Weekend in San Diego

Wednesday night we left for a quick trip to San Diego!  We decided it would probably be best to break up the drive there for the boys' sake so we drove to 29 Palms and stayed the night.  The next morning we took our time getting ready and took the boys swimming which they LOVED!  Liam was doing a pretty good job swimming (he still needs assistance of course) and I think we need to really focus on some swim lessons this summer.

Jumping in

Liam was a tired boy after swimming.

We took our time and eventually made it to San Diego around 2PM and since the boys napped in the car it was a win win for all of us.  Once we arrived and checked in we visited with Michael, Noel, and G&G Casson.  Then it was time to head to a park at Mission Bay because Liam was ready to bust out of the hotel.

The boys had an awesome time.

Colin going down the slide

Monkey

Liam was sprinting from place to place.  We pretty much had to run to keep up with him.  There were multiple play sets and he made sure to attack each one.

Climber boy

Noel and Chris did a little swinging

and jumping

Liam spinning. Colin gave it a shot too but wasn't to sure of it.

Playing with other kids.  Colin was so cute and occasionally would find a stick in the sand and then hand it to the little girl next to him like he was giving her a special gift.

My other little monkey

Spiderman

Eventually we left the park and ran to Target for a few items and then dinner in Old Town at a Mexican food place that was amazing!  Next up, SEAWORLD!

Light Up Shoes

A couple weeks ago Liam expressed his need for some light-up shoes.  When I came home from work he said "Mama I think I like some light up shoes"  I assume a kid at school had some and he thought they were cool, he even told his grandparents about his love for light up shoes.  Liam was in need of some shoes so Chris and I took him to Payless on Tuesday when Chris and I got off work.  Before we even got in the store I told him not to get disappointed if we couldn't find any in his size that we would order some if necessary.  The lady measured his foot and sure enough he had been wearing a size too small, poor kid.  He now wears an eleven!  Luckily we found some light-up shoes and he was SO HAPPY.  Colin also got to get a pair of shoes since he hasn't actually had his own brand new pair of shoes, instead wearing Liam's hand me downs so far.  They were both very happy boys.

Liam's light up shoes

They didn't have any light up shoes in Colin's size but he was happy about his airplane ones

A while back I really wanted to buy some games for Liam so we could start playing some with him and so he could start to learn to focus for a few minutes at a time and learn that sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. (Which he has picked up pretty well lately).  Anyway, we have Hungry Hungry Hippos and it sits on the microwave and Colin LOVES it! When he wants to play he points at it and says "bippo" and the minute we grab it he sprints into the living room and sits on the floor.

The first thing he usually does is grab the yellow marble and hold on to it for safe keeping and then he will attempt to play.  We have had a lot of fun playing from time to time.

Usually right after showers/baths the boys become extremely high-strung and love wrestling with their daddy.  Here is a sweet pose of how happy they are playing with their dad.

The boys have been super awesome about playing together and here they are chilling reading a book together.

Colin loves books

I convinced my father-in-law to do some construction in our backyard.  I hate not having more shade and trees take inconveniently long to grow, and since we don't plan on staying in this rental house forever I came up with a temporary yet permanent fix and luckily the husband and Tim went along with my idea.  We are building a shade over the boys' sand box and I am so excited about it!!

Chris hard at work on Sunday.  They did some sawing and painting and hopefully by tomorrow night we will have a finished product!

While we were outside working the boys were playing with grandma and Liam was pretending to be a doctor or be hurt and need to go to the hospital.  The bag of mulch was the hospital bed.  Colin thought it was awesome and would pretend to be hurt and have his grandma carry him to his bed and he would lay there until someone came to fix him.  It was super cute.

Last Wednesday I was working on packing for our trip to San Diego and this sweet little peanut was stacking blocks.  He would stack them and knock them over and do it all over again.  He was SO proud of himself and his mama was proud too!

Colin Never Catches a Break

Soooo...When Colin woke up on Saturday his little sores around his mouth had blistered and opened up.  Chris took him into urgent care and they said he had impetigo.  AWESOME.  She gave us a topical antibiotic and said if it didn't clear to see the Doc on Monday.  Well by Sunday night Colin had a rash all over his body and the blisters had spread to his hands and feet.  We went to the doc on Monday and she said he did indeed have HFMD plus impetigo.  When she looked in his mouth he had sores which he didn't have on Saturday at Urgent care.  My poor sweet baby.  He was a complete sport about the whole thing and I'm so glad we didn't end up hanging out with anyone and infect them too.  Anyway, here is our sweet guy laying in bed reading a book.  If you look close you can see one of his sores :(

Needless to say we have been washing, Lysol-ing every toy, stuffed animal, etc in this house!

I have a couple of things I just need to jot down so I don't forget.

1.  Liam has been into playing super heroes.  He is usually Ironman and he tells Colin he is Aquaman because Colin likes water, ha!

2. Colin is quite the character lately.  He likes to roll his eyes at you and make lots of funny faces.  He also transforms like the rescue bots, and he can say the word hippo or "bibbo"

3. Colin recently told on Liam for the first time.  The boys were playing in the garage and Colin started yelling "Dada" "Dada" When Chris got out there, Colin was on his ride along toy right in the doorway into the garage and trying to point behind him toward Liam who was on his bike.  Liam immediately rode up and crashed into Colin.  Colin looked at Chris as if to say, "this is what I'm talking about".  Apparently he was not a fan of his brother rear-ending him.

4. The other night I was singing to Liam and afterwards he said "Tell dada a secret story, tell him he's the best dada ever."  It was so sweet so I told him goodnight and let Chris know what he said.

5. Liam has also been a pro at delaying his bedtime lately.  He usually needs water, chapstick, a washcloth, a tissue, and this week it's a band-aid or a hang-nail that needs immediate trimming.  He came out of his room and said "Hey Guys." "Hey I have a problem this thing is hurting me."  The first time he was referring to a hang nail and Chris got a band-aid for him.  Then he came out the next couple nights needing band-aids again.  I'm hoping his delay tactics quit soon.

6. The boys have been pretty awesome about playing together recently.  The other day I overheard Liam tell Colin "Good job Colin it is red" Apparently Liam was teaching Colin his colors.  I love watching them interact.

I leave you with a picture of them playing in the fort Aunt Sadie built for them :) They seemed to like it pretty well.

Home Depot

Last Saturday it was raining so we thought we'd entertain the boys by taking a trip to Home Depot to ride in the car cart.  They think it is great. When we got there it was kids' building day.  They do it once a month but I never knew when, exactly.  So, just for you others who are curious it is the first Saturday of every month.  Anyway, we let Liam give it a shot.  He did well.

Checking out all the paint.

Colin just wanted my phone more than anything.

Daddy helping him hammer the nails

Screwing in the screws

and some more hammering.

They get a cute little apron which is currently hanging on the boys' toy tool bench.  I didn't get such a great photo of him in it.  They made a little Trojan horse on wheels piggy bank.  While they finished up Colin and I wandered the store and came up with some future projects.  I think Liam enjoyed it overall and we may need to try it again.

One night this week, Liam and Colin were playing some basketball.  Liam decided he was Paige since he had just watched one of her basketball games and daddy had to be Cason.  It was pretty cute and when we cheered for him we had to say "Ya Paige!"

Chris would spin the basketball for Colin and he thought it was pretty awesome.

My boys.  I just like how Colin is walking in this one

This is Colin's face when he is told "No"  It cracks me up.

Liam thinks he big stuff and tries to pick up Colin lately

Tuesday night when I got off work we ran to Hastings so I could get a book for a friend who is having a baby.  We let the boys each pick one out too.  Liam chose a Scooby-Doo book and we came home and read it.  They seemed to enjoy it quite a bit.

Colin had his 18 month old check up on Wednesday.  He is doing great and is 32.5 inches long and weighs 27.1 lbs.  This puts him in the 50th percentile for height and 70th percentile for weight. She rechecked his ears from last week and he still has some fluid.  We've talked about whether or not he needs tubes and go in for an ear check in April.  If he continues to have fluid or gets another infection in that time frame, she plans on sending us to the specialist.  I keep praying he just grows out of it.  I just want him to be healthy and happy and ever since December I feel like he has been sick and it is SO upsetting to see my sweet boy feeling miserable.

Now then, yesterday Colin woke up and was pretty cranky and it turns out he has all four incisor teeth coming in.  You could just feel his pain.  I gave him some Motrin which seemed to help a ton.  He has been drooling NON stop.  Then when he woke up this morning his little mouth area was broke out with red spots and a little blister.  At first I thought "Oh no, HFMD!"  but he has no spots on hands or feet or inside his mouth.  He was sleeping in a puddle of drool and it seems to have irritated his skin but a couple faded during the day.  I took the boys to Subway for lunch and Colin tried to eat a Cheeto that was pretty big and just screamed in pain when he attempted to take a bite.  It even seemed like a banana he tried to eat just before bed was painful.  Needless to say I hate seeing him in pain and REALLY hope these teeth bust through STAT!

February Wrap-Up

Let's just say I haven't been in a blogging mood so I'm going to do a quick wrap-up of February.  Let's start with a few funny things.

1. Liam is very into pretending to go on bear hunts.  He usually grabs a flash light and gets someone to go with him, Colin is always more than happy too.  Anyway, one night and G&G Casson's they were going on a bear hunt and Liam told his G&G to "keep their mouths quiet" HA!  He did not mean it in a rude way at all but just wanted them to be quiet while they went bear hunting and didn't know a better way to put it.

2. One night while driving home, "someone" made a stinky toot.  Liam couldn't handle it and said "the smell is still coming in my nose" and was pretty annoyed by it.  We laughed and rolled the window down to help him out.

3. Colin gets really excited about things here and there lately.  When he is excited he will let out a huge GASP! Sometimes you look at him and wonder if he is breathing okay but he is just genuinely excited about something. I am really hoping to catch it on video one day.

Now then, we have had fun and the weather has been great so we've spent a lot of time outside (not that my pictures show it)

Here are the boys being lazy bums in Liam's bed when they woke up one morning.

We had a play date with the Jacobs one day. 

The boys have loved playing out in the garage when it gets cool in the evenings or too dark. They like to ride bikes and play trucks in the big empty space.  

Here's Colin taking a break and looking super cute

Liam cruising on his bike. (On a side note we went to the park one day and he  had his very first crash!  I was of course just far enough behind him that I couldn't help him.  He  handled it very well and we sat on a bench for a few minutes and he did eventually get back on his bike, which made me happy because I was worried he would be too scared to attempt it again)

Colin likes to look out the window lately. 

Colin also got to have (I believe) his first Popsicle the other night!  He loved it.  It could be partially because all four of his incisor teeth are trying to push there way through. He's usually not big on sweets (For example tonight we went to Baskin Robbins for some ice cream and Colin wanted some but wasn't too thrilled after trying it and asked for an apple, Ha!)

One weekend we went to Bullhead so we could run into Kohl's and decided we would make a park date out of it.  So we stopped by Target and got some Lunchables and then took the boys to the park.  They had a blast!

Looking cute in his baseball cap

Tunnel slide! Liam LOVES them

Enjoying his lunchable and he had his first taste of Kool-aid which he loved but this boy does have a sweet tooth so I wasn't too surprised. While Liam was eating a little bug flew on his face.  He was slightly annoyed and looked at me and said "Momma, why are there so many bugs in this world"  He was so sweet when he asked and I just didn't have a good answer :)

The other night while eating dinner the boys were pretty wired.  They made funny faces.

And Colin's

They played some more in the garage, this time on the sled since clearly we are not going to get snow this year and get to utilize it the proper way.

Liam started back up with bootcamp.  We hadn't been taking him because he would say he doesn't want to go and then if we did take him he wouldn't participate too well.  He has done VERY well the last two weeks according to Chris.  I haven't made it because I have been visiting the chiropractor instead.

Colin playing with the noodles

Rope climbing

Tire sitting

and tire racing

Our sweet friend Megan has been awesome and taking this pictures of the boys, Chris usually can get a couple but is busy chasing Colin or helping Liam so I really appreciate her taking the time to capture some photos of our babies.  Thanks Meg!