18 months

Sawyer has survived 18 months in my care. I know, I can barely keep a fish alive for 1 month but I have managed to keep Sawyer alive, healthy, and happy for 18 months. My odds are improving.  He is such a joy to have in our family, I know that is so cliche, but he is such an amazing kiddo.  I may complain sometimes about him but honestly we really lucked out with this one.  He is a pretty good eater.  He loves bath time, in fact if you even mention a bath he repeats "bath, bath, bath," and runs to the bathroom until he gets a bath or you distract him with something else.  He is an excellent sleeper most of the time except when we visit other people.  He has so much personality for such a little feller.  He copies everything we do so we really have to watch ourselves and what we show him.  He follows me around all day long and "helps" me.  He loves to play and read books.  In fact if you just let him be he will open up books and pretend to read them.  He will do the "Hey Give me 5, other side, cut the pickle, tickle, tickle" but he really likes to cut to the end and just tickle, tickle.  He loves to throw stuff in the garbage.  He is a great help when loading and unloading the washer and dryer.  He would sweep the floor all day if you would let him.  He loves to push buttons and when ever he sees a button he says "butt, butt, butt".  He likes to turn the lights on and off, but honestly what child doesn't. He amazes us each day with how smart he is.  He says quite a few words now but his favorites are: Fish- by far the word he says the most often, woof-woof  for dog (and sometimes horse we are working on that), buck, duck, book, broke, eat, light, bath, ball, football, cow, bird (this refers to anything from a penguin to tweety bird) shoes (which is actually shoes and socks), hot (this refers to any temperature change, lately he has been telling us it is hot outside when we go to the car when it is about 20 degrees). 

We are just so grateful to have this little one in our lives.  We learn something new from him everyday.