eleven months old

we started your eleventh month off with a bang! we headed to the beach for a week and had a lovely time. you crawled all over our condo and the beach. most days you slept while we were down by the ocean, but when you were awake, you loved it all!

you have continued to pull up on everything and are seriously cruising on anything that will hold your weight. you've started standing for several seconds without support, but still seem very hesitant to take a step. again, we're ok with you not being able to full on run after brother quite yet.

speaking of your brother, you adore him. and also annoy him. but hey, isn't that what little brothers are for? you want to be doing whatever he is doing. and much to cayden's disappointment, that means that you're both "learning" to share. 

you love to squeal. really, really loudly. you also like to cry. you ::might:: be a little spoiled, so when you don't get your way immediately, you definitely let us know that you aren't happy about it. you have the most precious face when you get excited about something and make a pretty funny noise while doing it. your eyeballs open real wide, the corners of your mouth pull back and you make this "eeeeee-ing" noise while breathing in. it's mama's most favorite thing at the moment.

you love food. any food. i'm not sure that we've found anything that you've disliked yet. you've adjusted well to formula. which worked out as you slowly weaned yourself from nursing on your own. this mama's sad for that time to go, but also knows that you need to get out and explore things on your own. and i'm proud to see you do so.

at the end of this next month, we'll celebrate your first birthday. we can hardly believe that you're going to be a year old. this year has flown. and we've enjoyed each and every minute of it. happy eleven months, sweet boy.

sad baby is sad

sawyer is all sorts of sad right now. over the weekend he started running a fairly high fever (around 101). nothing really seemed to be bothering him. just tired and clingy. we kept an eye on the fever and it wouldn't come down below 100 for most of sunday. even with ibuprofen. poor kiddo.

when his nose started pouring and his diapers turned a little more um, fun?, we realized that it was most likely teething. i never remember having a problem with cayden, but for the life of me, sawyer does NOT want me looking around in his mouth. so i made him cry even more this morning while i did a little investigating.

currently, he has four teeth on top and two on the bottom. this morning? i discovered both his upper cuspids pretty much cut through (canines) AND i can see the shape of his upper one year molars pressing down on his gums. poor guy! funny thing? he still only has two teeth on the bottom. eight teeth looming on top, and two on bottom. um, that's strange, no? and when i tried to see if any little teefs were coming in down there, i couldn't find a sign of anything! i'm hoping all of them don't try to decide to come in at the same time. this making teeth stuff is hard, y'all.

you almost had it all...

... and now you'll have that song stuck in your head. but, BUT, isn't cayden probably the most talented car dancer you've ever seen? pretty sure he'll be auditioning for so you think you can dance in the fall. and please to forgive the wind noise floating around the background. a small price to pay with the top down on the jeep. but totally worth it to catch the awesome grooves of cayden, no?

thoughts of random

– i have been forever changed by the crowe family. you can read about their story here. and when you have about two hours free time, watch the memorial service that they held for noah. we wore red & Star Wars in honor of him as those were two of his favorite things. it was a beautiful service, heart-wrenching, but beautiful. it was an evening that held so many different emotions for everyone in that room that it's hard to begin to explain it to anyone. so for real, when you have a moment (or several), watch it. it'll change your life.

– i let cayden's birthday slip up on me this year, so i've decided that getting a head start on sawyer's would be a good idea. invites have been designed (and printed!). and i've ordered some other miscellaneous things for the party. he's going to be one year old in 28 days. 28 DAYS!

– we bought a new duvet for our master bedroom. we have plans to paint the room soon. and it will also mark the start of slowly repainting all the trim in our home. it's currently an off-white/cream which makes the colors on our walls look a little muddled. white to the rescue! time to "crisp" this place up and make it our own.

– we had a fabulous vacation about a month ago. what? you didn't know because you haven't seen the photos? yeah, i know. our photos live on our hard drive. which was connected to our laptop. but the laptop was getting so slow that we decided to finally upgrade to a new computer (an iMac!). and because our laptop was so old (and apparently our hard drive too), we don't have the correct cord to connect and we keep forgetting to grab a plain usb cord. we're challenged sometimes. but you'll see them soon. maybe.

– did you catch that? NEW iMAC! i've already broken it in doing some custom work for the etsy shop. i have an iMac at work and have loved it. having a new computer at home that doesn't give me the spinning wheel of death all the time is fabulous. and well, makes me a little more productive.

– we ordered the boys a swingset and are going to get it today. the reviews all say that it's a beast to put together and could take several days to do so. i'm excited and terrified all at the same time. i love assembling things... but hours to do it? yikes. in the end, i'm thrilled that cayden will have a "playground in the back yard."

– have any big weekend plans? we have three (yes, three) birthday parties to go to this weekend. popular time of the year for the itty bitties to be born, methinks. other than partying all weekend, we plan to start the swingset assembly party and do a little yard work. we'll be very glad to have some cooler weather to work with. low 80s counts as cooler, right?

no, sawyer