Rise and Shine Daddy

This picture is from Sunday morning.  Colton was laying in our bed clapping his hands and being happy to start his day!!  Here is the latest quote from Brian regarding his week at home with the boys by himself:

Little Coltie decided to get up at 4:30 this morning and Austin came into our room at 6 and asked me if I wanted a grape. They must think since mom is gone it’s crazy party time.

This morning I had to leave early to be in Calgary until Thursday.  So, Brian had to take care of the potty training this morning . . . for the first time.  He put Austin on the potty and Austin peed right on his daddy's foot.  This made me laugh out loud when Brian told me so I hope you enjoy this story too.  Brian at first didn't even realize what was happening!!  Such a fun time around our house! 

Colton is on the move!

Colton is everywhere!!  He is getting around the house crawling but tends to fall back onto his little scoot that he has perfected.  Seems that crawling is ok but scooting seems to get him their faster so that is what he does.  He is pulling himself up and in the last few days has walked across the living room while holding on to a walker so he will soon be running around after Austin!  Austin is very encouraging and will cheer Colton on when he is coming down the hall.  Austin has also started telling Colton, "Come here Colton".  Colton doesn't always listen to him, of course, but we are well on our way to having two little guys running around after eachother!

So to wrap up my birthday month we went to Heritage Square with our friends Jake and Sarah.  They had their two little girls with them; Zoey and Charlee.  Charlee is only two days older than Colton!  So, Austin and Zoey had a fun time running around the carnival and riding all the rides.  Colton and Charlee had a fun time riding in their strollers next to eachother!  Austin went down the alpine slide with his daddy!  He wasn't nervous or scared at all.  It was a little scary watching him on the ski lift but he sat still and Brian held on to him of course!  So, Colton started crawling!  He still does a lot of scooting because I think it is faster for him but he did crawl two nights ago for the first time!  Colton loves clapping his hands and playing hide-n-seek.  We are working on "sooooo big" (which Austin thinks is hilarious because "Colton is just a baby Mommy"!) 

Lake Dillon, CO

We had a fantastic vacation in Dillon, CO.  The boys had such a good time and were excellent little vactioners!  We went to Vail on Thursday and got to ride in a Gondola up the side of the mountian.  At the top we ate lunch and there were a lot of activities for little kiddos, such as the trampoline that Austin tried out!  He loved it and kept asking the guy working if he could please go higher!  Saturday afternoon Annie, Courtney and I took the boys over to Keystone for the jazz festival that was going on.  Again, there were lots of activities for kiddos!  We spent a lot of time hanging out at the house we rented.  We brought Austin's baseball stuff and his soccer ball so he was running around outside a lot of the time too!  Colton started clapping last Wednesday!!  He had a Dr. appointment and he now weights in at 19 lbs 12 oz and he is 29" tall.  So, he is growing and staying steady with the other babies his age!  Today was hard for all of us to get out of bed.  We are definitely all tired after such a fun filled vacation.  Austin wanted to go to Iowa this morning in Nick's truck instead of going to the babysitters!  Hopefully we will be back in Iowa sometime soon!

This afternoon I walked into Ausitn's room where he was playing.  Mommy:  "What are you doing Austin?"  Austin: "Just horsing around mommy.  What are you doing?"  He's so cute!

Annie and Papa got Austin a baseball tee, bat and ball!  He was so excited to get swinging that we were outside in our jammies!!!  We showed him a couple of times how to do it and now he tends to hit the ball every time he swings.  He's a natural little athlete!  Colton loved watching Austin and he loved throwing the ball around.