Aw man!

Cole has been super cute here lately.  His new things are saying "aw man!" and "mine" (pronounced "mine-uh"), and he likes running around the house screaming like a banchee.  He likes to sit up at the table and eat like a big boy.  He's getting better every day at eating with utensils.  He also asks for milk when he wants some instead of us just offering it to him.  He brings you his cup and says "mi-uk."  So you say, "please?" and he signs please.  He will also throw stuff away for you.  He gets really upset if you don't let him take his diaper to the trash.  Also, yesterday I had an empty apple juice bottle sitting on the table that I was going to rinse out and put in the recycle trash.  Well, he took it upon himself to throw it in the trash for me.  He's such a sweet little helper!! 
I finally got some presents wrapped and under the tree.  Of course the first thing he did was get under the tree and start moving them around.  He only tore one, though.  He also likes to walk around the back of the tree, but then he gets trapped. 
Santa is coming to see him this Sunday because he's just so extra special.  We won't be at our house for Christmas, so Santa is making a special trip for him.  I hope Santa doesn't have to do that next year, but we'll see.  Justin is glad, though, because that means we get to open our presents early, too, and Lord knows he has been bugging me about his presents for weeks already.  I don't even have them wrapped yet!  They're still in the back of my car.  He just knows he better not be peeking!!