Sawyer is growing, growing, growing. You know how it is. They get so chunky and change so quickly when they are so little. Just when you think you got it figured out they change on you. He went through a pretty fussy stage where he cried whenever he was awake (that is when the blogging came to a halt), but that is over now. He is pretty easy going and pretty happy most of the time now. We are currently working with him on sleeping. He was down to one feeding a night and then reverted back to waking up often in the wee morning hours. But I am working on it, and I am not too worried about it. I have already made some changes and it looks like we are back headed in the right direction.
Sawyer's baby blessing was on June 26th. It was special to say the least. It meant a lot to me to hear Spence bless Sawyer with so many wonderful things.
After the blessing we met back at our house for a brunch with both of our families.
We spent some time up at the Stephenson family cabin. You may notice that Madelyn is with her Aunt Mary in three of the four below pictures. She loves loves loves her Aunt Mary. I don't blame her. Madelyn's Aunt Mary is seriously one of the most vivacious people I know who never seems to tire of playing Hide and Seek and multiple other games (many of which she makes up). Many of the games that Madelyn and I play together were inherited from Aunt Mary.
And then there is always the Zoo. We have made it once this summer. I loved taking Madelyn to the Zoo because she thought everything was amazing, especially the dinosaurs. You can see her below with her arms up dancing around the big "water globe" thing, sitting with Nathan and Jaxon on a dinosaur tale, stenching her arms out like a gorilla, and reaching her arms down saying "I am an Elephant". Yeah, it is fun going to the Zoo with a three year old.
And speaking of three year olds, we had Madelyn's third birthday party. It was a Rapunzel party. I was pretty proud of myself for pulling off a three year old Rapunzel party (my craftiness can sometimes be sporadic). It wasn't anything too fancy and seemed to fit a three year olds needs just fine. We decorated with purple flags with suns stenciled on them and some balloons.The party entailed Rapunzel coloring pages (that were delivered by Rapunzel herself...well at least we had a long Rapunzel Brade that came down the stairwell that made all the kids think that Rapunzel was upstairs). And the best part was that "Rapunzel hair" that each of the kids also received from Rapunzel. After we did the usual lunch, cake and ice cream, and gifts we spent the rest of the time dancing around to the Rapunzel soundtrack with our "Rapunzel hair" on our heads. Madelyn thought it was a pretty sweet party and that is all I was going for.
