Freezing temperatures... stir crazy toddlers!

How does one entertain 2 toddlers and a 7 month old when it is too cold to go outside?  Here are some of the activities we have enjoyed together over the past week:

Toy Story 1, 2, and 3 (of course, the boys' favorite)

(Sawyer practicing standing all by himself)

Construction Workers

Counting our money for college

Play Dates

Playing with the PP (Wyatt's name for IPad) with Grammy

Chores (Laundry)- I don't really like it either Sawyer!

Coloring: learning our letters and shapes

Owen does the marker taste delicious?  We are also learning how not to eat things!

A little more relaxing watching TV (Toy Story Party Saurus Rex)

Playing Hide and Seek

Dr. Dada to the rescue

Singing Songs

Our current favorites are: If your happy and your know it, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Old McDonald Had a Farm, Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes, and I'm a Little Teapot.

Watching all the animals gather nuts before more snow comes

We don't want to wish time away, but I think we are all ready for the warmer weather!

Happy 7 Months Sawyer

If you ever want time to advance at warp speed- have a baby.  I feel like I just found out I was pregnant with Sawyer yesterday, but here we are .. 7 months old!

You amaze and surprise Dada and I on a daily basis.  You can sit by yourself, you can crawl and roll around, eat anything that you want (including Oatmeal pie cookie with marshmallow cream that Dada gave you while Mama was at the movies),  and just started clapping.  In pure Sawyer fashion, while trying to get you to smile for your 7 month pictures we were clapping yelling yeah and you are such a smart cookie that you took it upon yourself to clap for the first time!  You are amazing!

You are currently wearing size 4 diapers, clothes that range from 6 months to 18 months, eat one solid meal a day and lots of snacks.  You love your older brothers and I think if you could, you would get up and run with them!  You just started sleeping in your crib for most of the night, but you still like to wake up during the night to eat and cuddle with Mama!  Just like Wyatt and Owen you are not big on naps, but love to fall asleep in the car.

You love to sing and read books.  Your favorite toys now are balls, blocks, your gumball machine and your dinosaur.  You are always smiling and laughing day and night!

We love you .. you are our little Soybean!

Happy 2013!

Happy New Year!  Wow where did 2012 go?!  Last year we had two babies with a third on the way and this year we have two wild toddlers and one baby (who wants to be a toddler)!

We rang in New Year's Eve at home with Grammy and Pop!  We did not make it to midnight however.  I think this is the first time in over 20 years I did not watch the ball drop.  Sawyer had other plans though and was hungry at 12:23 for his first meal of 2013!

We are so blessed to have a wonderful, healthy family!  Look at how adorable the boys are:

Here's to a happy, healthy, fun 2013!