Easter, etc

As per granny's repeated requests, here is a large assortment of the grand kids looking suitably adorable and more often in Mac's case slightly goofy.

Who needs a double stroller when the storage compartment of a single stroller will do just fine for toting large toddlers.

Hamilton continues of the trend of our masculine young men in their pink bumbo chair.

We got a membership to a local children's museum which contains both of Mac's great loves, elmo and fish.

Mac loves painting and at the moment Jackson Pollock seems to be his biggest influence as he loves to splash the paint on and most of it ends up on the floor.

No matter what we make with the play dough it always ends up as a mustache on Mac.

Trying on dads running gear.

In an attempt to thwart my dressing of his little brother, Mac decided to try and eat Hamilton's sock.

Easter morning with it's accompanying case of bed head.

boys, boys, boys

We've been keeping busy the last few weeks with visits from Grammy Nicole, Hamilton's baby blessing, finishing our basement and trying to maintain sanity with a toddler still stuck inside the house for the winter.

Mac's hair was getting quite long, which I love, unfortunately it was growing longer in the back than front leading to unfavorable comparisons to billy ray cyrus and that Russian male figure skater, so I finally broke down and gave the little man his first sizable trim.

I stumbled upon Mac having a nice afternoon read under his changing table.

Hamilton has become quite the charmer these last few weeks with his big smiles, cooing and letting Mom sleep for six hours in a row.

Mac intently scanning the blank inside of the Nemo DVD cover.

Dad and Mac jammed on the new harmonicas provided by Grammy Nicole.

Hamilton flashing a nice smile to Grandpa Willie and Grandma Sue at his baby blessing.

And finally Mac showing Grammy the joys of having him bounce up and down on you while you try to hold the baby, a joy which is afforded to me almost daily.

My Man

My Boys

New Years Arrival

We had a very exciting New Years Day!

Hamilton Lee Hatch was born at 9:40pm, weighing 8lbs 7oz and 21 inches long

He made a much quieter entrance into the world than his older brother and much to our joy has been a really sweet mellow little man so far.

Home for the Holidays

Here is an epic photographic journey through our Christmas Day festivities, complete with pics of all Mac's gifts for grandma's viewing pleasure.

Mac mounts his wheels for the first time. This gift came courtesy of the nice man on craigslist who just wanted it to go to a good home and that happened to be right in our price range.

Mac's love hate relationship with the train set begins. He will laugh with glee one moment only to be in tears the next foiled by those darn magnetic train cars.

The power wheels is located in our snug living room and since Mac can't reach the pedal he entertains himself by climbing in and out of the car every few minutes.

Looking fun in the face and not backing down.

Mac and Cam at Grandma Patty's party where we finished up the day visiting with family and eating large amounts of pasta salad. Overall it was a great relaxing Christmas and though we missed seeing Grammy Nicole we're hoping she'll be driving up sooner rather than later to visit Grandson number two.