Our baby gangsta

Even though he has been an absolute pain in the butt the past week or so, it's moments like these that I can remember why I love him and put up with it. I have to laugh at the faces he makes when he is "walking". He is concentrating so hard, he puckers up his lips or has his mouth wide open. This tends to make him look like a thug.

A Day at the Park

Well, I'm bored of the whole "story" I had going there for a while...let's make things a bit less dorky. Sawyer is 10 months old! Jim and I were talking the other day about how it feels like we just brought him home from the hospital but at the same time we feel like he's been a part of our lives forever. Does that make sense? We can't remember what life was like before him, the freedoms we had and the lazy days, and frankly don't want too. I wouldn't change what we have now for any of those days. Well...maybe the body I had. The nice flat stretch-mark free belly... So we were at the park, it was nice and cold and rainy, and we like to just let Sawyer crawl around and explore and do his own thing while Jim and I just hang out. Luckily, Jim was watching just at the moment when Sawyer found someones old gum on the sidewalk. I've never seen a body move so fast! He also is obsessed with dirt. If there is even the smallest patch of dirt within a one mile radius he'll find it and eat it. He will wait till we're looking though and then shove it in his mouth...Max? Do you not see that evil in his eye?

The magic hat

One day the prince and princess noticed a flat spot on poor Sawyers head. They couldn't stand to think of other children making fun of him as he grew, so they decided to fix him. They took him to the village witch who molded a magical hat for him to wear. At first the princess had a really hard time seeing Sawyer in it, she felt like the worst mom in the world, as if she did something to hurt him. The town people would stare and point, which wasn't so bad except for when you could see the judgment in their eyes. But those where few and far between. Most of the towns people, and especially their children, were just curious. Little Sawyer could have cared less about it. He rather enjoyed it actually, except for on really hot days. He would crack himself up by getting the magical hat stuck on different objects and then trying to yank it off. And though the princess was used to the hat now, she was still anxious for it to come off, revealing the most perfect head anyone ever saw. In the meantime, the young prince took leisure in sitting in his hot tub and practicing his temper tantrums.

Then comes baby...

The prince and princess were shocked at how the time flew. At first they couldn't believe that something so small and helpless could be so much work. But the handsome prince was strong and took care of mom and baby both. Then there were firsts. First smiles, first nights sleep, first time sitting on his own and first teeth. Their little kingdom was a bubble of happiness ready to burst but somehow just continued to fill. Life was perfect.

In the beginning...

Once upon a time in a land far away, in a land so wonderful it could only be called Happy Valley, there lived a beautiful princess. This girl was not under some spell or captive of some evil witch...no, this girl had it all. Or so she thought.
One day the most handsome prince in all the lands came calling. He was the most wonderful person she had ever met and from that day forth they were inseparable.
Though it took FOREVER for the young man to ask for her hand, they were finally wed on December 28, 2005. Life was perfect for the happy couple. Or so they thought...
On November 19, 2007 the impossible happened...life got even better with the birth of their beautiful boy, Sawyer Kenneth. And this is where their story REALLY begins...