23 Months!

Well, these pics are as good as it gets for the moment.  Here is Cole on Sunday playing.  He now says "choo-choo", "boo", "vroom", "dog", "dad", "again", "uh-oh", and other things.

Cole is getting better at coloring and he recognizes several letters and colors, even if he is not verbalizing them.  He only has 2 two-year molars left to come in after the one he's working on (thus the grumpiness).  He was zoned out on the swing in this picture.

Cole loves cars, trains, water, dogs, birds, planes, sports, painting, and playing non-stop.  He is also a pretty good sleeper and we are thankful for that!  I cannot believe he will be 2 in less than a month.  It is crazy!  We go to Ohio on Saturday and it will be fun to see if he gets any new words!

23 Months

Photos coming tomorrow!  Cole turned 23 months old today.  In 1 month he will be 2 years old.  I can hardly believe it.

VBS Crafts and Summertime Fun!

Here are the crafts Cole made at VBS while I was teaching.

Cole and Mommy before church on Sunday.  We matched so we needed a picture.

Kolbi showing us how to slide.

Cole's new outfit and cutie pie smile!  The outfit is for his 2 year picture, but he loves the shirt so much he had to wear it!

Going down the slide.

We brought ice cream and cones for the older kids and they loved them!

They were a sticky mess!

Eating the ice cream.

Kolbi eating her ice cream.  Cole had given his up.

Checking out the yellow lab at the neighbor's house (Keen's neighbors).

Look at the leaves, Mommy!

Watching the leaves.

The cocker spaniel puppy the Keen's neighbors had.  She was a very sweet puppy.  No nipping.  Kolbi was terrified, but Cole had no fear (not such a good thing, either).

Callie.  She is now walking!  Love this little girl!

VBS Week

This is Cole's favorite place...playing the "Boo" game.  This is where he learned to say "boo".

Petting a chicken with Kaden.  Kaden was in my VBS class.  A very smart and energetic youngster!  I didn't know how Cole would do, but he enjoyed the chickens.

Silly chicken!

Checking out the ponies with Daddy.  He is running over to the other ponies here.

Showing us that he knows that in this picture, this is the pony, just like the ones walking in front of him.  He loves drawing correlations...does it a lot!

I like these things, but don't try to get me to ride one!

The fake fire truck is more Cole's speed.  The boy next to him is Jacob.  He's in his Sunday School class.

This girl is a friend of mine's daughter.  Look at her expression with the chicken.  She put it in the fire truck right after this shot.  She wasn't horrified, but she kind of looks it.  Maybe she was afraid to drop it.

Happy Father's Day!

There were two birthday parties yesterday.  Here's a nice Father's Day picture of Jonathan and Cole.  This was the first party of the day.  Cole loves swings.  It was so hot out we were both hoping he'd go for the splash park all the other kids were playing in about 20 feet from the swings.

Getting hydrated.  It was so hot.  The splash park looked like so much fun and he wasn't going in it at this point.

Cole LOVES balloons!  He was trying to get this one off the sign and I loved this picture because of his reflection.

I can't get the balloon off of here, so I am going to station myself with it.

Ok, it's too hot, so maybe I will try to get wet.

Feeling the water.  It must have felt good (we were jealous:).

A little wet.

A lot wet!  This bucket helped give him a task in the water so he felt more comfortable playing in it.

Loving the water!

Look!  Water!

More water collecting basins!

I am working here!

After party number 2 we got home late and Cole walked up to me like this.  I laughed very hard.  It is the first time he has tried to wear our shoes.  I consider it a milestone.  I loved trying on my parents shoes as a child.

Going to show Daddy his shoes.

One party was at 9:30 and the other at 4, so he got a good nap in between.  Bad news is that our digital SLR broke.  The good news is that we will have a working SLR again soon.  Luckily we have a point and shoot to document until then!  We are all pretty tired from the parties, though.  Cole was not in a good mood all morning this morning so I hope he is jovial after his nap!  After all, it is Father's Day!

The Fort Myers pictures you haven't seen yet!

Grandma and Cole in the pool in their development.

Splashing in the water.

Playing with new Jeff Gordon pez dispenser car.

Talking on the make-believe cell phone that was a tag from a shirt I bought for Jonathan.  He even wiped it on his chest like we do when we finish talking on ours!

Playing cars with Grandpa.

Showing off doing pushups.

Talking on the phone again.  He's a teenager already!

Collecting Shells in Sanibel.

Cutie.

Collecting shells with Grandpa and Grandma.

Check these out, Mommy!

Investigating the shells.

Investigating the waves with Grandma.

Kisses.

Going out to dinner.

The restaurant we were going to go to.

Posing with Mommy yet again.

And again.

Throwing a dime into the fountain.

Checking out the lions.

Another fountain.

Trying to impress a girl at Campiello's in Naples.

Not wanting to walk outside without Grandpa.

Eating a blackberry out of Grandpa's dessert.

Swimming again.

Cleaning up after himself.