13 Years Old

This is Colin's favorite new thing to do, stand up by the tool bench.  

Before I forget, Colin is into imitating sounds.  The funny part is when Blue is barking outside, Colin will make a barking sound that is similar.  It cracks me up.

Sunday when Colin woke up from his morning nap, Liam decided to climb in the crib with Colin and...

jump up and down like a crazy guy.  Colin thought it was pretty cool though.

Sunday afternoon we had a birthday party for Sadie.  I can't believe she is 13 year old!  It seems like she was just born.  Anyway, Liam enjoyed watching her open presents.

Then he decided she needed help

Colin felt that grandma's picture taking needed help so he offered his assistance.

This is Sadie's face unwrapping a box for a stroller tray.  It took her a minute to think to look inside the box.

She then realized that inside that silly box was a Kindle Fire.  We all pitched it to get her one.  She was NOT expecting it at all :)

Liam was pumped that she got a basketball for him to play with.

Liam sang happy birthday and watched her blow out the candles.  Once we got ready to cut the cake.  Grandma asked who wants cake.  Liam immediately said "Um Liam"  He was the first to respond!

Overall I think she had a pretty awesome day!

The boys went outside yesterday with Aunt Sadie while I was at work and she took some pictures of them.

Liam having fun with the cat.

Sweet baby boy

 I love this one!  It looks like he is saying "Wait, hold up, someone needs to bring me my ball"

Colin had his 9 month check up today!  He looks great and he weighs 21lbs and is 28 3/4 inches long.  So I was a little off on my at-home measurements!  He was 75th percentile for height and 50th for weight.  He as usual had a blast playing with the paper.

He's a sweet boy

9 Months

This little guy turned nine months old on Friday!

He is still a very happy baby and loves to smile and laugh.  He knows how to crawl but he seems to only crawl short distances and then resorts to his army crawl.  I guess it is easier for him than actually crawling.

His newest big trick is pulling himself up to a standing position.  He thinks he is pretty cool, especially when he stands up in his crib between 5:15-5:45 in the morning yelling at his parents to wake up.  

He is a very vocal little guy and if we scream or make a loud noise he will come right back at us.  It's awesome and has made for some loud conversations between him and his older brother.  He rambles dada and baba a lot but still no real association with the words.  It's just noise at this point.

Colin still LOVES bath time.  He is currently learning to splash around more and makes attempts to stand up or crawl while in the tub.  He keeps his parents on their toes. 

Colin has his 9 month appointment this Thursday but I weighed him at 22.6lbs and 29 1/2 inches.  We'll have to wait and see how close I am.  

This month was a little more difficult to get pictures because he is constantly in motion!  As you can see the camera couldn't even keep up with his feet!

This sweet little guy loves to eat and eats three jars of food daily with along with crunchies, bananas, puffs, yogurt bites, etc.  I would love to give him more food but he still only has two teeth and it's hard to find many other soft or dissolvable foods. 

Colin also LOVES to be outside.  He tends to get very upset when we make him come back in the house.

This picture is one of my favorites!  I love that you can see how happy he is and his little teethers.

Always in motion.  He's not much for cuddling anymore.

Sweet little guy.

He likes to make silly faces

I kept trying to place him where I could get a good picture, but he would immediately move  on me.

We love this sweet, fun, loving little guy and can't wait to see what this next month brings.

Heritage Zoo

Sunday we went to the Heritage Zoo in Prescott.  It is mainly a zoo native to Arizona animals but it had a few others in the mix, like a Tiger, Wallaby, and some Tamarins.  When we first walked in we were greeted by this beautiful guy.

Then we saw this big guy

They had the cutest baby black bear

Colin got his picture with him :)

We saw Antelope, Coyotes, Javelina, Snakes, and lots of lizards that were just hanging out, not in a cage.

Daddy and Liam heading back from seeing some Tortoises. 

This little guy did his best to stay awake but ultimately crashed because he was exhausted!

We made our way over to the kids' zoo which had goats, pigs, donkeys, and sheep.  We checked the animals out and then Liam wanted to play in the giant sandbox.

Another little girl joined in on the fun and they played together.  Colin woke up and a kind lady took a family photo for us.

At the front of the zoo there was a playground and a splash pad.  It was a good thing we saved it for the end because these two boys LOVED it and were soaked!

I love the happy expression on this boys face!

Liam was doing some high kicks.

The boys were soaked and required outfit changes but they loved every minute of it!  I told Chris I want a splash pad in our backyard!  He just looked at me like I was crazy.  Once they were dry Liam wanted to play at the playground.  There was another little boy and Liam was pretending to be a bear with him.  It is so neat to watch his imagination expand.

Colin hung out with me and drank a bottle.  We had such a good time at this quaint little zoo.  Then we ate some lunch and hit up Costco.  It was a lovely weekend in Prescott!

Prescott

We had a wonderful weekend in Prescott.  We traveled Friday night so we could jump right in on Saturday morning, which we did.  First we went to check out the Farmer's Market at the Yavapai College campus.  It was really nice.

For Mother's Day a hippie charter school was putting on a pot painting activity for the kiddos.  Liam painted his and was able to plant a Marigold in it too. 

After the Farmer's Market we walked around Yavapai's campus since Chris and I were convinced it was completely different.  Then we went downtown to a car show and an art festival.  We originally weren't going to go to the car show but Chris spotted an old firetruck and seconds later so did Liam. 

The boys by the firetruck 

After we checked out the firetruck, we looked around at some of the booths at the art festival, then found a cool little pizza joint and ate.  After lunch we found a sweet little spot in the grass to let the boys run around and play. Liam really enjoys doing new little tricks/things and then telling us "Do this" so we copy him.  This is what he wanted me to do while we were hanging out.

Daddy did some flips with him

Colin was just happy to not be strapped into a car seat or a stroller!

The grass was pretty wet and Colin's little feet were filthy by the time we were done hanging out.

Liam found another little boy and they played chase/hide & seek around the tree.  On a side note anytime Liam sees another kiddo, he immediately calls them his friend. He usually will say something like "I want to go say Hi to my friend" and then he usually goes up to them and really does say Hi.

My babies

Momma and her little peanut

Where we were sitting there was a water fountain.  I asked Liam if he want to to make a wish and throw a penny in, which of course he did.  Later when we were running around he heard some money in his pocket jingling.  He had bought a cookie at the Farmer's Market and had 50 cents in change.  Anyway, when he realized he had money he stopped right away and said "I have monies!" Then got out his quarters and went directly back to the water fountain.  It was cute.

The boys slept in the car and Chris and I cruised around various neighborhoods checking out the city of Prescott to see how we liked it. Eventually, I was getting tired and we decided to get everyone back to the hotel for a nap.  It completely backfired.  Liam woke up and wouldn't go back to sleep.  Instead we all got up and went to the Highland Games.  It was a basically Scottish folk games. (Ex: Hammer throw, caber toss)  When we arrived the competitions were over but there is still nothing sexier than overweight men in kilts so we enjoyed people watching and were able to listen to some bag pipes.

Daddy and his boys

Our view at the park

Chris started throwing the boys in the air and Liam was loving it!

Colin thought it was pretty cool too!

I still don't know why blogger and youtube are not allowing my videos to load but here is a little video of Liam doing some dancing to the bag pipes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaJxKY9S7Y8

Bag pipes and kilts

We left and went to Target because I failed to bring a hairbrush and pack Liam some socks.  So we needed to get those items before Sunday.  Originally Chris and I decided we were not going to eat at any chain restaurants but then later decided that Texas Roadhouse sounded too good to pass up.  While we were there Liam had his hand up under his chin and was chit chatting with his daddy.  It was so cute!

Up next day two in Prescott!

Crawling and Super Heroes

This one is from a couple of weeks ago.  We went to the grocery store and I put Colin in the car cart with Liam for the first time!  They did AWESOME throughout the whole store!  Liam did not get upset with Colin once.  It was amazing and they were super cute!

Colin has been learning new things lately!  He has really been into the coffee table and wanting to stand himself up next to it.  He started putting himself in a standing position by pulling up on something on 5/7/13.  Then on Wednesday of last week (5/8/13)  the boys were at Grandma Casson's all day and when Colin got home he started CRAWLING!  I screamed for Chris to come see and then immediately asked if his mom said whether or not Colin crawled earlier at her house.  Luckily, he did not and he saved his first crawling moments for his momma!  I was thrilled!

Here's a video.  I hope it works blogger and youtube are not cooperating this evening :/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CZ_BUxNUMA

Ghani and Maggie sent the boys some awesome super-hero shirts.  I put Colin in his Superman shirt Friday morning and when Liam woke up he saw it and immediately said he wanted to be Superman too.  I told him he has a cool Batman shirt to wear.  He put his on right away and started saying he was a superhero and was flying around.

My sweet boys

LOVE this one!

Best superheroes EVER!