Ballet Ball (from December)

I think I forgot to post some fun pictures from the Ballet Ball in December honoring Uncle Mark for his work on the KC Ballet board.  It was such a fun night!

Dear Quinn

Dear Quinn,

You are such an incredible little person.

You love to sing and dance.  You make up songs and sing silly words and gibberish.  You sing about everything just like Mommy and Daddy do.  Sometimes in the car you say "No don't get out the car yet Mommy, I listening to music."

You've starting sleeping with billion of stuffed animals and dolls tucked in around you.

"Daddy you want to share with me?" as Daddy is walking by before dinner.

"Mommy you share with me? We sharing!  Thank you for sharing with me!  Good job.  I proud of you."

"I sneak cookies and I sneak chocolate.  Mommy throw them away."

We went to Spin Pizza one night and you watched the man throw the dough up into the air.  Later after we sat down at our table, you asked to see "the guy with the yellow hat throwing the pizza dough".  You have an awesome memory.

When we were driving out of Springfield to come back home you were looking out the window and saw the letter "S" on a billboard.  You said "Look!  I see an S for baby Sawyer!"  Then we had a 20 minute conversation about all the letters we saw on signs and what all of our friends and family members' names started with.  You love to ask questions about what things are called or what letter words start with.  I love it!

You love to help.  You help me cook.  You help me do laundry.  You help me match socks and sort clothes.  You help me clean your room, put away books, change Sawyer's diapers... 
One day I was nursing Sawyer in the living room and with my verbal instructions you were able to take an empty basket of clothes into the laundry room, open the dryer, fill the basket with the dry clothes, push it back into the living room, and sort the clothes into piles by if they were your shirt, pants, PJs, or baby Sawyer's clothes.  You prefer to help me around the house rather then play with your toys. 

You still have a great and growing imagination.  Your favorite things to play with are with your kitchen pretending to make us food, with your baby dolls, and just talking about your imaginary alligator, hippo, rhino, and mouse.  Your favorite books right now, that you ask for and will look for on the shelf, are Jamberry and The Mitten.

I love you, love you, love you!

Appendectomy & Sawyer is 4 months!

Well February has been a crazy month.  I had an appendectomy three weeks ago.  It all happened so fast- the pain, then a hesitant trip to the ER, then I was scheduled for surgery.  I was hardly thinking about having my first ever surgery, I was focused on how we would take care of the kids and mainly how I would nurse Sawyer and pump to keep up my milk supply when I couldn't nurse him.  The surgery went well although my hospital stay was pretty miserable bw having two serious allergic reactions to medication, an extremely painful IV in my dominant arm, and not being able to eat or drink water until after the surgery.  Luckily we had enough breast milk in the freezer to get Sawyer through the two days I was in the hospital and I was able to pump during my stay.  After I got home I was not supposed to lift more then 10 lbs for 2 weeks.  Seeing as Sawyer is 16.5 lbs, this was going to be tough.  So Kim stayed with me for the week, then Dad and Wendy came to help, then I went to Springfield for the next week.  I was so glad for the help, I don't know what we would have done without our families.  And our awesome friends set up a Mealbaby calendar for us so we had dinner brought to us every night.  I feel so blessed to have such a great community.  BUT I am sooooo glad to be back home getting back into our routine.  Even so, this week has been rough.  Sawyer had his four month appointment on Monday and got shots which has made him fussy and have a fever on and off for the last day and a half.  He has not been sleeping well at night.  Quinn's had several accidents and been testing boundaries.

Sawyer's appointment went well.  He jumped several curves.  He is 91st% for length and 70th% for weight.  My chunky monkey :)  He is the sweetest boy and such a snuggler.  I'm not sure how I will get him to start sleeping in his own room and take naps on his own.  I plan to start taking this on once we get settled back into our routine.  On February 9th Sawyer laughed for the first time, the winner was Grandpa Ben.  :)

On the up side, Quinn has been very sweet about my surgery.  She talks about them all the time.  She says things like: "Mommy has surgeries.  I make you feel better Mommy.  They cut it out.  Your appendix."  She always asks to see them.  Then she likes to pretend that she has surgeries too.

January 2014

It's going to be impossible for me to keep up with this blog and all the pictures I take right now.  So my new goal is to post once a month (at least), at the end of the month, when I load and organize all my pictures. 

Highlights of January:

new years eve at the ferrells

  dr quinn strikes again

 "do my hair like baby Molly's!"

watching football with daddy...go Mizzou!

 and Go Chiefs!

 my favorite time of the day, snuggles with my baby boy

what could be cuter and more cliche than a toddler licking a spatula!?

Sawyer and his friend Calvin at Corpus group

 birthday party fun at a gymnastics gym

Daddy got the flu bc he didn't listen to Mommy and get a flu shot :(

  

future MU alum?  :)

everyday is filled with love...

 first time reaching the petals!  can't wait for Spring!

some mornings are best spent in bed :)

 

a rare time when Quinn fell back asleep in my arms after she woke up too early from her nap.  

so sweet.

Papa and Grandma Wendy came to stay so Mommy and Daddy could go on an overnight JW marriage retreat.  Then we had another Christmas celebration.