Self Portrait

He got a hold of the camera...

St. Pattys Day

Well, my St. Patrick's day wasn't all green beer and lucky gold, I got two sick kids instead, and a St. Patrick's day party with my mommies group. Colin had to stay behind with his grandpa but Lucas and I got to "party."

Cute little leprechaun, isn't he?

The Good, The Icky and the Green

So we had a great day yesterday!

The Good: COLIN WENT PEE PEE IN THE POTTY FOR THE FIRST TIME! YAY! We've been talking to him about it for quite some time, read books about it, we watch an Elmo DVD about it, etc.

We ask him every night before bath time (when he's already naked) if he wants to go pee pee in the potty. He always says no and we're fine with that. But last night, he was IN the tub and told us he wanted to go pee pee in the potty. So we got him out, dried him off and stood him in front of the potty training urinal we bought him. He stood there, grabbed his pee pee like we've showed him and said "Wait." He didn't seem to know what to do, so I told him he had to push out the pee pee. So he said "Momma help." I laughed and told him I couldn't help, he had to do it on his own, so he turned to Dadda and said, "Dadda Help." And then...he peed! We all clapped and we made a VERY BIG DEAL out of it. He got to put a sticker on his chart. (Every time he goes pee pee in the potty he gets 1 sticker, poo poo gets 2, when he gets to 10 stickers he gets a new puzzle.)

Colin's sticker chart, and a proud boy!

The Icky: 2 minutes after going pee pee in the potty, he went poo poo on the floor. One battle at at time.

The Green: Lucas had his second day of peas and he seems to LOVE them, which makes me happy because I love all kinds of peas! So far the little monkey hasn't turned down anything we've offered, he has now had: rice cereal, avocado, and peas YUM!

Baker Park Play Date

Last week we went to the park with our good friends Johanna, Camden and Grayden. Johanna took some great photos (she usually does...and we love her for this) and I wanted to share.

(Most of the captions courtesy of Johanna as well)

4 Bakers, 2 Swings

Monkey in a Swing

Here comes trouble...

Romeo, Romeo, where for out thou, Romeo?

Four Bakers

A Moment I've Been Waiting for for 2 Years and 3 Months

Colin told me, "Love You" all on his own last night. I laid him down and tucked him in and just as I was leaning in for a kiss he said it. It was kinda funny because at first I thought he said "yellow." So I asked him "yellow?" and he said nuh huh. I said "love you?" and he did his little giggle that means "yes."

I left the room with a tear in my eye.

Then and Now

This is Colin with some of his best friends from our mommy group. The one on the left is one year prior to the one on the right. Same friends (minus Alec), just one year later, look how much they've all changed! Thank you to Johanna (mom of the twins, Camden and Grayden) for this wonderful photo.

Big Brother, Little Monkey

Here a few photos I've taken of the boys together during February.

Sweet Bubba Kisses. 2/2/10

Gramma! 2/19/10


Hold Bubba. 2/23/10


Baker brother's bubble bath! 2/28/10

Monthly Newsletter: Month Six

Dear "Big" Monkey,


You are such a big kid! You are six months old and already such an over achiever. In only six short months you've already grown to the size of a one year old. Literally. You are wearing 12 month clothing already and only one inch away from the 18 month sizing. We took you to your six month check up and you weighed in at 18 pounds 9 ounces (70th percentile) and 29 inches long (97th percentile). You grew an astounding 3 inches in 2 short months!

Your brother decided that you need all his night time cuddly things. So he piled them on top of you. hehe.

You had two big physical accomplishments this month. The first is that you are rolling over from back to stomach, which means every once in awhile I have to go in to your room and roll you back over because you roll in your sleep and wake up mad. Silly monkey.


The second is that you are sitting up, and you are doing so well too! We've even put you in a high chair a few times when we go out to eat.


Your eyes are turning brown for sure, though are still not quite there. You've got your momma's long eye lashes. Your hair is staying reddish brown and a little coarse. You are just perfect. And I'm not biased at all.


We also took you on your first big road trip this month. We went to visit your Uncle Kenny for the first time, a three hour drive. We were worried about how you would do sleeping in a new place, you are such a creature of habit, but to our surprise you did great! And we had such a good time visiting Uncle Kenny!


It's amazing that I'm still learning new things about you, but everyday you astonish me in some way. Like when you are sleepy but just DO NOT want to close your eyes, you let me cradle you (yes, let me) and you take your soft, sweet chubby little hands and just play with my face, rubbing my checks and grabbing my lips. It's one of those moments I'll always treasure.


Another moment that I will always hold very dear is the newest trick I've learned to calm you down. You can be screaming and crying full force, bright red faced and if I cradle you and kiss you very softly on the eye lids, nose, forehead and cheek you just stop. You breathe slowly and have even fallen asleep. It's beautiful.


Love Always,
Momma

1-2-3 Imagine!

On Saturday we took Colin to see Elmo live in concert. The name of the show was 1-2-3 Imagine, and taught the kids how to use their imagination to take them different places throughout the world. Colin had a good time, but didn't seem into any of the parts that didn't involve Elmo. Here are a few pictures from our very first Elmo concert.

His souvenir T-Shirt