Easter 2010

Cole creating a masterpiece.

Cole and Devenney reading each other books.

Cole and Devenney playing the part of teacher and reading us the books.

Cole and Cassidy watching what I assume is Elmo or Dora at St. Teresa.

Cole goofing off in his old Moses basket. Amazing that he and Suzanna both fit in there when they were first born.

Cole watching Jake play Wii on a Sundy Funday. Although it doesn't appear Cole is having any fun. I belive he kept saying "my turn, my turn".

We tricked him and took out the batteries of the other remote. Worked like a charm.

Easter 2010

The table was set for Easter Brunch

Cole comes tearing down the sidewalk and then makes a vast left hand turn onto the driveway. It is so dangerous but he loves it. Boys!!!

Hunting eggs, he was ok with the ones with money in them but was completely excited to find the ones with gummy bunny's in them.

Found a gummy!

Where is the gummy?

I was able to keep these beautiful flowers alive for a long time but unfortuately the heat has killed them now.

AWESOME!

As it has been forever since I have posted a blog I now have picture of Baby Kate (Amy and Zach's new arrival) at two weeks old and I now have pictures from yesterday of her at 5 weeks old that I will post in my next blog. She is absolutely adorable.

Kate Elizabeth Mathis

The proud daddy!
I think she was over me taking pictures of her.
The happy family.

Aunt Elizabeth and Kate.

Cole continues to want to go see the animals at the zoo and when you ask which animals he wants to see it is always elephants, giraffes and monkeys. Unfortunately there is not a zoo locally that has these animals so we hoped that the Junior Museum would suffice. Shari and Joshua joined us a few weeks back and the boys had a great time. Here are some pictures from the "zoo."

Cole and Joshua checking out the map and deciding where to go next.

Swiper the Fox.

They had a race on the slides.

Peek a BooHe climbed up on this tire monster and then realized getting down was not going to be as easy as climbing up.

Joshua climbing the poll.

We finally were able to make a trip to Destin to visit with Todd, Carly, Brody and Wade. The boys are 18 months old now and are absolutely adorable. We had a great visit and the boys played so well together. Saturday morning we new, despite the freezing weather, we had to get the boys out and get some energy out of them so we took them to the park. Carly's friend Whitney and her daughter Campbell joined us and they all had a great time playing together. We had such a great visit and it is always such a shame to live so far apart and not be able to get together more often.

Carly and Brody heading to space.

Here are all the kids climbing up the jungle gym and sliding down the slides.

Brody coming down head first.

Here comes Cole.

Wades turn.

Brody again.

Pile up on Slide 2

The pile up had begun to clear as Campbell and Wade were able to shake free.

Carly wasn't going to let the kids have all the fun!

Brody and Cole decided to take a trip to space.

Weekend away from home...

We traveled to Orlando this weekend to visit with my mom for her birthday and also got to have lunch with my dad and Olivia on Monday. Saturday we went out to the soccer field near my mom's house and Cole was showing off skills.

We went out on the boardwalk on the lake and Brian hid the soccer ball from Cole so it didn't get in the water. Any idea where it went?

Naptime!

After nap we got out on the golf course to hit some ball. Cole really enjoyed it and was totally styling in his outfit.

Sunday Uncle Rob, Aunt Kathy, Robert and Jeff came over for a cookout and Cole got some one on one lessons from Uncle Rob.

He didn't believe me that it was cold.

This is the Cove in Inverness. A great restaurant on the water off the beaten path. Cole and PePaw off to check out the water.

How dare you?

Granny, Cole and PePaw

PePaw and Cole both very excited.

DORA, DIEGO, DORA

Cole is obsessed with Dora and now has an obsession with Diego. I mean it is to the point of when he wakes up in the morning, "i want to watch Dora" is the first phase on a daily basis. He will walk around singing the theme song, oh, and I will too. And we both like to sing the Grumpy Ole Troll song too. And for any of you who watched the Christmas, we really like the Baby Troll. "He's funny!"

The good news he is learning from Dora. We stopped in Inverness on our way home from Orlando on Monday and had lunch with PePaw and Granny (my dad and Olivia) and we were all out by the lake after we ate and I guess not moving quick enough because Cole screamed to us "Vamonos". Quite the character that one is.