Cole and his thoughts

Cole had a few things that he has said today that I had to write down:

This morning he jumped into bed with me and we were talking about preschool. I asked him if he was excited and he said, "Yes". I then asked if he was ready to get some time away from mommy. He leaped across the bed and started hugging me and said, "No, mommy? can you cancel preschool, I don't want to be away from you." And even when I put him to bed he kept asking if I could "unsign him up from preschool" So, apparently, I did not do a good job in preparing him that I would drop him off and not stay with him. Here's to hoping he does fine Monday. We have his open house tomorrow night so I think that will help.

While Cole was eating breakfast he asked me, "How can Jesus still be in my heart? I have a lot of food in my belly." It made me smile.

Then at dinner out of the blue Cole says, "Mommy, I don't want daddy to marry you." I asked him why not, and he said " Cause I want to marry you when im 14" Well, my heart was melting and I tried explaining that mommy and daddy are already married and that if we weren't he wouldn't be here, but who knows what he thought of that.

Cole also told me the other day, "Mommy, (baby's name) is gonna have bad dreams, he is gonna wake up crying, i'm gonna get you to pick him up, and then I'm gonna hold him." He is so excited almost 99% of the time. Only every once in awhile I get asked, "why did you want another baby in your belly?" I try to explain that he is pretty amazing and we thought it would be fun to have another baby. He informed me, "well you're not gonna love him very much" I asked why and he said, "cause you love me the best"

He keeps asking "when is the baby gonna pop out?" I think he is hoping he (baby) comes out wanting to play super heroes with him....

the fly...

Cole just said, "mommy, do you know what that fly did?" "It bit me on the boob!"

Its a BOY its a BOY!

Well, its "ultrasound official" we are having baby boy #2! We are thrilled and this little guy looks healthy:)

Our big boy is amazing! I catch myself just staring at him and he is so so thoughtful. We were at a friends campfire and there were a bunch of kids running around so Cole was playing with them for awhile and next thing you know, he walks into the adult circle of chairs with 3 beautiful yellow flowers for me that he picked. I don't know if this one could get any sweeter.

Which, makes it wonderful to think of having another boy around here (not to mention not having to share my husband with another girl:) however, I feel that Cole has set a pretty high standard and i want this baby to be exactly how God made him but yet, am nervous because I love everything about Cole! Honestly, he is such a wonderful kid. yes, he can be naughty but he rarely has to be punished. usually, he listens to what he is told and he is proud of himself for listening the first time, unless he is without a nap (which is usually my fault). I love that Cole is so concerned about how I am feeling if I have a cold and is always praying for peoples hurt body parts:) So, i guess even if this little one is a complete handful and if he is naughty more than nice and not one to snuggle, I will still love him just the way he is because I know that God made this little baby just for me and I wouldn't want him any other way.

its been forever....

Well, i kind of am not good at updating but Cole had quite a interesting question this morning and I thought I would share....

Cole-" Mommy how do babies come out?"

Me- " (stuttering) "Well, Cole, what do you think?"

C- "a slide?"

M- "yes, thats right....a slide"

C- "Where is the slide?" (as he is staring at me)

M- "Ummm...why don't we ask daddy when he gets home..."

C- "No, I think you know"

OH MY GOODNESS!!! This little boy is totally calling me out. He was not gonna let it drop until daddy came home. Good grief:) How do these things even get in his mind?

C-O-L-E

Oh man... look at this sweet face! I want to kiss his little lips and rub my nose on his sweet chubby ckeeks. Hard to imagine he will be in preschool in just 6 short months.

Speaking of preschool..... so apparently he knows how to write his name. You have to tell him what letter to write (however when you ask him how to spell his name he will tell you) Oh, this name writing came as a shock because we have NEVER worked on writing letters. Everytime I ask if he wants to learn to write letters he says, "Nah".

This little guys imagination is running wild these days, which is very fun but kind of exhausting. He received a "Woody" doll for Christmas from my sister and he is now going everywhere instead of his "lightning mcqueen" car. Our fat dog, Moose, is now called "Buster" and an imaginary "Jessie" and "Bullseye" are running around everywhere! Jessie, Woody, Bullseye, and Cole are going on Buffalo hunts with Indians most of the days.....

Oh how I wish he would never grow up....I'm gonna miss everything about this little 3 year old.....well time to dry the tears and get myself around before he wakes up.

In love...

The ways of Cole---

I love the days when seeing joy is easy as pie. Well, that has been my week... makes for a pretty good week especially when the Code man is out of town... Here are some highlights of my week.

~Cole does not quite understand that everyone has a butt crack and that is is always "cracked". He talks about putting his butt crack on the "welf" (shelf)...I don't know why but it cracks me up. We were eating lunch today and he looked and me and said with a straight face, "I have a butt crack, again"

~ Cole was sitting on the potty and I was trying to fish a booger out of his nose. Well, the booger was pretty stuck and so we were slowly chiseling away at it when he says, "Mommy, try this (he reaches his hand around to the back of his head and starts hitting his head) maybe that will help!"

~ He also asked me one day "did you eat your boogers when you were a little girl?" To which I replied, "No" he then proceeds to say, "I do...they get stuck in the middle" (meaning between his teeth in the gap:) Okay, I have never seen him eat his boogers but that is definitely encouragement to remember to brush his teeth!

~When I ask him if he wants to go to preschool he says, "NO, you might get sad", he nailed that one on the head!

There are so many more but those are the ones that have brought me so much joy lately.

Oh yeah, this one is kind of funny but not so joyful....

We were waiting for Cody to get on Skype and I was making popcorn in the kitchen so I put the laptop by him and told him when the computer started to ring to yell for me so I could answer Cody's skype call. Well, not but 5 mins later I hear some mumbling about "T" and walk into the living room where he is holding up the "T" key. I asked him why he pulled it off and he says, "cause i don't like T" so he then proceeds to ask ,"where that other piece went?" crawls on the floor and brings me the remaining piece of the key.....I tried to be disappointed, I really really did but he was so honest about it, I just couldn't help it.

Fun at the Park

Go Cards!

Last weekend, we went to Muncie for our 2nd annual-skip one year, tailgate. It was BSU's homecoming and they played Eastern or Western Michigan (I know, that is really bad that I don't know but honestly I didn't watch the game)

My brother, Tyler came from IWU to hang with us!

My best friend, Kira, and her husband, Scott, graciously host us EVERY TIME we stay in Muncie! Cole and their son Brody are BFFs!

Okay, look at these two cute little boys! They get along great, unless Cole says "Crunchy" then for some reason, unbeknownst to us, Brody gets so mad, and says, "No, it's Crun-cheee" and then Cole says, "no its Tun-chee" and then you can pretty much imagine what the next 5 minutes sounds like:) Man, they sure are cute little buddies!

This is a not so awesome family picture. The funny part about Charlie the Cardinal is that when we first got to the stadium we were waiting on our friends so we went to visit the Ticket Office (that is where Cody used to work). When we came out we saw Charlie and Cole didn't want to go up and say "Hi". So, we told Cole to go tackle him, he loved that idea so he ran up and tackled him to the ground, some camera guy was taping it and then after he got Charlie to the ground, Cole did a WWF kind of stomp on Charlie's chest! Everyone was laughing so hard. I guess it made the pre-game on TV....

Cole seriously had the time of his life!

Here are the boys rocking out with the marching band!

I am really struggling with updating this thing. Even when I want to write something, my mind goes blank and I can't think of anything to say. So, this is all I can think of.

Cody and I reminded Cole it was important to not interrupt when people are talking. He looked at us and said "What does that mean? Is it like a volcano?" We were cracking up!

This picture has nothing to do with anything I said but I MADE THIS TRACK and I was so excited that I needed to take a picture. You can't tell very well but parts of this track is elevated with tracks running under it. It took way more time to build than I care to admit.

A little bit of EVERYTHING

So, Cole took his shirt off the other day and pointed to his nipple and said, "I have a nibble". Which I answered, "yes you sure do" The question that followed stumped me a bit. He asked, "momma, why you have nibbles?"

ummm... well lets see, I started out telling him that I am not sure why boys have nipples but God gave them to everybody and that Mommy's have nipples so that they can feed babies. But then I thought that it might be a bit confusing and a bit too much, because he doesn't do that, and I pray that he doesn't remember doing it either.

So, fast forward a few paragraphs into the conversation and I found myself begging for Cody to be in town so that he can clean up the mess I just made. I mean the boy is three and I think he just got a little TMI.

Anyways, if you haven't noticed I am a nervous talker and I don't know when to stop.

On another subject, Cole had his first soccer game tonight. It was so cute to watch.

He seems to totally not understand the game and that made it even better, not to mention he totally looks like he is a soccer player I mean the hair is adorable but totally out of control.

He seemed to run off the field in the middle of the game and not think twice about it. He ran off of the field to greet my dad when he got there. He ranto me from the clear other side of the field , in the middle of the game yelling..."Mama Mama, I need to tell you wumpin' (something)!" Absolutely priceless!~

Cole also took the picture of my mom's hand, the picture of his grandma's hair, and the picture of my niece, all by himself. I would say he is pretty good with the camera:)

Proud Mama--

No, he has not even played in a game yet but seeing him all dressed up makes me smile. I know his daddy was pretty excited to go and buy his first pair of cleats. We got into the car and Cody said, "I have been waiting for this day my whole life." He didn't think his first pair of cleats would be soccer cleats but there is no way this momma would let someone tackle her baby in a football league at the age of 3, even if they had football available.

Cody was into making sure that his socks and cleats and shin guards were all matching. He didn't end up with Nike like he has on in the picture but with adidas instead. However, finding a XXS in youth soccer shorts proved to be quite the task and so he ended up with Umbro shorts. Let's just say his daddy favors Adidas....

Well, he looks adorable lets hope he at least enjoys soccer enough to play at more than one game.

Tow Mater....

Isn't this awesome! We found this on our way to Pittsburgh at a rest stop.

If I had $10,168 to dispose of.....

I would get one of these...

and some of these.....

Here's to hoping Cody realizes how much money I really did save by breast feeding...

Cole is 3!

My Baby is 3! I can't believe it! I don't think Cole can either, he kept getting mad at us when we would tell him he was 3, he would tell us that he was 2. He said" it was not his birthday and that his birthday was coming up at the end of July" However, we talked about this on August 1st:) He kept changing his mind about what kind of birthday he wanted...Ice cream, Thomas, Wonder Pets, Monsters Inc., Muddy Thomas, Cars, etc.... So, he got a red and blue birthday along with some cupcakes bakes in ice cream cones and dirt pudding to satisfy his inner boy~

Cody took the day off and we went to the beach! Cole loved it!

He kept chasing all the birds! They loved his Goldfish crackers.

We buried him in the sand~

They ran like they were on BayWatch...

At Breakfast,we tried so hard to get Cole to hold up 3 fingers but they all kept falling down....so Cody had to help him.

His Favorite snack minus the sand...

What a beautiful boy, we are so blessed to be his mom and dad!