Patricks pics

I'm too excited to sleep.

I've decided today to be a cranky miserable baby, but only if I don't get my way. I don't want to sleep. I'm having too much fun staying awake. Mom has tried everything from holding and rocking me to putting me on my stomach to even trying to (god forbid) crying it out. It's not working and its driving her insane, but thats what babies do best. We looked at the fish outside at Nana and Papa's house today. They have a pond with goldfish. I was entranced by them. I was good for that period but then mom brought me back inside because she didn't want me to get sunburned and I've been cranky ever since. I have taken a few naps, but they don't add up to much. Mom just wants me to sleep for an hour. I don't think its going to happen. Not any time soon.

Auntie Andrea came over today for a while to play with me. Mom gave me a bath and got me all dressed up and ready to go to her office and then I pooped all over my nice clean white pants. Thats what mom gets for trying to put me in white pants. Haha. Serves her right. We went to moms office and I was not exactly well behaved. I cried a lot. Something is bothering me I just can't figure out how to say it in grown up language.

Easter is coming in two weeks. I'm not exactly sure what this easter business is. I'm not even three months old yet. There's sooo much to learn. Mom says shes going to dress me up in my easter outfit and take a picture with a bunny. What's a bunny? All I know is we went to Target this morning to get some candy for my older brothers.

I wish I could have some of that candy but for right now, formula is good. I'm growing taller by the day so there must be something to this formula business. Mom says I'm her non-green string bean. I don't quite know what that means, but I smile everytime she calls me that. I like the way it rhymes.

We are beginning to read more books. I like Mother Goose rhymes a lot. They're so much fun. The other day we read "because a little bug went a-choo" Mom says it was one of her favorites when she was a little girl. I didn't know mom ever was a little girl. It's kind of weird to think of her like that.

I hung out with my best friends last night. Justus and Audrey are a few months older than me, three and four months to be precise but it doesn't matter to us. We have a lot of fun together. I'm beginnig to notice them as much as they notice me. Justus and I were playing grab the hands last night. Mom and Vince (Justus's dad) just laughed at us. Hey, its fun being two and a half months old. I'm learning more things every day.

Baby Quotes

"When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be."

"A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase."

“ A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten and the future worth living for.”

"Babies are such a nice way to start people.”

"Every tear from every eye / Becomes a babe in Eternity”

"Sweet Babe, in thy face Soft Desires I can trace, secret joys and secret smiles. Little pretty infant Wiles"

“The difference between men and women is that, if given the choice between saving the life of an infant or catching a fly ball, a woman will automatically choose to save the infant, without even considering if there's a man on base.”

I've got it!!!

That is to say my toy. Yesterday I picked up one of my toys for the first time. "Big deal" you say, well my mom thinks it is, so there. :p In other news, I am exactly 11 weeks old today. I know its no big deal, but I'm happy and growing. I started sleeping through the night last week, but last night I decided that all of a sudden, 3 a.m. was a good time to get fed. So dad got up and fed me and put me back to sleep, not that I was ready for that. Then I woke up at 5 a.m. and decided that my parents, in particular, my mom, should come play with me. I was sooo happy. She wasn't. Mommy and daddy are tired today. They're hoping I'll eat around 9:30 tonight and sleep through till 5:30 or 6:30 like I have been the last week. We'll see. As they're learning, life is never predictable with a baby. You can put me in a routine, but a routine and schedule are two entirely different things. Well I'm off to go take a nap now. It's 11:15 and I'm tired.

Welcome to our World

Wow, what a journey. On April 29, 2006 my mom found out she was pregnant with me. She didn't beleive it at first. She took three home pregnancy tests and called my dad. He was visiting my Papa Rick in Nevada. She wouldn't tell him what was up over the phone, but she told him that she really needed to talk to him. He knew she was either pregnant or wanted a divorce. Good thing she didn't want that divorce.
I made my mom so sick every morning for the first trimester and for a lot of the third trimester, but at least she knew I was strong.
January 1, 2007 I announced that it was time for me to come. I was so tired of being stuck inside all the time and I made it very clear to mom that I was coming ready or not. So off my parents went to the hospital. Mom pushed for three hours to no avail. I tried coming out but mom's body wasn't having it. Finally the doctor decided that since my heartbeat was flailing she'd better do a c-section, so at 3:07 a.m. on January 2, 2007, I made my way into this great big world. My mom and dad fell in love with me immediately. Everyone announced that I was adorable and perfect. My parents confirmed that my name was to be Patrick (up until this point, they weren't positive on anything, other than the fact that I was a boy) and decided that Ryan would be a good middle name. So Patrick Ryan I became. I was 20 3/4 inches long and 6 lbs 10 oz.
So now I'm going to be 11 weeks old tomorrow and mom and dad, as much as they love me now, wish I was still just as little. I'm a lot longer now. Almost two inches longer and about three and a half to four pounds heavier. I'm holding my head up and smiling. I talk constantly and I love to kick. Aunt Andrea is hoping I'll be a soccer player. She's already said that she'll be coaching my team later on if I decided to play.
I've got two big brothers who love me sooo much and a nana, a papa, a grandpapa, a Papa Rick, a grandma, a granny, a gram and more aunts and uncles than I can count. They all love me though. Everyone loves me.
Oh and in case you haven't guessed, my mom is typing this. I'm not too good at the keyboard yet. I will be though. I'll be good at a lot of things. Right now I'm just good at smiling and making mommy and daddy laugh at me.
Well thats it for right now, but I'll be back later to post more and let you all know what I'm up too. I'll see you later.