Showing the House

Colin and I have been trying to steer clear of the house as much as we can in order to both keep it cleaner and to help him detox from being gone. Today we went to storytime at the library. All the kids were unusually calm today for some reason, so the storytime lady actually got through a handful of books!
After fighting quite a bit about whether he needed a nap (which he did), I laid down on our bed with Colin and he finally crashed out for about half an hour. I love watching him snuggle up when I put a blanket over him even when he's already asleep.
Tonight, about 10 min before I was planning to pull dinner out of the oven, we got a call that a realtor wanted to show the house in 15 minutes. So, dinner got moved to the fridge and we hopped in the car and gave Colin a choice of three restaurants. He (shockingly) picked Tiago's. ;)
Porky here ate his meal and another enchilada, half a flauta, and an empanada off our plates. I'm pretty sure he must be on the verge of a growth spurt because I haven't been able to keep him full the past few days. That, or Joe and Laura didn't feed him at all while he was gone...
After we got home, Colin wanted to play a game. We'd already played all the tic-tac-toe and Memory (two-year-old versions of the rules) that I could handle this morning, so we worked on Hi-Ho Cherry-O. According to Colin's rules though, no matter who spins the wheel, he gets to count out that many cherries into his bucket. :)
After that, it was bath and bed time! I've been trying to get a picture that really highlights the ginormous bubbles he's been blowing lately, but this is as good as I've gotten.
Hope you've all had a great day! G'night!

And Now, We Wait...

The time has finally arrived, we decided, to test whether Colin has inherited Michael's shellfish allergy. We took him to Red Lobster tonight and ordered a plateful of popcorn shrimp for him. He'd begged for some of my shrimp during dinner Sunday night and I'd been gearing him up for it all day (hoping he wouldn't decide at dinner that it wasn't what he wanted).

So...by the time we got there, he was determined that that's what he was going to eat and each time he saw a waiter (any waiter, not just ours) he would call out, "I need shrimp, please!" LOL! Fortunately it was early and not crowded yet!

He seemed to really like it, and as of bedtime had not yet had an adverse reaction. Hopefully morning will bring no weird rashes or other inexplicable side effects. Yay! I hope he can eat shellfish with me!!!

Detox Day 1 - SA Zoo

Joe and Laura left Sunday and Michael headed back to work yesterday morning, so knowing what kind of day we were in for, Colin and I headed to the zoo for a few hours.

He mostly wanted to just stand and watch the different types of birds, so we spent most of the morning doing just that.
I convinced him to look at a few other things, but the birds were what held his interest.
This cracks me up!
Before heading home, we decided to stop and eat some granola bars while we watched monkeys.
And of course, a trip to the zoo wouldn't be complete without at least one bronze statue ride. :)

Any Given Sunday - For Kristen!

Here are my boys playing a bit of tackle football Sunday afternoon. :)

Corpus Trip (and some catchup pics)

Here are several pictures of our trip to drop Colin off, getting him back, and a trip to the ocean this past weekend.

Before we left, I got some pictures of Colin playing with some beads his Grandpa and Nana got him. He's getting pretty darned good at stringing them. I'm definitely impressed! I love the look of concentration he gets when he's doing it though.
Colin did such a good job telling us when he had to potty on the road and holding it until we got stopped!
He thought waking up in a pile of squishy hotel blankets was pretty great.
When he got back, one of the first things Colin did was rearrange some things in his room claiming, "that a not a s'pose a be there".
He also helped me water the garden. Later he had fun running naked through the hose, but no pics of that (wouldn't be fit for the internet anyway!).
The weather was gorgeous, so on Friday we went down to Corpus Christi. We got a few pics of the three of us before we changed into swim suits and got in the water.My legs need sun...
Throwing a rock at a bird.