T-R-O-U-B-L-E!!

Okay, I might have my hands full with Mr. Sawyer McDonald...
I'll start by telling you about one night in Target, I was holding Sawyer standing by the end cap of the liquor aisle (not IN the liquor aisle, mind you), and I was waiting for Brian and Addie Grace to catch up with us. Well, I guess I was standing a little too close to the display (my back was to it) and Sawyer grabbed a bottle and it EXPLODED in the floor! Liquor and glass went EVERYWHERE!! Sheepishly, I just said, "oops, did we do that??" apologized repeatedly to the Target clerk and hightailed it out of there.
Or how I have to fish Littlest Petshop toys, carpet fuzz, no-telling-how-old-pieces-of-nasty-anythings that resemble something that just maybe was once meant for eating that he finds in his carseat, under the couch...I don't know where else on an hourly...minutely (is that a word?) basis. (I never really had that problem with Addie Grace).
And another adventure was at Aunt Carol's house. He was holding a bottle of finger nail polish, and from another room I hear, "oh no!" When I get to the living room, I see dark fingernail polish all over him and more importantly all over Aunt Carol's light beige carpet (I was a little too horrified to get a snapshot of that).
I could go on and on about my rotten little, eh, I mean precious little boy. I guess it's all pretty par for the course for an all-boy little boy, so I'm okay with all that, BUT NOW THIS????

We were sitting in the living room just hanging out.
I start doing other things, only glancing at Sawyer every few minutes to make sure all's well; he pretends to be angelic for my quick glances...
Walk out of the room, come back and he's ripped open his shirt to show his chest hair and he's hiding behind his toy basket SMOKING!!

WHAT'S A MOTHER TO DO?!?!?

(These pictures are not posed at all...seriously. Okay, maybe he didn't really tear open his shirt...it was open in the other pictures too, you just couldn't see it. I'm not even sure why I took the first two pictures in the first place, but that really was exactly how he was sitting when I came back into the room!! What in the world?? Crazy baby!!!)

In the tub...

I'm sure that you probably get sick of sappy pictures of my kids...but I just couldn't resist this one of Sawyer. This is one of his 9 month pictures. It's the only one that I have (she just happened to email it to me for something), so I don't have anymore to show, but I thought it was sweet and wanted to share.
Just for good measure, here's a bath picture of Addie Grace too (not a professional...just a snapshot, but I've always loved it).

Love those babies!!!
That's all I have! Have a good evening!

FOUR!!

How is it possible that my little girl is FOUR years old?!?!? It truly does make me sick! She is such a joy and I am so thankful that God blessed us with this little treasure...we truly are blessed beyond measure!!

Addie Grace a few days after coming home from the hospital... (there really is a body under there...)

one...

our little monkey at two...

at her tea party at three...(looking a little hunchy)

and this year...FOUR...such a big girl!

Disney!!!

I don't even know where to begin about our Disney trip! It truly was just wonderful! Other than Sunday, when we had to swim through the park due to record rainfalls in Orlando, the weather was perfect! The crowds were low, the kids were happy, so we were happy! It was so much fun!
I won't try to post many of my pictures here. I'm embarrassed to even say how many that I took. Brian said that I tried to record every 15 seconds spent in the park if that tells you anything!!
Saturday (our first day in the park) was Addie Grace's 4th birthday, so it was an extra special day for us. We had dinner in Cinderella's castle that night and it was so much fun! Addie Grace was at a really fun age to do Disney because everything truly was magical for her!
I have the urge to make this post obnoxiously long and to post all 10 million of my pictures, but I will spare you all of the sordid details and just give you a few of our highlights...

Addie Grace and Sawyer were very well behaved for most of our vacation until we ran into this alligator at Neverland...


Addie Grace took it upon herself to remedy the problem of Sawyer slowing us down...


I am happy to report that she was unsuccessful and that all 4 McDonald's were able to return home intact from vacation!

Gotta love those McCall's...

Before I go into my Disney post, I've got to brag on my sweet, wonderful, precious friends that were so great to us all last week! We had so much fun with them and spending time with them always makes me miss my silly college days!
I laughed til I cried at stupid stuff that no-one else in the world would laugh at, stayed up too late and was reminded once again how blessed and fortunate I am to have such wonderful friends.
One of my favorite things was getting to watch our kids and their kids friendship grow! Here are some pictures of them...I'm going to leave out pictures of me and Holly because I don't want you all to be jealous of how skinny and pretty we are...(unfortunately that knocks out pictures of Wiley and Sawyer, but they were really, really cute together...trust me!)

Addie Grace and Grady were really, really quiet, so Holly went looking for them. This is where she found them...

Princess Addie Grace and Prince Grady with their designer...

Grady didn't seem to mind getting a kiss...

Thanks guys...we miss you already!!