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!

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.

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.  

Lee holding Tate for the first time 

 Me and my baby

 Damon meeting Tate

 Our little guy

 First family picture of four!

Damon loved coming to the hospital so he could eat his ice chips 

 Just got home, nice full belly

 Our handsome boy

 Damon sharing toys with Tate

 One happy Daddy

 Damon loves his baby

 Damon likes to rub his cheeks on Tate...it tickles his face and he laughs

 Caught a little smile in between a stretch

He is a very scowly baby

WE LOVE YOU TATE!!!!

35 weeks

Getting close to meeting our new little guy.  Can't wait to see what he'll look like :)  

I figured I would have Lee take a picture of me, I have only taken a couple this pregnancy.

 Damon does not like me taking pictures of him.  He always tries to hide his face :(

 Once again, trying to hide his face.  He is drinking his smoothie - "moothie".  He loves them more than anything.

I asked him this morning if I could take a picture of him reading all of his books, and he told me "NO"