Fall Images

We jumped in the leaf pile.



We buried Daddy in the leaves.



We bench pressed a pumpkin.


Happy Halloween!

Nice Goose Egg

I picked Colin up from daycare today and the woman who watches him pointed out the nice bump on his head. From what I could gather, another kid was falling and tossed the toy, or something, anyway, the toy wonked Colin on the forehead.



I guess he's not traumatized by it. He wouldn't let us ice it.



Later, Bill and I are watching some ABC family comedy show. The new parents bump their baby's head on the wall while dancing with her, and they freak out. Sooo, I casually go get the "What to Expect" book for toddler years and read up on concussions....now, do we get up in 6 hrs to see if he's okay? Over-react much?!?

Busy, Busy, Busy Boy

Colin has been hard at work using his little brain and little body to explore new things everyday. Some things he's been working on:

- Colin can identify shapes. He knows the difference between a circle (IRKLE) and an oval (OWAL) and a square (WARE) from a rectangle (RRRANGLE), as well as triangle, star, diamond and heart.

- Colin is throwing more of what I'll call mini-fits when he doesn't get his way. We haven't seen a tantrum blow out...yet.

- Colin is working on his colors. He's quick to identify the animal or shape. We are working on the concept that the animal can be a color too.

- Colin loves to have a spoon AND a fork at meals and is discovering mega mess making to the delight of mom and the annoyance of dad.

- Colin and I have been counting to 10 on the car ride to/from daycare. He loves to reach 10 when we get to let out a big cheer! He's got 1-3 down then 4-7 are a little tricky, eight and ten are good, nine we forget sometimes too. Of course when I ask, "Do you want to count with mommy?", he politely says, "no?". Then I hear him whispering "wah, tuh, wree...", so we'll finish up to 10 together.

- Colin loves to climb onto a box of any size and JUMP up and down or jump into your arms (make sure to pay attention to the random baby flying at you!). Daddy and Colin play this a lot. It freaks me out. The little daredevil...

- Colin can point to and say many of his body parts. He's working on elbows versus wrists. That's a tricky one. He likes pointing to your facial features when you are holding him. For your nose, he thinks it's hysterical to shove his fingers up your nose and say "NOSE!" Hahaha...ewwww.

- And he knows his Wiggles characters by name. Sesame Street folks are pretty popular too. The funniest are Oscar, Grover and Cookie Monster which he says in his monster voice while scrunching up his face! He calls Ernie "Tub Tub", you know, from the Rubber Ducky song.

Beware of Flying Objects

We decided to keep Colin rear-facing in his car seat per new car safety studies suggesting kids are safer in this position until they weigh something like 35 lbs. (They don't mention the weight of the kids being fun for the parents to try to load in this position.) Anyway, I whack Colin's head on the roof of the car everytime he's getting in his seat. It's so sad. He even tries to duck to help me out. Geesh.

A new thing Colin is doing while traveling in his car seat is passing forward the books or toys he no longer wants with him. If I don't grab the object in time, he gets annoyed and yells "ELMO!" or "MAP" (he likes the Rand McNally laminated maps) then chucks it over his head and into the front seat. My front seat passengers will have to take precautions!