This Week at Sawyer's and Chloe's House

I have had a request for weekly updates from my brother Mark the Russian (lol), so here goes:

We've stayed pretty busy around here this week. We went to Van Vleck last weekend to celebrate Matthew's birthday. I hope to have some pictures next week. Jackie is going to e-mail them to me once Ike gets out of everyone's way. We stayed home Monday because we had such a busy weekend. We got to Van Vleck about 10:00 Thursday night. We spent the night with Lorne's parents and most of the day Friday. We went to Brittany's football game that night (Happy Birthday Britt!!!!) and stayed the night in Sugar Land. It was the first time for us to spend the night with them since we've had kids. I think that it went great once Sawyer fell asleep. It always seems to take him the longest. I figure that Chloe will start that trick once Sawyer outgrows it! We had lunch with Ty, Jamie, and the gang and then headed to Matthew and Jackie's house.

Matthew had a bow party so it was pretty funny to watch all the guys taking target practice to get ready for bow season. I had to be a smart aleck and ask them when the targets were going to start moving! Dad was there for the party and it was nice to see him. I haven't seen him since Chloe's party in March so it has been a while. He's gong to be back in Texas for Thanksgiving and Christmas, but we haven't decided where we're going to be yet so that's still up in the air. All we know for sure is that we're going to be home Christmas Eve so that our kids can walk down the stairs in their matching pajamas and see what Santa Claus left them under their tree. Lorne and I had the discussion YEARS ago that once our kids could understand the concept of Santa we would be having Christmas at our house. It will be exciting to begin our own traditions.

Not sure how I got off on that tangent, but anyway, I went to Weight Watchers Monday night and I got my 75 pound award. I have lost 76.2 and am super excited! I am going to begin maintenance when I get to 140 pounds. Only 5.8 to go, but who's counting?

Sawyer had school on Tuesday and Chloe and I ran some errands during that few hours. I went for my follow up with my dentist Wednesday and apparently I have been putting the gel on incorrectly and that's why my teeth aren't as white as I would like them to be. I am such a huge dork! I really wish now that I'd called them earlier than the two weeks so that I wouldn't have wasted so much of the product. I guess I will just have to call it a learning experience and move on.

Here are some pictures. I always begin blogging with the intent to just post pictures, but I feel like I have to do some journaling too. This site serves as our kids' baby book, after all!

Painting is always a fun time around here. Painting and Play-Doh used to be reserved for Chloe's morning naptime, but now that is over so we ALL get to paint!

Chloe thought the paint was edible, I think.

Sawyer and his artwork.

Uncly Ty gave Sawyer a jump cue to use on our pool table. He has been having fun with it so I thought I'd post some pics:

Chloe usually ends up in time-out because she throws the balls instead of rolling them.

This was from another day, but it looks a little something like this.

Sawyer practicing his form.

Daddy teaching the basics.

Both kids are really enjoying talking on the phone. Chloe's conversation usually consists of lots of heavy breathing, but she thinks she's talking so that's all that really matters.


I really need to start putting shorts on this kid before I start taking pictures!

Chloe breathing away!

Taking a break for a pose.