Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Buddies

I realized that I forgot to post these pictures that I had taken over Christmas. This is Coleman and his little buddy Hayes. Hayes is my dear friend/college roommate's baby. We were due about 2 weeks apart and Coleman and Hayes ended up being born 12 days apart. It's been fun to be walking through things at the same time. Unfortunately Kaye and I live 1000 miles away right now, so these little guys won't get to play together much. Maybe one day we'll live closer! Until then, we'll be seeing them at Christmas and in the summer. (sorry about the grainy pictures)


This is the latest of Callie and Coleman, playing under the jungle gym.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Lately

I've been wanting to do a blog post lately, but couldn't come up with anything to post about. We havn't been doing much around here. Winter has completely set in. We've already had plenty of days that it didn't get out of the single digits. Plus, I'm realizing that it does take longer to get out of the house with two kids. Getting out about once a day is plenty. Here are just a few pictures from over the last few days.

Callie walks around the house looking like this all the time. She is an accessory girl. She loves scarves, necklaces, headbands. She likes to deck herself out with these things. Callie has been going through a bit of a whiny streak, although this week has been much better than the previous week. She was sick the previous week and naturally that upped the whining. Lately, she's been loving dressing up like a princess in her rappunzel dress and working puzzles. She got a United States puzzle for Christmas. She's going to know all the states by the end of the semester with how much she's working the puzzle. We are also working on phonics this semester.



Getting ready for church. I thought Coleman looked like a little man in his sweater vest. Callie was ready to walk out the door. It's been so helpful now that she's old enough to get her own coat, shoes, and hat on. It really helps, especially on Sunday mornings when Charlie is already at church and I'm trying to get us all out the door.


Coleman has been such a delight. He really has been such a sweet, easy baby. I am so thankful. I mean he has his moments but overall he is so easy and content. Lately he has been sleeping, laying under his jungle gym, sitting in his bouncy seat, smiling, or swinging in his swing. That pretty much sums up his day. He is grabbing at the rings in his jungle gym. He's also started grabbing at my face and mouth when I hold him. He babbles and smiles a lot until he gets tired and then he spaces out/sucks his thumb. He is a big time thumb sucker. He gets swaddled with one arm out so he can suck his thumb. He easily puts himself to sleep each night. Nightimes are usually pretty good with him. He'll wake up once or twice (mostly still twice) at night to eat, but he goes back down easily. We finally caught a good picture of him smiling.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Running Outside in January?!

Had you told me I would be able to jog with our new (used) double jogger outside in January I would not have believed you. But, the week after we got back, we had a day where the high reached 50 degrees! I don't think that has ever happened in January (at least not since we've lived in Minnesota). So, the kids did pretty well and I was able to get an outdoor jog in. It was nice.


Coleman is sporting his little dog slippers he got for Christmas

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Some smiles from the big boy

Coleman had a check up the other day and is somehow in the 75% of weight and the 81% of height. Callie was never close to that. We're thankful for our healthy baby.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Christmas Pictures

We really enjoyed being down south for an extended Christmas this year. Our conference with students was in the south, so we were able to stay down longer which was nice. I don't know where to begin with a post, so I'm basically just going to post a bunch of pictures.

The birthday girl. On Christmas Eve we celebrated Callie's birthday with family.