I have been falling behind. Exceptionally far behind. We have done so many amazing things since I last wrote, and even MORE since I shared pictures. I'm going to do my best to try and recap it without sending everyone into a "please stop sharing, that's enough" mode.
I think I will start at the end and go backwards - because that makes sense, right?
The biggest news?? We have a TWO YEAR OLD! An opinionated, talkative, smart, animal-obsessed two year old. I'm just in awe about how quickly time went, but we are loving it. The older he gets, the more fun he is. Of course more fun also equals more head-shaking and deep-breath taking on our end.
We had a wonderful birthday party with our friends and family. I am so appreciative that they took the time out to celebrate Colin. It means so much to me that we have such wonderful people in our lives. Colin loved it too. He got to hang out with Wylie and they ran around like crazy people which was so fun to see. It made me realize that we should probably try to make some more kid friends for Colin. He apparently likes hanging out with kids his own age as much as hanging out with his parents (when did he get to be a teenager?).
So here are a few pictures from his 2nd birthday to kick it all off. I am in all of my freshly broken wrist glory (it had happened the Wednesday before his Saturday party)... so you'll have to excuse my completely disheveled look...
Blowing out candles
We've created a monster about donuts now.. but can't resist the Happy Birthday Donut from Glazed & Infused!
Nom nom nom
Seriously, aren't balloons just about the greatest thing ever?
Then, just to make sure my arm was surely documented? We did some family pictures the next day. Our friend is a photographer and has been taking pictures of our little family since the beginning.. doing our pregnancy photos too. Colin wasn't in much of a mood for pictures, but we got a few in there before he freaked out and just wanted to sleep on my shoulder. Carrying around a 25 lb child with a casted elbow is pretty tough though.
I realize this is essentially the same picture but Colin is looking at the camera, but I can't resist the one where he's staring at us and laughing.
And this one of the two of them might be one of my favorite things...
Then we got tired boy.... But I love the cuddles.
We still need to take the obligatory bear photos in the chair, but we'll get there. We are so good at sneaking things in against the wire. Hopefully we get one in before the last day before he's 3!
Loving who this little boy is becoming. He says "I love you", and "thank you for helping me <>" which melts me every time. He has learned "I want" which is just about two of the worst words in our home since they often times lead to extreme yelling. He loves when all his people are in the same room. He has learned to move over on the sidewalk to let people pass, but sometimes that means waiting for all the people he can see for multiple blocks have passed us "more peoples mama, more peoples... wait". But goodness do we have fun. He loves puzzles, and singing songs. He often sings to us, and always loves a good rendition of "animals on the bus" which is apparently much more interesting than "wheels on the bus". When he comes into our bed in the morning and wakes up in a good mood, those are some of my favorite moments of the day. He'll lay there between us and just talk - he'll count, sing, go through the ABC's, list off all the animals he knows, all the people in his family, anything he can think of. It's pretty awesome.
We'll catch up more later... this is just a start.
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