Monday, October 20, 2014

Cole Baby 1-month-old

It is not fair! Once the babies are on the outside time FLIES by.

One month stats for our little (BIG) guy:

12 lbs. 15 oz. - 99%
23" long - 92%
Head circ 39.5 cm - 79%

My wonderful mother flew out a couple days after Cole was born and stayed for a whole month! It was amazing. I felt blessed (and spoiled) to get so much help for such a long time. It made the transition to three boys, 3-years and younger smooth. I got to take a nap nearly everyday, which was heavenly. I forgot how you actually never get to sleep with a newborn. Cole is a great baby, but he likes a full tummy...which means feeding him every 2 hours. He was pretty consistent with that time frame of eating for his first month. Sometimes at night he'd go 3 hours, and a rare 4; but that's ok. It usually works like a charm to fatten them up for the first couple months so they'll be able to sleep through the night sooner. He's almost 2 months now, and just this week I get a 7-hour night out of him...yesssss!

Cole has been a smiley, content little boy from day 1. He slept pretty much any chance he got for the first two weeks of his life. He reminded us of those dolls that automatically close their eyes when you lay them down, and then automatically open them when they are upright. By the time he was a month old he was bright-eyed and ready to see the world! His world mostly consists of his older brothers that are always ready to give him a smooch and tell him how cute he is. I think he likes it ;) He loves his swing and takes a pacifier. He falls asleep in a minute or less when I put him in the ergobaby carrier. We love having this sweet, handsome boy in our family!

Bright eyed boy!

The day my mom left - on my own, eek! We ventured out of the house on a walk. Those cute little boys in yellow are picking me flowers :)

Nice mohawk little man.

Although he was and is a big baby, he still looks tiny in his big crib :)

Bonding time with papa.

Never a lack of love from his older brothers!

Blog Train

Where did September go? I know I didn't sleep the time away!

I got behind on blogging this past year (I'm blaming my calling as Relief Society President and being pregnant) and now I'm so far behind I don't know that I'll ever catch up. I get overwhelmed thinking about it and so I post less and less. The problem with that is I love having this 'record' of my family, and our extended family lives so far away I think it's nice for them to see our handsome little dudes and hear about their latest shenanigans, so I'm going to hop back on the blog train and will just start with our most recent going-ons and hopefully 'catch up' as I continue to blog what's happening now in the Bates Barnyard.

And with that let's show you what happens to a 10 lb. baby in 1.5 months:

The rolls and cuteness continue to accumulate!

Saturday, August 30, 2014

Baby Cole

Welcome to the family sweet baby!

Cole William Bates
24 August 2014
10:28 p.m.
10 lbs. 5 oz.
20.5" long

Perfect in every way. The biggest, most edible cheeks you've ever seen. 


Monday, July 7, 2014

4th of July

We celebrated the 4th of July by saying bye-bye to Alfredo!

George did the dirty work...

While the boys and I watched... We were hesitant to include the boys on the whole process, but after we explained it to Sawyer he said he wanted to watch.

Sawyer paid close attention to everything while Jack phased in and out. 

It was so bloody hot outside this is where they ended up. 

And this is where Alfredo the Chicken ended up...stuffed with lemon, garlic, and parsley; then roasted over a bed of rock salt. Turned out juicy and delicious. Admittedly I had some trepidation about the whole process, but it was a good experience overall. This is about as 'real food' as you can get and we're ready for our farm :) Sawyer and Jack were very matter-of-fact about it. "Alfredo's dead. Let's eat!" Alfredo (4 months old) weighed in at a whopping 8 lbs. 9 oz! This was after he was all plucked and gutted. 

The rest of the 4th of July we enjoyed our freedom by cooling off in the pool!
Jack and Papa!

Smiley Sawyer! We love getting to spend time with papa.

And then we stayed up late to watch the fireworks.

The boys lasted all of 15 minutes. Then Sawyer decided it was time to go home and go to sleep. I hope his good sleeping habits rub off on his little brother soon! We're so thankful for our country and the freedom we enjoy. I hope we never take our freedom for granted and can teach our boys all about it. God bless America!

Speedster Sawyer

Here is some pre-bed Sunday evening entertainment. Sometimes I feel like this is real-time speed with how much energy these two cute boys have!

The boys were in hysterics watching this over and over.