Growing up

Yes, its true. Kids grow up. I mean, we all have right? Well, maybe physically, but we all love the days when we were kids. Abigail and I are loving the fact that we get to act like kids again. Lets see..... we've taught Colin how to give "rasberries," we have built forts with him, we play hide and seek, and we took him to the pool for the first time! The water was too cold for him, but it didn't stop us from giving it a try.

The funniest part was that we went to buy him new swimmers (they are diapers designed for swimming for those of you who don't know), and later figured out they were pink with Dora all over them! So I have been embarrassed for him, but its a good thing he has swim trunks on over top or we would be getting some funny looks.

Another thing Colin loves to do is "water the plants" with his daddy and use a shovel. We went out and bought him a kids shovel, so he likes to follow his dad outside and help. Problem is, all he likes to do is pick and pull on the plants!

Day in the yard

So the weather has gotten warm, and we've been living most of our days outside. Our deck is by far our favorite part of the house as we eat dinner out there nightly. It always allows Colin to have some time to walk/waddle around in the yard and have some fun learning things. The last couple days he has been learning what a hose is, and how water "sometimes" comes out of it. Little does he know that we control it! At times he tries to drink out of it, and others he tries to water the plants like his dad. Today he was wearing jeans, and as he became annoyed he tried to "wiggle" out of them. Well, as you can see in this picture he succeeded!

the birthday cake

This was Colins chance to eat sugar (real sugar and not the "cookies" mommy pretends to give him) We were so excited to see Colin smear cake all over himself. he was very tired from all the excitement of the day.. His aunts and uncle were home and we not only played at the playground all afternoon but there were DOGS! (colins favorite) Angela and James brought their dog AJ while Angela's mom Debbie brought her dog Lizzie. All that excitement made it hard at first to get into the whole cake eating but Colin figured it out and loved it.

Colin is 1 year old!

So Colin is now a year old. We can hardly believe it, but it just gets better every day. He makes us laugh more than ever now as his personality is really coming out. He is such a little helper and likes to give things to us to carry for him. He also likes to pass us the telephone to tell us we have a "call" to answer!

He has been crawling for months now, and is just about ready to walk on his own. He walks pretty well and takes about as many steps as we can convince him to take. Most of the time he walks us around grabbing our hands and taking us somewhere. It ends with us picking him up and taking him where WE want him to go!

Here he is at the playground on his birthday stylin with his "birthday mohawk!" His aunts came down the stairs with big smiles on their faces followed by Colin not having a clue. I think it will toughen him up a bit, you know, make kids think twice about messing with him! The mohawk lasted only a day, but I think his self confidence has remained high.

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