To add a couple more things and some photos to Chuck’s presidential blog below…
When Colin and I go out he pretty much never stops talking. He came with me to my OB appt a couple weeks ago and was asking questions the whole time “Mommy, what doing? Blood pressure? Now what doing? Getting weighted? Where Doctor? Are we done yet? Mommy, done? Mommy, get up on table? What that mommy? heartbeat? Mommy get off table? Mommy done yet? Where doctor? We pay? Done yet?….” You get the idea I am sure. He sometimes will say hi to the baby in my tummy and give it kisses - very cute:
As you can see I am getting bigger and bigger by the day - almost 7 months along now, so not much longer before we don’t get to sleep anymore. Overall I am feeling pretty good though.
Colin is looking forward to Christmas, or at least I think he is. When we got presents from his grandparents delivered the other day, I debated putting them under the tree because I didn’t know if he would leave them. He was pretty good, but every 15 minutes he kept asking me “Mommy, open presents yet?” I tried to explain that Christmas was still 10 days away - but 2 year olds don’t have a great sense of time 
Then he tried to take a bow off and I told him “If you touch the presents, I will take them away until Christmas” - he stepped back immediately and as soon as Chuck got home he said “Daddy, no touch presents…mommy, take away”
I attached a couple other pics - one is Colin and his friend Sierra. The other two are from when I had a couple of kids over to decorate Christmas cookies. Colin’s ended up being a plate with about an inch of sprinkles on it and the cookies somewhere buried underneath. We had a good time though.
Some may find this a little hard to believe, but if you’ve spent any time around Colin it probably won’t be so difficult (we have two witnesses to back it up). We were heading out from having dinner with the Chelsea crew (Jess’ Dad and extended family), and Colin’s Grandpa was holding him, and out of the blue he asks Colin, “Who’s your favorite president?”
To which Colin replied, “I wanna new pesident” (if you’ve been reading the blog, you know that we taught him to say Boo when he sees the current holder of that office, so I guess it’s not that surprising, but c’mon, where did that come from???).
We have a bunch of things we need to blog about, pictures to get up here, Christmas happenings going on. No time for it right this second, but I just had to throw a quick post up here. Colin often wakes up by simply yelling in a sleepy voice “Mama! Mama! Go downstairs.” It’s a common refrain, sometimes he switches it up with Dada, but on the weekends there’s not usually a huge amount of variation.
But he woke up this morning (I slept in a bit, so I was there) and started saying “Oh dear…oh dear…oh dear” Sometimes in a sleepy voice, sometimes upset, but he just kept saying it over and over - I knew it was outside the norm, because Jess was quietly laughing as soon as she heard it (I know, we’re heartless).
Ah, I just remembered I’ve got some camera pics I haven’t sent to Flickr yet - here’s a couple (the train, motorcycle and other rides make the mall bearable; one of the few good things about winter is that kids are pretty cute in full cold weather gear):
I guess I haven’t posted in awhile - been preoccupied with pregnancy, related issues, the house and Colin. I do have a couple of funny things to mention about Colin though.
Like I have said before - I feel like Colin is a bit ahead of himself - for example, he has started to act like a bored teenager. During the day he often tells me “Mommy, I need something to do.” - but imagine it in a pretty whiny voice. How does a barely 2 year old get bored? The other day, we got to art class early and the teacher wasn’t fast enough with the supplies and he keeps saying “come on, need something to do.”
Speaking of “come on” - he tends to use that all the time. He wanted to go upstairs and I said no let’s just stay down here and he says “Come on, mommy” - like someone who was annoyed that another person wouldn’t do what they wanted and was trying to convince them - “oh, come on…”
Just this morning he was licking the window in the front door (this I will admit, is more the behavior one would expect from a 2 year old). I kept running over to him and telling him not to do it - which he thought was hilarious. I would stand there and he would say “Mommy, go in the living room.” - I would ask why and he says “go look at the Christmas tree” - so I turn around to go and he starts licking the window again.
One more little story - yesterday I put him to bed for his nap. A few minutes later I hear him say “mommy - got a poop.” - I wasn’t sure if he was telling the truth or trying to get me to come to get him up, so I am standing by the door when I hear him say to himself “I got a poop…she can’t hear me.” I was absolutely amazed that he was sitting in his crib deducing why I wasn’t there yet. Of course I walked in and said “Colin, I can always hear you.” - he says “Ok, need new diaper.”
The more he talks the more amazing it is to me. Just ask Chuck about reading him stories. Colin can pretty much recite all the stories back to you including little phrases such as “George was curious…a chocolate bunny caught his eye.”
Sorry no pics on this one - Chuck always gets on my case about that - but he posted all the good pictures we have right now. Next time.
I can’t believe I’m allowing this photo to go live, given how horrible I look, but as this post is a bit about writing, it seemed appropriate (and I didn’t find a better November pic to post). I am just patting Jess and myself on the back a bit for actually keeping this blog up to date. Unlike 2005, we have archived posts for every month this year, and anyone who has kids probably understands that this is an accomplishment.
So what’s on the agenda for 2007? Well, I’m still hoping perhaps Jess will relent and let me switch us from Blogger to Wordpress, but I haven’t done a good enough job of selling it to her as of yet. New baby - enough said (for now) - I just hope I’m ready. And if at all possible I’m going to try to convince more of our friends and family to set up a blog, especially since so many are having babies or going through other significant changes (moving, new jobs, etc.). If you’re thinking about it, shoot me an email and I’ll make you a believer.
