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!"