Picture Friday

Weekend with Willie

This weekend Justin and I went to College Station (whoop!) and visited friends and saw Willie Nelson. It was a very nice little getaway that we both needed desperately. We had a great time! But, I missed my little man VERY much. When we came to pick him up from his Gammy's, I swear he had grown up so much! He looked taller, he was crawling exclusively on his hands and knees and was just laughing hysterically at everything. He just seemed like a different baby.

Yes, I'm aware he's playing with a pill bottle. It's childproof (although I know that doesn't always mean anything.) Trust me, I'm watching him like a hawk with it.

Well, that was our weekend. It was great, but I'm still tired!!

Thanks again to Gammy for keeping Cole this weekend. He had a blast with her!

One small step for Cole...

One giant leap for Mama.

Well, that's how I'm looking at it.

We finally had a victory with the sippy cup. After the 4th kind I've purchased, I finally found one he can/will drink from.

YEA!!

9 months!

This weekend...

Cole slept on a giraffe...

visited folks...

and turned 9 months old!

I attempted several times to get a good picture of him for his 9 month page of his baby book. Here are a few of them.

I think I'm going to use the one of him standing up in front of the couch for his baby book.

He's come a LONG way in the past month. He wasn't even crawling at 8 months. Now he's crawling EVERYWHERE and pulling up on EVERYTHING. Just in the past 2 or 3 weeks actually. He keeps me on my toes.

Next weekend, we're leaving Cole with his Gammy and we're heading to College Station to see the Ags play baseball on Friday and then Willie Nelson on Saturday. We'll hopefully get to see friends and have a nice little mini-vaca. And then we'll come home on Sunday and have to re-program ourselves to like Texarkana again. :)

Scooter

Cole has start scooting on his butt instead of crawling. He has one foot in front of him, one to the side and uses that back foot to push himself. He will do it all the way across the floor, but of course when I tried to video him doing it, he only did it a little bit.

He loves to pull that little cart out and bang the stuff around.

My New Hobby

The past few weekends, I've been driving around to old churches and cemeteries taking pictures. I love old stuff so these places are very interesting to me. I was also playing around with different editing stuff.

This is my mom's donkey.

I've always thought this church was really cool looking. Too bad they stuck a big ol' security light pole right in the front of it. Don't they know people want to take pictures w/o light poles in them? Stupid electricity. (Just kidding, electricity. I love you.)


This is Justin's grandfather's footstone. This is the man who gave Cole his middle name.

I don't know who the other people are that I took pics of their head/footstones. I hope no one minds.

This is a church Justin always thought was pretty neat growing up. Too bad it has a horrible wasp infestation. And let me tell you, they did NOT want to be photographed.

This is a church down the road from where my great-grandmother lived. I always thought it was really cool. If you can see, there is a historical marker in front of it. It was established in the 1850's, I believe. I have some pretty cool pics from the cemetery there, too.

I hope to go to Jefferson either this weekend or at least before it gets too hot. There are tons of old places there that I would love to photograph. And there is a very old cemetery there. I just love old headstones (tombstones?).

Cole has been going with me. He's usually asleep or just hanging out in his car seat waiting patiently for me to finish (knock on wood).

Anywho, just wanted to share.

Our weekend

Cole wore super-cute Osh Kosh B'gosh overalls that I failed to get a good picture of him in. :(


We went riding around enjoying the beautiful spring-y weather.

We forgot to bring Cole extra clothes and of course his diaper leaked. So he wore his overalls with no shirt. He's a hillbilly. And he's okay with it.

Justin shaved all his facial hair off a week or two ago. Now's he's all scruffy, but still very handsome.

I attempted (unsuccessfully) to take a picture of myself that wouldn't show how bad I need a tan. :)

We drove by the lake. You can see how high the water was. It's still up, though. I took that picture while we were driving down the road at 70 mph, by the way. Pretty snazzy, no?

Cole chewed on a water battle. He's a goat, what can I say?
He also got a slight sunburn on this legs from riding with shorts on. I think he's cursed with my skin. Poor baby.

We played in the tub. He loves the bath. I am so excited to get him a pool this summer and take him to swim in an actual pool. Again, with the skin problems, though. He won't wear a hat and homeboy's got a big ol' bald head. Can you say SPF 100?

Then Sunday morning we emptied dirty clothes hampers and pulled out all the dvds.
Later that afternoon, he was back at the dvds. He and the shelf got into a scuffle. Guess who won.

The shelf. (You might need to click on the picture to admire his first black-eye in all its glory).

So, you can officially take me out of the running for Mother of the Year 2010.

My poor little guy with sunburnt knees and a black eye.

But, I think it hurt me more than it did him. :(

Thanks, I needed that.

Blair made me laugh hysterically today. I think pre-motherhood I would have laughed. But, now, I can really really laugh because I know.
It is very reminescent of this (what happened on Sunday).

I'm such a nerd.

Get ready for a cinematic adventure courtesy of my kid (translation: I just posted a bunch of videos).

He's learning to chew regardless of the fact that he still have zero, count them ZERO, teeth! But by golly, he can sure gum stuff to death. By the way, I saw the other little boy that is in Cole's class's daily sheet from school...yesterday he ate fish sticks and tater tots. He's older than Cole by 5 days, and has 2 teeth. Cole, what did you have? Pureed turkey paste. YUM!

Cole discovered the door stop and that if you hit it, it makes a super cool noise that's REALLY loud. The video is kind of dark. All of my videos are kind of dark.

He chased that egg around the whole kitchen. :)

Oh, and P.S. I know his butt cheek is hanging out. That's how the lady put his diaper on at day care and I just hadn't changed him yet. I unsnapped the bottom part of his outfit to change him and he took off so I just let him go. That lady always has his diaper on all wobby-jawed.

And these last 2 videos are of Cole and his alphabet puppy. Everytime it sings he smiles really big, crawls up to it and buries his face in it until it's done singing. We have no idea why, but it's super cute.

Oh, and about the previous post where Cole will stop and listen to The Office theme song...My mom said that my cousin used to do the same thing anytime Ted Koppel came on tv. Kids are weird.

Easter 2010

The Easter Bunny came to visit me! He brought lots of yummy candy for my Mom and Dad (since I still have no teeth).

He really likes these plastic eggs. Ever since he got them he has been crawling around with them, or holding two and banging them together.

Look at these 2 handsome guys.

I tried on his shoes Saturday morning and they didn't fit. So after a very long day visiting people (more on that later), I went to Walmart at 9pm to find him shoes. And then he ended up not wearing them anyway. I love little bare-footed babies!

Cole and Mom

His smile makes me smile. Seriously, how can you look at that face and NOT smile?


Our little family

Cole with his cousins Mason and Kaden

He wouldn't put his "landing gear" down to stand up and get the egg.

Yea! He got it! :)

This was egg 3 of 3 that he found. We gave up. You try lugging around a 24 pound baby on the side of a steep hill. Besides, he could have cared less.


About 75% of the grandkids and all the great-grandkids. Oh, and Dinky (the dog).