A Recap of Not Much

I haven't posted for a while, because not much has been happening. We've been at home the last few weekends (so nice!), Cole and I haven't been going to a whole lot of MOMS Club stuff (long story), and we have just really been pretty boring lately!

We did take Cole to a Sundogs game a few weeks back. Sadly, none of the pictures we took turned out too well. He enjoyed it a lot more this time, and even started cheering toward the end. More than anything though, he spent the evening scouring the stands for "Burnie" the mascot, and would emphatically point him out to Abe and me, until we would acknowledge his find.

Lately, Cole's favorite activity is this:
I even suggested to Abe to "walk" Dozer at the same time. It worked! I didn't witness it, but I can only imagine Abe balancing Cole, tugging a yorkie on a leash, while zooming up and down the street. Too funny!

Cole did sustain his first "black eye." Fortunately, it didn't get too black, and was actually cleared up by the next morning. He had been screwing around, trying to run away from me trying to get him dressed, while in his footie pajamas, sneaking behind the chair in his room, and walking on his books (something I have discussed with him relentlessly to be not okay). Needless to say, he slipped on a book and did a face plant then slide down the wall. He cried, I lectured (feeling no sympathy), only to realize later that morning, he had indeed been hurt (and then feeling terrible that I hadn't been more sympathetic.) Oh well! I tried to warn him! (Abe and I are of the parenting philosophy that we can only tell him so many times, and he will just figure it out for himself once he ends up hurt. Like last night, with him slamming his pinkie in the door to the garage... live and learn, live and learn.)

Black eye and all, we decided to visit Dad on another job site. Shades included. Too bad we forgot the hard hat!

Yesterday I left Cole in his room to take a nap. After hearing him run about a bit and then hearing silence, I went in to check on him. I had a moment of panic when I looked in his bed and he wasn't there, only to find him here...

Shortly after, I heard some whining, because he had woken up to relocate to his bed and found his sippy cup to be empty. Crisis averted, I filled the sippy and he instantly fell back to sleep- for another 2 hours! Love it!

Today we had our Thanksgiving Feast for MOMS Club. I spent HOURS yesterday cutting out and preparing pilgrim/indian head dresses, pilgrim collars (boys and girls), cutting up veggies and turkey, only to have Cole decide that the stairs were more fun! Fortunately, I brought all the stuff home, so he will eventually have both hats, and then I will take pictures.

We are heading to Phoenix for the weekend, and then with Thanksgiving next week, I should have much more exciting stuff to talk about soon!

Halloween

Well, the Candy Man made his appearance. I was a little worried, because when we arrived at our friend's house on Halloween night, Cole wanted nothing to do with his costume. But fortunately, after some good playing with friends, he allowed Abe to dress him for Trick or Treating. As you can see, I also whipped up a cane, which I think is what peaked Cole's interest in the whole thing...

Most people, at first, thought he was the Mad Hatter. When we would explain that he was Willy Wonka, they would start laughing hysterically, and then exclaim that they hadn't seen that movie in about 20 years- to which we had to reply that we hadn't seen it for about 20 minutes. Haha!

Cole ultimately got really into Trick or Treating. He would wait for his friend to say 'trick or treat' and while the unsuspecting treat giver would be handing her her candy, Cole would reach into their bowls and help himself. What was a mom to do? It was pretty embarrassing, but everyone got a good laugh at his cavalierism. He walked the entire time, refusing to be carried ever, and insisting on carrying his bucket the majority of the time (which got pretty darn heavy!)


Halloween was also a big day for Cole because he got a BIG BOY BED!!! Cole has a crib that is one of those convertible types (crib to toddler bed to full size bed), so I had planned on just using that. However, upon learning the prices of all the conversion kits, and realizing that I could buy a brand new toddler bed for less than the toddler conversion kit, which would probably be much more enticing to a two year old to have a NEW big boy bed, rather than a converted crib,
I have been pricing them out and checking Craig's list. (though we still plan on purchasing the full size conversion kit. I picked this crib specifically because it does not look like a converted crib when it is a full size bed)

Well, ironically enough, I had found one on Craig's List that I was going to place a call on, and then Saturday morning, our neighbor stopped by. They were cleaning out/redecorating their son's room and were going to be taking a bunch of stuff to Goodwill- including a RACE CAR bed (way cooler than my Craig's list find)- would we be interested. Abe said absolutely, and we walked down to their house and scooped it off their porch instantly. We brought it back up to our house, gave it a good wipe down, and made it all up. Cole was SOOO proud! Here he is showing off his new racing digs!

That night he slept for almost 6 hours straight (which is HUGE for us!) Of course, that could have had something to do with his two hours of trick or treating! But he has stayed in the bed beautifully ever since. He doesn't even attempt to get out without me coming in to get him! Our neighbor came by on Sunday to see how he was doing, and when I mentioned him staying in it, she made the funny comment that her son was the same way, almost like they are kennel trained from being in the crib. So now, we just hope Cole will keep his 'kennel training'!