Life and Death

        "How do babies come out of their mommy's bellies?"  "What about doggies?"  "Somebody died over there" (This took quite a while to figure out) "There are bones.  Somebody died." (decorations from halloween in a neighbor's driveway) We took a walk and found what he was talking about. We explained that people will be buried or something like that. "But what if people forget?  I think someone forgot."  This conversation went on for a bit.  On a side note he can identify a dog just by the bones.  Colin is coming up with more grown-up questions and is trying to figure a lot of different things out.  He'll stand pretty firm on an issue once he believes he is right about it.  A second party is usually required to sway his opinion.
       This month's excitement included a flight out to Boston and Maine to see Yaya while mommy worked, mommy's birthday, going to Legoland a couple of times and other stuff.

Making mommy's brithday 'not-a-cake'

Bowling for mommy's birthday (there's a video too)

Taking Maya for a walk

Going for a little ride

Mr Muscles carrying groceries

Back into swim lessons

sleeping or surfing???

We figured out how to attach the wagon to tricycle

We can't go to Legoland without driving a car

Before

After

 Now we ask for help getting out of the plane ride

Going for a walk with his buddy Odin in MA\

We found a dog park nearby for the dogs

Made a car with his cousins

Colin is holding the brake, in case you can't tell

Building towers is more interesting

Out riding bikes, cars, scooters....whatever with the Cockrells

He's got some serious work going on there

Very insistent that he take it up to pay. 

He was very involved in putting the pipe in the ground

Thanksgiving pie, or just the whipped cream

Some kid foosball with cousins

Taking a silly Christmas picture

Finally got him to go into the bubble for a look

Getting a good view of the pool

All aquatic life at the aquarium had to see his walrus

Going down the big slide

3x in a row and never staying upright

Building his racecar with mommy

Went to see his first movie.....The Peanuts Movie.  Why else take a picture in front of the Chipmunks??

Colin's videos
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Busy October

We had a few trips this month.  The Wild Animal Park, Legoland, the pumpkin patch, cousin birthdays, carnivals...we were busy.

Halloween was a success.  Iron man went door to door with his cousins Harry Potter, Snow White and a shadow.  Plenty of candy was collected, but the scariest places were skipped over.  Some houses caused some hesitation but having some cousin support was helpful.  When asked what he will be next year he decided to be a very cute puppy.  We'll see what a year will do to his decision.

There was a Touch-A-Truck with the Batmobile.  Batman was too intimidating to approach

We went to Brick-or-Treat at Legoland.  Plenty of costumed kids plus the thrill of driving his lego car again and a clown with a bubble machine.

We took a trip to Bates Nut Farm with Uncle Joey and the Cockrell boys.  They had some farm animals, a bounce house and slide, a batmobile and another intimidating Batman plus a fun maze.  What better way to end a fun morning than with an In & Out lunch.

Another trip to the Wild Animal Park in non-hot weather

Some cousin activities

Colin helping out with cutting daddy's hair...the bald spot was already there

We had a little visit with Uncle Lynn and we saw a ton of birds

He's been wanting to lick an empty peanut butter jar like Hobie and Maya do

If he needs glasses I don't think wearing them will be a problem.  Colin says they give super speed.

We've had quite a few intense, slow as molasses, games of fooseball

One of his new outside games of choice is racing cars down the hill. Tons of fun.






















Some Halloween prep

Halloween night

His favorite song at the moment is the Manmana song from the muppets
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