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Colin loves shoes. Loves them. As such, he would very VERY much like to be wearing them at all times. He has a specific love of his crocs. His cammo crocs are super stinky (seriously, EW) so I've hidden them from him. If he can't wear those, he wants his Longhorn crocs, even though they are too big.

This morning, he found one of his Longhorn crocs on the floor and had to put it on. He couldn't find the other one, so he walked around for quite a while in his red socks and 1 croc. He calls his shoes "oosh" (like he's saying it backwards).

The motion in the picture is because while wearing his favorite shoes, he was saying his other favorite word: NO.

Speaking of words, here's a list of words Colin says now:

NO!, baby (that's what he calls Gavin!), mommy, daddy, Jakie, Maggie, shoes, toes, nose, eyes, ears, hair, belly, penis (that was a new one this morning!), purple, green, orange, red, eat, milk, juice, doggie, puppy, Woody, hat, baseball, water, hot, more, please, thank you, bath, teeth, vitamin, car, mine, pizza, cheese (both the food and when pretending to take a picture), yogurt, cup, outside, whee! (that's his word for slide), swing, pop, balloon, bubbles, up, Spongebob (he says "bob bob"), knees, bottle, hi, bye-bye, nite-nite, uh-oh, ball, bite (usually it's "more bite" when he's still hungry), ew (that usually means that he pooped - he'll even point to his dirty diaper while saying it), pancake (take take, just like his brother used to say it!) ... and many more that I haven't deciphered yet :)

arrowhead ranch

Kelly took the boys to Arrowhead Ranch today. It sounds like they had a great time!

Here's Gavin feeding a goat:

Kelly said that Colin was trying to pretty much sneak up on the goat, most likely to hug it (like he does with the dogs). It looks like he's doing some rear-sniffing, totally cracks me up!

Doesn't Gavin look proud up on that horse?

Colin looks like he's concentrating on this horse-riding thing:

We'd talked about taking Gavin's cowboy hat over to Kelly's today, and it was forgotten somewhere during the weekend. When I picked the boys up this afternoon Gavin was not pleased with me! He told me that's why I shouldn't go to work, I should just stay home with them. Ouch! As much as I'd love to....

colin likes corn

We went to Chili's for dinner tonight - why, yes, we are fancy people! - and Gavin asked for corn on the cob with his chicken. We never have corn on the cob at home, so I'm not sure where he has had it before, but when our food came Gavin dug right in.

Right before we were ready to go, Scott offered Colin a bite. He started and didn't come up for air for what seemed like forever! I'm sorry the video is so long, feel free to stop watching at any time ... I was just amazed that he kept at it so long :) About 40 seconds in, he says "puppy" around the corn when he sees a picture of a puppy on the wall. You'll notice that he does all his talking with the corn cob still securely in his teeth!

He did finally come up for air, but went right back to the corn to nibble some more.

Poor Gavin. All of my videos lately have been very Colin-centric. I'll have to get some video of Gavin writing his name. He's just recently learned how and I'm SO proud of him!

at the park

Yesterday afternoon the boys and I stopped at the park on our way home to enjoy the gorgeous weather. I haven't been to the park with the boys since the summer, I don't think, so I've missed some fun times it seems. Colin loves the slide!

Gavin had to have his "picture" taken on the slide, too :)

These boys are hilarious and sweet together. Sorry for the lengthy shot of just the slide part way through on this one - I was one-arming Colin to the top of the slide. Gavin just walks right up the slide rather than taking the time to go around to the steps, and monkey-see, monkey-do, so Colin has no patience for the going-around business. Anyway, here you go:

playing with balloons

Yesterday the boys got dressed up in their Halloween costumes (pictures of those to come!) and went to the neighborhood party. They each came home with a balloon, and both balloons were woefully sad looking today - but the boys had a ridiculous amount of fun playing with them!

(my apologies for the quality of the videos - iphones are not ideal for taking video!)

As you can see, it's a clothing-optional kind of day at our house. The boys also love to dance, and it's pretty funny to watch :)

Get yourself a baby kangaroo, you know what a kangaroo will do, they bounce and bounce and bounce and bounce and.......

Vegas baby!

Scott used to travel to Vegas every year, right after Thanksgiving, for a work conference. I was always pregnant or home with a baby or 2 and could never tag along. For his birthday this year we decided to go big and head out to Vegas. Grammy came to stay with the boys and we had a weekend of being grownups. Without children! It was bizarre, but so much fun :)

This picture was one of our attempts to take our own picture in our hotel room. It was after we'd gotten back from seeing the Cirque de Soleil show "O" - which was amazing. I have no idea what it was about, but it was really fun to watch!

We were walking back to our hotel one afternoon when we spotted a Storm Trooper hanging out on the sidewalk. When we told Gavin over the phone he was so excited! I felt bad that I didn't get a picture of the R2D2 we saw, but it was on top of a slot machine and just didn't seem like something I really wanted to show him!

We wandered through the shops next to City Center, and the picture below is a restaurant!

Of the 3 shows we saw, Penn & Teller might have been my favorite. I really like that they stick around after the show for pictures and autographs. Penn called everyone "boss." Ha!

I actually heard Teller talk, which was interesting since he never talks during the live show or when you watch them on TV. He was very nice!

Here's an action shot of Scott while we were at the piano bar:

And my action shot:

We had some seriously great sushi at a fusion restaurant called "Sushi Samba." My favorite was the Maya roll, which was tomato, avocado, and crab, with a tomatillo dipping sauce. Holy freaking delicious sushi!!

I had to take a picture of our hilariously froofy drinks. Mine was a strawberry something, and Scott's was grapefruity (with sugar on the rim). But hey, we had a coupon, so one of them was free!

I threw away some money on slot machines (basically, I paid to push a button over and over with no return), but we didn't really gamble. Scott was wondering today how he made it through a weekend in Vegas without playing a single hand of blackjack.

I missed the boys like crazy while we were gone, but I also can't express how much I enjoyed sleeping in and going out at night and only being in charge of myself. This trip was only my 3rd or 4th night away from Gavin (and some of those were when I was in the hospital having Colin), and I'd never spent the night apart from Colin since he was born. It was definitely time! Plus, it made me that much happier to return home, since I couldn't wait to see my babies.

It's a lot easier for vacations to come to an end when you look forward to what's waiting for you at home.

LOVE

I love them. Adore them, really. Scott posted this picture on facebook yesterday - he spent a while fixing it up, messing with colors and getting rid of some smudge you could see on the wall, but all I could see was how precious and wonderful my babies are. (Ha, how obnoxious is that? Sorry.) Seriously, they are the best thing I have ever done. Ever.