3 Months

 Little Man is 3 months old now.  I think it goes by faster with each kid. I cannot believe how big he is now!  He is weighing in at a healthy 15.5 pounds.  He is in 3-6 month clothing, but I think we only have a little bit longer that it will fit.

Patton Loves

• snuggling with mommy
• watching his sisters
• watching baseball with daddy
• laying on his Einstein mat and grinning at his star
• sucking on his fingers
• talking to himself
• taking baths
• riding in the sling on mommy's chest
• waking up to see mommy during the night. Just can't get enough.

Patton Hates

• riding in the car
• being put down

Berkley is always very helpful trying to get P to smile for his pictures. She love to take pictures with him when we are done.

 Then she likes a few of her own

 Then she wants some with piggy. Here she is telling him to smile.

 Berkley Mae doesn't go to school, has no desire to go to school and hasn't been too interested in learning anything either.  Recently she's become more interested in trying to write her name and I decided to start working on letters with her. We sat down and went through them all, she knows about half of them- which surprised me.  We started letter of the day - I figured we'd do it during the week when daddy and sissy were gone. She's been really excited about picking out a letter every morning and reviewing the whole alphabet.  She's going to start going to Mothers Day out in the fall. Should be interesting!

I bought a sit and stand stroller. I never had one with Elliott/Berkley because E didn't seem to mind walking.  B has been not very happy that Patton is in HER stroller and wants him out. We went to the mall with Amanda and Rylee and B was flipping out most of the trip about wanting to be in the stroller.  Luckily we found a used one.  So now, I take it to the mall and Patton ends up in the sling and Berkley ends up walking and I push a huge empty stroller around.  Last time we went I put P in the seat so he could look around instead of hooking the carseat in.  He thought he was so big and lasted a whole 30 minutes in the stroller.

 This is how we sleep at least half the time. We take an afternoon nap together most days and he sleeps in his crib from 8-5ish then he's in bed with me. So cozy!

 We ran into Amanda and Rylee at Market Street last week. The girls were so excited to shop together! They have become great friends.  We hang out at least a few times a week now, everywhere we go Berkley asks if we can call Rylee to come too.  Amanda says Rylee is the same way. Although they still fight like cats and dogs regularly.

Our little book worm walking out from school the other day.

 Our Butterfly Project has started. The caterpillars came in this cup with food. The girls didn't have to wait long before they made their way to the top of the cup to make cocoons. Or coons as Berkley calls them.  You can see 2 of them in cocoons on the left- its a little harder to see but there is a black one hanging upside down on the right side.  I was surprised by how fast they were cocooned up.  It happened within about a half a day for each of them once you noticed the cocoon starting.

 Once they were all snug in their cocoons we moved them to the habitat where we are very anxiously awaiting their transformation to butterflies. You can watch a video here -Butterfly Video I showed it to the girls. Berkley was so cute! Every time a butterfly would come out she would gasp. She asks every day to watch the butterfly video and she regularly checks the habitat to see if they are out.