New Addition

For those of you who didn't know, we lost our bunny Cotton last summer. It was a very sad time for us. With the new baby coming we decided not to get a new pet right away.

About a month ago we decided we were ready.

Introducing...Duchess Patches
Zoe and Tate both contributed a name.

Zoe takes care of all the feeding and litter box changing, Tate takes care of the chasing and frightening. Who do you think she likes better?

FLASH!!!

I was trying to get some good 6 month pictures of Grey this evening
this was the result...

The Tate on Pregnancy

Tate: Hey mom maybe if you eat something every everyday
then your belly will get big and a baby will come out after 3 months.

Tate has a very different understanding of reproduction than Zoe did at his age.

Tate-isms...

Some funny stories from my hillarious 4 year old...

The other day Tate was running around the living room with his arms straight down at his sides giggling.
"Look dad I'm a penguin!"
Then he began counting his laps around the couch...
"peng-one, peng-two, peng-three..."

Over the weekend Ben and Tate were playing cars in Tate's room and Tate turned to Ben and said,"Daddy I have potty words in my head."
Ben replied, "Oh really?"
"Yep," Tate said "the potty words are floating around in my head trying to get out and the only way to stop them is to give me candy!"

This morning Tate said to me "Mommy do you want to hear the story of how I hurt my elbow?" "Of course I want to hear it!" I said
"One upon a time" he began, "I was going potty and I fell off the toilet."

Greysen Goo turns 6 months!

Can you believe it!
Greysen is already 6 months old.
He had a doctors appointment today and she said:
He is 27 1/2 inches long and 19.10lbs
(BOTH 90th percentile!)
and he has brown eyes.

Here are some videos of the funny man...



Rolling over...
(You have to be real patient with this one or else fast forward, it is kinda long)



Getting up to his knees...and perfecting the "pick me up" message



Laughing and spitting...



and his very favorite...JUMPING!!!

Here are some photos of the cuteness...

Greysen LOVES Zoe. He starts laughing as soon as he sees her.

He is working on crawling now. He has perfected going backward and is now trying to get the hang of forward motion. He just recently started rocking and scooting his back legs forward.

Eating solid foods...
likes: bananas, peas, carrots, peaches, apples, cereal, sweet potato
dislikes: turkey

So cute!

He gives big slobbery kisses!

And he has a great smile!

Greysen Goat

The other day while Zoe and I were on an Activity Day field trip Ben took the boys for a walk around our neighborhood. We live in a small gated community in a relatively urban area. Which made it even more surprising when they encountered a goat walking down the middle of the road. They played at our small playground and watched the antics of animal control trying to round up the goat which included one animal control person walking down the sidewalk searching for the goat while the goat walks nonchalantly a few feet behind him. The antics went on for quit a while and Ben did not actually see the goat get caught. (We assume he did because we haven't seen him again.) Zoe and I got all the stories later, when I asked Tate about it he said, "Oh Greysen Goat was hillarious!" I guess Grey has a new nick name.

Happy Valentines Day!

This year we had more of a family Valentines Day. Starting with Sunshine toast. (also known as Toads in a hole, but my kids don't like the idea of eating toads.)

I decided to try my hand at cake pops. I did not realize it would be a two day endeavor, but it was fun and they were delicious!

Ben got Zoe and I flowers and a See's gift card.
What a sweetie!

Zoe and Tate fell in love with Charlie and the Chocolate factory over Christmas break. Seriously every once in a while I hear Tate saying "fat, fat, fat" and giggling to himself. So we got it for them and watched it a bunch of times.

Ben and I got Band Hero and man do we rock.

The one thing we did as a couple was go to the Stake Valentines dance. It probably wasn't the most romantic evening we have ever had but we did have a couple good laughs and we danced together for the first time in five years. Sad but true. Ben is not a big dancer.