Happy Birthday Cayslee and Jayme!

July is a happening birth month y'all! We had two other birthday parties to go to, plus of course Griffin had his. It's been fun getting to celebrate with friends so much this month.

Cayslee had her birthday a little early so they could head out on vacation when her 2nd birthday was here. I cannot believe she is already 2!














Next up was Jayme' s 4th birthday at Chuckie Cheese.




















Happy birthday sweet girls! We love ya!

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Week in Review Times Two {7/12-7/25}

Totally missed a week of posting, oops! So here is a recap of what we have been up to the past two weeks:

On Sunday the 12th, we had our first service in Jackson Grove's building. I will try to do a longer post on this soon, but basically we are meeting at 9am and their service is at 11:30.











Mr.Pate ended up having to go stay in Louisville that Monday through Wednesday to help Servpro with some storm jobs. The day he left there was an attempted robbery in our neighborhood, so I was terrified to stay alone (I am scared to stay alone on a normal day, much less all of that!). Lucky for us, Uncle D was willing to come stay on the couch!

Tuesday we had Parking Lot Party and it was SO HOT! Whew!

Wednesday night, the kids and I finally went to hangout with the Watson's! We swam first and it felt so good.





Look how these kids have grown in a year!





Love her!











That Thursday was Bible Study , and then Friday we got stuff together for Griffins birthday party.

Saturday was Griffins 4th birthday! We setup for his bday party in the morning, and then we went to the water park at Beech Bend after nap time. It was so much fun! The water felt great and Griffin had a blast going down all the water slides and riding the waves. The kids area there has several kid water slides that are a ton of fun. He has been so great with them and runs up and does them all by himself too. Awesome.

Sunday we worshiped again :-)





Then we got in Griffin's nap before the BIG EVENT... Griffin's
4th- a Dance Parry! It was so much fun, and Becky did an amazing job with the decor, as always! I'll post more about it soon.

















Monday night, after dinner we decided to put our new sprinklers out and have a little summer fun. That water was COLD! But the boys both loved it.























Tuesday, Griffin went for his 4 year checkup. He is doing great!











Wednesday we played at the park and then got Sonic treats ;-)

Thursday, we had bible study. Love them!





Friday I got myself organized! Haha!





Mr.Pate's parents came in town Thursday, so Friday they all headed to Beech Bend to ride the rides while I worked. Then after nap time, we all headed back to the water park. So much fun!

















Saturday, Mr. Pate's parents and brother came over and majorly overhauled our yard! Woo hoo! It looks so good now! Thanks guys!

Then we headed to Jayme's 4 th bday at Chuckie
cheese.





After that, we headed to the Peaches. They had water games, tons of food, yummy corn, and to top the night off we watched a movie in their backyard! So so fun!

















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Grady is 8 Months!

Well at this point he is almost 9 months, ha! But I will just do the updates from when he was 8 months ;-)

Grady has continued to be a happy and laid back baby this month. He mastered sitting up this month, so I feel like all of his playtime has moved to a new phase!

I weighed him at home and he was 19.6 lbs now! He is becoming quite the load to carry around, haha. Not sure on length, I will be excited to see that at his 9 month checkup.

He is still going strong on being a good sleeper, and his day and nighttime routine is pretty much the same as at 7 months.

Grady really got the hang of his solid foods this month, and is eating like a champ. He has now had carrots, sweet potatoes, squash, green beans, peas, apples, peaches, pears, oatmeal, and several blended fruits or fruit and veggies. He is doing great with puffs now as well, and loves all sippy cups.

He is sitting up great still, and attempting to crawl with no luck. Ha! He did finally master going from sitting to his hands and knees, so he is not face planting as much. Still no waving or signing for now. He is still babbling a ton. Most of the time he plays in the floor with a bucket of small toys and the front of his walker, and he has a ball.

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 got to stay over night with Grandma this month, and did great!

He got in the pool for the first time this month, and also got in the big bathtub with big bro! He loves the water!!!

Grady also got in a swing for the first time this month and had a ball!!!
















































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