Life with Toddler and Baby Y!!: December 2010

Hee Hee! This is STILL cracking us up!!

Thanksgiving
We stayed at Brigette's aunt's home in NC over Thanksgiving and had a relaxing time together. We even got to go on a date night and see the new Harry Potter flick, which was great!

Fun under the coffee table:

Aside from most of us being sick, we enjoyed the cool weather and despite wishing for snow, we missed it by a few days. Colton could have done without the 5-6 hour car ride...but so could we!

Check out these crossed feet! Relaxing and reading..for a minute at least!

Colton really enjoyed his little table. Eating there was fun but he also enjoyed pushing it and the chairs all over the place.

Funny stuff

Colton has been walking around with his hands behind his back at his waist. You can almost hear him saying, "I'm not doing anything....yet!" It is even funnier when he does it walking backward!

Here are a few pictures of him running after Brigette:

Colton enjoys showing you he knows where his body parts are: Hair, ears, eyes, nose, mouth, belly, feet, piggie toes. He likes to show you where your's are too! Except for the random eye poking, it is very cute. We are working on arms, legs, and head now.

NO MORE PACIFIER!! We gave up the pacifier over the past few weeks and we are pretty sure it is gone for good. He only used it at nap time or if he was really upset, so it wasn't very often but I'm glad we didn't really have to battle over it. There was a time he would NOT nap without it, but I think "peer pressure" at naptime at school when everyone goes down a the same time has helped him. He normally sleeps 1.5-2 hours at daycare but doesn't always nap like that at home (peer pressure again). One day while we were in NC he went all day without napping and poor thing was SO overtired and cried and hollered...but survived. :-)

If you say anything about shoes, Colton thinks he is going to get to go outside and will run for the front door and either point to or try to pick up his shoes. He will sit down for you to put his shoes on and is so excited. Adorable! He loves to do art at school and the teacher can't believe what a good helper he is (ex. she tried to get the class to help put toys away and no one but Colton seemed to have a clue what she was talking about. He walked around with her and picked up toys and put them in the toy box.) but we know he is usually good about putting stuff back when asked (unless he still wants it, then he runs). When we got home from NC, we had a few groceries we didn't put away and of course, Colton got into the bag the next day. He pulled out a bag of croutons and we watched him walk over to the pantry, open the door and put the bag on the shelf with the other crouton bags!! So crazy!!! Maybe he can help us be more organized!

TMI--we have weaned down to one nursing session per day, night time only. Brigette is determined to stop before the end of the year...but it is really hard to figure out how to do it!! So funny that it was such a hard road getting it going to start with, now I'm trying to figure out how to stop!!

Colton is really enjoying testing boundaries now, especially in regards to getting around the fireplace. We are about to start having some fires and have been trying to keep him away from the fireplace all year but he knows you don't want him to go there and will go back again and again...oh, the fun to come I'm sure!!

(Has anyone noticed how Brigette goes back and forth on the blog between first and third person? Sorry about that, can't ever decide what perspective I'm talking from: us or me!)

We're gearing up for Christmas...hopefully we will pick out a tree this weekend and decorate the house. We are looking forward to enjoying Colton at Christmas and know he will be entertained by the boxes and ribbons and not so much the toys, but he'll get those anyhow!

Wait til you see the awesome hats Colton has for the winter!! Poor kid, at least he is a good sport since hats mean we are going OUTSIDE!! Colton's favorite thing to do!

Brigette and Colton's shadow's