Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Monday, December 19, 2011
Monday, November 28, 2011
Contar?
It seems someone (school maybe?) has been teaching Patrick to count in Spanish. He's almost got it down. Not bad considering he still skips a couple of numbers in English too.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Smorshmelons and Hangers
That's what Patrick currently calls marshmallows and fingers (respectively). And it's adorable. Just wanted to record that for posterity.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Touchdown Racers!
Walt and Patrick went to a Murray State Racers' football game recently. Can you tell?
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Monday, October 3, 2011
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Patrick is Two
Happy birthday to our sweet boy. You are sweet, charming, hilarious and smart. You make us all laugh from the moment you get up until the moment you go to sleep clutching your slicky, Mickey and monkey (and, of course, sucking on your paci). With a few moments of pulling our hair out in between. But you are very easy to forgive because you are just oh-so-adorable. We love you, sweet Peachy!
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Monday, September 5, 2011
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Monday, August 29, 2011
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Friday, August 5, 2011
Friday, July 22, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
In Memory of Granny
Funerals are never what you might call "fun", but they can certainly be healing, beautiful, and ironically, even life-affirming. That's how I felt when we took this picture after Granny's funeral on Saturday -- this group of family members who came from near and far to pay their respects affirmed that her life touched and brought forth many others. Although I don't get to see many of them often, I'm blessed to know them all and was so grateful to see them on Saturday.
Granny and Papa's grandchildren, aka my brothers and first cousins.
My cousin, John Sawyer (on the far right), preached the sermon for the funeral and did an absolutely magnificent job. Granny would have been so proud to hear him. I think he might have even inspired Patrick, who started practicing his preaching immediately after lunch.
Saturday, July 9, 2011
The (Even Older) Crouch Homestead
Elkton, Kentucky circa 1830-something. In the Crouch family since the early 1900s.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Flying the Friendly Skies
Pretty sure no self-respecting airline would allow their pilot to have this hairstyle.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Light Reading
We ran out of board books so Patrick has moved on to "Total Church". He's very advanced.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
Look Who's Talking! (And doing a lot of other things we haven't told you about.)
Oh, poor, poor second child. The number of posts Walt got in his first 18 months compared to Patrick is probably about 10 to 1 (and that’s being generous). Patrick, if you’re reading this someday, just know that it’s not because we love you any less or are any less fascinated by your every new word – it’s just that mommy and daddy are tired. (And also, social media has sort of moved on from blogging to Facebook and Twitter – you get tweeted a lot more than your brother does. But you probably don’t even know what those things are now – I’m sure it’s all about holograms and direct brain messaging now. That, or this blog is just a quaint reminder of the simpler days when humans told computers what to do, not the other way around. Mommy might have been reading too many magazines.)
Anyway! Patrick turned 18 months old recently and we have been woefully remiss in reporting on his every giggle, sneeze and step. So, I’m going to attempt to catch up a bit. We’re going to go with the list format today.
1. Patrick seems to be taking after his brother in the talking department. After Gram (the speech pathologist) commented that he seemed to have a good vocabulary for a kid his age, we decided to tally up his words on the kitchen chalkboard. So far, we’re at about fifty words that he says on a fairly regular basis. I’m not saying you’d always understand him, but we do, and his little old man mutterings never fail to amuse us.
2. Patrick is a pretty wary kid, so far. If he doesn’t know you well, you’re likely to get a glare, or at least a hard stare until he’s decided you’re on the up-and-up. As Patrick’s mother, I’m totally okay with this.
3. Once you’ve been approved, however, he’s about as sweet as they come. He gives out his dramatic kisses and “huuuuuuuuddds” liberally, much to everyone’s delight. When Josh gets home at night, he always gets an enthusiastic “DaaaaDaaaaa!!!!”
4. Patrick eats the following things on a regular basis: bananas (at least one, usually more, a day), yogurt (extra-thick Dora version that he can spoon up himself), applesauce, (which is also self-fed, but with a slightly lower hit rate) and quesadillas. That is all. Oh, and cookies and crackers, but I don’t think that even counts.
5. Not sure if #4 has anything to do with #5 or not, but he’s definitely on the petite side. 10th percentile for weight and 25th percentile for height. Or the other way around – can’t really remember. But he’s just now out-growing his 12-month clothes, which is sad because I really love those little green corduroy pants.
6. There will be no comments on his sleeping habits, per my long-held (well, for about six years anyway) superstition regarding writing about babies’ sleeping habits.
7. Like his brother, Patrick loves his lovies. He has Slicky (which is already well on its way to being as ratty as Walt’s original Slicky was) and Puppy, a pillow pet that he got for Christmas and took to immediately. He also still loves the pacifier, which is a little different from Walt, who gave his up early. Slicky and Paci are like cookies and milk – he can’t enjoy one without the other.
8. The kid definitely takes after his mother when it comes to reading. Like me, he would be content to hang out on the couch reading books all day long. His literary tastes tend more toward board books, but still. His favorite authors are Sandra Boynton and Eric Carle, and he also likes those inane “Spot” books, but we all have our weaknesses.
9. You know what’s really fun? Pulling all the tissues out of the box and unrolling the whole roll of toilet paper. F-U-N.
10. Patrick loves his big brother a lot, but possibly not quite as much (yet) as his big brother loves him. Which is not to say that Walt doesn’t spend most of their waking time tormenting the living daylights out of Patrick, but I figure payback is coming.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Saturday, January 1, 2011
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