Well, it took awhile, but we finally took Cole to have his first haircut. He did so great, and just sat there in the chair like such a big boy. His hair looks great, but I think that he aged 5 years by the time he got out of the chair :(
Scott's dad lives in a small town in Kansas where they have a halloween festival every year called Neewollah (halloween spelled backwards). One of the events every year is a kiddie parade where hundreds of little kids get dressed up and march down main street in a "parade". We wanted to go down this year and have Cole participate, and since he is so little, we knew that we would have to walk with him. Since we were gonna be there anyway, we figured that we might as well dress up with him, lol. The costumes and the "Mystery Machine" all turned out really well, and we all had a great time!
So Cole has this new thing that he does that just cracks us up. If he is playing or working with something and it doesn't do what he wants, he likes to tell it "NO!" So if he is trying to get on the couch to read a book and the book slides off while he is climbing up, he points at the book and says "no book!". My favorite is when he is trying to stand his plastic animals up and they fall over (pretty common given their tiny legs) and he starts yelling "no ostrich, no cow!". Hmmmmmm....I wonder where he gets this?
At Cole's school during the Summer they have outdoor water play a couple of times a week, so each child is required to bring water shoes. Since it is the end of the Summer, we brought home all of his stuff the other night and he decided that he wanted to wear his "wagger shoes" around the house (that is water shoes to you and me, lol). That was funny enough, but then he started wearing his bib around his neck as if it were a cape. I thought that it was so cute so I went to get the camera and as soon as he saw it, he started yelling "cheese! cheese!" without any prompting. I wonder if I take too many pictures, hmmm.....
Last Sunday we were bored just hanging around the house, so we decided to take Cole to a local park. He had a great time running around and playing on all of the slides. It looked like so much fun that Scott decided to join him!
Our neighborhood holds a 4th of July bike parade each year where kids decorate their bikes, etc and parade around our pool. This year we decided that we wanted our buddy to participate and since he can't ride a bike, we used the next best thing, his wagon. The little man on the right is Cole's friend Jaxson, and they looked so great cruising around in their patriotic ride. The really fun thing is that they won "Most Patriotic" and both got a $5 gift card to Dairy Queen, yummy!
Yesterday was Avery's birthday party and they held it at a place called Tunnel Voyage. They have all kinds of slides and tunnels and games for kids to play. Thankfully they had an area designated for kids under the age of 4, and one of Cole's favorite things to do was play in the ball pit. He was very funny to watch, and he had such a good time throwing and squirming in the balls.
I hope that this picture is clear enough to see just how funny Cole is. Last night it was pretty cold outside, but that did not stop him from wanting to take his nightly wagon ride. We wanted to make sure that he didn't get too cold, so we bundled him up in his winter coat, hat, mittens and even a little blanket! Needless to say, the cold didn't bother him too much, because we kept walking for about 45 minutes and he smiled the whole way.
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When Cole had his tubes put in his ears 4 weeks ago, he had about a 3 word vocabulary that consisted of mama, dada and yeah! Now that he can hear, he seems to be learning new words all the time, and he is getting really good at repeating words that we say to him. When he took his bath last night we added some bubbles to the water. He loved them, and he would even say "bubble".
Hi everyone,
Since Scott and I have a lot of family and friends who live out of town, we are taking a cue from many of our local friends and starting a blog about our family. If you really read between those lines, you will see that we are starting a blog about Cole, and every now and then we will throw something in there about Scott and I :).
Cole is growing so quickly, and is changing and learning new things every day. We know that there are lots of people who would like to be able to see him more and know what he is doing, so here goes!
