Happy Happy Birthday Sawyer Dear

We celebrated Sawyer's birthday by having cake and ice cream at Grandma Carr's house. He loved his presents and had such a fun birthday. My little boy is now 2!

I spent way to much time making the cake balls and cake, but they seemed to be a big hit.

Sawyer's not so fun day!

Sawyer finally got an upper GI endoscopy done this last week. In this procedure they put a camera down his throat and took pictures of his upper GI track. They did blood work, removed tiny pieces of his stomach and from his colon for a biopsy. All the pictures looked good, but that is half of it. We haven't received the results from the blood work or biopsy as of yet.

Canning Season

This is the kids helping daddy pick apples at the neighbors house. Ben has spent several hours and late nights up past one canning, dehydrating, and juicing. He has canned pears, tomatoes, salsa, peaches, grape juice, apple sauce, and plum juice. He has also dehydrated peaches, pears, and plums. He is more than obsessed!

Some of Sawyer's Therapy

These are some fun activities we do with our little guy every day. With S.P.D. (Sensory Processing Disorder) kids need and seek for sensory input. Every child prefers different things and these are some of Sawyer's favorite sensory input activities as of lately. We move like crazy on the exercise ball. Bouncing up and down, rolling on top of it on his belly, and rolling upside down on his back.

Who doesn't love a good rocking horse?
This is his sensory brush we use 3 times a day. With this brush we rub his arms, hands, legs, and feet. This puts Sawyer in Heaven.

Baby #3

I guess there is something important I should post about. We are expecting baby #3. Due February 7th with a sweet little boy. I wasn't planning on getting pregnant as soon as I did, but when you are not on birth control and just watching your cycle things happen! Finally at 24 weeks I'm feeling like I have some energy back. I haven't been very sick just extremely tired and irritable all the time. I need to thank my sweet little children for letting me take a nap everyday. This usually happens when Sawyer is down for his nap. Sadie entertains herself while mom takes a nap. I also need to thank my amazing husband for being so understanding when things don't get done around the house like they usually do. Also for helping so much with the kids. I couldn't go through pregnancy without my sweet little family. As for the baby itself things look great! I'm working on gaining weight this pregnancy in hopes that it will give me a healthy and strong baby. I know most of you would think why would you want to gain weight. Well, with Sawyer I only gained 15lbs and he had several complications. I'm a very picky eater and it is hard to find things I like to eat. Most of the time I would rather just not eat anything. At my last doctors appointment I had only gained 6lbs and I should have gained double that. So here goes for gaining some good healthy weight!

Such a Big Boy

Sawyer can now walk with his walker. We are so proud of him. We have now ordered braces that fit up to his ankles in order to stabilize his feet better and hopefully have him walking in time for the new baby arrival. One of his new things is saying the sound "aaaaaa". You say it to him and he says it right back. He also loves patty cake. Life has been extremely busy with this little man. We currently have a occupational therapist, physical therapist, speech therapist, and developmental specialist working with him. It is nice that they come to our home to work with him. We have about 6 appointments a month. We also are starting yoga again once a week. We have now completely weaned him from his medicine and he will be receiving a upper endoscopy on the 18th of this month to see if their is anything effecting him in his upper GI track.

Black Island Farms

Sadie got to go on her first field trip with preschool. All the kids had so much fun.

They all got to ride on a big trailer and go see how the farmers grow their crops. Then when we got to the pumpkin patch they got off the trailer and went and picked their very own pumpkin.

Pop Up Trailer Adventure

My Dad Gerald bought a pop up trailer and has been nice enough to let us use it. We decided to make one last trip up to the property. I will never camp any other way again. It was so nice to have heat and be able to cook meals in the trailer. The weather didn't cooperate as well as we would have liked it to, but we still had fun!
Shayna came with us to join in the fun. For the hour that it wasn't raining the kids insisted in putting there feet in the river.
You know Sawyer really likes something when he stick his tongue out.

You have to let a boy have fun once in a while. We let Sawyer play in the wet sand and he enjoyed every minute of it.