Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice

I had my sonogram yesterday and it was so exciting! It looks like we're going to have a girl! I was really wanting to have a girl this time, but I didn't want to focus too much on it because I would have honestly been perfectly happy either way. I want ten fingers and ten toes when it comes right down to it.

Everything was just perfect with the baby. She weighs twelve ounces and I'm measuring at nineteen weeks which is right on target. I was really curious about that since I'm really watching my weight this time. I've gained six pounds total and I'm so proud of myself. I am still following the Weight Watchers POINTS system. The best thing is that I get to eat fifteen extra points per day. Don't get me wrong, I get off track from time to time just like everyone else, but I am keeping an eye on the big picture and how I want to feel at the end of my pregnancy in March.

The fibroid has flattened out and hasn't grown at all. I was almost more concerned with seeing it than the big news about the baby's gender. The sonograper told me that I shouldn't be at all worried about it. She told me that Dr. Watts is really up front about things like that and that she would have told me if I needed to worry. I feel much better, but of course there's still this teeny tiny part of me that worries every now and then.

Lorne installed the scanner so we have lots of pictures from this sonogram:


Not quite sure that we're looking at here which I guess shows us that it's a girl since there's nothing to see.


If you look closely you can see a tiny line in the center of the photo where the sonographer placed a pseudo wee wee.


The face is always so skeletal at this point.


She had her hands up at her cheeks and was even sucking her thumb at one point. I was mesmerized.


I wish that the sonographer had typed "Gig 'Em" on this photo instead. That would have been pretty funny!

Our Little Daredevil

I have some random pictures to share this week. We've been trying to snap more shots of Sawyer from time to time. He is climbimg more and more these days. He has learned how to climb onto his high chair so I have to keep the tray on when he's not using it. He has also learned to climb onto the dining chairs and he'd be on the table in no time if I'd let him.


Sawyer is making the sign for baby.

We took a trip to Van Vleck a few weekends ago. Dad was able to come for a visit too. It was so great to see him again! We wanted to watch Brittany do her flag routine. It was so surreal to see our niece performing under the Friday night lights. She did such a great job and we were so happy to be able to be there.

I brought her some flowers and presented them to her after halftime. I wanted to do that because I can still remember when Aunt Net brought me flowers when they came to see me when I was drum major back in high school. They made me feel so special and I have never forgotten that she did that for me.


Miss Britt and I after halftime.


Brittany's crowd of supporters: Matthew, Ty, Poppa, Nana, Jamie, Kayla, Jordan, Jackie, Lorne, Sawyer, and Tyler.

We went to Matthew, Jackie, and Kayla's house on Saturday afternoon. Brandon and Deanna were visiting from San Antonio so we got to see them too. Dad brought his BBQ chicken and Mom her potato salad and BBQ sauce. We had a great meal and watched A&M football.


Sawyer and his puppy blankie George had fun while Aunt Jackie rode him around the neighborhood.

Lorne took out his golf clubs to clean them last week before his weekly golf game. He thought he'd do some putting to distract Sawyer in his last few minutes before bathtime. Those last thirty minutes or so can get hairy some nights. Needless to say the distraction worked perfectly.


Sawyer loves putting with his daddy.


"Are you up there, Daddy?"


The perfect grip is everything in golf.

Lorne took these pictures right before bathtime the other night. He wanted to get a few shots of his super-full belly. It was so cute! That's why Sawyer is wearing only his diaper and Robeez (his shoes). He actually wore those without socks for half the day so when we took them off his feet were blue! I had to scrub and scrub them in the tub. I had to do it in shifts since he's pretty ticklish.


"I love being nekkid!"


He was chasing Lorne in this picture. What a grinner!


One last glimpse of that grin and belly!

Sawyer is Sixteen Months Old!

Sawyer celebrated his sixteen month birthday last Monday. It was also Dad's birthday. Happy Birthday Dad! I got him a food processor. He is really quite the chef these days!

I wanted to get this month's pictures in Sawyer's wagon because we have been taking daily walks around the neighborhood. Of course it was raining the day I took the pictures so we had to take them in the game room instead.

He is so funny to watch while we walk. He sees everything and is jabbering the whole time. I can't wait for all of that babbling to start making some sense. I'm sure that it makes perfect sense to him.

Speaking of talking, this week he learned the concept of hot. We have been telling him "hot" and then making the sign which is putting your lips together and blowing as if you were blowing out a candle. Since he learned the concept he has started blowing on all of his food and saying "haaaaa." He doesn't quite have the "t" sound yet. The cute part is that he blows on everything. The other day he was having some apple and he blew on it and said "haaaaaaa" before he would take a bite! I also tell him hot around the water cooler and the oven/stove. We keep the hot water turned off on the water cooler, but I don't want to take any chances. Also, the oven door is so insulated that it doesn't get hot, but he may be at someone's house one day who doesn't have an insulated door so I figure better safe than sorry.

The problem is that he is trying to blow on the oven door and the water cooler because I am telling him that they're hot. It is the funniest thing! I'll have to get a picture of him in action. I guess in his little mind it only makes sense: Mommy feeds me something, says hot, and blows on it, so that means that I need to blow on the oven and water cooler too.

He has also started bringing me my shoes and making the shoe sign and saying bye-bye. He even goes so far sometimes as to place them on top of my feet as if to say, "OK crazy lady, have you forgotten what you're supposed to do with these?"


"Surely it's a form of child abuse to strap your child into his wagon just for a photo or two...can someone please save me?"


I thought him sitting with his hands on his lap was too cute!


Giving the bear a hug.


"So big!"

Monkeying Around

I have no good excuse for not blogging last week. I am simply a lazy, uncreative person. I should have put Sawyer in some spectacular pose and taken lots of pictures, but instead we jut played.

We were invited to a Curious George birthday party on Saturday. My friend Kristy's daughter Caroline is turning four. Her birthday was held at The Little Gym which is a neat place for structured play focusing on tumbling and other gymnastics-like skills geared for younger kids. Gymboree is the program available for kids Sawyer's age.

Sawyer was pretty apprehensive at first, but he quickly warmed up to the idea of roaming around the gym. He was too young to participate in the structured activities with the older kids, but he had a blast nonetheless. Chad and Kristy also have a daughter named Cate who celebrates her first birthday this month. She and Sawyer were fun to watch, toddling and crawling through the maze of mats and equipment.


Sawyer and Cate weren't too sure what to make of each other.


Sawyer had fun on the parallel bars. We can tell when he's really focusing because that tongue comes out. That's Kristy and Chad in the background.


More fun on the bars. There's that tongue again!


"Whee!"


He even did a flip before it was all over. My heart was flipping right along with him!