23 month update

Okay- I have been out of the loop for a bit. Last week I spent a week at a symposium in Arizona for work and am clawing my way back into life and work. It was really hard to be away from Sawyer and Dan but we were able to Skype a bit to stay in touch.

Since my last posting, Sawyer has been growing in leaps and bounds. He graduated from the Dew Drop room into the "Hurricane" room for the bigger toddlers a couple of weeks ago. He and his buddy, Taj, transitioned up and their bond has grown ever stronger.

Sawyer is talking more and more everyday. His sentence structure is improving a lot, though he is still working on the complexities of "me, mine, I, and you." His most common phrase, still, is "Mommy/Poppa, hold you" when he is asking us to hold him. I love the turn around of pronouns. He is also testing out whether or not whining is an effective way to get what he wants. Mostly he is learning that it isn't.

He has been loving the melting snow- puddles to splash in, mostly. We have been taking his bike out for rides between snows and he is getting more and more confident-- though sometimes he gets going to fast and ends up crumpled up on the ground. He is mostly taking this in stride.

Sawyer is eating more of a variety of foods as he is moving away from the white-only approach and incorporating some other foods. While he will eat almost any fruit, he still mostly refuses vegetables- though he will eat pureed veggies if they are topped with ketchup. Well, he will eat most anything with ketchup on it. He has decided that crepes are good (even the savory kind) and he loves french toast.

Surprisingly, he is still sleeping in a crib- though we are pretty sure that the day he figures out he can climb out can't be too far away. Until we see him risking breaking a limb, you will find him in his crib at night.

And finally, Sawyer is completely obsessed with trains. Everything is a train in his vivid imagination- dishes leaned up against each other in the dish washer, pieces of pasta lined up on his tray, anything that moves can potentially be a train.

I will try to get some pics up this week.





Sleeping bag

Sawyer was very very excited to get his first sleeping bag. Of course, we had to play play play in it!

2 5 6

Sawyer is learning to count. He has recently gotten very attached to the numbers 2,5, and 6. When we ask him to count he usually says, "1, 2, 5, 6!" When we ask him how many? He says, "2, 5, 6!" Here is a little video.

Harmonica encore

Sawyer has been practicing. Enjoy!