Happenings

 I have been super bad at blogging lately. Bad Kristen. I'm only taking two classes this summer too so the 'being busy with school' excuse it out the window. I'm not quite sure why I've been slacking except that I just haven't been in the mood for it. Matt was shocked and said I'd finally gotten "blogged" out! I'm hoping it will pass since I actually do have a lot of fun photos to post from when Ben and Chantal were in town and the two little cousins, Jett and Sawyer, got to play. But until then, here are some other random ones from the past month. 

Bryson came over to babysit a few weeks ago so Matt and I could go watch the UFC game with friends. I didn't want to freak Bry out before we left, but had to tell him Sawyer had been having night terrors just in case it were to happen that night. -That could potentially be a whole other post, but basically what happens is he'll wake up screaming, but not really be awake. His eyes are open and he's hysterically crying and thrashing about, but he doesn't recognize us, technically is still asleep and won't wake up no matter how hard we try. It's weird, it's creepy, and it's makes me want to cry every time because Matt just has to hold him while he flails about so that he doesn't get hurt-Anyway, thankfully he did not have one the night that Bryson babysat. (brow wipe)

I had Bry take a picture of us right before we left. It's not very often we get one of just the two of us!

In other news, I got my very own computer! We got a new laptop for me to use for school. The one I had been using was Matt's dinosaur of a Mac from 2003 and it was as slow as a sleeping sloth (say that ten times fast). I very nearly pulled all my hair out doing my on-line classes on that thing, hence buying the new laptop since Matt didn't want me to go bald. 

 Sawyer has been a silly goose lately. I had to throw this photo in since what kid doesn't go the shoe phase?

He still refuses to talk, yet seems to fully understand why we are saying. He nods yes or no to anything we ask so at least there is some sort of communication going on. Some of his latest favorites are:

~ watching Thomas the train, which is exactly what he is doing in the photo below.

~playing with all the measuring cups, spoons, and straws and hiding them very strategically so we can't find them for weeks.

~jumping from the couch to ottoman and purposefully falling off both and laughing.

~Coloring with his markers. Love that photo of him with the 'stache. He totally drew it himself. Believe me? ;)

~Climbing on my back like a monkey to hitch a ride down or up the stairs so he doesn't have to climb them. Lazy or Ingenius?

~Riding Moxie like she's a pony which I don't think she's very enthusiastic about. Funny that now he thinks he's a cowboy, because remember this disastrous photo shoot we attempted back when he was a wee one? If not, I've attached the video at the bottom. I had the brilliant idea to dress him up as a cowboy and take a photo of him sitting atop him trusty steed Moxie. Mind you, Sawyer was only a few weeks old at the time. Make sure your sound is up so you can hear the great song Matt had picked out for the video. And for the record, I do feel bad for subjecting my poor little baby to all that craziness. Sort of. 

**If it seemed like an absolute disaster...it WAS.**