8 Months!

Sweet little peanut turned eight months old on Wednesday!  Colin is 28.5 in length and weighs 21.2lbs.  He is really getting around lately and loving his army crawling.  It will be very soon and he will be crawling!  He has also started to attempt to pull himself up on things.  Colin still loves his food and sometimes you just can't get it to his mouth fast enough!  He is still eating three jars of baby food each day, puffs, crunchies, and yogurt bites.  He can even eat them whole now even with only two teeth!  Colin is getting more and more vocal from time to time.  Sometimes he gets really excited and just yells out at the top of his lungs, and it's awesome. He also is really into trying to play with some of his brother's toys which has been a change for Liam.  Colin is very good at responding to his name, and anytime you say "Colin" he looks over and smiles.  It's super cute.  He is quite the wiggle-worm and would much rather be out playing and exploring than letting his mama hold him, unless he is tired or hungry, then he is my little cuddle bug.  Colin takes two good naps each day.  Usually an hour in the morning and one or two hours in the afternoon.  He has even slept through the night this three nights this week but wakes up at around 5:45.  I told Chris I almost prefer the 2am wake up and sleep until 6:30. Ha!  Colin still has the biggest smile and it always a happy baby.  We think he is pretty awesome :)
Sweet boy attempting to chew on his crib

8 month old bath!

Colin LOVES bath time.  If I start the bath,  and he sees it and I carry him into the other room to get him ready for the bath he gets cranky and starts crying.  Once we start heading back towards bathroom he is perfectly happy.

He's also a trooper.  Daddy and brother were doing his hair in the bath

End result.  Isn't he the cutest!

Here's a good one of his teethers!

Happy little dude

Love this baby face

Colin also really enjoys sitting in the rocking chair.  He feels like a big boy :)

Excited face!

Reading time.  Colin is becoming more and more interested in books and this momma loves it.

So close

I give it a couple weeks max before he is off and running!

Trying to get the camera

Playing with his airplane.  He is really into toys lately, especially some of the bigger cars.  He will roll them back and forth :)

I know this one is blurry but I stood him up in the chair and he thought it was fantastic.

We love our sweet 8 month old boy and can't wait to see how he grows in the next month :) I leave you with a couple little videos

Big stuff!

Army crawling

Lake Fun

Sunday we took the boys to the lake.  We thought it would make for a nice morning with the family. The boys were perfectly happy about it.

This little one LOVED the sand.  He made an attempt more than once to eat it.

Liam waved to some ducks

Putting their feet in the water.  It was a little cool.

Liam making his own little lake

We gave Colin his own bucket of water and he thought that was pretty neat.

We also made him his own little lake.  He was having so much fun kicking his feet in it.

Daddy and Colin

Chilling in the water

My babies.  Colin was having a blast wading in the water.

Liam splashing around

We had a great time at the lake!  Afterwards we went into Laughlin to the outlet mall so I could grab a couple things for the boys.  When we got there we rented a firetruck stroller, since we didn't grab ours.  The boys had a blast cruising around.

It was a great Sunday :)

Rough Week

The boys went to a babysitter full time for the 1st time EVER.  Monday and Tuesday went great. On Wednesday Liam stated he didn't want to go to Ms. Tina's house but once we arrived he was perfectly fine. Thursday it was full on tears.  He cried before we left the house and when we got to Tina's house.  He clung on tight and didn't want us to go.  This was one of my worst nightmares.  I hate leaving my babies.  Once we left he was fine. Friday morning was full on hysterics.  Liam kept staying he wanted to stay at "his house", "play with his toys", "Eat at Liam's house".  Chris and I got him sidetracked and had to sneak out when he wasn't looking.  I DO NOT like leaving my boys without saying goodbye, with hugs and kisses and I love you's.  Lets just say there were a lot of tears between Liam and me, even Colin joined in a couple mornings. It really is one of the WORST feelings as a parent.  I really don't know how people do this everyday.  Luckily, I have a very understanding nurse manager and I will be doing 3 days a week even through my training.  I am hoping this will be easier on all of us!

Friday I took a half day and picked up my babies and brought them home.  Liam was still out of sorts even at home. Mom going to work during the day has been a BIG change for him.  When Chris got home we went to the train park in hopes of helping his mood.

Colin really enjoyed playing in the grass.

Momma and her baby

Saturday Liam had swim lessons and let me tell you I am NOT very happy with the way swim lessons are going.  Liam is in a 2 year olds only class with a max number of 3 kiddos.  The kids stand on a ledge/platform and then the instructor takes one kid at a time and does different activities with them.  This weekend Liam lost his footing under him and couldn't catch himself, he was clearly struggling.  In the mean time as he is trying to catch himself he has gone off the ledge and under for a brief moment. Simultaneously Chris and I are screaming at the instructor as I am also up and ready to jump in pool if need be.  The instructor was at the most 3 feet away from Liam and it took us to scream at her before she noticed what was going on.  I was FUMING!  The director has assured us she is safe but I beg to differ based on this last experience.  I am thinkimg we are done with swim lessons at the Wellness Center or if I continue it will be the mommy and me class so I can assure my child is safe!  

On a happy note once the boys were up from their naps on Saturday we went to the park.  We got Liam a new baseball glove and he was pretty pumped to try it out.

He gave it a shot but then got a little frustrated and eventually moved on to something new

This boy may look sweet but he kept trying to eat the leaves and grass around the blanket

Sweet silly little guy :)

After the park we all went to Chili's for dinner, it was much easier than cooking!  This little guy kept trying to eat the table and then eventually we gave his monkey teether to chew on instead.

Things

I need to jot down a few things so I don't forget!  

1. Anytime Liam has a question or doesn't understand something he uses the word "Huh?" It's similar to the way some kids ask "why?" repeatedly and it cracks me up.

2. A little over a week ago we went to Chili's and Liam insisted the he try the salsa.  So Chris dipped a chip so that it had a little juice on it.  Liam put it in his mouth and immediately his eyes went wide with shock and grabbed his chocolate milk.  Chris and I were laughing so hard.

3. The other day we were getting in the car while it was warm outside and even warmer in the car.  Liam said to us "It's hot, need some air to blow the sun off"  Haha! If it only worked that way.

4. Colin has the best laugh lately.  It is a great belly laugh.

5. Colin got tooth #2 on April 3rd!

6. Colin has been eating puffs lately.  He is able to grab them with his hands but has a hard time getting them in his mouth.  Soon enough it will happen!

7. Colin LOVES Blue (the dog).  When we eat dinner he likes to sit by the sliding glass window and watch him.  He thinks Blue is so funny.

8. Colin loves to play with shoelaces.  If you are wearing tennis shoes beware it will be the first thing this boy will attack.

9.  Saturday 4/13 Colin officially started army crawling!!  He still does much better at scooting backwards.  He propels himself forward by reaching with one arm and then slightly rolling to the side to get himself forward.  It is basically the reach and roll army crawl.  It won't be too much longer and he will be taking off!!

Here are a few pictures from last Sunday.  Chris and Liam running through the sprinkler.

Liam LOVED it!  I just hope that we get grass soon!

Colin fell asleep cuddling with his elephant one night :)  

Getting ready for the day!

Liam and Colin watching Blue.  Liam wanted to eat dinner while watching Blue with Colin even though Blue was just sitting on the porch!

Next up, our first week at the babysitter and our fun weekend!

A Day Out With Thomas!

First of all check out this awesome face!

Colin did a little reading the other night too. It reminds me of Liam here.

On Saturday we wen to Boulder City, NV for A Day Out With THOMAS!!!  I bought the boys some matching shirts and hats the day before.

Happy little dudes!

There were lots of different trains we got to check out before our ride with Thomas. 

Me and my babies

Liam pointing at Thomas coming down the track, clickety clack, clickety clack.

Liam checking out Thomas before we took our ride with him. 

Family Photo.  I love how Liam is proudly holding his ticket!

The boys with G&G

We even met Sir Topham Hat, Colin kept trying to steal his handkerchief. 

After our ride with Thomas we received maps and if you stopped at four different stations and got a stamp on your map at each one you got a prize at the end.  Anyway, one of the stops was a room set up with multiple tracks, train tables, and lots of trains.  Liam was in heaven.

Colin hanging out.

Liam playing with some of the thousands of kiddos

There was also a huge play area.  Dad tried to teach Liam some golf.

Me and my babies with Thomas, Colin is totally out in this picture.

Liam and daddy with Thomas

Towards the end, Liam started crying saying he wanted ice cream.  We couldn't figure out where this was coming from.  He never just asks for ice cream unless he sees it or someone talks about it.  We decided he must have seen someone else walking around with some.  Then a little later he spotted an ice cream truck.  He really wanted a snow cone but it was a little hard for him so he stole my ice cream instead.

Both boys have had colds but Colin has been worse with a nasty cough and kept pulling at his ear.  I was a little worried he had an ear infection.  We attempted to take him to the urgent care in Kingman on Friday night and it was a complete JOKE.  When I entered with him the receptionist asked how old he was and then said the physician on duty doesn't really feel comfortable taking care of the "little ones because they can have so much going on".   Are you kidding me?!?!?  Who hires a physician to work in urgent care if they are not capable of taking care of young children.  She told us the physician may be okay if it is just an ear infection so we stayed, but about 5-10 minutes later they came out and said the computers were down and they couldn't see patients without it so we could stay and see if they came back up or leave.  We decided to leave.  Anyway, since we went into Vegas to eat lunch after Thomas we took Colin to a children's urgent care, too.  It turns out this little man has broncholitis again, so more breathing treatments and an antibiotic.  Poor dude.  He was more than happy in the doctors office though. He's such a sweet little guy.