Life with Toddler and Baby Y!!: Vote for Colton!!

Entered Colton in a local photographer's contest for "Fresh Faces." REVOTING NEEDED. Please vote and share with others!! We will win two free sessions and $$ for pictures and such. Feel free to send this to others or put on facebook or where ever. Two ways to vote (and you can vote both ways if you want). Post comment on blog or photographer's facebook page (have to become a fan). Voting ends Wed, Feb 17th at 10pm est. Colton is #7.
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Random pictures:

Love this one!

Snoozing with Poppa (who is actually faking it)

Hmm, you'd think he's sleeping all the time from these pictures, but that is not the case!!

During the cool weather we dress up the poor child for school or going on a walk. This was his horsey Halloween costume. :-) He was SO adorable laying on the floor while I got ready I couldn't help but take a million pictures.

Colton is 7 months old this week!! So hard to believe how fast the time has already gone!! Colton is doing so much these days!! He is sitting up very well on his own and can sit and play and talk to himself for quite a while (until he notices I tried to leave the room to unload the dishwasher or something!). He still totters over, espeically if that toy he needs is just out of reach, but it is so awesome!!

Hey, I'm reading here! Leave me alone!

Here is a little video of him sitting and talking. It is super dark and, yes, sideways and I don't know how to fix either BUT it is still cute to hear him talking and you can see him waving around his bear book while he chats.

We anticipate he will be crawling VERY soon!! He does this superman pose where he lifts his arms and legs up at the same time and looks like he is trying to fly (or swim) but he has also started pushing his chest off the ground and trying to push off with his legs straight out. He also loves to stand and will pick up one foot or the other like he is going to try to walk somewhere!

We have been having some nursing issues the last couple of weeks that have been very frustrating to Brigette, but hopefully it will work itself out pretty soon. We have been trying SOLID FOODS also!! We started rice cereal on 1/1/10 and he LOVED it! He ate it very well for several days, then was sick so we didn't give it to him for over a week. When we started back, however, he wanted nothing to do with it! So weird! So we have tried a few other things like peas, sweet potatos, and this week we are trying butternut squash. He did not care for the peas, and took a few tries on the sweet potatos before he would swallow any, but he has eaten a little of that and has eaten a little of the butternut squash this week. He still isn't nearly as interested as he was when he started rice cereal but seems to be warming up. Brigette is making the food herself (but not the cereal) and that has been pretty easy. May try some fruit later this month but we were trying to do veggies first so he wouldn't just have the sweet fruit as his first food and who would want peas after that?!

Video of his first taste of rice cereal: