Harvest / Soccer / Walking Fool

After starting our garden back in April earlier this month we finally had our big harvest. We had some zuchinni and peas earlier in the summer, but Mike's pride and joy tomatoes and jalapenos were ready for picking. Sawyer was happy to help with the tomato picking (and we got him a new shirt and shinguard-socks for soccer on this day so he had to try them on/wear them for the rest of the day).

He was stoked

Blair was sporting some hilarious pigtails

not too shabby!

The next day was Sawyer's first real day of soccer. We had gone last month to a little practice hour and Sawyer loved it so we signed him up.  If he could, he would wear his soccer socks everyday.

Blair had fun eating snacks and playing with toys on a blanket

Sawyer was adorable and the coach was really good with these littles. I messed up and brought my wide angle lens instead of my zoom lens, so these are ridiculously cropped and awful. Oops.

Blair wanted in on the water bottle action. Thankfully Sawyer didn't see this happening. 

Later that week Blair had a pony tail, I took it out and this happened. I love her crazy hair!

This week was supposed to be week 2 of soccer, but after we left the house I found out it was cancelled due to poor air quality (there was a forest fire Northeast of us), Sawyer was pretty bummed but it was for the best.

This handsome boy is still adjusting to school. I think he loves the learning aspect but is having a hard time socializing. The first two weeks of school he said daily that no one wants to play with him, but this last week I think things are getting a bit better. He doesn't ever seem to be too upset about it, and he loves singing new songs and telling me about his day (and I love hearing about it).

 

Blair started taking steps right after she turned 10 months old, and now she pretty much walks everywhere. It is hard for me to get a video of it but I was able to get this little gem. 

She just makes me laugh. I love her crazy spirit. 

I asked Sawyer what his favorite thing about school is. (Please excuse the mess of the house, these kids are hooligans.)

Yup, a waffle for dinner.

 

And from today - Sawyer asked me if I like his moustache, who wouldn't? (also note the game-day jersey)

Sawyer's First Day of School

Today was Sawyer's first day of school ever! Mike and I are so excited for our boy to be starting preschool, we can't believe it though, it just feels like yesterday that he was a baby.  In true Stephanie fashion I was stressing about his outfit. I had it all planned and then he insisted on wearing his new sneakers so I had to redo it and in my opinion it turned out adorable. :) When I was talking to him over the summer he told me he wanted a blue backpack and blue shoes for school, and that is what he got. I did my best with a chalkboard sign (it looks terrible) but Sawyer was happy to hold it!

I took the day off from work and had Mike take Blair to daycare so I could focus on my little guy and I'm so glad I did. Yesterday I told him that after school I would take him out to lunch and asked him where he wanted to go and he said "the apple place." It took me awhile to understand and then I realized it was Applebee's because we had just driven by one. HA!

Lucky for us my good pal's son is in his class so he has a built in friend. We went to class together and hung around for a bit, then the parents had to leave to go to a little orientation - he cried! I felt so sad but held it together, the teachers aide had to hold him back while I left. :(  My friends mom works at the school and told me that she peeked in soon after we left the class and he was doing just fine, so I felt much better.

When I picked him up it was  basically the cutest thing I have ever seen. All these little preschoolers lined up walking with their backpacks, I could have cried. When he saw me he got the biggest smile and I got the biggest hug, again, I could have cried (I almost did).

He told me all about how it went - He said was shy, he stood on a circle, he didn't eat the snack because he didn't want to (it was cheese) but he drank some water, they sang the ABC's (and he sang it for the rest of the day), and the funniest to me was that he went outside and they were running and Sawyer wanted to win but a kid hit him and he fell down and his shoe came off. I am not sure how true that last one is but it totally killed me, oh kids! He also said he didn't know any of his friends names or the teachers name, but when I reminded him of his friend Kaedyn and the teachers name he said "oh yeah, I know."

The cutest preschooler!

He was tired of the pictures by the time I wanted to take some outdoor ones

 

Kind of a Big Deal

There are few noteworthy things that have happened around here lately.

Up first, anyone who knows Sawyer knows that he is not the greatest eater. He is incredibly picky and getting him to eat "real" food has almost always been a struggle. The funny thing is - he tries all kinds of food at daycare that he would never in a million years eat at home so when I heard he has eaten Ham sandwiches at lunch time I just knew my next goal was to get him to eat one at home. Finally after a week of PBJ's for dinner, one Friday night I told him that he was going to have a Ham sandwich and that was the end of it. I made it for him, it took some time before he sat down to eat it and he did try it, and really seemed not to like it (despite eating it at daycare). So I said I had a different sandwich for him to try and took out the ham and put turkey in it (I think I called it light colored ham at first). He ate it. I told him if he ate it he could be the winner (he obsession as of late). The winner of what, who knows, but he wanted to win - so he ate that whole thing. I was so proud!

I, of course, documented it. 

Next up, Blair's hair is finally long enough for pony tails. This is a big deal.

how adorable is she? 

also....pigtails

and she is getting so good at her steps. I think the most I have counted is about 8!

 

and last but not least, this makes me so proud I could cry. Sawyer hasn't shown much of an interest in writing before, but he was happy to attempt to write his name! I love this so much! We made it as far as SAWY and I think that is awesome!