Squeaky Seal: September 2009

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Tick Tock

Laura took several cute videos while Colin was up in Arkansas a couple weeks ago, but I am just now getting around to making them small enough to put on the blog! Here's one of him listening to their grandfather clock (which he has been fascinated with for about a year now). I love how he wiggles his butt back and forth and says tick-tock!

I've also got a great one of him riding his stick horse, one of him in a giraffe costume my mom found, and several of him singing "Barbara Ann," but they all need to be seriously compressed, so I'm probably going to get them on here sporadically! :)

Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall

Yesterday was project day around the Seal house (actually this afternoon is too, so I need to get it in gear). First up was putting up some plexiglass mirrors in Colin's room. He loves dancing in front of them, but most of our mirrors are far above his line of sight.

Michael explaining the process to Colin.

Trying to help screw it into the wall. He's really been trying to help with everything we do lately.

Admiring his handiwork...or himself?

Later he asked to paint, so we headed outside to create some masterpieces.

Ever the attentive mother, when Colin said, "momma, my eye," I said, "okay, let me get a picture and then I'll wipe it off." In my defense, I made sure it wasn't actually in his eye first!

And here's our finished product. :)

Friday, September 25, 2009

Right Now

What Michael and Colin are doing right now:

One Misty Moisty Morning, When Cloudy Was The Weather

Or, I should say, "TWO misty moisty mornings..."
Thursday
After being inside for a couple days from the rain and having our Wednesday trip to the petting zoo be a bust this week, Colin and I decided to brave the misty, moisty weather and head to the zoo. Here he is "roaring" at me like a lion as we get ready to go.

We met a few of our friends there too; here's Colin watching the flamingos while we waiting on them to arrive.

Girlfriends!

Colin, trying to convince everyone to come on!

We got to look at some of the animals before the rain got bad again, but what Colin really liked was the puddles!

Friday
Today we tried the zoo again, with much better results. We got there early in the day and the weather was absolutely gorgeous! The animals were all really active (probably after all the rain this week) and it was in the mid-70's.

We did a couple things we've never done before too. One of those was going in to the butterfly sanctuary.

Colin loved watching them up close and it seemed like there were butterflies on every other leaf.

This one has a beautiful sky blue top side that I just couldn't get a picture of. :(

See what I mean about them being everywhere? That's one flying next to Colin's head and you can see them on the plants.

We sat and had lunch by the giraffe, which pleased Colin to no end. Of the African animals, that and the elephant may tie for his current favorite.

You wouldn't know it by looking, but this is about the 100th time through this particular puddle. They apparently are just as fascinating the second day! Fortunately it's San Antonio and everything was nearly dry today, with only a few puddles remaining, so we didn't get stopped up too much!

After checking out the African safari section, I finally got brave enough to go into the bird feeding area by myself with Colin. I don't know what I was afraid of ~ he didn't freak out at all; in fact, he LOVED it and didn't want to leave. A nice gentleman shared a cup of nectar with us. Colin desperately wanted to hold it, but the birds were not landing on anyone under about 4 foot today for some reason. Probably for the best! :)

Hard to see, but that crazy bird is still on my head. He wouldn't get off!

Colin finally looked up for the man taking our picture!

Afterward, we spent more time with birds. About 20 minutes just watching the ducks. Wow, he is mesmerized by them!

And this afternoon, when we got home, he wanted to play sock puppets: one of his new favorite pretend games (learned at grandpa's, I think?). Here he is "roaring" at me.

Highlights

I have been falling behind in posting pics. This week has just gotten away from me...don't know how that happens with a 1 1/2 year old around here! Right now he's singing "Barbara Ann" for me, so maybe I'll get these all up! (one of these day's I'll also get around to editing some video of him singing it so that it's small enough to put up here!)

I'm just gonna give you a few pics to catch you up on our week.

Saturday was the squadron pool party at the Y. We had a ball, but I forgot my camera, so you have Lauren to thank for these pics! :)

It was Michael's and my Sunday to work in the church nursery. For the first part, Colin was the only kid, so of course I was taking pictures! :)

After church, we went home for lunch and then had two birthday parties to attend! (see why I've not managed to get pictures up sooner?) First up was Adriana and then Teddy ~ they were both turning ONE, so we HAD to go and wish them a happy birthday! We had a lot of fun...apparently so much that I didn't take many pics...you'll have to visit their blogs for more, but here are a few:

Colin, very politely asking for more cake at Adriana's party!

Michael and Colin having a quiet moment reading one of Adriana's books.

Here was Colin's favorite thing that Teddy got: a ride-on train. Actually, I think it was both his and Lily's favorites! I hope Teddy finally got to ride on it once we left! :)

Monday morning breakfast of champions: blueberry pancakes, a bowl of Cheerios, and a cup of milk. I love how I caught him being silly with the Cheerio stuck between his teeth.

We were delighted to discover some playdough in our goodie bag from Adriana, so we played with that on Monday.

We made lots of things that seemed to delight Colin. Here he is using a "spoon" to feed his snake!

Later, we had to hose down some of the playdough residue and some grill bits, so Michael and Colin played some. This pic looks like he's about to hose down Colin, but he was actually relatively far away!