Patten Update

Greetings. We apologize for the recent lack of Patten pictures. Hopefully this post will make up for our shortcomings.

In the months of November, December, and January we: celebrated Thanksgiving with Dave's family, endured finals, moved back to Grandma's basement (which was bitter sweet because we love Grandma but miss our ward / neighbors tremendously), celebrated Christmas, enjoyed 3 weeks together without school, and started yet another semester. We've included a few highlights below (but, let's be honest, we forgot to bring the camera to many of the above listed events - so the following pictures are highlights of the events to which we brought the camera).

Oh yeah, Mustard is swimming along just fine. He / she (unsure at this point) has a strong heartbeat and is doing great.

Patten in his Peruvian Llama sweater. Unfortunately he inherited his father's ginormous head and therefore can't wear the hood correctly. But, trust us, the sweater is the right size.

Patten in his striped sweater from Aunt Missy. Dashing.

Patten conquering the bin-thingy. Patten loves doing this. Wicker baskets, dishpans, boxes, this thingy, it doesn't matter - he just loves getting in / on them.

Patten and Dave perfecting the "swing Patten game" originated by Kristin. Patten begins this game in a sitting position looking into your eyes. Then he slowly lets himself fall backwards (he loves the anticipation), until he swings as shown above.

Patten in momma's shoes. One day Patten decided to wear Kristin's shoes and walk around the apartment. What a funny guy.

Patten and Dave by our first real Christmas tree. Our first years of marriage we used a little fake Christmas tree. But this year we ventured to Rite-Aid and bought all the fixins for roughly $50. That included the tree, stand, ornaments, and lights (all though we accidentally bought green ones - who does that?!?). This picture is in our new apartment, grandma's basement.

Patten and Kristin by the Christmas tree on Christmas morning. You can barely tell, but our Christmas decor was Patten-proof. The ornaments are only on the top half of the tree and most of the presents are on the mantle. At the beginning of the season we had ornaments on the bottom half of the tree and Patten loved to bring them to us, one by one, until he had removed every ornament in reach. After a few rounds of this game we decided the ornaments better just stay on the top half of the tree.

Despite his disinterested face, Patten loves his Grandma Bonnie. He sits still for her almost better than anyone else. In this picture she and Brent visited us in our old apartment and she read Patten one of his books using her well rehearsed and very entertaining make-believe voices.

What do you say about this picture??? Patten loves to give kisses, especially to his mom.