Friday, November 16, 2012

Colton, 18 months

Colton is 18 months old!

These too and their blankies :/  Birds of a feather flock together...

He had his checkup today:

Weight:  25.2 lbs-25%
Length:  33.5 in-75%
Head: 48.5cm-75%

The last 18 months have just flown by.  I can't believe he is old enough to go to nursery (but actually getting him to go might be another story...).  

What's he up to?


  • Talks a lot.  He's learned so many words, especially "NO!"  So fun;)
  • He loves to wrestle with Daddy
  • He is still attached to his little blanket.
  • Right now baths are his favorite time of day.  He cries every time he has to get out.
  • Thomas the Train is still his favorite, but he also likes Elmo, Batman, Firetrucks, and I'm sure there's more
  • He likes to color with the girls.  But it's my least favorite thing of mine that he does, cause I end up cleaning crayon off the walls and furniture almost every single time he gets a hold of a crayon.  He also likes to put crayons in the toilet.  So the number of colors we have are slowly diminishing.
  • He loves to play outside.
  • He's perfected the art of throwing a fit.  We are talking throwing himself on the floor, kicking and screaming, drama, he does it all.
  • He's still pretty attached to me, and gravitates my way almost always.  But he also does really good with other people.  I've had to rely on friends and family to babysit a lot, and he goes with pretty much anybody that's willing to hold him.

Friday, November 2, 2012

Halloween

This year, we kept Halloween pretty low key, and pretty much only celebrated on Halloween day.


When we picked the pumpkins from our garden and put them out front

My Mom gave the kids a "Pin the nose on the pumpkin" game to play

We invited my friend Marci and her kids over to make caramel apples one day
Lexi, Abby, Dani

Marci, Jordan, Colton

Colton wouldn't wear the mask/cape for his costume, so Abby put it on


Lexi was a ballerina


Colton was Batman


 Abby was Merida (the princess from the movie "Brave)


Abby in her costume parade at school.  So very reverent:)
The kids had a blast trick-or-treating.  Colton's little legs just couldn't get him from house to house as fast as he would have liked.