Alright, alright, alright! Yes, it's been nearly two weeks since I posted pictures. :) Hopefully this will sate some of you for a while. LOL! Here's a rundown of what we did last week (in reverse). I have pictures from this week too and they'll be up hopefully soon!
Colin opening his Easter basket/bucket. Animal coloring books, new crayons, and a dolphin notepad.
One of the coloring books came with stickers.
He decided the bucket would be great for gathering flowers!
And giving some to mommy! :) Melts your heart sometimes, doesn't he?
Note the wad of flowers in his hand.
And more for mom.
Singing and being silly.
After church. Apparently his Sunday school teachers had shirts for the kids to paint, but Colin opted out! They didn't force the issue (good plan), but all the way home he kept saying, "the kids all painted shirts, but Colin did
not paint a shirt." Uh, yeah, we got that. Thanks. Would have liked to have a cool shirt though. ;)
Friday evening was the squadron Easter party at Pump It Up. Here's Colin singing on the way home (I told you the pics were in reverse order!).
Colin won the prize at the party (based on a number found in the eggs from the egg hunt): a giant Easter basket with candy and a toy truck! Wow!
I love how much he wants to follow Zach and Seth around lately. He talks about them all the time and is always so excited to see them, sit by them, and generally be into whatever they are doing.
Unless it's the (admitedly scary) Easter bunny. Seth really liked him. Colin...not so much. Actually, terrified is probably pretty accurate.
I love this picture I caught of Lily. Not sure what she's doing, but she looks a little like a ballerina. :)
This one she's definitely a WNBA star though.
What do you think? Ready for the pro's?
Again, not sure what's going on, but his silly mannerisms crack me up sometimes.
Great action shot:
And another:
Playing king of the mountain. Or something.
We also had art day on Friday and afterwards, Colin and I did our bi-weekly lunch date. He's really gotten to be pretty nice to take out.
At art day we did some fun Easter-y crafts. Like decorating Easter cookies.
Hunting for eggs. (incidentally, despite the fact that all the other kids were digging into theirs, Colin didn't realize until about 7 hours later that these contained candy; he was happy hiding and re-finding them!)
And dyeing eggs.
To get ready for art day, Colin and I spent some time Thursday afternoon cutting out and baking several dozen cookies. :) It was probably even more fun that art day itself for the two of us!
Yes, he's naked a lot right now. He's working on potty training and has no accidents as long as he can just go sit on the potty whenever he wants without our help!
And yes, he's laying on the dog bed. The sheets were still warm from being washed and Percy was curled up there, so Colin decided to lay on it with him (which caused Percy to leave immediately - I had to tell him to sit while I grabbed the camera. Wish I'd have gotten them curled up though. Percy is giving me an awful look, so I decided to let him run away instead of demanding he lay back down!
Colin making "pancakes". Look closely and think carefully if he ever offers to make them for you though.
Earlier in the week we received Easter baskets from both sets of grandparents (you can see Colin's basket - the football one - in the art day egg hunt pictures). Here's Colin digging into the one from Joe and Laura.
These were probably his favorite part:
Finally, last Monday we met Tracey and Blake at the zoo. The boys were a hoot together and pretty perfectly matched in my opinion. They were content to chase each other around for a good portion of the morning (which was fine with Tracey and me as we counted down to naptime!). They were so silly, giggling and running as fast as their little two-year-old legs could carry them. Then they decided it was silly to flop on the ground next to each other and giggle too. Dirty, but definitely cute.
Eventually they ran off some steam and actually looked at the animals though and we did a whirlwind trip through the whole zoo. They fed the birds.
Saw some very young ducklings, who were still learning to swim effectively. They'd go in funny circles and then look a little perplexed. One duckling was much more advanced though and kept chasing his brothers and sisters. Colin is still talking about that silly duck!
They "rode an elephant" together.
And much more, but that's all the pictures I'm uploading tonight! :) Whew, what a busy week!
The dolphins were first on Colin's to-do list. 
Colin got splashed by the dolphins, which he loved!
They were really feisty today and were doing all sorts of spontaneous flips and twists in the air. One was making clicking noises at the trainer and she was laughing saying how silly he was today.
That trainer was also cheering them on and Colin had to imitate her.
Another trainer came over and sat with Colin for a while and talked to him about the dolphins (another thing I like about going on really dead days). That was pretty cool and Colin liked listening to him. I have a feeling we'll be hearing about things he said to Colin for the next couple weeks.
And despite three trips to dolphin cove, we did actually get to see some other stuff while we were there.
Like the sea lions, seals, and otters.
And puddles.
And "big kids riding a orka"; "Colin ride a orka?" No honey, you need to grow at least another foot first.
This, I thought he'd be big enough to do though. The first few nets were okay and he mostly was alright on the tunnel nets (though I ended up lugging him through the last few), but some of the nets were downright steep (like almost vertical) and I got a workout getting him through the entire (long) net course under my arm! At a certain point you figure you may as well keep going forward rather then turn back and redo what you've already done! Next time we may stick with this one inclined net and just go down the slide though. :)
All in all a good morning of fun though and we even got someone to take a picture of the two of us on the way out (note to self, next time set camera to auto - I checked the lighting for her, but apparently had it on manual focus too - oops!).
