Wordless Wednesday

Potty Seat

Colin is obsessed with Elmo (and airplanes and dinosaurs and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse) and if anything is going to motivate him to use the potty it is Elmo. So when I found this Elmo potty seat for sale I had to buy it. I am no where near ready to attempt potty training just yet, he won't even be 2 until August. I figure it can't hurt for the seat to hang around the house so Colin can get used to it though. It sits in the living room and every now and again he sits on it like a chair and presses the buttons to make Elmo talk. He does look pretty cute on it though!

He looks like he's really thinking hard about going....but never went.


That's not how you sit on it!


There ya go! Now go go go!

Fruit!

I know I've said it over and over but I love my yard! The cherry tree out back is loaded with cherries and we've been picking like mad to beat the birds to them. Our strawberry plants are also full of berries and Colin is really excited about that. He calls it an apple until I remind him it's a strawberry. He can't say strawberry very well but he can say it in Deutsch...erdbeer! He loves to play in the yard and send me over to go pick him a snack. He thinks he's getting a big treat when I pick it from the garden and give it to him.

Camera Shy

Colin has decided he hates my camera. Anytime I try to take a picture he ignores me, runs the other way, attempts to steal the camera, or just stops being cute so I don't want the picture anymore. He is very into "up" and "down" lately and when he swings he gives you a swing by swing update of "up, down, up, down, up, down". Today he was sitting on his alligator seesaw and rocking and he was practicing his up down up downs and it was pretty cute. As soon as I got my camera he jumped off the alligator and ran to me, smacking my leg and telling me "stop! stop it!" LOL I further tormented him by continuing to video. He then starts mumbling "camera" which to him I guess sounds like candy, and he then decides to ask for candy. You can see the reaction I get when I said no to candy, yea unfortunately that's pretty typical around here. The two year old tantrums have arrived! After he hit my leg and whined about my refusal to give him candy (as if that might change my mind!) he then started pushing me from behind and telling me "go, go" to make me leave so that he could attempt to sneak into the kitchen and steal the candy. Not a chance kiddo!

Mr. Demanding

Here is video of Shel and Colin playing the other day. Colin was crawling on top of Shel and then Shel would toss him up in the air a couple times and then eventually throw him onto the couch. Colin loves it. Here you see Shelby set Colin down and Colin whine about it, then when Shel tries to get up Mr. Demanding orders him to "lay down" and then Colin asks for "seebop" which is how he says bouncy. He uses his word seebop for anything related to bouncing, such as jumping on the bed, being bounced on the couch, playing in a jumpy castle. When he was little we would bounce him on the bed or couch and say "bouncy bouncy bouncy" and I guess that's where he got it from, he just says it backwards.

Playtime

Playground

Colin and I played outside yesterday. We played on his slide here at the house, then he played in his sandbox and then he was ready to go "outside" as he calls it. What he means is outside our yard. I've tried to explain to him our yard IS outside but when he wants to go to the park down the road he just runs to the gate yelling "outside" and pointing in the direction of the park. So we went "outside". He had fun as usual going down the slide 100 times, digging in the dirt, playing in the water fountain, chasing birds and his new thing is watching bugs.

Wordless Wednesday

Shaving cream fun

Colin had a blast playing in the shaving cream today. He wasn't too interested in drawing pictures and writing in it, which was kinda what he was supposed to do. He had way more fun rubbing it all over his hands, face, arms, table, and Mommy. As long as he had fun and it wore him out is all I care about.

Silly boy

he knows his animal sounds though! Loves animals!

Wordless Wednesday

**Colin and I went to the strawberry field and picked strawberries today. He ate a bunch in the field and had more for dessert with his lunch.