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.

At long last

We are in the home stretch of our house project and should be moved in by next Monday, fingers crossed!

Trick or Treat

Mac's Halloween adventure began Friday afternoon at Cam's work. It was here that Mac discovered the joys of going door to (office) door and taking candy from strangers. Initially he found just as much joy in taking candy as he did in depositing what he had just received in the next office and starting over again. Eventually I did allow him to eat a piece of candy and at this point he smartly began to hoard his loot.

Here he is in his last-second home-made Bam Bam costume, dropping off his treats with Mom. We dressed up as the Rubbles from the Flintstones this year, mainly do to the fact that cavemen outfits require very little sewing and/or hemming.

At this point I don't think he'd even eaten any candy, instead he was enjoying a natural high from the spinning office chair ride.

Saturday morning Cam and I worked on the new house a bit and took some time to play in the leaves with Mac.

Then it was off to the ward trunk-or-treat where Mac got to hang out with his buddy Javin in his very cute and more weather appropriate monkey costume (note to self: the next time it's 40 degrees on Halloween avoid small cavemen costumes).

And finally to ensure a fussy-free Halloween car ride to Aunt Dana's house that night Mac was finally able to enjoy the fruits of his labors.