Oct 30th, 2006
Random tidbits
Here are a few pics from the past few weeks - and one quick story with no pics.
Last night we went over to a friends house for dinner. Colin had a rough night - fell on a step, got knocked into a wall, and then slipped and fell backwards in the living room. He was fine - bouts of crying but no harm done. Once we were home we talked about it and I said “it’s OK, your tough right? so it didn’t hurt you…” and Colin said to me “no mama, not tough, just happy.” I thought it was so cute.
So on to the pictures - This is Colin’s friend Sierra. We baby sat for her while her parents went to the football game a couple weeks ago. Colin had a good time entertaining Sierra and by the end of the day I had totally run out of things for them to do so they spent lots of time getting in and out of Colin’s new IKEA chair.
Colin also got a very nice present from his grandma and grandpa - a new train table. We currently have it in the living room and he has had a great time with it. Chuck and I spent a lot of time setting it all up, but that didn’t last long. The track usually doesn’t stay together for more than 5 minutes. While he naps I rebuild and then he gets up, smashes all the tracks apart and says “ah, better”. Right now he prefers to drive his trains off raised tracks and off the table all together.
Here is a picture of Colin about to start his “music” - while I was making dinner he got out all the bowls, lined them up just so and then requested “two spoons please.” You cannot believe how loud it gets when he starts banging away. All this is also accompanied by the Jack Johnson Curious George CD (which I actually love). Colin knows how to turn on the stereo, choose the right CD and press play. I have to say that all of this is hands down better than listening to the Sesame Street CD in the car - which he requests non-stop - I have no idea why I ever bought it.
Chopsticks - one day Colin was playing with two straws and told me they were chopsticks. They weren’t working that well and we just happen to have a pair of “training” chopsticks from our friends who lived in Japan (thank you Nate and Kristin). I got the chopsticks out and Colin proceed to eat his lunch with them - the fake Chicken nugs worked well - but he got extremely frustrated trying to eat slimy peaches. He just kept cutting them in half with the chopsticks.
Halloween is tomorrow - Colin and Chuck are going to be Hans and Franz - should be some good pictures from that.