Sit'N'Spin

After a week or so of just launching toys off the Sit'N'Spin, Colin plunked down and started spinning himself.

The Slide

Now that it's warmer out and Colin doesn't have to wear his fleece jacket, the ZAPs from the slide are less shocking. He slid down with Mommy a few times. Then he wanted to walk up the slide (the cool, big boys were doing it at the library park). Instead, Daddy convinced him that going down the slide was way cooler!

Wood, Silverware & Sapphires

Yes, that's right, it was our 5th wedding anniversary. WTH? Right!?!
We celebrated at the Lake. G'pa and G'ma babysat Colin while Bill and I saw the new Star Trek movie and enjoyed a fabulous dinner at Evans Street Station Restaurant -amazing food, we highly recommend it. We received complimentary champagne and dessert as well (key lime cheesecake).


Best part were the gifts from hubby. He so thoughtfully remembered our wedding negatives and contacted the photographer for the remainder of our photos and negs. We are going to go through them and see if we want to retouch and reprint any with Russ' help. And, a gorgeous pearl bracelet to go with my earrings. Jewerly -always a winner!
I needed another weekend to get Bill's gift ready, so I'm a bit tardy. What's new!?!?

A Snuggaloo Who

Colin is slowing moving into the next size up (18 mos). He has his 15 mos doctor appointment tomorrow. It'll be great to see how he is progressing on his chart, oh, and two shots.


I finally bought him some bigger pjs instead of squeezing his head and toes in the 12 mos jammies. I think he looks like a Dr. Suess character.
Left foot, left foot.
Right foot, right.

Let's See What's New...

Peanut is picking up so many new things each day, it's all happening so fast. Colin tries to repeat many of the words we say and our actions (uh-oh!). He's starting to put signs and words together to request (and sometimes demand) things. He signed "bear" while growling and then made the sign for "book" and said "buk". He wanted the Brown Bear book before bed (hey! an alliteration, nice!). We let him pick two books. He'll get upset and demand more "buk", but two's the limit, buddy.

Itsy Bitsy Spider was playing in the car and Colin signed the song to himself in the back seat mirror. I almost crashed the car watching in my review mirror. Too cool. You can watch him trying to figure out how to say the words to his favorite songs. Colin loves the Wiggles' "Hot Potato"! That song will turn his frown upside down in a second. He can do all the motions, but now he's thinking about the word potato and tries to sound it out.

Colin seems to be telling himself the stories in the books. We'll come home from daycare and he'll go sit among his books and look through a bunch of them squeaking out sing song words and pointing at the pictures. Other times, he's climbing in and out of cupboards while we try not to drop anything on top of him in the kitchen. Or, we're late getting home and he's banging his cup on his booster seat demanding "eat"!


When he hugs you, he pats you on the back. I think he picked that up from little Allison at daycare who hugs him when he arrives. He's her "baby". I dropped him off at daycare one day and he saw Maria and squealed "eee-ah, eee-ah". She bent down to hug him and he hugged and patted her back. So sweet.

You'll notice Colin is still wearing the bib fashion accessory for in-coming molars. He is still drooling buckets. We'll take that over a diaper rash, boy!



Yes, we are at the stage of wanting to touch everything, and if it fits, we put it in our mouth. Here he is splashing in Aunt Kathy and Uncle John's water fountain. That water was cold. He was soaked and loved it.


We've now named his tight fisted excitement "power up". If you do it, he'll copy you and your intensity. Hilarious! We let him loose at Costco and he was "powering up" at all the big box items. He was really ticked that the brightly colored, inflatable water island slide was hanging from the rafters way out of his reach. We experienced his ballistic "power up".

"Then Skippyjon Jones goes to sleep, so he can do it all over again when he wakes up." -from one of his, well okay, one of my favorite books of his.