Nine Month Stats

Today I took Patton to the dr for his 9 month check up. He will be 9 months on Friday! This is how Patton measured up:

Weight: 19 lbs and 2 oz. (25%)

Height: 27 1/2 inches (10%)

Patton is a little peanut :)

Over the past couple of weeks Patton has started crawling very fast, pulling up on everything daring to let go, saying dada, clapping, throwing toys in the trashcan at daycare, eating a whole lot more of his baby food, and making lots of new noises!!! He is growing up so quick.

4th of July

We went to Alpharetta to visit Grandma and Grandpa Bill for the 4th. Amy and Tara, Mark's cousins, were in town from Rochester so Patton got to meet them! We celebrated the 4th by eating dinner at The Tavern at Phipps and then hanging out for the famous Lenox fireworks show. We had a great time and Patton was very interested in the fireworks. I thought they would scare him but he was completely fine. He is such a good baby.

Me and Patton at The Tavern at Phipps



Patton and Grandma outside of Phipps waiting for the fireworks show



Patton and Grandma and Grandpa Bill outside of Phipps waiting for the fireworks show



Mommy, Daddy, and Patton during the fireworks show



Patton and Daddy taking in the fireworks show



Patton with his second cousins, Tara and Amy



And last but not least a tribute to Uncle Jason. Thanks for serving our Country in the U.S. Navy and Happy 4th to ALL!!!

Dinner with Josh and Jessica

While we were at the beach our friends, Josh and Jessica, moved into their new house where they will live together after their wedding on July 19!!!! They invited us over for dinner and while we were there Jessica was showing me her hat that she is wearing to her Bridesmaids Luncheon and Patton decided it would be fun to put it on and of couse I had my camera with me. Patton didn't look to sure about that hat but he did look like he was having a ball playing with Jessica!

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I'm going home, to the place where I belong...

So Saturday we made it home safe and sound after sitting in traffic for an hour and a half in Montgomery with stinky diapers and all. (luckily we were in a great position to pull off on the shoulder so we could clean Patton up) I think Patton was happy to be home in his surroundings and to sleep in his own bed. But overall, we had a wonderful FIRST family of 3 vacation!

Orange Beach

Thursday morning we woke up bright and early to drive from Destin to Orange Beach to meet the Hunnicutts, all of them!!! Dad, Terri, Me, Mark, Patton, Tyler, Haley Grace, Erika, Trent, Luke, Evan and Audrey stayed in a 3 bedroom condo together for 2 nights and yes, WE SURVIVED and had a good time.

Turns out Patton liked the beach much better once he had his cousins to play in the pool with him...





Thursday evening, Papa and Rere (Dad and Terri) had Keith Davis come take pictures of the whole clan on the beach. It was fun and quite an experience trying to get four children to smile and look all at the same time. Then we all went to Sea n Suds to eat, yes in all white and khacki. We looked like we were part of a cult! Then we went to the arcade and had some fun there! The pictures below are not the professional ones but are taken with our camera. I will post better once when we get the CD of all the pics taken that day.

Destin

Patton was all packed and ready to go...

Of course the first thing we did when we arrived since the condo wasn't ready was stop at the Back Porch for some oysters! That is Mark's favorite thing to do and to think he only ate his first oyster 5 years ago during our first beach trip together.

Patton and Daddy at the Back Porch...



We love going to Baytowne Wharf especially now that we have Patton to push around. We ate at Acme Oyster House and Patton flirted with the waitress the entire time. It was hysterical...



After dinner at Acme we enjoyed a nice LONG walk down to the marina and looked at all the boats. I found one I would love to have but that is only in my dreams!

Patton on the beach. We tried everything for him to like being on the beach, I mean everything, as you can see we had a blow up pool with water in it. It was sitting under a pop up cabana, and we even blew his turtle float up and put that in the pool. Oh and not to mention the thousands of toys he had out there. He was just not having it!!! Well maybe he was content for about 10 minutes.

Even though Patton hated sitting on the beach he loved the ocean. The picture of him and his daddy below was the first time in the ocean and he was still warming up...



Once Patton got warmed up you can tell he had so much fun in the water...



We finally stuck Patton at the edge of the water where the water would come up to him just a little bit and we found that he enjoyed playing in the wet sand but he also enjoyed eating it too...

We got smart the last day we were in Destin and just decided to bring him out in the stroller. He liked that much better...

First things first, Father's Day

For Mark's first Father's Day we woke up very early and got ready to head to Destin but before we left Patton showered his daddy with lots of love and gifts! He gave him an hour massage and a very cute 5 frame picture frame with pictures of Patton holding D A D D Y letters. It is adorable. It's kind of hard to see in this picture but you can get the idea.

These are the pictures that I used of Patton in the frame below...



Here are the pictures in the frame but I had to adjust them some after this picture so it wouldn't cut some of Patton off...



Finally, Father's Day at the beach, can it get any better...