Sawyer's Baptism

Toothless Kate

Kate's 2 front teeth were getting really wiggly and, as much as I was sad to see her lose her baby teeth (and perfect baby teeth smile and just grow up period) once they started to get wiggly they were looking pretty icky. She was wiggling them on her own but then every night after I brushed and flossed her teeth, Daddy would take a turn wiggling them. He is the tooth pulling master and has pulled out all her teeth. As much as I like teeth, I don't think pulling teeth is for me. So on January 29 she was laying in his lap and then all of a sudden she sat up and it was gone! She didn't make a sound and all of a sudden she had a big grin on her face and it was gone.




 

 Clara wanted in on the picture taking too

   

The next day we went to the temple and I took some picture of my one tooth Kate.  She sure is beautiful!

 








Then the next week the same thing happened with the second one and it was gone too. Now we have a toothless Kate!


 

Sawyer wanted some pictures taken too



One with a silly face



And Clara did not want to get her picture taken but I tried anyway

Sawyer's belt

Sawyer is one funny boy. He is so observant. He is one of those kids that wants to tell everyone everything about what is going on in his life...but he has picked up Kate's habit of not talking to anyone. Its a funny combination. But I have realized that at preschool, now that he is comfortable with his teachers, they hear everything. After my weekend at the dental convention in Boston his teacher asked, "are you a dental hygienist?" because Sawyer had told her all about it. He also loves to tell me everything that is going on at school. He adores school and everything they do there. But sometimes I discover things slowly, over time.

One day Sawyer came home from school and said, "Mom, did you know that little kids can wear belts?"
I responded (probably halfway listening and doing something else with, "yes I did."
Sawyer: "Can you buy me a belt?"
Me (thinking that sounded like a complete waste of money): "probably not. They are just for if your pants are falling down."

The next day Sawyer came up to me and said, "Mom, my pants are falling down."
Me: "Sawyer! You don't need a belt!" (And I'm left wondering why the heck he wanted a belt at all!)


A few days later, Sawyer: "Mommy, my pants are really falling down. When are you going to buy me a belt?"
Me: "Sawyer, does one of your friends at school have a belt? I don't understand why you want one." Sawyer: "Its in the song about what you are wearing and I want to wear a belt."

OHH, I see now.

The next day, running into my bedroom while I was still sleeping, with a huge smile on his face, "MOM!! Look what I found in Clara's room!! Its a belt! Can you put it on me today?!?" And I looked at that lacy, frilly belt buckle belt and there was no way I could say no. So he wore it to school. That day when I went to pick him up his teacher told me the first thing he did when he walked into school was show him her belt. And when they sang the song about what you are wearing (you stand up if you wear the thing they mention, dress, sweater, etc) that only Sawyer and his teacher got to stand up when they said belt and he looked like the happiest boy in the world. So here he is in his cute, Clara belt.

 

And here he is with his new belt that I finally gave in and bought him



Sawyer really just cracks me up. It seems like there are lots of things like this that I slowly discover the real reason he is talking about something. One thing that is really funny that he does is he replaces words with different words with no hesitation at all. This Christmas he called egg nog "door knob" and he asked for a "turquoise" when he really meant to ask for a buckeye. He called chocolate chips "chicken nuggets". I can't think of any more right now, but it always makes us laugh. And when I took these pictures I realized that we actually had the sun shining through our windows (pretty rare these short winter days in Vermont) so I took some more pictures.





Love these kids!

boys don't come any cuter than this

Interview with a 4 year old

 

What is your name? Sawyer

How old are you? 4

What is your favorite color? blue and orange

What is your favorite toy? my new ball with cars on it

What is your favorite thing to do? play games like sorry and puzzles

What is your favorite place to go? to Grammie's house

What is your favorite movie? Cars and Woody and Snow White

What is your favorite tv show? Jake and Octonauts

Who loves you the most? you (Mom)

What is your favorite book? Cars book

What is your favorite dinner? "sghetti", pizza, green pears, fruit snacks and green peppers

What is your favorite snack? applesauce and fruit snacks and cheese sticks and pears

What are some things you can do now that you are 4 that you couldn't do when you were 3? no more whining

Sawyer turns 4

 

My Sawyer is the sweetest, most handsome boy in the entire world.  His big eyes and big smile brighten my life every single day.  I been trying to remember the funny things he says and does so I could share them on his birthday but they didn't stick in my brain.  Here are just a few I could think of. 

- Saywer still asks to cuddle and watch a show with me every morning.  Now that I have Clara it unfortunately does not happen as often as either one of us would like but it still makes me happy to hear him ask.

- When he is getting out of the car he will usually shout "Straight ahoy!" and jump out with his body as straight as possible

- Sawyer is so good at art projects and gets complimented on his coloring skills by everyone.  He has impressed his Sunbeam teachers, his preschool teachers and the teachers at the gym.  He is patient with it and colors in the lines and he could color for hours.  I find him coloring on his own all the time.

- With his coloring, he is also a smarty pants.  With Kate I sat down with her and taught her letters but with Sawyer he has kind of had to teach himself.  Or observe what Kate is doing.  However he has done it, he is a smarty pants and knows how to write his letters.  The words he can write on his own are "Mom" (although it is often "Momo"), "Dad", "Clara," "Kate", "Becca" and, of course, his name.  Because he knows these words they are on almost all the papers her colors.  Sometimes he does ask how to spell things and can write them on his own that way too.

- Sawyer is so excited to go to pre-k next year at the same school as Kate!  He talks about it all the time

- He has recently found he loves baseball.  He loves having Ryan throw pitches to him and we just signed him up for Saturday morning baseball.  At gymnastics they had a baseball day and the teacher asked him if he liked the Boston Red Sox.  He had no idea what she is talking about.  Later he was watching Sportscenter with Daddy and when a baseball game came on he asked what they were playing, he had no idea.  Guess the rest of us had better become bigger baseball fans with him.  

- Sawyer loves gymnastics.  After last session I wasn't going to sign him up again but Ryan wouldn't hear of it because he loves it so much.  This session we signed him up for a different day and he is the only kid in the class!  So he gets a personal lesson with his fun teacher.  It is so funny to watch him with her.  In groups of kids he is often quiet but he jabbers away with this teacher

- Sawyer navigates my phone like a pro and is an Angry Birds expert.  He spends too much time on it while his sister is at gymnastics or swimming lessons or when mom is nursing somewhere in public

- Sawyer is an excellent little swimmer and continues to do well in his swimming lessons.  His arms still don't quiet reach over his head for his streamlines, and when he does them his big belly pokes out, but he makes do.  I sure do love that big Sawyer belly.

- Sawyer still confuses his pronouns and says things like, "Him is coming!" I will be sad when he outgrows that

- Ever since Sawyer's 2nd birthday with a pirate theme he has called a skull and cross bones (like his tie in the pictures) "ghosts".  He has a towel with them on it he calls his "ghost towel".  One day he told me, "Kate said that isn't a ghost, its a skull." and he now calls it the right name.  That was a sad day for me.

- Sawyer is very loving and lets his mom cuddle with him and kiss him whenever I want to.  I'll say, "Sawyer, what time is it?" and he'll say, "I don't know."  and I'll look at my pretend watch and say, "Its time to kiss your mommy!" and he'll get a big smile on his face and let me kiss on him

- Sawyer is still the most ticklish boy I have ever seen.  He is so fun to tickle too because he has a big, booming, contagious laugh.

- As you can tell, I'm pretty much in love with this boy of mine.  He does have a few weird traits that I wanted to remember.  He is a bit of a whiner at times and one thing he consistently whines about are his shoes.  When I tie them he will whine if I haven't made the knot "small"....but I still haven't found out what he means and have never tied his shoes to his liking before.  So he whines every time!  

So that is a little about Sawyer at 4.  He is the best and I love him.

Happy Birthday Sawyer!

preschool

I taught preschool at our house this week and on Tuesday Ryan was home from work and Kate was home from school so we had a few extra hands! Because Ryan was home I told the mom's to bring snow gear for the kids so they could play outside while Clara and I stayed warm inside. I think Kate loved being a part of Sawyer's preschool for a day and she did everything we did.

We were learning about colors so I made up squirt bottles filled with water and a tiny bit of food coloring and they had fun coloring the snow. They also went sledding on our tiny little hill. It wasn't too long until they were cold and ready to come in though! I'm glad I got a picture, don't kids in snow gear look so adorable?