Valentine fundraiser picture for American Red Cross. This is the same hat Colton was able to FIT INSIDE when he was a newborn! And the shirt is totally ridiculous!
Such a cutie!
April already?! Geesh!
When we went for a walk last night (and I ended up carrying Colton most of the way back home), he hugged me and I said, "I love you!" Colton replied, "I love you too. I love you all the time!" Gush Gush!
With the yucky 'summer is already here' weather we are having currently, hard to believe in late February we were FREEZING hiking up Stone Mountain with wind gusts about to blow us and our picnic off the mountain! Colton looks like an Ewok in my sweater. I, however, look like a Conehead in my other sweater.
Hiking up to the top!
Colton LOVES to hike! (Promise I was right behind him and Justin was on the side!)
This hat is so awesome!
Ha Ha Ha! Stretching!
Another trip up. My boys and their backpacks!
Colton still loves his rain boots. We had a good time splashing in the mud and playing ball in the rain one day.
It was raining this morning and Colton told me, "You have to get the Banana." I was so confused. I thought he wanted a snack and I told him we don't have any bananas. He pointed by the door and said, "Right there." He was talking about the umbrella. :-) "I want to hold the banana!" Hee hee hee!
Cow milk
You might think that 'cow milk' would be referring to regular milk. Well, not at our house. A few months ago Colton had one of his first drinks of chocolate milk. We buy organic milk and happened to buy some Horizon Organic Chocolate milk and the Horizon mascot on all their products is a cow. SO, Colton started calling chocolate "Cow milk" as in, "I want Cow Milk please!" He knows he is asking for chocolate milk, but it is too funny to listen to him asking for cow milk, like we have other types of milk in the house from other animals and he doesn't want us to be confused.
Oh...Okay!
Colton is VERY inquizative, like most kids his age, and wants to know "how" for everything and wants to inspect everything he sees/finds/hears. It is cute to hear him respond to a line of questions you have just answered with, "Oh...Okay!" as if it now makes perfect sense to him! He also does NOT like it if you are not really listening to him or don't really know what he is talking about and you just say, "Okay," because he gets annoyed and says, "No, don't say Okay Mummy," like he feels you are just patronizing him. Too quick that child! And talk about good hearing, don't even think about saying, "stupid" because he will hear you if you whisper it or start to say it across the house and will come running. "We don't say stupid!" or "We don't say that!" Usually he seems to enjoy also saying the word when he is getting after you, so he can say it too. Smart boy!
Llama, llama
For a few weeks we ran into a really rough patch when taking Colton to daycare. When he previously was having separation issues, he still went to school and walked in fine, then freaked when we left. Recently he has started voicing at home that he doesn't want to go to school and wants you to stay home with him, crying in the car and freaking out when we leave. Heartbreaking. I had just started getting a couple of the "Llama Llama" books at the library and noticed that they had a "Llama Llama Misses Mama" book too. I have checked that out twice and it really worked wonders to help him when we left him at school. The first time we read it, however, Colton's face looked SO SAD when the llama mama left her little llama at school and the llama was crying. "He sad," Colton told me. But he got excited when he read that Mama Llama came back and we referred to that book when we took him to school and the teachers reminded him of it and he seemed to move out of the freak out after that. He started saying, "You came back!" when we picked him up and one day even said, "Thanks!" after I said that yes, I did come back. So sweet!
Colton is normally pretty good at school, but he is an alpha at school and gets into it with some of the others now and then. We have had a few days where he got reports sent home about misbehavior and we try to talk to him about being nice and such. On the way to school today, I asked Colton if he was going to be nice today and he said yes, "I be nice boy." Then a few minutes later he said, "I be nice boy today and make you happy." I told him, yes, it does make me happy when he is nice. I try to remember these dear sweet moments when he is frustrated at home and screaming/crying like a maniac.
Happy Birthday Brigette!
For my birthday, Justin planned a surprise weekend trip to Lake Hartwell. We had a great time!
My brother even came up from Florida as an extra surprise!
First time fishing!! Had more fun trying to play with the bait though!
Colton and I had our first jet ski ride together! Courtesy our our next door neighbors, who happened to also be at the lake that weekend! Please excuse my sumo-wrestler look, the life jacket was a bit too big for me. Colton had a good time!
Loving a ride from Uncle Eric, too bad Eric can't see where he is going now!
A big stick, bugs, and rocks to throw in the lake...what else could you ask for?
Nana L caught the only fish (2) of the trip. Colton was excited but didn't want to get too close.
Always on the lookout for bugs!
Bug jar and butterfly net ready for use!
Easter
Colton enjoyed hunting for Easter eggs, but was not too impressed that the Easter Bunny did not put treats in all of the eggs that were hidden. He would pick one up and say, "What's in there?" After he opened it and found nothing he would say, "That's silly!" and then throw it on the floor! I have learned that the Easter story is really hard to explain to a 2 year old, though we did our best with the help of a children's bible book.
Here is Colton "cheese-ing" for the camera.
Eating an actual treat inside an egg.
On a children's show yesterday the word they were repeating was "Unique." Colton repeated the word to my mother while they watched. Then my mother told Colton, "You're unique," to which he replied, "NO! I not a nique!" He did not understand why she almost cried with laughter.
This video is a couple months old but so funny and I haven't posted any videos in ages since my phone doesn't take them (what decade are we in?!) and my camera takes such high quality I have to alter to post, and who has the time?! Anyhow, this is titled, "What's in there?"
Colton enjoyed hunting for Easter eggs, but was not too impressed that the Easter Bunny did not put treats in all of the eggs that were hidden. He would pick one up and say, "What's in there?" After he opened it and found nothing he would say, "That's silly!" and then throw it on the floor! I have learned that the Easter story is really hard to explain to a 2 year old, though we did our best with the help of a children's bible book.
Here is Colton "cheese-ing" for the camera.
Eating an actual treat inside an egg.
On a children's show yesterday the word they were repeating was "Unique." Colton repeated the word to my mother while they watched. Then my mother told Colton, "You're unique," to which he replied, "NO! I not a nique!" He did not understand why she almost cried with laughter.
This video is a couple months old but so funny and I haven't posted any videos in ages since my phone doesn't take them (what decade are we in?!) and my camera takes such high quality I have to alter to post, and who has the time?! Anyhow, this is titled, "What's in there?"
More to come!
