Care Package

Colin got another care package from Daddy yesterday. He was very excited to see a new Dinosaur Train video and "Buddy" the dinosaur inside. He has Boris, the large T-Rex in the background, that he got for Christmas. Boris roars and talks and says all kinds of things and Colin loves him.

The Dinosaur Train character dinosaurs are all interactive, so when they get near one another they start talking to each other. Colin thought it was pretty interesting that Buddy and Boris were talking and roaring to one another. Colin carried Boris to bed with and even tried to give him a bath, thank goodness I caught that one before he got all wet and ruined! I think he likes his presents.

Conversations with Colin

I wish I could remember more, he's been cracking me up recently. Here is what he said Friday afternoon in the car. We had just went through the base gate and the car in the lane next ot us sped off ahead of me going way too fast. So Colin says "hey car, no! Slow Down Car! Get back here RIGHT NOW!" About this time the other car slows down and i am going faster so we caught up to the car. Colin is all happy and pleased and says "thank you car. Good job car!" I busted out laughing out loud, and he couldnt figure out why. He was annoyed I was laughing at him, I just told him he was funny.

Wordless Wednesday - Fossil hunting

Zoo day

Kaiserslautern Zoo

The weather has been warming up and getting very nice here. We've been inching into the 50's during the day and had a lot of sunshine lately, it's been great. Colin and I went to the little zoo in Kaiserslautern to spend some time enjoing the weather and to run around. He had a great time feeding the animals and watching them. He still loves birds, he spent a lot of time in the aviary and even took me back in there for a second bird watching trip. He was very interested in the chickens, because some of them were out of the fenced area so he could get up close to them. One chicken decided he'd had enough of Colin trying to pet him and being so close and so he stopped his feet in a little dance sort of thing and then charged towards Colin. Colin was so stunned he almost fell backwards trying to get away from the chicken and he came running to me and hid behind my leg. He was afraid of the chickens after that, it was hysterical. "Bad chicken" he would say. He only fed the ones behind the wire fence from then on!

Wordless Wednesday

Bear from Daddy

The USO has a program where you can go online and send little bears back to your kids/family for free while you are deployed. Colin got his package in the mail the other day and was excited to have mail from Daddy to open.

Wordless Wednesday

OK Perhaps I should explain...Colin has been going to daycare with a little girl now, she wears earrings, Colin is in love. On the way home from the sitter one day he was playing with his dinosaur sticker page and moving the stickers around on the mat. He got real quiet in the back for a while and then proudly shouted "Colin have pretties!" I turned around to see every sticker on the page piled on top of one another and covering his ears to look like earrings. It was hilarious. I had to take pictures before he took them off.

Up-chuck

The last thing anyone wants to hear on the baby monitor at 1:30 am is "uh oh, Mommy come look!" I came and looked and found puke all over the bed and the kid. I got it all cleaned up, new sheets on the bed, Colin cleaned up and pj's changed, and I was just about to tuck him back into bed when.....yep, puke again. Fantastic! That kicked off the barfing marathon and the poor little guy was throwing up or dry heaving every 20-30 minutes from 1:30am until 9:30am. He got to the point where he would feel he was about to be sick and just start crying and saying "no want it, no want it!" I felt so horrible for him. He couldn't get his tummy to settle, but at least he was attempting to drink some Pedialyte for me in between pukes.

My computer with all the movies on it has been in the shop for over a week so I am limited to what I actually have on DVD here at the house, and that isn't a whole lot when it comes to kid movies. There are 10-15 in the drawer and we've seen all those in the last week while the computer has been out. We watched three movies before the sun even came up this morning, and if I was going to make it through this day on three hours sleep I was not going to be watching the same movies over and over.

I called a friend who ran over a basket full of DVDs for us to watch and some medicine called Vomex you can get from the German pharmacy here over the counter. It is supposed to ease nausea. I waited for Colin to throw up and then right away gave him the meds hoping that would give it the max absorption time before it got tossed. To my surprise he actually kept it down, along with some drink and fell asleep on the couch for 3.5 hours. YAY! I was right next to him sleeping on the couch trying to take advantage of the opportunity myself. When he woke up he ate a little and drank some, and it all stayed down, but you could tell he wasn't feeling back to normal.

This is the first time he's ever been puke-y sick. I hope we can make it another two and a half years before he gets puke sick again, this sucks! Tonight when I put him to bed he had a 102 fever, so it's not over yet. I will have to call out of work again tomorrow to stay with him. I will be SO ready to go back to work on Friday. I am praying I don't catch it, but it does not look good. Kids have been puking all over the school for the last couple of days, friends I know all have sick kids, Colin's babysitter caught it this morning too and has been trying not to die all day herself. I got the stupid flu shot I was required to get for work, so maybe, just maybe I can sneak out of this one. We shall see....

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Another Day, Another Bump

I swear I either need to bubble wrap the kid or keep him in a cage! He is on a roll this weekend. Today started off nice, we blew bubbles outside and played on the swingset for a long time. It was damp outside because it had been raining off and on all morning, so the bubbles were sticking to the ground and not bursting when they hit it.

Colin found this fascinating and would blow some bubbles, then go around and pick them all up on his wand and blow them around again. Then he decided to blow them just to stomp on them, because he could.


After blowing bubbles Colin wanted to draw with the sidewalk chalk. Then he wanted me to draw with the chalk. He made very specific requests and there were a lot of Mommy and Baby dinosaurs and Mommy and Baby snakes.

We wrote messages to Daddy and traced our bodies, which Colin thought was hysterical.

Then we came inside for lunch. Colin doesn't like his high chair but cannot sit still on the couch long enough to eat. Today he was bouncing around on the couch and playing while eating his food. Sure enough he finally got too big for his britches and fell into the table while bouncing around. We have a coffee table that the top raises up and the top was up so we could eat on it. Well he fell into it and the top went down and then he went down onto the corner of the table face first. He hit HARD and I was waiting for the blood. Thankfully it just bruised the crap out of him and barely broke the skin, more of an indentation that anything. He got a huge goose egg, the pictures don't do it justice, they were taken too soon after before it really popped out and turned color.

Poor kiddo looks like a mess. Between the busted up eye and the knot on his head...good thing I wasn't trying to have pictures taken anytime soon. The child has a death wish and he's gonna give me a heart attack!