Baby #2: 13 Weeks!

Dear Little Baby #2,

We had our 12 week appointment today! Which really turned out to be a 13 week appointment because apparently tomorrow I am 13 weeks. The ultrasound tech told us wrong. So really, I have no idea when you are due! Could be October 14th, or October 21st, or somewhere around that vicinity! It's funny because I'm pretty sure if this happened with Trenton I would be really frustrated that I don't know the exact due date. But for some reason this time around I'm a little bit more non-chalant about it. You are coming sometime in October. That's good enough for now :) Besides, I'm sure at our next ultrasound they will give me a more accurate due date based on your measurements. We got to hear your heartbeat for the first time today though, and it was so great to finally hear that precious sound. It took the midwife a minute to find your heartbeat and not mine, and that is always so nerve wreaking to Daddy and I! But once we heard it, we both had a big sigh of relief and joy.

I finally told my coworkers this week as well. People have been speculating and asking if I was pregnant, so it was finally time to share the news. Of course, everyone was so excited for Trenton to be a big brother! And I always feel so much better when I don’t have to keep trying to find outfits to hide my growing belly :)

Lately I have also been feeling better; which is absolutely fantastic. I’m slowly getting more energy (some days at least) and I’m getting a handle on this nausea. I just have to make sure I eat fairly large snacks/meals every 2 hours….I’m so tired of eating….! We don’t get to find out if you are a boy or girl until next month, but I just can’t tell what I think you are yet! On one hand, I have to eat all the time, which makes me think you are a boy. But on the other hand, I can be a bit emotional! So it makes me think you are a girl. For example, on Sunday, I really wanted some Costco for lunch. But when we parked and as I was getting Trenton out, I realized I forgot my wallet with our Costco card! (Turns out you could in fact, go to the Food Court without your card. I just didn’t realize that). But my heart was so set on a chicken bake that I actually started crying! My eyes were watering as I was thinking of having to miss out of the awesomeness of Costco chicken bakes. It was ridiculous. Then I started laughing and apologizing to Daddy through my tears because I felt so outrageously emotional; completely unlike me. But the fantastic husband that your daddy is, drove us all the way back home just so I could get my card and finally have my chicken bake :)

This first trimester went by so much more slowly this time. I think it also had to do with the fact that we found out about you an entire month before we found out about Trenton! But now that we are starting our second trimester, I am hoping it'll go by with a breeze.

We are starting to talk to Trenton about you and about how there is a baby growing in Mommy's tummy, but he is still too young to really understand what I'm talking about. I'm sure he will be a great big brother though and love you to pieces! Until you get old enough to go after his toys of course :)

Baby #2: Eight Weeks

Dear Baby #2,

We love you so much! Daddy, Trenton, and I got to see your tiny little growing body last week in our first ultrasound! Though Trenton didn’t really want to sit still so Daddy could really see…It turns out that that you are smaller than we originally thought and this week you are actually 8 weeks. I thought we were a couple weeks further along. But your heartbeat was strong already and I loved seeing it beat on the ultrasound :) According to this ultrasound your official due date is October 21! But you need to come a day early like your brother so we can stick to our significant family event dates being on the 7^th and 20^th of the months :)

My belly is so big already! I had to pull out the maternity clothes for work around FIVE weeks…oh goodness. I hope this doesn’t mean I am going to look like a giant elephant come summer. I’ve been pretty sick this time around, but thankfully, no vomiting. Just a ton of nausea and some minor food/smell aversions. As long as I keep food in my stomach then it seems to help a bit. I did come to the realization the other day though, that when I was pregnant with Trenton, I could have very well had morning sickness, but I just didn’t know. See, for about five years before Daddy and I got married and was pregnant with Trenton, I had daily unexplained nausea and barely ate because of it. And after the first trimester with Trenton, all of that stopped. I sometimes joke that I should’ve gotten pregnant earlier just to cure my mystery illness :) So with Trenton I’m not sure if it was my normal nausea or baby nausea, or a mixture of both. And now that I have been nausea free for almost two years, the nausea with you is no fun at all! I definitely do not miss being sick every day. But at least this time I know it is because you are growing into a strong little person inside my belly!

Even though you can definitely tell I am pregnant, only a few people at work know. And that is really only because while I was in Dallas, TX for my firm meeting (the week after we found out about you!) I was eating tons of saltine crackers and drinking tons of ginger ale. So they are smart women and picked up on it :) I am hoping to wait until at least 10-11 weeks to tell my team though, but we will see how much more I can hide you! I’m sort of just hoping everyone thinks I’m getting fat instead…But of course, later this week someone asked me (that didn't know) if I was pregnant...! yikes. I guess I do officially look pregnant....I am just banking on the fact that A. most men are clueless when it comes to this stuff and B. most men would never ask a woman if she was pregnant. 

Daddy and I did pick out a couple of girls names if you are a girl! But we are still arguing on boys names if you are boy….We will get to find out in May though and I can’t wait!

I am still nursing your brother, even though I don't think I am producing much milk anymore. He only nurses 2-3 times a day though so I am still hoping he will continue to self-wean over the next few months. I don't necessarily want to nurse a toddler and a baby, but I'm not entirely sure how to gently wean so it seems at this rate I may be nursing you both until your four! I'm sure that is an exaggeration, but that's okay :)

I want to make sure I document every pregnancy the same way so each one of my children can have a book of their life one day and no one will feel left out. So like I did with Trenton, here is my monthly photo of you in my belly! At eight weeks with you, I am the same size I was at 12 weeks with Trenton. Yikes...!

Valentine's Surprises

Well Trenton,

Now that you are a toddler, all my high hopes of really cute photo ops have gone out the window. You refuse to sit still and look cute for any photo I want to take! sigh.....oh well, maybe one day :) I did get some cute photos for Daddy though :)

Something exciting did happen the day after Valentine's Day as well! We found out you were going to be a big brother!!! We are so excited :) You will be 21 months older than your little brother or sister and I just know you are going to love all over her or him.

I didn't surprise Daddy as big as with you, but he still was surprised :) I really thought that I wasn't pregnant since I am still breastfeeding you and we had been trying for a couple months. But God blessed us with another tiny little miracle! Surprise!!!So many other couples struggle in many ways to get pregnant; that makes this little baby that much more of a blessing. Little Baby West #2 is coming though! I figured it happened around the same time we actually got you sleeping through the night in your own room (which was a tough miracle!) because you stopped nursing 457884 times during the night.

I took a test when I woke up in the morning and to my surprise it was positive! So I went to the store to get one of those expensive tests that say how far along I am to make sure. And it said 4-5 weeks! So I just couldn't wait any longer and I went and woke Daddy up and told him to read the test :) He wasn't happy with me haha He told me last time I just wasn't allowed to bombard him at work. So I didn't. But I guess I still bombarded him in his sleep because he didn't get happy until hours later :) Don't get me wrong, we was excited to know you were going to be a big brother, he just wasn't happy with the way I told him. Oops! :) I just couldn't wait two more hours until he woke up...what can I say?

Since we were sure we wouldn't be able to keep it a secret for very long, we decided to take our announcement picture in front of the same rock and in the same style as when we announced you were coming. I also bought you a big brother shirt months ago in preparation for this day.

When we told Grandma Kathy, we got on Facetime and I told her she may need to postpone her trip out here again in April. Then we leaned the camera down to show her you and your shirt. She was so excited! Then for Daddy's side of the family, me, Daddy, and Brittany had a bet going on who would notice your shirt first. We all had best on Aunt Tiana, but she failed us :) Her excuse was that you were walking and moving too much....uh huh :) But since Pimpa had to leave for work, we decided to just show them all the announcement picture instead since apparently no one pays attention to details.....Of course they were all excited as well! Pimpa said he "just knew" but I think he just wanted to be right since we proved him wrong in not getting pregnant again by the end of 2013 :)

We told the rest of my side of the family on our private family facebook group. I posted the picture with the caption “Who is going to call me first…? :)” Breanna won. Actually she texted me first. Great Grandma Norma called me first.

Your grandmas were just so excited to have another grandbaby that they posted it on their public facebook walls, even though I wanted to keep it a secret for a few more weeks….oh well. They just couldn’t contain themselves I guess :)

Little Baby West #2,

We cannot wait for you to join our family in October! You are going to enjoy your big brother and you have the most amazing Daddy around. I was a bit sad though because just a few days after we found out you were coming, my skinny jeans no longer fit!! I had to pull out my maternity pants from the basement already! At just 5 weeks!! I did sulk for a little bit, but I am working on embracing my already growing belly :) 

  

We are going to have TWO babies soon and we are thrilled and excited about this new chapter in our lives. God is good and we are so blessed!

I love you Trenton and Baby West #2!

LoveAlways,

Mommy

Your First Birthday!!!

My sweet Trenton!
You are a big one year old now! This past year has flown by and I  am so blessed to be your mother. One year ago you made us Mommy and Daddy and we wouldn't change it for the world. Sadly you were really sick for your birthday and we spent your and Daddy's birthday in the hospital again this year! Let's not make that a tradition, okay? But you had really high fevers, another ear infection, and even vomited a few times so we took you to the ER where your temperature was 105. yikes...! Every doctor we saw said it couldn't be teething because fevers don't get that high with teething and it must be something else (though they never could figure it out). But the doctors and nurses were wrong this time because on your birthday two teeth broke through and your fevers declined rapidly right after. Since your fevers have gotten higher every time teeth broke through, I finally bought you an amber necklace to wear since it is supposed to help with pain. So here is to hoping the next round of teeth won't be nearly as bad!
Because you were sick though, we had to cancel your birthday celebrations :( We had planned to take you to the aquarium for the first time and then have family and a few friends over in the evening for some food and cake. Family and a couple friends did still come over though since it was Daddy's birthday too, so that was nice.

One thing I am not happy with that came with you becoming a toddler though, are the tantrums! My goodness, the attitude! It's amazing how such a big attitude can come from such a tiny person....! As soon as you turned one and started feeling better, the temperamental child came out and we don't like it! We want our sweet, easy going, loving baby back.

Some stories from the past month:

-You love it when Daddy mimic’s you; and now we have created a monster. We were sitting on our bed together and you started rocking when Daddy copied you. Now you won’t stop throwing yourself back and rocking. One day you are going to give yourself whiplash! But you have a little rocking chair that Gi-Gi got you, which you love to sit and rock in :)
-Two stages we are ready to be done with: throwing everything down when you are done with it, and screaming. Though sadly I am pretty sure the screaming stage will last quite awhile
-When we tell you to say mama or dada you deliberately stare us down and yell “BOB!” rude….. You only say mama when you are mad. At least you say Dada more often. And even in the past few days you have really loved saying Dada, and call out to him all the time. It's very cute :)
-For awhile there you have been driving us crazy with your eating habits! You were only eating fruit and crackers for a good month or longer. Nothing else. Now that you got those teeth though, I'm thinking it was because of that.
-Sadly, you’ve even stopped drinking milk during the day! You have refused for a couple months now to drink any and all types of milk during the day. We've tried breastmilk, goat's milk, soy milk, almond milk....in a bottle, in different sippy cups, warm, cold, mixed with breast milk......nothing. At least you are still nursing a few times a day though. I'm thinking you are going to be an early weaner! :(
-I had a dream a few weeks ago that all the sudden you stood up and started running. Not just walking and taking steps, but full on running. Luckily, that hasn’t happened! But on January 6, 2014, you started standing up by yourself and taking some lunging steps! It is pretty exciting :)
-On January 9, 2014, you and I were playing and reading on the floor in your room and I got on to you for hitting Loretta with your bag of cereal. And what do you do? Lean over and give me a big hug and kiss right on the lips. Well played kid….well played…..
-I think my favorite part of what you do lately is read. You pull out some of your books from your toy chest and sit and babble away flipping pages like you are reading your book. It is the cutest thing. You even “read” the DVD cases :)
-You had your first New Year’s this month as well! Our friend, Naomi, stayed the night while her parents went out and you two decided you wanted to bring in the New Year also. So you were up until 1:30am playing together and eating Cheerios


This year I want to work on progression, not perfection. I am a checklist sort of person and love to check things off and be done with them. But that’s not life. I need to be learning and growing and getting better every day. I will never be best at life, but I sure can get better. I want to slow down more and really focus on my family and spending time in the moment. One thing I thing us grownups are bad at these days, is being glued to our electronics. We are addicted to our smartphones! My goal this year is to intentionally put my phone down more often and focus on the real life people around me. I want to be able to teach you by example that real life contact and real life relationships are so much more important and genuine than their electronic counterparts. I don’t know how bad electronics will impact your life, but I imagine they will be imbedded in everyday life even more than they are now, if that is even possible. I hope you can learn to distinguish the differences and give yourself a break to focus on real life people every once in a while, Trenton. Hopefully I can be a good example of that as you grow up.

Trenton, you are one silly kid, do you know that?? Here are some videos and pictures of you from the past month!

 Trenton loves to walk! (with help of course) You walked at least a block holding our hands and you were laughing the entire time :)

 It snowed the week after your birthday!! It was your first snow day and you actually enjoyed it :)

 Mommy and Trenton!

 You liked it until I made you make a snow angel and the snow fell into your eyes :)

 Daddy and Trenton!

 We had fun playing in the snow as a family :)

 I love me some Trenton kisses

 Your 12 month photo looks like a school picture! You are so cute with that smile :)

 "Oh...mom...!!!"

The birthday boys!

(video below) Who needs hands or silverware when you can cut out the middleman altogether??

(video above) You have learned sign language! This video is of you saying "please" to some blueberries (one of your favorite fruits). You also know how to say "more".

(video above) Oh Trenton...you are one silly, silly boy! This video was made a couple days after you learned how to clap :)

11 Months

This past month we got to celebrate your first thanksgiving! You actually played by yourself and with other extended family members for awhile which is a huge improvement for you. You just love your Mommy too much :) We discovered you LOVE cranberry sauce too! I think you enjoyed your Thanksgiving dinner very much, especially since we are working on expanding your food choices away from just fruits, veggies, and chicken.

We took you on your first “Black Friday” experience as well. Except these days Black Friday isn’t crazy like it used to be; it’s really just another busy shopping day. But we had fun. We also went and got your first Christmas tree! We went to a farm in Woodstock and went on a hayride, ate funnel cakes (you didn’t. We didn’t want you eating all that sugar), played on the swings and slide, and looked at all the trees. You loved to feel and play with all the trees! Unfortunately we didn’t get to actually cut down our Christmas tree because I didn’t like the look of the trees they grew. But they did have some imports from North Carolina so that’s what we got instead. Daddy cut off the end of the trunk so we can make it into an ornament for your first Christmas! We tried to get you to help Daddy saw, but lately you have been refusing to stand up….

But surprisingly you have been pretty good with the tree inside. Daddy got it all set up that day and I got it all decorated that night and you haven’t really bothered it. Sadly though, it fell over and broke some ornaments :( It even broke my and Daddy’s first Christmas ornament together :( But luckily I was able to recreate it on a plastic clear ornament bulb.

My silly boy this past month:

-Trenton, I think you may turn into a cheerio one day. Or a blueberry! As of right now those are your favorites. You are constantly eating cheerios and you can eat half a carton of blueberries in one sitting. You love Cheerios so much that when you cough and have a mouth full of them, you cover your mouth just to keep the Cheerios in. Silly boy!

-You love to eat cardboard. I had to move all cardboard boxes of food in the pantry to the top shelves so you don’t chew holes in them all!

-You’ve learned to roll your tongue, and think the new way to smile is to scrunch your face up. It’s pretty cute :) and you make us all laugh when you do it

-Trenton, you are so smart that you were playing with a water bottle and cap one night and the next thing we know you had put the cap on the bottle and screwed it on pretty tight! I gave birth to a genius, I know :)

-Occasionally you will call me “Mama” or Daddy “Dada” but really the only name you call consistently is “Bob” also known as Dog. Whenever Loretta or Moby come around you just yell “Bob. Bob. Bob!!!!” And Daddy says the first thing you do when you wake up is yell for Bob (Loretta). So we are thinking Bob is your first word.

-You love Loretta so much. I love it when you go up to her and give her big hugs and she lets you lay on her. She really is good with you. Except for the other day for some reason she bit your cheek :( You forgave her though and now we are watching you both more closely to make sure it doesn’t happen again. But you still love her. And love to play fetch! You’ve got quite an arm on you, little man. You love to throw Loretta’s tennis ball for her; and yourself.

-Whenever someone is on the floor, you feel like you need to come over and climb on them. I’m thinking it’s your baby version of wrestling. You’ve been watching too much WWE :)

Speaking of WWE….you really don’t like car rides at night. I’m guessing you don’t like it being dark. But I try to calm you down with the Wheels on the Bus app, singing your favorite songs, the Peekaboo Barn app, Veggietales on YouTube, Ninja Turtles on YouTube…and none of it works. But what does work? WWE Raw on YouTube. Sigh…..

Trenton, you had your first Christmas!! I have to admit though, it wasn't very fun yet. You could really care less about opening your presents after the first 5 seconds. Next year will be more fun though :) You got some good presents that you love to play with! And it was such a good feeling to have our first Christmas as a family and start making our own traditions. Uncle Kasey, Uncle Montez, and Aunt Brittany all came over for Christmas Eve and we had dinner together and opened presents from each other. Then Christmas morning you opened presents from Santa! Daddy was having so much fun writing "From Santa" on all your presents, that he forgot to putting any from us until the last one. Which was a can of Puffs. But we all know that was the biggest hit anyways! You can eat an enire can of Puffs in 2 days.

For the past month or so we have been slowly trying to get you to sleep in your crib and not nurse 324455634 times during the night. And I have to say I am finally seeing a breakthrough! The past couple nights you have slept in your bed all but a couple hours and only nursed once during the night! You still wake up 6 times throughout but I am able to get you back to sleep within minutes. When you have kids, I will make sure to invest in a really nice carrier for you and your wife. It is truly a life saver :) I've been using it for your night wakings to help you fall back to sleep quicker. One day I know you will sleep more than 2 hours at a time.....

On a happier note though.....Its almost your first New Years! But that really means nothing in the baby world because I am hoping you won't be up :) Unfortunately Daddy has to work but hopefully he will get off early so he can celebrate New Years at home!

Next up on the Agenda: Your FIRST BIRTHDAY!!!!!

 

 Your first Falcons Game!!

 You love riding on Daddy's shoulders. Even when he is wearing an ugly Christmas sweater :)

 Look at you being a big boy! You love to rock now. You will even be sitting on the floor, or in someones arms, and start throwing yourself backwards to "rock"

 I am still having a hard time taking your photos.... :)

 Poor baby. You absolutely HATED Santa! Maybe next year will be better

 

You  love to make messes.....and you have the cute little cheesy smile that makes it hard to get mad

10 Months

Trenton, This past month just seemed like a big blur! I have no idea where it went. I am excited that this is your first holiday season! We get to celebrate your first Thanksgiving next week. Hopefully you will like all the delicious food :)


Some other new things this month:

-You stood up for yourself for a couple seconds! It was so exciting for me :)
-You love seeing other babies. But you are going to get your fingers bit one day because you always stick your fingers in other babies’ mouths
-You love to run, not just walk, around the house while someone holds your hands
-You can eat a banana in record time. You just love food in general and like to harbor food in those little cheeks of yours like a chipmunk. You make Daddy and Aunt Brittany nervous with how much food you stuff in your face.
-You absolutely love chicken. Daddy says its because your black haha But you will sit and eat chicken and black beans for an hour and nothing else. Though you really like watermelon now also.
-You have started to like Aunt Brittany’s husky, Moby, now. You have always been afraid of him but this past week you have gone up to him and have even started to pet his paws when he is laying down. Now though, you laugh everytime he licks you. And of course you always open your mouth for big doggie kisses....yuck!
-Your word for the dogs is “BA!” and you scream it repeatedly every time you see the dogs. Really, it’s one of your favorite syllables so you say it for other things too but we know when you are talking about the dogs
-You are EVERYWHERE! :)
-You crawl like a real baby now too! You finally started crawling on your knees instead of your belly. You still want to go faster than you are capable of going so you sometimes fall on your face.
-One night while driving home, Daddy and I were in the backseat with you while Brittany was driving. Of course you were crying because you hate your carseat most times, especially at night. So I was singing Itsy Bitsy Spider over and over and over and over again. Then Daddy decided to add his own little flare to my song and you thought it was hilarious. And for the rest of the car ride you would cry unless Daddy did his part too. I think he was going to cry if he had to sing one more round of Itsy Bitsy Spider :)


I bought an awesome firetruck pedal car at a thrift store the other day and I cannot wait for you to be able to use it! But for now though, you can bet there will be many pictures taken....just wait until next month's post I'm sure :)

I love you sweet boy, and I cannot believe you will be a toddler soon! I love watching you learn and discover. You are absolutely amazing and it never gets old.


Love Always,
Mommy

You don't sit still...!! Which make it very difficult to get your pictures every month!

 This was my first attempt at getting a really cute Christmas photo of you! We will try again later as well. You weren't really having it and all you wanted to do was eat the lights and the box they came in

I attempted to put your hair in a mohawk. It didn't really work. You're hair is too wild and curly and it mostly looks like you have a bun on top of your head....plus it only stayed slicked back for a few minutes. Sorry....I think you got that from me

Nine Months of Fun

It has been a month full of changes in our house! A lot of things have been going on, a lot of them with you learning how to crawl!! And you are so proud of yourself :) You’ve discovered and entirely new world now that you can get around yourself and you love it. You laugh with every scoot you make around the house and it’s absolutely adorable. You haven’t figured out how to pull yourself up to a sitting position yet so you get mad when you fall over, but you’ll get there. But now that you can go places, your favorite puppy doesn’t quite like you as much anymore. Mommy and Daddy have even been replaced by you trying to get to Loretta or her toys before she does. It’s quite entertaining actually. Loretta will leave her toy somewhere but the second she she’s you trying to race over to it, she charges back and carries it away. And then you proceed to chase after her. As fast are your little inchworm self can go, at least!

 

Some new things this month:

-You have teeth! You have two bottom teeth and your top two are starting to come in also! But those first two, mixed with getting your (late) 6 month shots, were horrible. You had high fevers and were in such pain for a week. I hated it. But it seems like so far at least, these two teeth aren’t causing any trouble!

-You have no sense of consequence. You will leap off the couch not realizing you can hurt yourself! If we had carpets, I would let you just fall, but hard floors hurt and I’m not ready to let you get hurt yet :)

-Within a week you got two teeth, learned to crawl like an inchworm, and started pulling yourself up on the couch, toys, and coffee table. You have even tried letting go a few times! You think you are big or something….

-You’ve started wanting to share your toys or food with us. It’s very cute, even when we don’t want a bite of your messy smashed up food in your hands

-You love to read and sing songs. Your favorite songs right now are Itsy Bitsy Spider (because you get tickled) and the ABC Song in sign language. I have started singing the ABCs in sign language to you and you love it! You’ve even started swishing your hands around like you are trying to sign as well. I love it.

-A couple weeks ago you didn’t want to go to sleep, so we were up when Daddy got home. I think you are going to be a sports kid like your Dad! He put on WWE wrestling and every time it went to commercial you started crying (10/4/13).

-You are definitely my kid. You love ice water! You prefer ice cold water over room temperature water any day.

-Every time we replay a video of you for you to watch, you start mimicking yourself. Love it.

-You’ve discovered a new sound! But I can’t really describe it. It’s sort of like spitting, but not really. You also get a kick out of sticking your tongue out now

-You said Dada! You haven’t associated it with Daddy yet though. (10/13/13) But still exciting. You’ve actually stopped saying mama, baba, and dada recently. You would just rather scream and make other noises :)

-I was showing you pictures of when you were born and when you saw one of Daddy holding you, you smiled real big, looked at Daddy, looked back at the picture, then back again. You are so cute. And smart. :)

 

I think every parent gets a bit of nostalgia as their kids grow up way too fast, and I am sad that these 9 months have flown by and your first birthday is approaching before we know it. But more than being sad, I love every single milestone you hit and anticipate every new stage because every change brings a new sense of fun and excitement to our lives. You are an amazing little boy and I love watching you grow and become your own little person. Attitude and all!

One thing I want you to remember as you get older, and one day look back at these letters, is that family is important. Family will always be there for you, even when your world seems like it is falling apart. If you keep God and your family close to your heart, you can conquer anything. When your world is crashing, remember God knows what is going on and He will always bring some sort of good out of your pain and heartache. Just rely on God and lean on your family. 

One day you will learn of the Lifetime movie we are living as I write this letter. And one day you may have to live through your own Lifetime movie. Just remember what is important and you will get through it. God doesn’t give you anything you cannot handle. If you are going through a seemingly impossible struggle, just know that means God knows you are one tough cookie and can handle more than others. I love you, son. Remember that.

At your 9 month appointment you gained about a pound and are now 18 lbs 10oz but you are still the same height. You've also had a stuffy nose all week and we discovered you have a double ear infection. Yet again! 

Also one more thing. You were playing with Loretta on our bed the other night (aka not going to sleep) and you rolled of and face planted. Scared me so much! But you eventually got back to yourself with seemingly no damage. That is two head injuries in 6 months, son. Is this a foreshadowing of what our future holds??? Boys..... :)

Here are some pictures of the pumpkin patch and playing in the leaves! And of course your 9 month photo :) We also got some professional photos done. So lots of photos this month!