Our weekend



 



Walking through the mud so Cole can ride the merry-go-round

Realizing my hips are too wide for the slide.  Thanks, Cole.

Sorry, Cole, you have to slide alone. :)

Give me your camera, Mama!!

Yum! Grasshoppers!

Daddy showing Cole a grasshopper and Cole wanting to see how good they taste. :)

New lens!

I got my Christmas present on Friday!  A new lens for my camera, so Justin was helping me test it out.  Note to self:  get roots done. 

Cole got this new chair today.  He spent so much time sitting in it the wrong way that I finally just took it away from him.  It's now residing in our garage until he can learn to sit in it right.  He's pretty heartbroken about it because he really loves that dang chair.

Sick??

So apparently Cole wasn't just croupy.  He has two ear infections.  WTH?  He wasn't acting sick.  He wasn't tugging at his ears.  He wasn't running fever.  He was in a bad mood the past couple of nights but I thought it was because he was cutting a tooth.  Again, WTH?  I feel so bad for him.  The doctor also said something about an "ear infection cough."  No one I've asked has ever heard of it.  But, apparently it's a "thing."

Whodathunkit?

Update

So I haven’t posted anything in a while. Justin usually gets pretty antsy when I haven’t posted anything in a few days. But, I haven’t taken any pictures in about a week or so. I hate to post without pictures. We’re still trying to adjust to the whole work/daycare routine, so I have had a hard time taking pictures, much less posting a blog. Cole has also started staying up later.
He is such a little character. He is adjusting well to daycare. I honestly like this daycare better than the one he was in because they do stuff with him. He paints, colors, and learns stuff. Like he learned purple. He doesn’t really know what purple is, but he can say it. One of his teachers told me that the day they taught him purple he walked around saying purple all day. Kind of like deer.  Of course when I got there to pick him up, he wouldn’t say it. I have heard him say it once though since then.
He’s fighting a cold/allergies/croup right now. He generally wakes up 2-3 times a night coughing his little head off. I feel so bad for him. I have been “doctoring” him with medicine left over from his July bout with this, but this time he hasn’t run fever so I wasn’t going to take him to the doctor. But, it’s just not going away so Justin is taking him to the new pediatrician tomorrow. I can’t go because I hate to take sick leave unless I absolutely have to, this being my 2nd week of work.
Work is going okay. Still trying to learn everything and still waiting for all of the computer access I need. It’s kind of frustrating.
Anyhoo…I need to get some pics posted soon. I will try to take some this weekend. Justin bought me a new lens for my camera for Christmas that I just ordered. Merry Christmas to me!

Ice Cream

Cole hates ice cream. :) I couldn't help myself. After that he wouldn't eat anymore. If I tried to feed it to him he would just shake his head over and over. hahaha


He also learned the sign for "more."

Cattle Drive

Today we ventured out to Cowtown for the cattle drive. Justin wasn't feeling too good and it was so flippin' hot we didn't stay too long after the drive was over. We will be back later I'm sure; just when it cools down. Here are some pics from our short little trip.

About to fall asleep waiting on the cows.

Trip to the park

Blah

So I've been kind of blah this week. I think it's a combination of sending Cole back to daycare, who, by the way, has a runny nose for the first time since he left daycare over a month ago, and worrying about starting this new job and being bummed about our trip home this past weekend.

Don't get me wrong, we had a good time and were glad to visit everyone. And before we left I was really happy with living in FW. But, visiting home was kind of a bummer because it reminded me I can't just pick up and go see family and go home to my home at night. Cole is still a lot of work at this point. So carting him from house to house to house and all of his stuff and dealing with all of the ensuing drama with him dealing with his schedule being changed is just absolutely exhausting. And we had an extra day to do it all in. It's like Christmas, but it's going to be that way everytime we go in. Cole did pretty well considering all the travelling we did, but he's a year old. He doesn't adapt all that well.

I don't know, I guess I'm just realizing that things have changed and I'm not too happy about that part of it. Everything else with the move is fine. I think we've all adjusted well. Cole is liking his daycare as far as I can tell. He's such a sweet boy. I hope that it's something we can get used to like anything else.

I'm just in a funk.

Cole is still getting naked a lot. Last night he pulled his diaper off and sat on the floor and peed. I heard the distinctive sound of pee hitting the carpet, turned around and saw a "pee arc" about 2 feet in front of him. I couldn't help but laugh. Then he decided he wanted to go outside. So I took him in the front yard and he waved at every car that drove by and said "bye!"

Here are some super cute pics of the kiddo.

Weekend back home

Justin, Cole and I headed east this weekend to visit the fam. We had a good time, but we're all exhausted. I'm SO glad I decided not to start my new job until next week. I have all this week to prepare (ie shop). Cole is starting his new day care tomorrow. I really hope it goes well. Cole has learned some new words and occasionally uses them correctly. He said duck and dirt both pretty clearly. He "moo"ed and made a monkey sound. Seems like there was something else, but I'm just too tired to remember right now. Here are some pics from the weekend.

Riding four-wheeler with cousin Mason and Daddy.

Shopping with Granny

These are pictures of an old burned down school building we saw in Marshall. Then we saw what appeared to be a drug deal. Good times.

This is my new favorite pic.

I like this one, too. :) <3

Deer Part II

Okay, so if you read this post you know that Cole is obsessed with deer. I thought it was pretty impressive that he was able to recognize all of the deer on those boxes. Well, since then, he has brought me the Bambi dvd case...DEER! DEER! The Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer case...DEER! DEER! And then last night he brought Justin his Children's Bible opened to the page about Noah's Ark and sure enough, Noah had a deer on board. DEER! DEER! Kid you not. This kid is obsessed.
He got his other top front tooth in and is finally cutting a bottom tooth. So he has all four of his top front teeth now...but only has about half of a bottom tooth. We're headed to Linden this weekend. We're looking at buying some land so Justin wants to go check a couple of places out.
Besides that, I guess that's it for now! Oh! I start my new job at UNT Health Science Center on September 13. We have a daycare lined up for Cole so I hopefully have stuff lined out for us. I just hope going back to work and leaving Cole isn't going to be too hard. I will miss him so much. I'm spoiled!! Oh and here are a few pics just for the heck of it.


Do you see that curl??


My first oreo!