I guess every child needs one of these:

Yum!

I'm not sure who taught him to lick the bowl, but cleaning spaghetti sauce out of baby hair really sucks. Too bad its too frickin cute.

Colby...

Son,

you will gain all your wisdom from me. Now isn't that a scary thought? Especially coming from the lady who taught you the most important skill of all. When daddy goes into the bathroom and shuts the door, I taught you to wiggle your fingers under the door while saying "hi dad!"

You're welcome.

Mama

Accident Prone

Ok, the story for this boo-boo. He was toddling down the hall and tripped over daddy's foot, head first into the corner of the door jam. Immediately, it was the size of a golfball, with bruising right away. It keeps swelling and swelling. It looks horrible, and its going to look even worse tomorrow.
Don't mind the stains on his shirt, apparently M & M's are good bribes for boo-boos.

Eye Candy for Grandma

Let the swooning begin.

Little Boy

I had my first studio photo shoot this past weekend, and as I was setting up, The Colbster wanted to give the chair a try. Happy face!

There was a little house...

There was a little house that was full of chocolate. Every day when mommy gets home, he gets to open a door. He loves opening them and finding candy in them. After we put him down to enjoy his candy, he'll want to climb back up. He'll point and exclaim "THAT!"

Its a mystery

The Crime scene:

Somebody climbed the Christmas tree during the night and flattened the top branches. The tree resides between the couch and a stack of toys, so it was possible for anyone to climb and jump.

The (usual) suspects:

Harley:

Looks suspicious, standing in close proximity to the tree, hiding behind her paw

Faustie:

Won't look you in the eye. Looks repentant.

Colby, alias- the Colbster:

Smirking, has working toy knowledge, enjoys irritating mom & dad when they're not looking.

So the question is, Whodunnit?

He's growing up.

In this video, Colby shows three of his latest skills: walking, saying kitty, and irritating the crap out of the cat. He does all three pretty well.

He left me no choice

So before halloween, Colby got a ghost towel that was adorable. I just wanted a simply, adorable picture of Colby in it. I mean, he didn't even have to be smiling. However, Colby hates hats. Nothing can be on his head. If he can't get it off, he has a panic attack. Its horrible. So the ghost towel wasn't going over very well.

So he gave me no choice. If he wouldn't let me take the picture with the towel on, then I had to take a picture with the towel off.

In 10-15 years, my son will hate me for posting this. Awww, sweet revenge.

Mom, you suck!

I am pretty much horrible at this now, aren't I?

In all fairness, Colby's been sick, so we haven't done much anything. Plus as the semester winds down, we have zero time anymore!

So I will update this today in just a few minutes. Gotta go find some pictures. It'll be quick, I promise!

Holy Guacamole

So my friend Kim is an awesome photographer, she has her own business and just rocks my socks! She did our family pictures, check some of these out!

Here!

Ouch!

So I stayed home with Colby all day today because he was sick. So when daddy came home, he made dinner and took care of the Colbster for me. He called me from the kitchen and said "please come get your son, I'm dealing with really hot things right now and he's in the way. He was making pasta, and he had just dumped it into the colander to drain. Colby was standing at his feet as I entered the kitchen. DH moved the colander to the counter to finish preparing dinner, and Colby was splashed with the boiling hot water as it passed over his head. He starts screaming in pain as I run to him, and try to get the random droplets of his head, where I assumed was the most painful. He continued to scream and scream, it took about 4 minutes to calm him. When we took off his shirt to give him his dinner, we saw why. It had got onto his sleeve, and kept the burning hot water against his skin. I am so sad right now!

Sick

Our little guy is crazy sick right now. Its kinda gross. He has an endlessly runny nose, with snot everywhere. And the snot bugs him, so he rubs it around his face trying to get it off. Seriously, his hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes are plastered with cruddy snot.



No picture today though... doesn't that make you grateful?

Puppies!

Grandpa great has puppies, so on Halloween we went to visit them! Colby has never been around puppies before, he's more familiar with dogs the size of horses. So to have 9 wiggly puppies crawling all over you and licking you can be quite overwhelming!

Colby and the mama. He loved being around her.

Freaked out when this one jumped all over him... I think this is the one that completely knocked him over with his kisses.

and then they just kept coming...and coming...

and coming...

and coming.

Poor Colby!