Thanksgiving Weekend 2009

Well, I had a nice long blog about Thanksgiving Weekend and those day surrounding it but it all was deleted somehow. So you will get some updates about the weekend through the following pictures:

Cole got a hold of my sunglasses and plopped down in front of the mirror just checking himself out. It was quite amusing. Here was my favorite shot.
Here he is in my tennis shoes. He has a long way to go until he can fill those puppies. Trying to walk in my shoes.

He seems to like to put things on his head, whether or not it has anything in it. I think this had milk and cereal.

I like how he is looking up at it.
Elmo and Twizzlers, what could be better?

He is just like our cat, loves to get in the suitcase as I begin to pack. We were heading to my dad and Olivia's for Thanksgiving.

Enjoying the very cold weather on Thanksgiving morning.

Pops and Mimi stopped by for a quick visit before we headed out of town. It was great to see them.

Here is Bill, Sydney and Cody reading a book on Thanksgiving.

The boys coloring with markers, Delores you are brave to have those in your house.

Sydney has a barbie jeep at the Mitchell's that is now the perfect size for the boys. I am not sure if this was before or after he drove it but he did have a great time doing it.

Here is our little driver now.

Look out ladies, I am cruising in the jeep.

Here is he is playing trains with Peepa! Or just "Pa" as he says sometimes.

Playing baseball outside at Granny and Pa's on Thanksgiving. Cole and I covered quite a bit of ground this weekend and had a great time doing it.

Either an airplane or he is ready to break into a dance routine. Either one is really plausible.

Playing trucks with his cousin Noah.

Noah and Cole

When we got back to town we went over to visit with Cassidy on Saturday. Here they are playing in a big box (or a fort).

Look at them holding hands. If you ask either one of them who their boyfriend/girlfriend is, they will respond with each other's name. It is too cute.

Seems to be finished with the hand holding.

He is over it....Going in for the kill!

Junior Museum

Saturday Jennifer and I took the kids to the Junior Museum and shockingly they both stayed in their strollers until we hit the farm. The Museum was having their demonstration day which was neat to see. We checked out all the farm animals and then went to the butterfly garden next to the cabosse. Right in the middle of the butterfly garden is a memorial bench for Karie, my good friend who past away in 1997. It was really neat to see it and to have pictures of the kids playing on the bench. After we left there, we braved going to lunch and again Cole was wonderful and sat in the chair and let us eat. After a long nap we went to play with Cody and Sydney and then home and to bed.

Here are a few of the animals we saw. However, if you ask Cole what animals he saw he'll tell you monkeys, camels and big elephants. I am not sure what "zoo" he went to but these were the actual ones he saw.

They were playing in the the bird bath.

Standing on Karie's bench.

Checking out her name plate.

Karie's Bench!

Cole's 2nd Birthday

We had such a great weekend celebrating Cole's birthday as well as Halloween. Emmy and Papa came up from Orlando for the weekend. Saturday afternoon we had a few of Cole's closest friends and parents (HA!) over for a Birthday/Halloween celebration. He continues to say "Happy Day" and after everyone sang "Happy Day to Cole" he looked around and said "More, More" so needless to say, everyone sang it again.

Unfortunately Cole was not participating in wearing his 70's Disco costume. Here he is almost dressed and here he is afterwards. And here is how cute he would have looked had he actually wore it.

After the party we took a small hayride around a nearby neighborhood and trick or treated at a handful of homes. Cole thoroughly enjoyed himself and I did too. He carried around his "pumpkin patch" aka a pumpkin to collect his candy in. A pumpkin is called a "pumpkin patch". Whatever, right? Also, he totally understood the concept of "trick or treat" and how effective it was to get candy in the pumpkin patch. Of course he only likes lollipops and twizzlers. Hum, he definitely gets that from me!

Susan, Emmy, Papa and Cole

Emmy and Cole

Cole's way to play with the trains.

Cody wearing Cole's afro for his Halloween costume.

He didn't want to open his gifts from us. ( I love this too because he is "hiding")

Cole and Emmy playing in his new tent.

Cole and Emmy carved the pumpkin on Saturday morning.

He loves to ring the doorbell.

Here are a few of the other characters who came to celebrate with Cole.

Sydney the beautiful witch.

Ansley the hippie and Sydney the beautiful witch.

Here is what Cole would have looked like had he cooperated and wore his costume.

However, here you see my struggle trying to get his costume on......

And this was right after, he wasn't happy, clearly. He HATED the afro "hat". The funniest thing too was we kept calling the afro a hat to see if that would help him to wear it. Well we had the music station on and I don't remember which group it was but you know how they show the pictures of the artists, well they all had afros and Cole looked at the TV and said, "look mommy, hats". It was pretty funny!

Cassidy the adorable witch

Chase as Batman!

Bradford the football player.

Since Cole wasn't a fan of his disco costume, I changed him into this and called him a golfer. Also, here is Cody as a pirate.

Drew was, and I will probably get this wrong, a zombie skateboarder???

Devenney as Wonder Woman.

Blowing out Cole's candle.

Here we are as hippies.
TOP!

BOTTOM!
Playing out in the yard.

Cassidy also was a fan of the afro.... and there is Caden as a Rocker in the background.

Here are the adult characters

Shari and Cassidy

Cole and I on the hayride, trick or treating.
Joshua as Peter Pan.


Devenney, Tanner and Chase on the hayride.
Wonder Woman Twins, Devenney and Suzanna.
Cole and his lollipop.