Our friend from Columbus, Amanda, visited San Francisco while we were in Ohio, as is so often the case. Luckily, we had one day overlap before she flew home. Amanda stayed with Erin in Berkeley, where they visited many ice cream shops. They came into the city on Sunday afternoon so that Amanda could meet Sawyer. We had a fun day at the Ferry Building and Chinatown.
Erin and Sawyer (this happened before the Indians baseball game — Scott went out of order):
Amanda and Sawyer with the Ferry Building in the background:
We were worn out after our epic walk. It was a very fun day!
It just so happened that the Cleveland Indians were playing in Oakland this week, for the first and only time this season, so Abby and I met up with our friend Erin to see the game this past Saturday.
If you have been following along, I think you’ll agree that Sawyer has had quite an amazing run of new experiences these past few weeks. He has become more of a trooper than even I expected, and is seemingly capable of doing (or maybe it’s enduring) just about anything, provided he has a little space to spread out from time to time.
We found our seats and settled in to watch the game (naturally we missed the first inning when four runs were scored). He started out strong, very focused and intent on watching the game:
Shortly thereafter, Sawyer began erping up all over, first Erin then me (so much so that he pretty much exhausted our entire supply of bibs and burp-cloths). Then the Oakland mascot made a mildly obscene gesture at Abby for wearing her Indians hat (no pic of that, sadly). At this point, we realized our location in the stadium was much too loud and disorienting, so we moved further down the outfield line to get some open space around us. Sawyer seemed happier and more comfortable too:
And now we finally have some new pictures of the three of us. Thanks, Erin!
Play Ball!
After spending almost a week and a half in Ohio, where luckily the weather was very mild, he’s home in SF. Now that we are back from vacation, let the posts resume!
This is our new favorite picture of Sawyer taken by his Uncle Michael on the way to visit family.
As some of you may know, Trooper was one of the names on the original list of names (that’s right, he would have been Trooper Truitt). Although I am very glad he is definitely a Sawyer, he was quite a Trooper on this trip! He flew cross country (3 hours 45 mins.), and then enjoyed road trips from Columbus to Bath (2 hours), Bath to Dayton (6 hours to and back), Bath to Wooster (1 hour), Wooster to Spencer then back to Bath (1 and 1/2 hour), Bath to Spencerville (3 hours), Spencerville to Columbus (2 hours), and cross country back to SF (5 hours).
Sawyer was amazing! He slept during most of the trips and was his smiling self when meeting family and friends. What a Trooper!
My friend Laura sent out a wonderful email when her little boy, Ian, turned one year old. The email listed all of the things Ian had learned in his first year like walking and saying many words. The list was very impressive, and it made me excited for all of the things that Sawyer will be doing in the coming year.
So, on Sawyer’s three month birthday he is able to: tell exceptionally good stories with his “words” and very expressive facial expressions, hold his head very still when being pulled up to a sitting position, hold toys and blankets with 2 hands, make his toys jingle or crinkle by himself, ride the horsey on his Dad’s leg, rock an exceptionally good mohawk, suck his fist, thumb or 2 fists at once, sleep through the night, laugh out loud when his Dad makes monkey sounds or when his Mom speaks French to him, and he can make everyone smile, especially when he is wearing his sunglasses (contrary to the look on his face, he really does like the glasses).
So, as a treat to all of us, Sawyer let me tape him having a conversation with himself in the mirror. As I said in a previous post that it is difficult to catch him in the act. He starts to watch the camera instead of the mirror. He was so good at captivating himself this time that he almost forgot the camera completely.