Spaghetti Night

We don't always have time to sit as a family and eat...I wish we did. I would rather spend time playing with Cole than cooking dinner, so sometimes he gets his dinner early and we eat after he goes to bed. Sometimes we take turns eating with him while the other one does something else - the life of two working parents that want as much time with their little boy as they possibly can.

I know he looks mostly like his Daddy, but I think he might have Mommy "tendencies"...tonight he even ate his bread first and barely had room for the spaghetti :)

Love that face - sauce and all!

Breathe...

So a blog is to remember times in your life - the good and the bad. This is one of the not so good moments. Cole is so flared up from cedar that he has been constantly congested and with a cough for several weeks now. Just when we thought it was clearing up, cedar would spike off the charts again. Poor BABY. I took him to the doctor on Friday and he told me that little kids don't know how to get rid of the "junk" like we do as adults. They don't blow their noses very well, when they cough something up...they don't spit it out (yes I know that is gross, but a reality), so sometimes they just need a little help to break up all of the mucus...so there starts the breathing treatments.

During his doctor's visit, they had us try one and we both cried for about 15 minutes as I did a SAMA Containment on my own child. We were both hysterical and sweating by the end of it. But it helped him so much. Dan and I have been taking turns giving them to him this weekend and now he is a PRO...as long as Toy Story is on, he only lets out a cry when we first put the mask on his little face. He already sounds so much better and we only have one more day to go before we will only use it "as needed".

This whole Parenthood thing is tough sometimes :)

Coolest Kid Ever...

So I am a little bias...but I think I have the coolest kid ever! There are lots of reasons, but tonight it was because he let me use baby hair gel and play with his hair after bath - you can see the chocolate on his face because he found some mini M&Ms in the pantry...oh well. He must get his cool side from his mommy...I'm just sayin'!!!

Early Christmas

Maybe we were cheating just a bit... Cole was super excited about his new basketball hoop.

The new Shrek movie of course!

Toy Story Memory. We played the "19 month old" version tonight and he did really well.

Catching butterflies from the Elefun game.

I thought this was funny - we have the same expression on our faces :)

Stocking Time...a new musical toothbrush...that annoyed Dan and I after about 2 minutes.

Christmas Peeps!

Eating the Christmas loot - don't worry, he ate dinner too!

A sweaty little boy with lots of Christmas candy all over his face...

still totally kissable in my opinion.

We decided to have an early Christmas at our house tonight. We are heading to the lake and then spending Christmas Eve at the Gaylord Texan, so Dan and I decided to let Cole open our presents tonight. We just bought him a few things that we thought he might enjoy. When he walked in the door and saw the basketball hoop, he made a mad dash to it - screaming in delight the entire way. It was fun watching him actually enjoy his gifts as we opened them tonight. Another wonderful night with my boys - and my girl - she was kicking all over the place when Cole was playing with his new toys. She moves a lot when she hears Cole...I hope that excitement continues, along with all of these wonderful memories.

Shake That Laffy Taffy

His new favorite spot in the house. A yard of Taffy and a yard of Cole. Let the dumping begin...

Which one first???

The one thing I have craved since I found out I was pregnant was taffy...I don't know why, but I NEEEEEEED it. One of my wonderful co-workers brought a yard of taffy to me for Christmas...just the sugar high I need for the holidays :) I brought in a box from my car today and forgot that was in it. Cole quickly found the yard of taffy and had fun dumping it all over the living room and then "singing" into the empty tube. He ate a piece of it, but had way more fun playing with the empty tube than actually eating the candy...for now.

Crafting, Crafting, Crafting

Dan was so excited to help me :)

We rented a booth at the RES Breakfast With Santa to sell some cute clipboards that I made. I sold about $200 worth, so I am excited about that. I still have many left over and lots of supplies to make more in the future...maybe :)

"Snow" Day in the Hood

Don't tell Nana and PopPop, but we gave him his Christmas present from them early...he loves it! The snow day was right around the corner from our house, so we just cruised on over. Sweet smile!

Lots of fun when I'm with Dad!

My first solo attempt...

Crash landing...

Snowball fight!

Cole kept falling on purpose while saying, "Whoa, whoa, whoa" the entire time (and laughing of course).

Hi Mom!

Teravista had it's annual snow day yesterday. Cole loved it. Dan took him down the first time and he started dragging the sled back up the hill again. He went down with Daddy twice and then we sent him on his own. He wiped out about half way down the hill but wanted to go again. He loved making little snowballs and throwing them at the other kids (and at us). I have a few more pictures to post, but we decided to use them for our Christmas card. I am waiting to post them so they will be a surprise to his family. I am so glad we get to do things like this with Cole - I know he will not remember the fun, but I sure will remember those big smiles.