Here’s hoping Jess gets around to sending me some of our recent pictures or posts them herself. We just got back from a beautiful weekend up on Torch Lake, and got some great pics of the man - lots of time on the sand, in the pool, he had a blast.
And he continues to amaze - I’m almost taking it for granted that he’s going to do or say something incredible every day. He got to put on his show for 2 of his 6 grandparents this weekend - Nana and ‘Eddie!’ Ed will forever be associated with high fives for Colin, as Ed taught him that maneuver along with the unique Ed follow-on - double thumbs up accompanied by shouting “hoo, hoo, hoo!” Colin loves it.
Some of his other great quotes:
- Us: “Do you want a waffle or a bagel” - Colin: “Both”
- The day after he fell off my deck chair and hit his cheek (so it was my fault), Nana asks him how his face is, he points at the spot where he hit the deck (ha) and says “Dada”
- Ten minutes into the four hour drive up north - Colin: “Mama?” - Jess: “Yes?” - Colin: “All done…home” - nice try buddy
There were many more, hopefully Jess can add a few. I can’t believe he’s going to be 2 so soon.
Of course you can’t ever get enough Colin pics - this one is a couple of weeks old, but it’s one of Colin’s first “own cones”. That’s his obsessive chant as we get anywhere near anywhere that serves ice cream. Most often that’s the Dairy Queen, dangerously located within a couple of blocks of our house. We just sort of let him go to town on this one, and he was loving it. Notice the full facial coverage of vanilla soft-serve.
As Jess mentioned, we just got back from a quick trip to NYC to visit with Colin’s grandparents. It’s great taking a trip with almost no agenda. In this case, we did arrange to go see Spamalot on Broadway (which was hilarious), but other than that it was just a chance for my Mom and Dad to see Colin after 5 months. Also had a chance to catch up with friends, and couldn’t believe that anyone other than our parents (hey Riss) actually reads this blog - nothing like some motivation to keep this thing updated.
I couldn’t believe how well Colin did in the car. We drove straight through (~10 hours) both ways, and even on the way home he was remarkably well-behaved. Probably a bit of exhaustion mixed in there, as his sleeping issues kicked into gear while we were in Tarrytown.
Speaking of sleep issues, I think I’m running a serious sleep deficit, and I’m not sure when I’m going to catch up - the wail-a-thon Wednesday night didn’t help anything, as I ended up sleeping on the couch so that I could try to get 4 hours before heading off to work.
But we’ll muddle through - got my first organized run in quite a while (probably since the triathlon in 2003?) coming up over Memorial Day, just a 10K. I’m not planning on breaking any records.
Here’s baby boy with the first stuffed animal that appears to mean anything significant to him, affectionately dubbed ‘bunny’. On occasion he’ll sit Bunny down, then sit down across from him, and start having a conversation with Bunny. And one of these days we’ll hopefully capture that on the video camera (where is that camera again, and how much did we pay for it???)…
Just to show we’re not completely focused on Colin, here’s a great shot of Colin’s cousin Curt (we like the C names around here), with Colin in the background of course.
Check out the shiner Curt’s got going, it was a doozy.
Colin is obsessed with going to the pool these days. Every time we make mention of leaving the house, or he hears the word car, or he sees our keys with the card for the Y, he starts repeating “POO, POO, POO!” and he’s not talking about poo. He has swimming lessons every Saturday, and yesterday we thought we’d give him a treat and take him down there for a second day in a row - wouldn’t you know it, some kid pukes in there right as we’re ready to head in. There’s one of your first ‘life’s not fair’ lessons pal.
Just returned from a trip out to Phoenix for five days, many expenses paid by my work, so that we could attend the Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show - the Sloan brothers (my employers) had several different horses entered, and had the best showing of any group. Nice going guys.
Colin got to hang out with his cousins quite a bit, particularly Lily. They were joined at the hip whenever they were together, and Colin knows everyone’s name. The mere mention of Lily brought forth a huge smile and a stream of “Yeeyee, Yeeyee, Yeeyee!!!” (stringing multiple L sounds together is still a bit tough for him - give him a break, he’s only 1.5).
The weather was ridiculously nice - it hasn’t rained there in since October - and we got to spend some quality time with friends from work and the family, so I think a good time was had by all.
Everything was somewhat overshadowed by the prospect of the company moving out there, but things are still somewhat up in the air on that front…time will tell how it plays out.
Uncle Fletcher is in town for the Ohio State game - he hasn’t seen Colin since last Christmas, so needless to say the little man is somewhat more entertaining. It took him very little time to make Uncle Fle aware of his overwhelming interest in the bells and whistles on cell phones. Luckily Uncle Fle has a picture phone, and he managed to capture C in a classic “AH AH AH” pose asking to have the phone. Unfortunately for Uncle Fle, he gave Colin the phone, and Colin proceeded to figure out how to lock it. Uncle Fle didn’t know how to fix it. Good job buddy!