So Justin, Cole and I headed East on Friday afternoon after we got off work. We were going to attend/supply the fish for a fish fry for the cousin that we share. He's in the Air Force and just returned from Afghanistan. The bad part about it was we were only going to be there for around 40 hours and we were supposed to go see all 5 sets of grandparents. It's bad enough trying to do it at Christmas when you have more time, but to cram all of that into less than 2 days? Well that's just nonsense, right? Yeah. It is. Especially with a 19 month old who doesn't like to take naps at other people's houses.
To keep from writing a novel here, suffice to say Cole did great considering the circumstances. He was exhausted, though. We all were. In fact, we drove to Texarkana on Saturday (about 45 minutes one way) just so he would take a nap because we knew he would sleep in the truck (and that's about the only place he would sleep). That was the bad part about the weekend.
The good part was seeing Cole run around and play with his cousins, and play around in the woods. He LOVED it. His cousin Kaden is obsessed with Thomas the Tank Engine, and Cole has recently become obsessed with him as well. Kaden's room is Thomas Mecca. Cole was in Heaven. All we heard all weekend was "Thomas! Thomas! Thomas!" In fact, that's all we hear the majority of the time.
I really need to start keeping better track of what all Cole is doing these days. That kid talks all the time. Most of the time you can understand him, but there are a few things he says that I have no clue what they are. He calls broccoli "dobbie" and I can't even being to explain how he says cracker. But, he says milk, chicken, pizza, Thomas (obviously), Diego (do-do), Elmo, Abby, Calliou, choo choo, moon, up here (pick me up), night night, blanket (bit), puppy, dog, cow, pig, bear, goat, horse, deer, cereal, banana, nasty, bless you, damn it (my fault), shoot, teeth, door, outside, truck, hat, hot, pancake (panpape)...I know there are more, but I am forgetting them. He can tell you what sound a bear makes, a cow, a cat, but he always says "meow" when you ask him what sound a dog makes. lol What's so impressive is that he can recognize that majority of his letters by sight, as well as squares, ovals, triangles, stars and hearts. He always calls a circle an oval, but how impressive is that? I told the pediatrician that at his 18 month check up and she was super impressed. He has trouble with his colors, though. I really want to try to get a video of him pointing out letters. It's actually pretty cool.
We're still having trouble getting him to mind. He has a temper so when you do something he doesn't like he is not afraid to let you know it. Even when he's trying to do something and it won't work the way he wants it to, he will freak out and hit or throw whatever he's holding. That comes from my side of the family. Sorry buddy. :) He only has 3 more teeth to cut before his second molars, and he's working on 2 of them right now.
I guess that's it for what he's up to right now. Here are some pics from this weekend.
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