so many thoughts…so little time

in case you haven’t noticed i love blogging…but also i have been extremely busy lately (which i also love).  probably once or twice a day i think “oh, i really want to write about _____” or “i should put _____ on the blog” but unfortunately about the best i seem to be able to do is a quick once a week recap with a blur of pictures.

in many cases the blog is the way that i try to make sure to remember little things about collin as he grows.  i am not the type of mom that can tell you the exact date collin started crawling, or when he had his first bite of rice cereal, or how many naps a day he took when he was 3 months old, but that’s what i have the blog and the baby book for, right?

trust me, i can tell you exactly where every single freckle on his body is located, and i can tell you exactly what he smells like after his bath, or the way he will smile at me each morning and do this little bobbing dance when i come into his room to get him out of his crib.  those are the things i will never forget.

anyways…here’s an update on all things collin (my favorite blogging subject)!

i think he is pretty much done with nursing.  he’s really only interested about every other day, so i think we are on borrowed time – i am excited that he is growing, but also a little sad that we will be ending this special part of our relationship.  every time he nurses now i try to really soak it all in knowing that this may be the last time.

he is all boy!  we spent a lot of time with his cousin lilo over memorial day weekend and it really made it more obvious to me what a difference there is.  lilo would be sitting on the floor quietly and gently playing with a toy, and collin would run over, grab it, raise it up over his head (while growling), and then chunk it halfway across the room – that’s my boy :)

he knows what he wants…and i have seen previews of temper tantrums already.  he gets frustrated easily when playing if he knows that a lid is supposed to go on a box, for example, but he has trouble lining it up to fit himself…but most notably over the fact that he is now only allowed to have the pacifier at naptime and bedtime.  some mornings he spits it out willingly but others it can be a battle – one that mommy wins, but it is not fun for either of us.  i think after our texas trip that we will be saying bye-bye to paci for good…but mommy is just not brave enough to try a 3 hour plane ride by myself without it as an emergency back-up plan!  any ideas on how to get rid of it??  should i just go cold turkey??  i have heard to snip the end off and give it to him…then he probably won’t want it anymore??

he is so much fun!  i seriously love playing with him.  he is starting to get hide-n-seek now (though i am always the one who has to hide).  we always have fun at the pool & at the park.  he will always do something silly to make me laugh like blowing a raspberry on my shoulder while i am carrying him around, or grabbing my hands and making me walk backwards.

he love watching & playing with “big kids”.  the past few weeks at church on tuesdays he has been in a room with 3-year-olds and he absolutely loves it.  he has also discovered the playground at chick-fil-a and will just walk around following the bigger kids and staring at them…and trying to keep up :)  he wants me to be there (which was evident by the major meltdown today when i tried to leave to go to the bathroom…poor Whitney was holding collin under one arm and max under the other when i got back) but as long as i don’t leave the playground room he is totally independent in there.  he also loves staring out our window at the teenage boys playing basketball in front of the house.

he is so smart.  he can say “Beau”, “da-da”, and “uh-oh”, and thanks to my friend Elizabeth he can now point out his belly button…and we are working on nose.

and now for some pictures

mommy got a great idea from someone to fill up bowls and pans with water to let him play…unfortunately he was only content touching and splashing for about 15 seconds…then it all ends up covering the kitchen floor in about an inch of water!

collin trying out beau’s kennel in pensacola.  he loves climbing in and out of anything…baby pool, our shower, the garage door, and now the dog kennel.

son’s mom and collin at pensacola beach

isn’t lilo just the cutest little girl ever!  and she is so sweet too!

lilo and collin playing

“the boys” son, cousin tam, cousin thanh, and son’s twin quoc.  such a beautiful sunset that night we took a million pics on the back deck.

lilo, kim & quoc

awwwww.  my hubby i sso cute :)

my messy eater :)

collin sharing his wagon with max on thursday

 

we got the bumbo out for max to eat in, and of course collin wanted to play with it too…then he got stuck!

we also had a wonderful date night on friday!  (only our 3rd since collin has been here!)  collin got to play with some of his best friends at church and son took me out to dinner at cheesecake factory – yummy!  then son let me take him shopping and i actually convinced him to go into pottery barn with me…he must have had too much cheesecake or something because usually i can’t get him within 100 yards of a store like that.  he even commented on some of the rugs that i was showing him (and by commented i mean that he said “yes” or “oh” or “uh-hu”) – hey, that’s progress, right?  then we finished out date night by buying collin a surprise at toys-r-us and being the first parents to pick up after date night.  unfortunately, the “wheelie popper” race car that we picked out for him at toys-r-us was a little scary at first, but he had warmed up to it by the end of the day today.

okay…i am up way too late now, so even though i could keep writing, i need at least a few hours of sleep :)  nighty night.

julie