Happy Halloween!

Sawyer went to his first Halloween party on Friday at school. He and his friends had a lot of fun and even were part of a parade that went through the big-kid rooms. On Saturday night we went to another Halloween party and by then Sawyer had figured out how to say "party" and what it might mean. Then we took him trick or treating for his first time- He can say "Happy Ween!" but hasn't mastered "Trick or Treat" yet- I imagine next year he will be in true form. He definitely go the hang of it and ran from one house to the next with his little turtle shell bouncing behind him.

Here are some pictures from his party at school.

Feeding Dezi

We are really happy that Sawyer is starting to help us with chores around the house- about time, huh? ;)

Snow day!

We got an amazing October snow that lasted a couple days. Over 21"!

Sawyer absolutely loved it!He decided pretty early on that he didn't want to wear his gloves, so Dan had to do some hand-warming interventions.

What to do on a cold and rainy day

Boxes make for some great play time when you are stuck inside the house!
Sawyer wants to be like his Poppa....We made pumpkin bread together this weekend. Sawyer helped me measure the flour, sugar, and spices. He absolutely loves watching the KitchenAid do its work.
And finally, Sawyer seems to be picking up some habits from Dezi....

Leaf Jumping

After we got all the leaves raked, we decided we needed to do some leaf jumping!

Fall leaves and first snow

Here are some pics of our recent romps in the beautiful fall leaves. Sawyer did a good job helping me rake up the front lawn.
He had some fun playing in the garden too.He is never happy when it is time to go inside...

And the leaves were really beautiful until.... our first snow! It has been a very, very cold weekend.

I love this pic of Sawyer- he has such an earnest face.

It was so cold that on Saturday Diane and I brought Sawyer and Amato to the butterfly pavilion. Sawyer hasn't been there since he was 11 months and just learning to walk (and Omi was visiting). He was a little nervous about the fluttering butterflies but he loved the spiders and cockroaches, touched the starfish. Sawyer spent most of the time in the pavilion running after Amato yelling "Mat-mo! Mat-mo!"

I tried to get to some good pictures but only this picture of Amato turned out well. Here he is!
Sawyer's vocabulary is really growing! His new big words this week are tunnel, cricket, and honey.

18 months!

We hiked Mt. Sanitas again this weekend- this time we went all the way up and over. Sawyer hiked about half of the way up and slept for about half of the way down. It was his first time up and over since he was about 15 lbs- which is about when I decided he was too heavy to carry up the staircase trail.... apparently I am not steadfast in my decisions as I was the one that carried him up the second half and Dan was the one that carried him down...

Sawyer is absolutely in love with planes and trains. He has a keen ear for both of them. Apparently Saturday mornings are popular with the local small-plane pilots because we saw more than a half dozen small planes on our hike. Sawyer was very, very excited. Here is a picture of Saw and Dan as Sawyer was scanning the sky for a plane he heard.We took a nice little break half way up with a great view of the Front Range foothills.

This weekend Sawyer hit the 18 month mark. He weighs 27.4 lbs and is 32.5" tall! He is becoming a real parrot and is learning lots of new words. His newest word is "turtle" which he began using on Friday afternoon when we saw a turtle at the ponds we visit regularly.

It looks like Sawyer is giving up his only white foods eating campaign! He is actually eating vegetables again (it has been about two months) and loves ketchup!

Some other big news these days is that Sawyer is giving up his binky! He had been using it less and less so on Friday night we decided to put him to bed without it and he did just fine. He hasn't used a binky since Friday afternoon nap at school. We are on night #3 and things are going well! Now we just have to see what happens during nap time at school tomorrow!

oh.. and he really likes wearing two hats... :)