Pure sweetness...

2 months

Emory Hart has grown so much in the last month.  When we went for her 2 month check up a couple of weeks ago she weighed 10 pounds, 15 ounces.  She cried and cried when they gave her the shots, and it broke my heart.  The couple of days after that were pretty rough, too.  She now takes 5 ounces of formula every 4 hours and finally sleeps all night!  That started around 9 weeks.  She takes her night bottle at 11:00 and sleeps until 7:00 the next morning.  It's so nice to get some rest again.  Tanner is still so good with her.  He calls her "gorgeous" and loves giving her kisses.  She is cooing and smiling a lot.  It sounds like she's trying to sing sometimes, too!  I love the sound of her little voice and can't wait until she can laugh out loud.  We are having lots of fun in the Pettit house with these 2 sweet kiddos.

New Years

This year we took the kids to the Warringtons house for New Years.  It was a first for us to have our kids with us on New Years, but we have to grow up sometime, right?!  Tanner, Harvey, and Hill had a blast playing together.  I think they liked riding Harvey's new gator and jumping on the bed the most.  Mr. Allen would throw each one down on the bed and they kept going back for more.  They loved it!  

Emory Hart slept most of the night, but then got fussy around 10:00.  This has become her usual routine for about an hour every night.  Her Daddy is much better at calming her than I am.  I think I get too worked up and anxious and she can tell.  Hoping she grows out of it soon!  She is finally only waking up one time during the night.  We had Tanner sleeping all night by this time, but I keep having to tell myself that every baby is different and she's just not ready yet.  She usually takes a bottle around 11, wakes up for another one around 3, then makes it to 7 in the morning.  Thank goodness she is able to make it 4 hours at night because she rarely goes past 3 hours during the day.  She likes to eat!  

We are looking forward to a new year and hoping that 2012 is even better than 2011!

Riding the gator

Eating rice crispy treats

Jumping on the big guest bed

Christmas 2011

We had a wonderful Christmas.  It's always fun decorating, listening to Christmas music, exchanging gifts, eating good food, and celebrating the birth of Jesus, but today it felt so good getting all of the decorations put away and getting the house back in order.  Tanner protested as we were taking the decorations down, but he eventually got over it.  Each year Christmas gets more and more fun for him.  This was the first year that he really got excited about Santa Claus.  I used to make a long list of things I wanted, but now getting to see Tanner get excited is what I love the most.  

We celebrated several different times, so I'll go back and start in order.  The Friday night a week before Christmas (the 16th) we celebrated with Papaw and Mamaw in Carthage.  Tanner had a great time playing with all of his cousins, and Emory Hart enjoyed being held all evening. 

Tanner opening his card with Kourtney's help

Group picture with Papaw and the grandkids (minus Will)- they weren't quite ready for this pic!

Now they are ready!

The next Friday (the 23rd) we celebrated with Nene and Papa in McCool.  The kiddos had a blast playing as usual.  After we had dinner and opened presents all of the cousins came over for fireworks.  I didn't get any pics, but the older kids had a lot of fun.

Holding Emory Hart with Tanner and Ally Katherine

Tanner really got excited about opening presents this year!

Daddy always helps him put his new toys together.

Emory Hart was being a bit needy that day.  She fussed a lot and wanted to be held constantly.  I think she is getting spoiled.  She cries as soon as we put her down, and when we pick her up she is completely content and sound asleep again.  I guess Uncle Wade thought it would be funny to show us that he knows all when it comes to babies.  He had some new tricks for us to try to calm her, and she loved them.  She spent a lot of the night with him like this...

Saturday night we went to our church's Christmas Eve service, which is always a treat.  Honey, Otto, and Monnie met us there.  Tanner decided to sit with Honey and Monnie during the service.  About half way through we all heard a big thump, and when we looked down Tanner was sound asleep between them.  His head had fallen back against the pew, and he was out.

Ready for church.  We wanted a group picture, but didn't have any one to take it.

So sweet!

After church we headed over to Honey and Otto's for Christmas with them.  Monnie was in town for the night, and we were all happy to get to spend time with her.  We had a great dinner and then Tanner got to open more presents.

Tanner and Monnie reading his new book.

Tanner and Otto of course had to wrestle.  I believe they were doing the "scissor cut" here...

and the "banana squish hold" here...

Emory Hart had fun watching them with Daddy.

 Tanner opening his big batman toy.  He said "I always wanted this!"

Emory Hart and Daddy watching Tanner play with his batman.  

Tanner and Honey reading one of his new books.

Our child naturally slept until 10:00 Christmas morning, and we had to wake him up then!  It was nice for us since we had been up late the night before waiting on Santa Claus.

Checking out his new scooter

He finally saw his big present in the back yard after we gave him a few hints! 

Looking in his stocking

Sweet Emory Hart did this while we opened our presents to each other.  Can't wait until next year when she can be in on the excitement, too!

That afternoon we went over to Mine's house to have one last Christmas celebration.  Tanner had a great time playing with Oliver and Lauren and enjoyed opening more presents.  Mine loved holding Emory Hart and getting to give her a bottle.

Emory Hart and Mine

Tanner playing with Oliver and Lauren's new toy

1 month

I cannot believe our precious Emory Hart is 1 month old today.  It seems like we were just in the hospital last week.  She is growing so fast.  She slept all the time her first two weeks, but week 3 brought along tummy trouble.  She seemed like her stomach hurt all day and night, and the doctor said she had colic.  We decided to put her on formula and ended up giving her nutramigen, which is what Tanner had to take.  The difference is like night and day.  We have our happy baby back again!  She takes 3 1/2 ounces now and eats about every 3 to 3 1/2 hours.  Hoping to stretch that time out a little more at night before I go back to work!  Tanner is so sweet with her.  I left them on our bed the other day while I dried my hair, and when I peeked in to check on her he was giving her the end of her bottle.  When she cries he says "it's okay, big brother is here".  He is constantly giving her hugs and kisses.  I wish I had a video of the way he is with her anytime he thinks we aren't looking.  It's definitely a huge adjustment having two and much harder than I ever thought it would be, but we love them to pieces and wouldn't trade this life for anything!

Christmas fun!

Tanner and I have been making Christmas cookies today while Emory Hart sleeps.  We made the dough yesterday, and today we cooked and decorated them.  He had so much fun.  Hope he doesn't get sick from eating so many!

Tanner's class Christmas party was last Friday.  Nene kept Emory Hart so that I could go to the party.  Tanner's been needing some extra attention lately since Emory Hart came into the world ;)  He and his little friends had a ball eating, opening presents, and playing.  We are excited about our Christmas break!

Singing Christmas songs

Opening his present

He loved his new toys!

EH's 1st night with friends

Emory Hart got to go play at the Warrington's house a couple of weekends ago.  It was so nice to get out of the house and spend time with friends. We had a great dinner and all of the kiddos played until they were worn out.

EH did a lot of this....

and this...

and she occasionally did this...

 Not sure how she slept through this...

These boys were hyper.  It made me tired just watching them, and we still had to force Tanner to go to bed when we got home.  They all play so good together.  Harvey and Tanner are wild, and Hill is the most laid back child I've ever known.  Maybe Emory Hart will be like him!  Can't wait to see what she will do when she's old enough to have fun with them.