Pate is 3 months!

Better late than never!
Pate, you are three months old now! (as of Jan 24th) You are such a chunk! I love those big thighs and cute cheeks and I love it when you smile and laugh at us and when you carry on a "conversation"! You weigh 16 pounds 8 ounces and wear size 3-6 months clothes and 6 months, too. You are nursing every 3 hours during the day. You are the. sweetest. baby! At church in the nursery, they always tell me how good you are! You really never cry unless you are hungry! You go to sleep so well...the opposite of your sisssy! You've kind of develped a routine the past few weeks. You want to go to bed at 8 so I lay you down in your bassinett and you sleep until around 12 and then eat and then sleep until 5 and eat again then sleep until 9 or so. You love to take a bath, but are quickly outgrowing the baby tub! You are so so handsome and I just can't get enough of the sweetness! xoxox Love, Mommy
*Having some problems loading pics onto the computer, so I'll add them later!*

Let's Don't...

Here's a few things I want to remember that Alabama is saying lately.
-When we tell her "Let's go do something"...like take a bath, etc. she replies "Let's don't." ha
-She makes up these crazy stories all the time. A couple weeks ago, she was riding with my parents and sister and told them this story that she has two sisters and a brother. The brother's name is Hay. Yes, that's right, Hay. But Hay fell down the drain in a bathroom. She misses Hay.
-Whenever we show Alabama a picture of my sister, Audra, when she was about the same age as Bama, she thinks it is her every.single. time. The other day there were a few pictures that looked a lot like Bama and she of course thought it was her. One picture was of Audra holding a kitten on the front steps. Audra asked her, "But Bama, you don't like cats. How can that be you?" She said, "Well, I like THAT cat!" ha
-Alabama was eating lunch the other day (which she told me "this is a yummy supper Mama!") and asked for more oranges. I told her she could have some after she ate her fish sticks. She told me seriously, "Well, it's not berry good." ha! Then she said, "Why you was dying laughing???"!
- She likes me to tell her detailed recollections of when she was younger. "And what you said?" "And what Daddy said to me?" "And what I said?" No short answers for this girl.
-Her ABC's go like this. ABCDMSONWXYand Z. Now I know my ABCs, next time won't you sing with me.
-Last night she called Adam into her room 5 times after he put her to bed. "I'm cold!", "I need an animal. Please!", "I don't want this music. I want Psalty! Please.", "I want my passy! Please."(which btw, she hasn't had a passy since June but now wants those little green ones that Pate had.), "I need my pillow! Please." haha! Spoiled much?!
- She gets so upset at us when we give Pate a passy. "But he not crying!!" She even wants me to take it out when he's sucking it and content because he's not crying. What's the deal? ha! But she is really good to go and find it for him when he is crying. When she gets back she says, "Say Sissy found your passy, Pate. Say that to him, Mama." So sweet.

Pate at 2 months

 Pate, you are two months old now! You turned two months old on Christmas Eve so we had a busy day! I took your picture that morning to make sure I got it! You just get cuter and cuter and sweeter and sweeter every day! You so so handsome and everyone stops to tell me not only how much hair you have, but how cute you are, too! Everyone at church just loves you and goes on and on about how sweet and cute you are! You have turned into such a good baby! You are content to be on your own a lot of the time. You love to ride in the car, but still hate red lights! ha! You smile at talk to us all the time. I just love it! You also smile at other family members and even strangers! Mr. Social!

 You like to swing in your swing a lot. Here is Alabama swinging her baby with you! What you have to look forward to with her for a big sister...wow! She loves you so much and talks to you a lot now. It's so cute to hear her saying the things that I say to you. She will say, "He's so handsome, isn't he Mama!" ha!

 You also like to play on your play mat on the floor for a while. You will stay on it about 20 minutes at a time. You got a new one for Christmas and I think you will like it even more! If we are holding you, you like to sit up ALL the time! You do not like to lay down at all. Just like Bama. You hold your head up so good on your own and act much older than 2 months!

You are now eating about every 3 hours! PTL! At night, you get up about one time to eat and then again about 6 or 7 then sleep until about 9! Much better than that every 2 hour mess! ha! You wear a size 2 diaper and wear size 3 month clothes and some 3-6 month, too. You are a BIG boy! ha! You weigh at least 14 pounds but we don't go in for your checkup until next week. You look like such a little man but at the same time still look like Alabama did as a baby! I love it!

I love dressing you up in cute outfits when we go out! I admit it's not quite as fun as a girl, but it's still a lot more fun than I expected with a boy! Oh, you started staying in the nursery at church and you always do great!

We are so thankful for you! You are a blessing to our family and we love you sooo much!

Love, Mommy and Daddy

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!

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Catch up and Funny stuff!

So I played catch up on my blog tonight! I had to get it done. I love blogging, but once I get behind, I fee like I can't write anything before I catch up with what I've missed. So anyway, it's not as great as if I'd written it all as it happened, but it's good enough! :-) I still have a few more things I may do a post about, we'll see.

Alabama cracks me up every single day! She is just so funny but she does not like you to laugh at her. It's really hard not to!
-Her new saying as of last week is "Guess what!" Everything starts with guess what. ha!
-There's a cat that started hanging around our house and will sit on our front steps and meow at us. Bama is very scared of it and wants the door closed at all times so the cat can't see her and she can't see the cat. Finally after several days of being scared of the cat, Adam told her that the cat was not going to hurt her. If it hurt her, he would shoot it with the shot gun. While she was driving with my sisters, she told them. "If that cat bites me, my Daddy will "shoo" it with that gun shot." ha!!
-She still remebers every little thing that happens with exact detail! Her retelling events and details of the events that happened as she remembers them is so funny.
- She doesn't quite pronounce her "th" and "s" correctly when she talks. It's cute. It sounds like this. "Well, I sink (think) he wants his passy." or from the turkey song.."they lept (slept) all night in the tree."
- I told her after we got home from having Pate that It seems like she gained 30 pounds while we were gone. She seems like such a big girl now and not my baby anymore. One day I told her, "Alabama, I don't want you to grow up anymore. I want you to stay little forever, okay?" She gets her super serious look on her face and whiny voice and  tells me, "But my Daddy said I can!"

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

My Christmas sweeties before we went to the Thomson parade Sunday!

Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving from these three Turkeys!!!

Alabama had a Thanksgiving party at school where her class were turkeys. They sang a song and she's been singing it ever since. It's soo cute!

Ten fat turkeys are we.

We slept all night in the tree.

When the cook came around, we couldn't be found.

So that's why we're here you see!