Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! We hope it finds you and your family well. We are so grateful for our many blessings, and for our amazing families, great friends, and the simple things in life that go noticed far too often. We hope you have a great Thanksgiving.

15 Months

On Thursday we took Hallie to her 15 month well baby visit. Here are the stats:

Weight: 25 lbs 13 oz (90th percentile)
Height: 31.5 inches (80th percentile)
Head: 49 cm (100th percentile)

The doctor said she is doing great, and growing well.

We've backed clear off milk, and are back to full soy. Hallie just wasn't sleeping (waking up 2 or 3 times a night), and not such a happy camper. So for now milk is on hold. We'll probably try it again in a week or so, and just take it very slow.

New Moon Girls Night!

Yes, you may call us Twi-hard. We had a very fun girls night out to go to the New Moon opening night, and we had a blast. We started out with dinner at Gloria's Little Italy, which was delicious. Then headed out to the theater 3 hours before the show started, and froze! The things we do for fun. :)

All the girls before we set out.

Angela Nuttall, Kylie Patterson, Callie Tenney, Lauren Larsen, and Megan Santos

Megan and Lauren at dinner
This was the line of people waiting to go into the theater, and we were 3 hours early! The line started in front of those trees with Christmas lights on them. People had tents, sleeping bags, camping chairs, space heaters, and whatever they would need for the stay. Some people take this very seriously I guess. I thought we were bad....Luckily they let us in the theater to wait around 10 pm, for the 12:02 am showing, so we didn't freeze to the parking lot.

Angela and I waiting

All the girlies waiting! So fun, and so worth it!

Thanks for the fun night girls!

Cheerios Anyone?

11.15.2009

Moo!

Last Friday, November 6, Hallie started to drink real, whole, cow's milk! YAY! We still mix it about half and half with soy milk, but it was a very exciting day at our household.

UPDATE 11/21/2009
Due to an unhappy, non-sleeping baby, we have returned to full soy. Hopefully in the next week we will try to mix milk in again, but at a VERY slow rate.

Dinner at the Patterson Household

This is how dinner typically goes at our house. Hallie sits in her high chair, and entertains us all. When she gets bored she dumps everything on her plate, onto the highchair tray, then the she picks it over some more, then starts to drop things onto the floor. That is the sure sign that she is done with her dinner. Then no matter how carefully we thought we watched her we always end up sweeping up half her dinner off the floor. :)

CHEESE!

I guess this is how we wear bibs too. Really effective. :)

Animal Sounds

Lately we have been trying to teach Hallie animal sounds, and she is getting really good at them too. This weekend she learned what an elephant and a monkey say. Saying "moo" is her favorite, and if she doesn't remember an animal sound, that's usually what she says. Here is some video from tonight of Hallie's animal sounds, (and mine too unfortunately.) Sorry its kinda bouncing everywhere.

Read

10.3.2009

This little girl LOVES to read! And she has recently made this chair hers, and loves to sit there and look at books.

Look at the devious little smile

Right now her favorite books are Baby Boo!, Mommy Calls Me Monkey Pants by J.D. Lester and Come Along Daisy by Jane Simmons. She can read these books about a thousand times a day, and it wouldn't be enough.

I really hope she maintains this love of reading and excitement of learning!

New Blogs...

For the last few months I have wanted a way to keep track of books I have read and some of my favorite recipes. So I have created two new blogs, they are more for me than anything, but they are open to read if you want. Also, since school is keeping me more than busy, I am sure that they will not be updated frequently but they serve my purpose. :)

So here they are:

kyliereads.blogspot.com

pattersonfamilyeats.blogspot.com

Playing at the Park

10.16.2009