the babbel's

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Kyla and Presley

Kyla and Presley came to visit us recently, and we loved every minute of it! It was great having my sister and adorable nephew here with us. It was fun to have all three little boys together. Damon loved Presley, just didn't like when he drooled on his toys...haha. We also got to hang out with Uncle Tim too for a day :)

I think this is so sweet...so happy!

What a handsome boy!!!

Damon helping Presley chew on a toy...I think Damon would later regret this. He started taking toys away from Presley and scattering them throughout the house.

Snoozing with Auntie Kyla

The three boys. It was pretty much impossible to get a good picture of all three of them.

These two will be best buddies!

Presley isn't so sure about silly Damon.

Lee with the boys. Presley wasn't so sure of Lee at first. It was funny, he would just stare at him and not take his eyes off of him. He eventually warmed up to him :)

Tate loved Kyla...he would smile at her so much.

Cute baby!

Reading to Presley

Me, Kyla and our boys :) I think the second picture is funny...Presley wanted some of Damon's fishy crackers.

Love him!!

You can never give too many kisses.

Little Tate :)

We miss you guys already. Come back soon.

Two!!!

Damon is two! How did that happen? He is the best, most handsome, most fun little boy in the whole world (we think so at least!). I love that I get to spend my days with him.

He LOVES tractors (and fire trucks, airplanes, cars, etc.)

He is a pretty great talker, and can string together up to 5 words. He says some words funny, for example:

truck - "kuck"

airplane - "pee plane"

tractor - "trackie"

smoothie - "moothie"

chicken - "chickie"

milk - "nilk"
penguin - "paingie"

He thinks every second spent with Lee is the best time of his life. He loves to play with his Daddy. They can be very loud together and sometimes give me a headache :)

He is very nice and polite, always saying "thank you Mom" or "thank you Dada."

He LOVES Tate...sometimes a little too much. He is always kissing him and hugging him. When Tate starts to cry, he tells me to feed him...haha.

He loves his little friends and is constantly asking to go to their houses to play.

He likes to take stuffed animals, books and a tractor or two to bed, and he falls asleep on top of all of them. I don't know how he does it. He shoves them all under his belly, along with his blankets, and falls asleep. I have to take them all out from under him before I go to bed.

Anytime Damon, Lee or I have an owie, he kisses it and tells me that we need medicine.

He loves to color and draw.

He loves to play and run outside.

He still gives the best kisses in the world.

There are so many great things about him and we love him SO much!

Helping Daddy fix the tire. He loves to help do everything (clean, sweep, carry Tate's carseat, push a shopping cart, rake leaves, etc.)

He always makes some weird face when I ask him to smile for the camera.

Damon with his friends. We are so lucky to have such great friends here!

Damon got his first hair cut on his 2nd birthday. It made me so sad, but he needed it.

Damon drew that happy face all by himself, without anyone around. I was so impressed. The extra triangle by the right eye is his cheek (at least that is what Damon told me).

Damon loves to share toys with Tate. He wanted him to have an airplane just like him.

Love this boy!

Another weird face.

Damon likes to read Tate books.

Helping give the baby a bath.

We sure love our happy, sweet, busy, crazy, fun, handsome Damon!

Thursday, September 20, 2012

One month

Tate is one month old! Feels like both the fastest and longest month of my life at the same time. We sure do love having him in our family. Damon is absolutely in love with his little brother. He is never mean to him, and is always showering him in kisses. It has been a rough month with this tricky little baby...still not able to figure him out quite yet, but boy do we love him!

My boys :)

Tate tries to find my mouth when he is hungry

Our little fish

Papa meeting Tate

I think this picture is so sweet! Happy, happy, happy.

Beautiful little boy

Damon loves to lay next to Tate

Sharing his car

xoxo

I hope he keeps his dark hair!

Grandma hanging out with the boys

Cheesy

He loves to play with his tongue...I feel like I can't get a picture of him without it showing

Damon's hair is getting SO long

This is how Damon likes to hold Tate

I love this picture

Getting big!

Snoozing

Not a very good picture, but here he is with his monthly stuffed animal picture.

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Tate

He's here! Tate Buchanan Babbel was born August 15th , 2012 at 2:23 am. He weighed 7 lbs 6 oz, and was 20 1/4 in long. Pretty good size for being 15 days early. We are so in love with him and think he is pretty perfect.