Back to back kinda love

This morning, around 6am, Grady crawled in bed with us. They had gone to sleep pretty late the last two nights and he doesn’t do well when that happens. Instead of waking up later, he wakes up earlier. Lucky us! Haha. 

He curled in next to me, and then ended up back to back with me, making sure to press against me as he drifted back to sleep. I also drifted in and out of sleep, but determined not to move so he could get as much rest as possible. 

I loved those moments. Parenting happens so fast. They grow so incredibly fast. You almost do not have time to notice that they wake up scared less, they need the presence of your back touching theirs less and less in order to sleep. 

He is my baby. And yet he is quickly becoming less and less of a baby. And if I am honest, I adore seeing him turn into this young boy and all the new adventures he is conquering. 

But this morning, I got a few sweet hours of back to back love. And it was medicine to my soul. 

Grady is 10 Months Old!

This one turned 10 months old just a week or two ago! Goodness time is flying.



• I put him on our home scale and got 22lbs the other day!

• This month his two front teeth finally broke through! They have been bubbled up and giving him such a hard time for over a month now, so it's nice to finally get some relief. They are big and really spread apart (just like Griffins were). It's pretty cute.

• Grady started cruising around on furniture and walking behind his walker or when you hold his hands. Way to go buddy!

• He loves food. Especially any type of grain/carb. He goes crazy for biscuits, rolls, bread of any type, rice and oatmeal. This month we introduced chicken, pork and ground beef successfully. He liked them all but definitely prefers carbs :-) haha! I am pretty sure we have introduced most solid foods that are easy to put into small bites and not too hard except honey and peanut butter.

• He became a belly sleeper this month. I also transitioned him from the Velcro swaddled to the zippadee doo blanket thing. I have tried nothing a few nights but he just wakes up several times without it. I am gonna keep working on it. Overall he is still a great sleeper though, praise the Lord! He generally takes two naps at daycare and a short nap on the way home in the van.

• Grady is now signing "more", "dog", and kind of "all done". He says "ba" for ball now too.

• This month we put Grady in the power wheels with his brother, and he is a huge fan! It's so cute. He also got to ride a few rides at Beech Bend too!

• Grady finally starting waving and saying "hi" this month. He will do this every time he sees himself in a mirror or reflection especially- haha! It's precious really.

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Grady is 9 Months Old!

(Late as always!)



Look how stinkin cute he is!?!! This one is already nine months! And boy he had a big month. He started crawling, got really vocal, started several table foods, and is pulling up. Slow down child!

He is 20.5 lbs and 29" long. Average for his weight and above average for height and head circumference.

Grady loves eating now. We added yogurt, scrambled eggs, biscuits, bagels, steamed carrots and sweet potatoes to the table food list this month. He is a pro at sippy cups now also.

He finally figured out crawling this month! And he is fast. He also pulls up constantly, but no cruising just yet. He can sign "more" and "dog" now!! Yay! He is still babbling a ton. He can say "Dada" but nothing else yet. He became obsessed with balls this month and constantly has several in his hands or around him.

He has mostly stopped biting when nursing- thank goodness! And we are still going strong with it. Yay! He still takes 3 bottles at daycare that are 5 oz and nurses 3 times with me.

He is a happy and funny baby. He still adores big brother so much it melts my heart.






















































And a few outtakes :-)








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Week in Review {8/2-8/8}

We started our week off with church on Sunday morning, per the norm :-)


Griffin asked me why I put this "dress" on Grady! Haha, apparently he is not a fan of rompers?


Sunday night we had the Bunton's over for dinner. It has been forever since we have had just one family over for dinner (we have large groups for bible study or life group weekly), so it was actually very fun to cook for just us two families! I took advantage of the opportunity and cooked Mr.Pate's fav- chicken cordon bleu with béarnaise sauce. And it was so yummy. It was wonderful getting to hangout with them.

My next StitchFix came on Monday, so I tried on all of those clothes after work, and Griffin took pics of each piece for me :-)


Two of the shirts were too big and one was too small :-( And I loved the black pants but not the price... So I kept one tank top.

After that we played outside for awhile. Griffin drove Grady in his power wheels for the first time and Grady loved it!





(Notice the ball in Grady's hand. We have become obsessed and won't put them down.)
Then Griffin pushed his brother for a bit :-)


And then we had our first brother wagon ride. How precious?! We spent many a night at our old house pulling Griffin in this wagon after dinner, so It is too sweet to get to pull two babies now. I love having two kids. Everything is just sweeter.





Tuesday we had our last Parking Lot party for the summer. I am going to miss seeing these crazies once a week!


Wednesday we went to Smiths Grove Baptist to visit, and then helped Uncle D finish up his classroom. This goofs had my phone the whole time we were at church ;-)


Thursday Grady ended up getting sent home with a fever. We are pretty positive it's teething related. We had bible study, and then our praise band practiced at our house bc the church building has a special event this week. It was so sweet to hear my whole house filled with worship music (or in theory it was, during this time Griffin was having a massive meltdown so I couldn't fully enjoy it, but that's life!).


Friday we had dinner at the Peach's and then we played outside at their house. Griffin bought a new bike this week with birthday money, so we got in some good biking time.


Saturday I took some senior photos in the morning, then Mr.Pate's parents and Uncle came in town and we all headed to Chuy's. Yummo!!


After nap time we headed to Eli's birthday party! It was at the Smiths Grove park, which was a great location. The kids had a ball!











Great week :-)

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