Halloween 2011

I wrote this October 2011, but for some reason I didn't post it.  I guess I was a little busy with our new baby :)

I don't think Sam will ever be as excited about a Halloween costume as he was about this one. We opened the box and let him try it on the night before the school costume parade. He has been asking for a football helmet for months now...so we knew he would like to dress as a football player for Halloween. But, now I worry that we'll never be able to dress him in normal clothes without a fight again! That same night he absolutely refused to take the outfit off for bedtime. We compromised by taking off the UGA jersey that had built in shoulder pads and replacing it with a Green Bay Packer jersey without shoulder pads. Sam actually fell asleep wearing the helmet and holding the football. This is probably not a safe way for a toddler to sleep...so we did snap a quick photo before carefully taking the helmet off his head once he finally fell asleep.

Baby Patrick is Born!

On October 12th our second son, Patrick Alan Rogers, was finally born. We waited an extra week for his arrival. I went into labor the night before our scheduled induction, so I was glad that we were able to deliver Patrick without the induction. He came all on his own and in his own time. Patrick was born at 3:04 pm on October 12th, 2011 at University Hospital. He was 7 pounds and 10 ounces and 22 inches long--with a full head of hair!  

You may notice that today's date is June 30th.  Our sweet baby Patrick is now over 8 months old!  To say the adjustment from one child to two children has rocked my world is an understatement.  First, I feel that I need to apologize to my sweet baby Patrick for the fact that 8 months have flown by and I am just now getting around to catching up the blog.  I feel that time was going by quickly when we had Sam--but now time is going by even faster with two little boys to love.  


I love my growing family.  The addition of sweet Patrick has been such a blessing to us all.  Sam loves his baby brother so much...  and "that makes me happy" (as Sam would say).   Maybe I can try to record some our sweet family moments with the blog.  I hope to do better in the future than I have the past year!

Here are a few of my favorite photos from the last couple of weeks.  

I took this picture in the hotel on our trip to Minnesota a couple of weeks ago.  Sleeping babies are just so precious...especially all snuggled up with each other.

Here is a recent picture of Patrick.  Mom took this while she was watching him a couple of days ago.  

 I love how Sam is leaning on his Daddy and they are reading together.  

This is a beautiful sight to my librarian eyes :)

Here is a picture that we took after Sam got his "summer" hair cut.  He kept telling us that he wanted a hair cut like Daddy's.  Hahaha...this is as close as we could get.  The next day, Sam woke up, pointed to his hair, then pointed to Alan's hair, and said, " Look, Daddy, we match!!!" 

He sure loves his Daddy.