All about the C-man!

I wanted to write an update on Colin--he'll be 10 months in a few days and he is getting cuter and cuter! He has recently started a great new noise--I call it "blub-blubs"--we all know and love the noise when you make a sound and then used your finger to move your lips, thus making a blub-blub. Gotta love the new sounds. He doesn't have any words, other than ba-ba (boobie), but he is definitly trying out all of the sounds. It's so different from Matthew--who would only try one new sound every two months... Colin also gives kisses, or at least I like to think that's what he's doing. I can give him a big loud "mwa" kiss on the cheek, and he leans in to my neck and says "ma." This is just the CUTEST! Colin also loves to play ball. He is very good at rolling the ball back and forth--he'll roll it when I roll it, and throw it when I bounce it. Matthew loves the fact that Colin can play with him, and the two will stay in Matthew's room for up to an hour, just entertaining each other. My other big excitement is that Colin is finally sleeping through the night. Hopefully it's not a fluke, but we finally just let him scream it out and it took one night--makes me wish I had done it sooner. Either way, Colin is a cutie, but growing up way too fast. I'll try to remember to update his various milestones, but they seem to come so quickly...

Bah, humbug!

Just call me Scrooge! I am boycotting decorating the Christmas tree this year. It all started when I tried to put on the lights. I apparently put them on backwards--I didn't know they could go on backwards, but yes, they can. Added to that we wanted to use faceted lights this year. Out of the six strands I bought, three didn't work. So I went back to Target, and when they plugged them in at the counter, low and behold, light! There was I feeling like an idiot, but after 28 years, I've gotten used to that feeling. So I go back home with my now working lights, ready to re-light the entire tree. As I take off the first strand, the tree falls on me. Jonathan is in the shower, so I must get out of the predicament myself. After righting the tree, I try for the second strand. The tree tips again. Okay, I'm going to wait until Jonathan is out of the shower to finish. So the two of us try and re-stand the tree. An hour later--no joke, it took us an hour to get that stupid thing standing by itself--I continue the task of taking the lights down. What do you think happens next...you guessed it, the F%^*ing tree fell over AGAIN! So I finish taking of the lights before we attempt to right the tree again. Another half hour gone, just from trying to center it on the stand. Okay, now it's time to put the lights back on...so far so good. I'm plugging in every strand before it goes on...okay, now everything is one, the tree is still standing...lets plug it in...the bottom strand isn't working. No big deal, its only the bottom strand, I have an extra, I'll just change it out. Okay done, let's plug it in...have of the middle strand is out...seriously where is the hidden camera?! Okay, lets turn the tree...Holy S*&% the top strand just went out! AAAHHHHHHH! I don't care anymore. It's going to stay out. Then two hours later, like a gift from god...the string magically lights up again...sorry tree...you've gone too far on my bad side to make up to me now. I've decided, no decorations for you this year! Plus with a 9 month old, it's probably better! So needless to say, we've been looking at pre-lit Christmas trees on the internet for next year!!! Here's a picture of our pathetic tree, with only a few decorations (3) since the boys wanted to help. Also here's an attempt at a Christmas card this year--you have no idea how hard it is to get 2 smiles and 4 eyes looking at the camera, at the same time!!!! Have a great weekend everyone!

superhero!

It all started with a pair of pajamas. I saw a cute set of batman P.J.'s with an attached cape, and thought Matthew might get a kick out of them later--even though he has no clue who batman is. So we get them and he sees them in his drawer one day. Okay, he wants to wear those to bed...fine. He asks about the cape and we tell him it's because they are superhero pajamas. Okay. Then about two weeks ago he is suddenly all about superheroes! He has to wear his superhero cape everywhere. It's all I can do to keep the thing clean! When I tried to make him a cape out of a towel and mitten holders (pretty ingenious of me I know--the towel even had a k monogrammed on it!) he snubbed it, saying it was only a towel and not a cape! It's pretty funny though, he goes around jumping, claiming that he is flying.


He's also started saying that he has to save daddy. When I ask him why at first it sounded like he said, "cause he's fat!" But after much laughter and a few more repeats I have learned that he says, "because he's bad!" Thus, daddy needs saving...I guess.



Tomorrow is Matthew's Thanksgiving feast at the preschool. I am very excited about it, as we have yet to attend an actual preschool party--seems like sickness hits at all the wrong times! After preschool, the boys and I are driving up to Redding for the week. So, no posts for a little bit, unless I get ambitious on my moms computer. Hope everyone has a great thanksgiving. Here's a few more photo's just 'cause!

Crazy Lazy!

Well we just had our first weekend in our new house with nothing to do except relax. It was kinda nice. We took the opportunity to nap, and play with the boys. Colin is becoming VERY interested in walking. We were sure when he was a 5 month crawler that we'd have a 9 month walker, but it seemed like once he figured out how to get around, he didn't concern himself with advancing after that (which is a good thing--especially when it's the second child!). But in the last few days, he's really started to progress in the walking area. He transforms anything and everything he can find into makeshift walkers, and will take a few steps between couches and chairs. He'll be 9 months on Friday--lets hope we get another month before the actual walking begins!

In other news we are slowly but surely meeting our neighbors. Everyone we have met so far seems really nice. Across the street we have a mom--husbands' in Iraq--with 2yr old twins (I know, right. How she does it I just don't know) Then next door there is a family with older kids. Connor probably about 10 or 11, but every afternoon he and another girl from further down the street, Holly, come by and want to play with the boys. Matthew, of course, LOVES this. He goes outside, and they play hide and seek with him, and they ride bikes and do all things little boys love doing. Down the street there are more kids. There is even a family with a 3 yr old boy and an eight month old girl, born the day after Colin. It seems like a great little neighborhood, and I'm excited to meet more people and have play dates with the ones I've already met.
So until next time....have a great day!

Welcome!

Hello All!
Well after reading a great many wonderful blogs, I have decided to start my own (thanks Amy for the instructions). For those of you that know me--and it had better be everyone, or else why the heck are you reading this--you know that I have great ambitions for all things creative, but the actual accomplishments seem to elude me. That was a really long sentence basically saying, "who knows how much blogging I'll actually do." But I figure everything's worth trying right; plus since we've moved away from so many family and friends, it's a good way for everyone to stay connected--a bit one-sided, but at least it's something!

So anyway hope everyone enjoys it, for as long as it lasts, and just remember to check in every so often to see what's new!