Colton- 13/14 Months

Holy cow you are 14 months old.  I can't believe how big you are.  It seems like you turned one and became a little boy and no longer a baby.  You still want to do everything your big brother does!  Plus, recently you guys really started playing well with each other.  You will chase each other and run and laugh.  You are very ticklish and laugh as the though of being tickled.  Your laugh is the best I have ever heard!  You laugh at the most random things, like if I look at you when you in your car eat while we are driving.  Your belly laugh is one of my most favorite things, with you cheeks coming in at a close second!  I have never seen cutter cheeks in all my life.  Here are a few things I want to remember about you:

• You have NO FEAR!!  You will try almost anything which I like but it makes me nervous for future ER visits.  Speaking of no fear- you loved the pool this year, you would just dive right in and were not scared to go under at all!  You also loved the splash pad and the 1ft/2ft pool at the local waterpark!
• You jabber all the time.  The main words that I can make out are: mama, dada, papa, ball, jump, Chachy, thank you & peek a boo.  I swear you say mine and Erica (your babysitter) too.
• You walk or run everywhere!  The other day you fell down and started to crawl then got back up because you are a lot faster at walking.  You can pretty much keep up with Frankie and enjoy doing everything with him!!
• You can climb lots of things and are really good at climbing up the steps.  I think you will be un-stoppable once your legs get a little bit longer.
• You love to dance!  Let me tell you it is adorable to watch you dance.  You get really excited when you hear music and you start flapping your hands and then you move up and down and even "jump", which mainly consists of squatting down and coming back up with your hands in the air!!
• You love to play but don't really have a favorite toy yet.  usually you are most interested in what Frankie is playing with.  When we play downstairs you like the slide the best though.  You can walk up the slide or climb with the steps and recently started sitting to slide down instead of walking off and then falling.
• You love your paci and your blankets that you sleep with.  you carry one blanket around almost all weekend but Mrs. Erica says you don't really use it at her house much.
• You take a morning nap and afternoon nap throughout the week, but your morning nap is really short.  On the weekends you usually only take an afternoon nap because we are always out and about.
• You are my rock star sleeper.  You go down for bed anywhere from 7-7:30 pm and get up anywhere from 5:45-6:45 am!  You sometimes wake up here and there but you always put yourself back to sleep.  Some mornings you will play in your bed form up to 20 minutes before you yell to get out and other mornings the second you wake up you want out.
• It seems like you are eating constantly!!  You love almost any kind of food but, you really don't seem to like to eat veggies.  You love peaches, pears, hot dogs, mac & cheese, goldfish, marshmallows, grapes, bread and pancakes.  You are a big meat eater, you are usually ready for more by the time daddy & I sit down to eat.  You will only eat food that is in bigger bites.  If it is cut up to small you will not eat it, I learned that the hard way!  Lol!
• No more bottles in this house!  Shortly after you turned one we took your daytime bottles away and only did one morning and night.  Around 13 months we took away your morning bottle and as long as we give you a sippy cup of milk in the morning you are fine.  Last week was your last night time bottle (9/3/13)!!  Honestly you gave it up yourself but I forced it for several more days.  Clearly change is a lot harder on mama than baby!
• You are wearing 18 month clothing and a size 3 diaper.
• I think you still only have 4 teeth that have made it all the way down.  You have been chewing on things and drooling like crazy for months now but it's hard for me to feel into your mouth without getting bit.
• I haven't weighed you in a few months but I would guess you are about 20 pounds.

Sweet boy, you mean so much to us!!  I can't even imagine life without you.  You birng us so much joy and happiness!!  I pray that you and Frankie grow up being best friends and of course that you always stay a mama's boy!  I love you to the moon and back!!  Keep smiling and stay happy!!  Love you!!

Fair Parade 2013

Monday 9/9/13

Frankie and Colton both love music and candy so a parade is a perfect place to take them. Ha!  The past couple of years the fair parade has been so hot and this year was no different but we still had a blast!  We have been sitting in the same spot since I can remember so once we parked, I loaded up the stroller with all of our stuff and Colton and ran to make sure we would get our spot.  Lucky for us it was still there.  Next year maybe we will get smart and sit on the other side of the road that is shaded.  This year Ningee, Papa, Nanny, Daves and daddy were all there!  When we first got there Frankie sat in his chair and said "can we go", I said no and then reminded him that there would be candy.  He was happy to stay after that, but both boys we sweating the entire time.

Snack time.

My boys!

Playing the drums.

Mid wave!

We had so much fun!!  So thankful that I can continue some of my favorite childhood memories with my kids!!  See you next year fair parade........maybe you won't be 95 degree!!

Sunday Funday - 9/8/13

This past Sunday wasn't any different..........Trey worked this weekend so we packed up and headed to my parents so Trey could sleep.  Frankie has been asking to go to the park but it has been so hot or we have had other things go on where it just didn't workout.  I could tell they were getting a little restless so I asked Frankie what he wanted to do, he said go to the park so that is just what we did.  He requested "Duck Park" which is on Broadway and has a great "Tot" playground and a pond with lots of ducks.  The boys had fun playing and swinging and then we headed to the pond to through rocks and sticks in.  This is Frankie's favorite part about going to the park.  This was also Colton's first time that he was actually able to play and explore on his own.  Papa (my dad) came with us and thank goodness, I sometime how hard it is to chase 2 of them.  Haha!  We had a blast!!

These cheeks!!!

Watching the ducks!

Cheese Face!

I am pretty sure this was the highlight of our park trip for Frankie.  He loves getting splashed by the sticks or rocks and this was a huge stick!

These Papa, that it splashed him....

Colton had to get in on all the action.

The best we could do.........

So serouis the whole time we were there.

Feeding the ducks...

Frankie decided that he was done after this guy right here started hissing.  I didn't even know ducks did that.

Colton didn't throw a single piece of bread in bc he choose to EAT it instead. :)

No park trip would be complete without lunch at Old McDonald's!!!

I ate 3 chicken nuggets and 2 apple pieces....

I ate 4 chicken nuggets and 3 apple pieces...

What a fun day at the park with Papa.  After that we went back to Ningee & Papa's and the boys ran around like crazy people then Colton napped for close to 2 hours then we headed home!!

I am so thankful that we live close to our families!!  Love getting to hang out with them all time!!

Story Time

The first Saturday of every month the Cape library does a fun story time for the kids. We try to go every month, lots of times they do a fun little craft which I love to take home and save!! The boys always have fun and this time Aunt Laura and baby Landen got to come with us!!












The busy boys!! They had so much fun!








My love, enjoying the story!


Yep we went to Target before we went to the library.





Landen is always sitting on my lap bc I had food but hey I will take it!


He looks so big here! My sweet Colton is getting so BIG!!


Frankie is pretty good until the marker got in his hands and then he was done.

We had a fun Saturday!! I love weekend time with my boys!!


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Colton's 1st Haircut- 9/4/13

Colton got his first hair cut.  Honestly we probably could have waited a little bit but it was starting to go over his ear and was getting pretty long in the back.  Frankie has never really cried so I assumed Colton would be fine because he is way more laid back than Frankie.  Boy was I wrong..........the poor guy screamed through the entire haircut.

In my defence Trey sucks at telling you when he is taking a picture.

Mommy & Colton's new look!!

Thanks Anita, you always make us look so good!!!

The Circus........Or Lack There Of

I have been wanting to take Frankie to the circus since last year but missed when Ringling Bros were in town.  I thought Frankie and Colton would love it.  When I heard of Whirling Bros Circus was going to be in town I knew we had to go.  The flyer made it seem like it was going to be pretty much like the Ringling Bros, little did I know what we were in store for.  We went to the 4:30 showing, we park and get out, waited in line and then realize it outside!!  Of course it was a high of 95 degrees but felt like 1000 degrees, we find some seat and watch the show.  I am not going to sugar coat this, it was lame.  I saw very few cool things, I was super disappointed now I want even more to going to the Ringling Bros in October when they are in STL.  Frankie seemed to enjoy it a little bit and Colton has a blast walking around!  We as parents sucked it up and made the best of it and left early!!

My boys!

This is what yall missed out on, be jealous!!

Look at that little face!

Those cheeks!

He was a dancing machine!

Yep folks it was hot enough to have CRAZY hair!

From this picture it appears that Trey and I were having the most fun!!

After the circus we went and had dinner out because Frankie wanted to go to a "restaurant" and honestly I was so hot, tired and hungry!!!  Our brave boy trying a lemon!!!

Why did I do that twice!!  LOL!