Sing a song, sing out loud, sing out proud!

Here are two WAY too cute videos of John singing the newest songs of choice. Happy Birthday and 5 little monkeys.ETA- John I am so so sorry that your butt in naked!

Bumbo

This is Colin, this is Colin's Bumbo. While he is not quite perfect at holding up his head. He is ready for the chair in small doses. We are in a *bit* of a time crunch due to Col's *ahem* thighs. We have to be sure that we can get him out once he's in. Don't tell him though we don't want him to have a complex. (He had just throwed up as J would say, which is why he's wet!)

A Wednesday at the Zoo!

The weather here in Colorado has been FABULOUS! Yesterday was a perfect 65*, today has been just as warm but windy. I think the weather is about to change, and that's okay because truly it's February. But for now I'll let Seth take John to the park at the end of the street.
We spent the day with our good friend's Kit, Braxton and Cooper. The BIG boys did a great job sharing snacks and walking most of the zoo!
The pictures are of John and Brax doing the "how far can you jump", J's still not the best jumper!

I'm going to have to PW

PW is post whore, which means write a bunch at once so I can hit my 10 for February. I'm going to blame it on the 28 month, but truly I dropped the ball early.
On a side not, the Rocky Mountain News one of Denver's newspapers, will end it's 150 year stretch tomorrow. Another casualty of this economy. Too bad.

day 2 of cleaning lady gate

still no lisa. I don't think she's ever coming back. or is even going to call or email. how weird.
Today we took both the kids to the doctor's so that we could make sure John's ear drum had healed enough for him to return to swimming. It has, and tonight he was back in the pool. Turns out 2 of his friends are in his class. (we also had him check colin's blood oxygen levels and they were great, I had myself in quite the tizzy!)
Both of the boys and I went to the library for story time today. After 10 minutes John was done and we picked out 3 new books, put a hold on a love and logic book and got me a novel. I seriously love to read but haven't been making it a priority lately. Thanks to my 101 that is going to change! After the library the boys and I walked the 3 blocks to the donut shop. the weather here is fabulous, a perfect 68* and the pink sprinkle donut was just what we needed. Those are the moments that I remember as a child, those perfect spur of the moment, these do something out of the ordinary trips. I hope my kids remember days like today.
I also did a bunch of laundry due to pink taking a dip in the potty and a huge blow out diaper (those don't happen very often here!)

5 more days in February!

One of my 101 things is that I post 10 times a month. With only 5 more days in February I will be posting a lot.
Last night Seth, Colin and I went out to dinner with 2 couples of friends. John spent the night at Mimi's!! Vesta restaurant was wonderful!! Highly recommended.
This morning we were up early so that our cleaning lady could work her magic, only she never showed. For those of you close to us you know how important this woman is to me. And how we've guessed there were problems. Damn!! Square one.
Today we spent the entire day at Mimi's because I had a weird work schedule. It was really nice to be there and reconnect with my mom. Plus we went on a great walk.
Seth is at the Nuggets game tonight while I am trying to wrangle the boys into bed, with enough time to clean up a bit.

A Picture Update

As my best friend Anne pointed out, I haven't been doing very good with pictures lately. As she said "I didn't even know Colin was smiling!", not just smiling giggling.



John got a new big boy bike from the neighbors. We are so thankful to them!!



The boys, Mimi and I all went to Kangroo Kingdom on Wednesday. It was the perfect thing for John, who is using my furniture like a jungle gym. The bubbles were a huge hit too.



John played Wii at the neighbor's the other night. He was really interested in the "bracelet."


The weather yesterday was wonderful and we all got out for a walk and a trip to the park. Colin likes to nurse in the sun and John GETS parks now. He is a crazy man, going down slides head first. His mother has upped her heart medicines;)

101 list update 2-14

It's been awhile without an update, and I don't want you thinking I've abandoned this list.
#4 Join a prayer group. Hoping to make it on Tuesday, I will probably have to work though. But I've picked one out. We'll see how it goes!
#6 and #8 I've been keeping up with. In fact we went to the Av's game last night. Too bad they lost!
#19 Get Colin a passport. I picked up the paper work, now I need to get paper copies of his birth certificate and I can get the ball rolling. I wouldn't mind visiting Christine in Mexico early in the summer and will need this, so I better keep working on it.
#22 Potty train John. He's interested, he's gone a few times, and never has accidents when we do Nighttime Naked. I'm waiting until May, after we've driven to Kansas.
#25 Take pictures of the kids once a week. It's on going!
#31 John's big boy room. Looking into all the parts, Courtney's coming up with the design.
#32 Love and Logic- want to do a little more research, went to get a book at the library, but John wasn't cooperating... Next time!
#34 medical debt- waiting for the last of the bills to come in, and then we're done!!
#44 and #52 Will be worked on this upcoming weekend.

Clearly I'm on my way. It's hard with the ambiguous ones, like go on a date once a month. Did we last month or not? It's hard to remember. I may have to reword a few.


Say some prayers for Colin, he's got a cough, and though I'm sure it's nothing, it is scaring the crap out of me that it *could* be something.

Doctor's Appointment Update 2-9-08

So what was suppose to be Colin's 2 month well baby also became a what's wrong with John appointment. First the good news:
Colin is 15 pounds 1.5 ounces naked. He is also 25.5 inches, with a head circumference of 41cm. Which is above the 95 percentile for weight and length. Head is around 50th. He looks great and besides everything we already knew about he is doing great! Clearly he is going to be the heavy weight.
John isn't doing as well. He ruptured his left ear drum due to a sever ear infection in both ears. Nothing we can do about the drum except let it heal. He is now on antibiotics to combat the infections. Oh and for those keep track, John is 26.2 pounds which is between the 25th and 50th percentiles. No heavy weight matches for J.
Now I'd like to feel better too!

2 Months Old!

I can't believe that Colin is already 2 months! The last month has flown by. It is probably because we haven't spent every waking moment in a doctors office. Colin is doing great, and I cannot wait to see how big he is at his appointment on Monday. My guess is over 15 pounds. I didn't take monthly pictures with John, but think it's even more important with the second child to have something just for them. And it makes me take pictures which some times I get a little lax with. Clearly Colin was enjoying his picture being taken.


John's new favorite thing to do is wear my shoes around the house. Although they're Crocs he calls them flip flop shoes, and never seems to have them on the right foot. Now, he'll do it and ask me to take his picture. He is really starting to understand humor and is trying to use it often. Sometimes we don't get the jokes, and he'll just start laughing with his head thrown back like his MiMi does.
Hope everyone is doing well, and if you can pray for Courtney who has Influenza type A (bird flu). There isn't anything they can give her, so she just has to wait it out. She is just miserable poor thing.