Half a Year!!

A quick photo taken at 6:30 a.m. today.

Morning snuggles are the best!

What a memorable six months this has been! It's unbelievable how the time has flown. (Once they're on the outside it goes MUCH faster! Why can't pregnancy be like that?) We've got such a fun handsome baby on our hands and are so blessed to be Sawyer's parents! To celebrate we cut Sawyer's hair for the first time. He had some serious long wisps over his ears, and a nice tuft on the back of his head. George has been wanting to cut his hair for a couple months now, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. It seemed like once we cut his hair he wouldn't be a baby anymore, so I was putting it off.

Can you see his hair in front of his ear? Haha, so cute!

Sawyer also got to try some yummy? rice cereal. Oh yea we party big time around here :)

The verdict?

Delicious!

But really it's not, I tried it...can't wait for him to be able to try some real delicious food!

This is him saying "da-da-da" while eating and spitting everywhere. I can tell it's going to be messy around here for the next while!

6-month-old stats

Weight: 19 lbs 14 oz - 86%

Height: 29 1/4" - 99%

Head: 18" - 96%

He rolls tummy to back and back to tummy. He sits up on his own, and although he sits pretty well, he still takes the occasional face dive. He prefers to stand and if you give him your fingers or shirt or something to grab he'll pull himself to a sitting position and then to his feet. He loves the high chair. He's not a crazy slobber machine, but slips out his fair share (we can still make it on one bib/day just fine). He'll jibber-jabber to himself if no one is entertaining him. His latest is sticking his tongue out while saying "da-da-da". When you lay him on the floor he scoots backwards. He's trying real hard to crawl and gets up on his knees. He likes to bang his hands on the table. He goes nuts in his jumper. He still blows out of his diapers almost every day. (We've tried bigger diapers, but that doesn't seem to be the issue.) When he's sitting in your lap he rocks back and forth and belly bumps anything in his way. He is such a smiley, happy baby. We're so thankful for Sawyer and absolutely adore him!

Happy Easter!

Sara had the brilliant idea to dye eggs this year with natural dyes (see cutting board in pic) The dyes consisted of red and yellow onions, beets, coffee grinds, red cabbage, turmeric, hot peppers, and carrots. The coffee grinds made the eggs look exactly like natural brown eggs. The onions and red cabbage were our favorites and yielded the deepest hues. Mom also had a fun idea to put rubber bands on while dying to make some sweet stripes.

A sampling of our naturally-dyed eggs

After the 'hunting'

A favorite painting that hangs in our home.

{Painted by local artist, Jared Barnes entitled The First}

It's incredible to think of our resurrected Savior. How grateful we are that He is Risen.

Happy Easter!

Sweet Baby Soy

Helping Mom with the laundry this morning :)

Aunt Alethea surprised us with a visit yesterday and is here for a week, woohoo!

Great Grandma High and Great Grandma June LOVED butterflies. This mobile used to be June's {a present from Abbie} and now my mom has it, much to Sawyer's glee :)

Baby Sawyer getting a lesson on the Baby Grand by Grandma Louisa.

Sawyer likes his high chair! We're getting ready for solids starting next week.

Basement Apt

One of George's latest projects is finishing my parent's basement. Guess who will be moving in at the end of April? So far he has completed the framing, wiring, plumbing, insulation, and today will finish hanging the sheet rock. After taping/mudding we'll be able to texture, paint and put in the carpet and kitchen cabinets. It's coming together quite nicely!

This is a bullet hammer. Not really, but really. It fires nails into concrete using a shell.

George had to make his own 'helper' (that is what the tall T is) to hang dry wall on the ceiling by himself, since I'm an unreliable helper. Don't blame me, talk to Sawyer! I'm just impressed George can do it all alone!

Dang I snagged a good one! :) ._

We Survived

Sawyer experienced the inevitable...he got sick. He caught a cough from Sadie at the end of March. It wasn't too bad, but the poor guy had a runny/stuffy nose so nursing was hard. Luckily that only lasted a few days until the cough moved to his chest. In total it lasted a week and half, but it didn't seem to bother him a bit. He'd cough and sound terrible and then go right back to giving big smiles. He has such a wonderful temperament. We just cranked the humidifier at night and survived fine. We almost made it through the entire winter without getting sick. It snowed last Sunday, but we've had two days in a row of BEAUTIFUL weather, so hopefully the sunshine is here to stay.

Side note: Right now we're enjoying 19 lbs. 6 oz. of Sawyer goodness. (Stats from his 5 1/2-month appointment)