More Family Visits and a Camping Trip!

Sawyer and his cousin Charity

Sawyer and his cousin Kirsten

My brother, Roy, and his family

Grandma Jill and her grandsons

Three generations of Wellhouses

Sawyer protecting his "jewels" from the great outdoors

"Are you coming in? The water's fine!"

Saw-Dawg definitely dug camping

We've had lots of visitors here in the past month. My brother, Roy, and his family came to visit in early August. Sawyer had a great time visiting with his uncle and cousins from Missouri for the first time. John's Mom came to visit for a week near the end of August. He really enjoyed reconnecting with his Grandma Jill too.

Sawyer continues to grow and change quite rapidly. He's sitting up now although still a bit wobbly and is working diligently at lifting his entire body off the floor when laying on his tummy. He grunts and groans when attempting these little "push-ups". So far he's mastered lifting his upper half and lower half independently. Getting them both up in unison is the next big feat. (And then we'll be in trouble because crawling comes shortly thereafter!)

Sawyer is finally catching on to the eating thing. (We thought he was going to be a permanent milk baby there for a while.) He's mastered cereal and has moved on to apples, peas, and bananas. He opens his mouth up like a baby bird and chirps for more. He also makes little "mmmmmmm" sounds as he eats. Too cute.

We went camping at Falls Lake over the Labor Day holiday with our friends Natalie, Dane and baby Lydia. (Teresa, John and Miss Grace joined us for dinners as well.) Sawyer seemed to enjoy the great outdoors. He loves to be outside so napping, eating and playing outside for two days solid was an ideal vacation for him! The lake level was quite low so he splashed around naked in a baby pool we brought with us. (Not to mention I wasn't too keen on plunking a 6month old into a somewhat polluted and, thanks to the drought, highly concentrated body of water.) John and I both came away from the trip wanting to camp again soon. (Maybe to the mountains this fall?) We also both came away with ticks! Luckily, Sawyer didn't have any creepy crawly stow-aways.

At his 5 month check up Sawyer weighed 18.8lbs and was 27 inches long. He is in the 90th percentile for both weight and length. Yikes!