...one arm completely out of his long sleeves and one leg sticking out of his snap up jammies! He is so proud of himself when he manages to break free, when I go in to get him he just smiles and laughs so proud! He is such a silly little guy...definitely keeps us laughing!  

(sorry for the fuzzy picture, I snapped it on my phone!)

Talking Sawyer

Soy Bean has found his voice in a big way! All day today he has been "Scream talking", it's hilarious! He is yelling at his toys and at his hands. I keep thinking he's working himself up but when I go to pick him up I see he is smiling huge and just figuring out his little voice. Here's a little video of him telling me all about his nap time. He's such a joy! He is 4 months and 1 week now! I cannot believe it!

Sawyer tummy time- videos

Sawyer LOVES, LOVES, LOVES tummy time. He sleeps on his tummy, he only wants to play on his tummy, if he ever rolls over onto his back he screams his head off until I go flip him back over to his tummy. Tonight he was pushing up onto his knees and scooting. It was so cute! He was getting frustrated that he wasn't taking off like he wanted. Of course by the time I found the camera, deleted all the (cute) photos to make room, and started taping, he was over pushing up onto his knees and just want to talk and smile. Still pretty sweet though! We love our little guy! Enjoy the videos!

Sawyer and Cousin Naomi Baby dedication

We absolutely LOVE our sweet church, Calvary Chapel Malibu, and wanted to make sure and have Soy dedicated there before we moved. It was such a blessing to be able to have him dedicated at the same time as sweet little Naomi (Ben and Kristine go to the same church). David and I have grown so much in our relationship with the Lord the last few years and we have Pastor Bill and the our church family to thank for their encouragement and devotion to the Lord. We are going to miss everyone there so much.

When David and I found out we were pregnant with our precious Sawyer we were overjoyed but terrified. With Lupus, you have very high rates of miscarriage and still birth and I think we both just assumed our first pregnancy would end in a loss. We were cautiously excited throughout the whole first trimester (who am I kidding, throughout the whole pregnancy!) But I will never forget that first night we found out, we were laying in my sister Laura's guest room in CO not sure what emotions to have, and David just started praying over our little baby. He acknowledged to God that this baby is His child before he was ever ours and however long he decided to bless us with him we would be blessed and thankful. I remember as he was praying that prayer, an overwhelming peace covering both of us. Throughout the whole pregnancy any time I would have these little panic moments or start to freak out I would repeat that prayer and remind myself that this baby is God's child, not mine. I cannot hold onto him and control everything. Every night I was pregnant I prayed that he would grow to love the Lord and be a man after God's own heart. Now that he is here, we pray the same prayer over him every day. Sawyer loves when I read the Bible out loud to him, and he loves singing hymns, it makes my heart so happy that he is praising the Lord with his happy sounds as a little baby! Having him dedicated at our church was such an emotional and beautiful moment, we were again reminded that this child is God's child and however long he is here with us on earth we are vowing to raise him to love the Lord and be good examples to him. We have been blessed beyond words with the little guy, he truly is such a joy to us. Thank you Lord for our sweet, sweet son!