I wonder what Cowboy boots taste like...

So once again, I am bad with updating pictures, but we've been super busy lately. We just got back from Oklahoma from an awesome weekend and we had a ball with Kevans family. The night before we left for our trip I had a little photo shoot with our little cowboy... Aunt Steen says that he looks like he is getting ready for his Playgirl shoot in this next one... Whatever.. :-)

Is this not the cutest smile ever!!

Colton was trying to prove that cowboy boots are yummy!! I'm not sure if he proved his theory or not, but he sure did try!!

I can't believe that he is already over 6 months. We had a great birthday and I can't believe that we're as old as we are. 26 and 28 seems so far out. At least Kevan is closer to 30 than I am. yuck!! I am dreading that birthday tons, but oh well. It'll happen... So Colton still has his two teeth, but is working on his top two teeth also. Our flight to Oklahoma was pretty uneventful, it was so nice to actually have a direct flight though, I understand more of why Christine refuses to have a connection anymore. I had the same conversation that we have every single time that we fly...Random Traveller: "Awww, is this babies first flight?" as they are grabbing for his clean hands with their own dirty, nasty germ-filled hands.Me: "Ugh, no, this is actually his 17th flight..." while trying to get those grubby hands away from my precious baby. Random Traveller: "WHAT? Wow, I, uh, guess thats good, uh, thing?? Do you think thats, um, safe for him??" as they finally understand that I don't want their nasty hands on my child.Me: "Well YOU'RE flying, so I guess the modern world has evolved enough that I feel safe leaving my stone hut with my child before he turns three... Now get your stinkin hands OFF of his before he puts YOUR germs in his mouth!!!"Colt rode his first bull on his first day in Oklahoma, it was awesome.. He stayed on for over 8 seconds and here are some pictures of it... Here are some more pictures of our trip...








But yeah, so Colton has now gone on 18 flights and this last one was the worst yet, it doesn't help that he isn't a little comatose baby anymore. Now that he has his own ideas and know's what he wants he's a lot harder to keep under wraps. Especially now that he has figured out that high pitched squeeling is the coolest thing in the WORLD...

I'm a bad blogger

I'm such a bad blogger... I haven't blogged in forever!!! Bad Lindsay...

Things with us have been really hectic to say the least. We had an amazing Christmas in Florida and it was so great to spend time with Dad. There is something so special about watching your child play with your father. Its so special. It was pretty hectic though. We flew into Tampa on Dec 22nd and then drove the next day down to Boca Raton since Nana couldn't come up to see us. On Christmas Eve we had a huuuuge Crab Legs fest and it was awesome!! Kevan and I proved that we are the star crab leg eaters!!
Here are some pictures of us at the beach























After our great trip to Florida, Colton and I headed off to snowfilled Denver to hang out with my Mom and sister (and their respective Clans...) It was so fun to have the kids together and although it was reallllllllllllllllllllly small quarters for all of us, we had a ball. We were got over 30 inches of snow while we were there and built an awesome sledding track right in front of the house. Jim took the best pictures on his amazing new camera, but I haven't gotten my copies yet (hint hint....)
Here is a picture of Kevan and Roger doing down the track on New Years Day...

Just to give you an idea of the insane amount of snow that we had, Colton is pushed into the snow so that he is standing up... Everyone thinks that he is laying down, but nope, thats a loooot of snow!!

I love this face!!! How Cute!!




I'll post our pictures hanging out with everyone and at Hoppy's wedding soon, but Colton just woke up and needs me!!! I hope that everyone is well! Talk to you all soon (and if you live in Colorado... we'll SEE you soon!!!)

We have big plans for this month, Colton turns 6 months on the 4th, Kevan turns 28 on the 5th, I turn 26 also on the 5th, we go to Oklahoma on Feb 9-13th and then I have my final schnoze surgery scheduled for the 21st. I cant wait to get it corrected again! its going to be awesome to have a straight nose again! its been a couple of years.... I am sooooooo excited!!!!

Gobble 'till ya Wobble!!!

We left for New York thinking that it was going to be a nice six and a half hour drive to my Mom's house for Thanksgiving... Boy were we ever wrong!!
Colton's first long car trip was not something that we were really excited about, but he is such a good flyer that we were hoping that he is just a natural traveller and will enjoy travelling around as much as we do (especially since we have such a hectic couple of months coming up...) He actually did rather well with the drive, I think that Kevan and I were worse off than he was... That nice trip ended up taking us 12 hours... Yes, thats right, I said 12 hours... I hate stupid drivers. I can't wait until we are out of Virginia. I have to say that the worst drivers on the road, no matter what state you are in ... Yup... You guessed it... VIRGINIA Drivers.... They don't understand that the left lane is for passing and they dont understand the speed limit is a guideline...

The worst is that everyone in VA drives to NY to visit their relatives so the entire way you are dealing with stupid Virginia people... I don't understand it.. It might be that they are NY transplants taking this slooow way of life a little too far...
We had so much fun on thanksgiving and ate such amazing food. Mom really outdid herself... She never ceases to amaze me. Here she is, with a broken neck, still pulling off a Martha-worthy feast. She is the most amazing person and I am just so thankful this year that she is not only still alive, but still able to walk around... How lucky is she!!!

We had a nice dinner the day after Thanksgiving with two of Dave's sons, Brad and Terry. Terry's girlfriend Sabrina was also there and she is just so sweet. Colton really likes her and flirted with her a whole bunch!!

Kevan and I went out Friday night and left Colton with Grammy... We had fun, but it was a sad reminder of how we are just too old when we were both very hungover on Saturday.... Not very uplifting...

Its so weird to think about how a year ago, we were already pregnant. It's so fun to share the holiday season with Colton and we love having him around soo much!!

We have big travel plans for the rest of the Holidays: Florida for Christmas with Dad and Nana, Colorado the day after Christmas until after New Years and then we are going to Oklahoma in January so that Jim and Justin can finally meet the little man.

Colton is growing up so fast and he is smiling up a storm and loves to giggle. He is starting to enjoy tummy time as he has figured out that he can watch Football when he picks his head up... He has started eating rice cereal and that has been a blast to watch him try and figure out what to do with it once its in his mouth. He actually does very well with it and most of it does end up in his belly. He's getting better every day with it. When we took him into the Dr. bc he had a cold last month, he weighed 14 pounds... We go back to the Dr for Colton Dec 11th and I can't wait to see what he weighs then!!! He is such a big boy. He was 25 inches the other day when I measured him.

Happy Cows make Happy Cheese...

Pam came out to visit us the end of end of October and that was so much fun. I have been threatened with dismemberment if I show pictures, so I will just post some family portraits that she took of us while we were out walking...

















I went back to NY with Colton after Mom broke her neck to hang out and help out. I ended up taking Megan and Colton trick-or-treating and it was soo much fun! Megan was a Dragon and Colton was a bumblee Bee during the day and then a Chick-fil-a cow that night...

It would have been better if anyone in NY knew what Chick-fil-a was, but it was still worth it...

September - October...

so there are so many fabulous things that I need to blog about that I'm worried that I won't be able to unclutter myself....
I think that my vacation will be divided into parts...
Hold your breath... here's part one... even choosing a title is difficult...

Reunions...
So you know how you get so excited when you are going home and you are just filled with that warm, cozy feeling and are just so excited you can hardly breathe?? Me either... haha. But really, I was so excited to go home with Colton and hang out with the fam. Colton was faaabulous on the flight and no worries... then the trouble begins... (I must say that it was even sooner than I thought it would be...) Soooo we land at JFK and are all ready for the joyous reunion when I get informed that I need to meet Mom and mom's friend Janet curbside. My delightful mother must have been having momentary insanity since she obviously has forgotten that I have her sweet grandbaby with me in his stroller. So there I am pushing Colton and pulling the baggage cart behind me. But therin lies the problem. I have these massive suitcases with me and the luggage cart only works if you are either pulling the handle up or pushing it down. Otherwise it is all locked up... It was drama. I had people laughing at me and then to my utter shock, I actually had New Yorkers offer to help me... I was floored!!! (They must have just been tourists...) So I finally make it out to the curb to meet up with Mom and Janet. You bet that Mom and I put the base to Colton's carseat in backwards after the 20 minutes it took us to install it in the first place. That was not very fun...

I had dinner with Sara, Katt and Barbarann at Rosies in Danbury one night and that was a blast. I wish that the night had lasted longer, but it was great to bond a bit...














Barbarann got married on 9-30-06






"Take my drunk picture!!!" or... "I'm going to get blogged about, aren't I..."
Then there was the fabulous day that Mom, Colton and I kidnapped Dave and watched the Yankees play all day and Mom got waaasted. It was simply hilarious... She hadn't really eaten anything because she is on a new kick, "Thin people have to eat like birds..." So there she is downing double vodka tonics in a nyc bar at lunch time... After hours and hours in this bar, we walk outside and my drunken mother is trying to convince me to let her push Colton so that she has something to hold herself up with.. Hmmm, I'm going to let you push my infant son around NYC bc you can't stand up straight.... GREAT IDEA!!! Mom was so much fun drunk though, I thoroughly enjoyed it... The best was when she stopped suddenly in the middle of the sidewalk near Times Square and informed me that I MUST take Drunken Pictures of her.. My mother then started to Pose in her fabulous new Brooks Brother shirt while people are desperately trying to get out of the way of the flailing arms... I think that I need to get her drunk more often... It was a classic moment, especially when she stopped mid-pose as her mind cleared a bit and she realized, "Oh Shit, I'm going to get blogged about..." YOU BET!!! Oh and I am completely NOT going to mention a certain someone puking that day... Not going to mention it at all, not even a litttttle bit... Lips are sealed.... (And I sweeear it wasn't My Dear Mother that threw up on the sidewalk... Not at all...) But Mom was trying to convince me that she got drugged.. I had to remind her that she got DRUNK not DRUGGED.... To this day she swears some lusty bar patron wanted her....

Nana's 90th Birthday Party
I finally left NY and met up with Kevan in Atlanta on our way to Boca Raton, FL for the weekend. We celebrated my Nana's 90th Birthday party and it was a blast to see my cousins... We might have stayed up really late one night eating Tiramisou... Did I even spell that right?? Not sure, but my hips loved that cake!!! Dad took a great self-portrait... And then we tried to get a family portrait, but after all the beer, wine and food, it didn't quite work out the way that we wanted... Sweet Maggie didn't really make it into the picture...








Back to NY...
I ended up having to go back to NY with Colton the following month after my Mom had a really scary accident and broke her neck while Foxhunting... She is fine now, but all the Dr's are in awe that she isn't paralyzed.. Talk about dodging a bullet... Very Scary stuff...

Perspectives...

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So its official... I have a spoiled child... Everyone tells you that you can't spoil a child in the first month. I call bullshit...
This child screams bloody murder if he is put down. He refuses to sleep alone. I could look at it in two different perspectives...
Perspective 1: all sweet and loving as if 'awww, he just can't get enough of me.' or
Perspective 2: I could look at it like 'ahhhhhhhhh, he just can't get enough of me.'
Just one letter off and a WORLD of difference in perspective.

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Last night he started something new. Now not only does he scream his growing head off if he isn't getting his way, but now he has channeled Maria Carey and can hit that screeching high note perfectly. Once again, perspective comes into play here...
Perspective 1: AWESOME!!! I can retire early, as my son is going to be an amazing singer who can make tons of money and support us forever. He is just showing his dedication early and practicing. Practice does make perfect ya know.
Perspective 2: OH MY GOD!! I think that my eardrums just shattered.

But no matter what, he is a dang cute kid! I still look at him sometimes and it hits me that wow, he's really ours. I know that everyone says that they have a hard time imagining life without their children after they are here. I can easily imagine our life without Colton. It just isn't as fun or full or rich. I can imagine it without him, but I am so grateful that I don't have to live that way anymore. There is something so amazing about being a mom that I am learning more about every day. My mom says that I'll want to lose this weight so that Colton isn't embarrased that he has the chunk-a-monk mom. She's right.

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Kevan is doing such a great job with Colton now, but I found out last night why we go through a box of 400 wipes in a couple of days... My darling husband will go through between 5 and 10 wipes every single time he changes the diaper. He was SHOCKED when I informed him that I manage to change his diaper with only 1 wipe. I did concede that if its a realllllllly dirty one, the kid can get 2 wipes. WalMart was out of the Pampers that we use yesterday, so we are trying out the cheap brand. We have already found out that Food Lion brand sucks, so now we are testing the waters of White Cloud.... So far, so good.

We have quite the travel schedule coming up and I'm so excited! Colton and I leave next Wednesday night for New York. Barbarann is getting married on Sept 30th and then we'll hang out with Mom, Dave and the kids until Oct 6th. We'll then fly to Atlanta, meet up with Kevan and then continue onto West Palm Beach to spend the weekend with my Dads side of the family. We hardly get to see them so I am soo excited. Christine and her clan will be there also so it going to be so great. Saturday night, we are having a surpise 90th Birthday party for Nana (hope she doesn't read my blog!!) and going to get to all just hang out. I haven't seen my cousins Jen and Mike and their families in years, and its been 3 years since I have seen Nana. They haven't ever met Kevan so that will be fun. Plus, its always fun to get to introduce a baby around...

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The biggest bummer and downside of the weekend is going to be that this was not a good weekend for me. Since we are going to be in Florida, I am going to miss the wedding of one of my most favorite people ever. Miss Emily Weisenbach. She is getting married Sunday Oct 8th and I am devastated that I am missing it. I have been looking forward to it for so long and then this ended up being the only weekend that worked for everyone else to have Nana's party. (I am still low man in the family...) I know that she is going to be a beautiful bride and I am going to stalk the pictures once they are available so that I can see everything that happened. I feel so awful about it because Emily jumped through hoops to be able to make it to our wedding in Colorado and be one of my bridesmaids and I can't even make it to hers. Its very sad. The only perspective of this one is that its sad.

Anyway, thats about it for now, I probably won't blog again until we get back from Florida but will be sure to post pictures from all of our travels once we return. Please cross your fingers that Colton is a good flier since he's about to earn his wings...

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We made it through the first month....

So its been a month since I became a Mom and although I am still trying to figure out exactly how to make this all go smooth, its so amazing. We have had some ups (most of the time) and downs (figuring out that Colton doesn't like it when I eat garlic..) but overall its been just the most amazing experience. Every day I just fall more and more in love with this little boy who has captivated our world.
Today is the start of College football (whoooohoo.. I'm excited, can'tcha tell? ) so Kevan made sure that Colton had his Gators football socks on. Then tomorrow he will get to wear his Dophins bib all day.
I know that everyone is biased towards their own kids, but he is just so handsome!! I love just staring at him and watching him discover the world... its just too cool.
Kevan has passed Diaper Changing 101 and has now moved onto Baby Soothing 200. His latest and most favorite trick is "Lindsay... he's fussy... You need to take him..." By the time I'm done with him, I could sell him on E*bay for a bloody fortune. :-)
We went to the Dr the other day and Colton has porked up to 8 pounds 10 ounces. So in 2 weeks he gained 1 pound 10 ounces. You'd think I was feeding the kid MickyD's or something.
What I am most curious about though is why the kid thinks that he must toot on my hand every single time that I change his diaper. Every time I either get tooted on or peed on. Kevan gets nothing. I like to think its because Colton loves me more and just wants to share more of his life with me... ha.
Anyway, enough of me blabbing, here are the pictures...

Check out my big guns...

Pictures...

Colton sleeping soundly... Now how come he can't do this at night???

Daddy teaching Colton how to play Madden...




Here are some more pictures of our little man...

All snuggled up like a bug in a rug...





Here is my favorite...
He is just so precious!!!