Barrel Biscuits

On our drive home from Jasper, Indiana from another FLW weekend we stopped at the Cracker Barrel for dinner.  Sawyer was his usual sweet, adorable self while there.  He had the waitress and a few other dinner guests wrapped around his finger!  Our waitress was so excited to give Sawyer his 1st "Barrel Biscuit"...which is one of their famous sourdough biscuits and jelly.  Because we have not given Sawyer any actual table food (other than what Gerber provides us in a jar) we simply let him have a taste of the jelly.  Grandma was the one holding him at the time, so she was the giver of the jelly.  He didn't seem to mind the jelly...made his usual funny face when he tries something new.

Mouse Pad

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I found this cute idea on Pinterest...to take pictures and spell D-A-D.  This is what I came up with...and made daddy a mousepad for work and also put them in a picture frame.  I think it turned out cute....I hope daddy does too!

S-T-R-E-T-C-H!

What a little stinker!  We try so hard to keep Sawyer away from the hearth and fireplace so we rolled a comforter up and pushed against the stone...yesterday I watched as he rolled himself over to the blanket, pull himself onto it and s-t-r-e-t-c-h to get to the ceramic duck and wooden moose!  He would giggle then as he touched each one....he was trying to hard to wrap his little hands around the head so he could bring it to him.  Uh-oh.....I think we need to start moving all of the objects that are at "Sawyer level"!

Fishing Fun

We spent our Memorial Day weekend at home mainly because it was so hot (it actually set a new record for  how hot it was...96 degrees...broke a record from 1911!) But being at home was fun because we had a cookout with my mom & dad, Joyce, Paul, Marybeth and Dan (Maggie's boyfriend) and went fishing too!  Here are some pics of Sawyer's first time fishing at our ponds....we fished at ours and Paul's.  We were trying to catch the trout before they die due to the heat...we caught about 25 (still have 75 more to catch) and we also caught blue gill and crappie that we threw back.  Had a blast!  So did Sawyer....after a little while he was sound asleep in the stroller, so we pushed the stroller under the tree for some shade and there he laid with the breeze blowing sleeping so sweetly!  Bbut ofcourse I forgot to take a picture of that...ugh!)

Naked Boy

I think it's funny how babies love to be naked!! Sawyer is no exception!  He has started something new, now that he can sit up, he will NOT lay down for diaper changes on his changing table and instead he sits up and grabs for anything he can get his hands on!  It has become  very difficult to work with....so now we change him on the floor. As soon as the diaper is off....he reaches for his "jewels" and grabs and pinches and then he starts to roll all over.  He loves to be naked!

This picture melts my heart...look at the smile!

I love his little backside...

Oregon Fest

We took Sawyer to the Oregon Fest a couple weekends ago to see his first parade....I hope he loves parades as much as mommy does!  We were a little nervous how he would do with all of the sounds from the fire trucks and band so we didn't sit right at the curb but about 15ft from it.  He did really good at first, pretty excited to see what was going on, then he fell asleep!  He fell asleep before the band and fire trucks came by...needless to say we were very nervous as to what would happen when they did.  But, they both came and went (neither was too loud by the time they got to us) and Sawyer continued to sleep!  

Must be nice!

When we first got there he was so excited to see what was going on.

Ready and waiting....

Too much fun makes a baby tired!

Sleeping Beauty

Every week at church Sawyer either sleeps during the church service or on the way home...this week he slept on the way home.  Look at that position!  You would think it would hurt his little neck....funny thing is that mommy sleeps with her neck like that quite often, while sitting in the chair.