It's Electrifying

Matt & I remodeled Mom and Dad's den into our bedroom. We were getting ready for Aunt Bean, Uncle John & Carolyn to move in to mom and dad's. We moved Colton into our old room and painted and decorated it. We took off the paneling and Spackle and painted. It was quite a project. I still need to take finished pictures, but I did get before and during. Colton thought he was helping by spackeling with one of my color brushes he found, it was really cute. He also tried sanding with a block. We were very blessed during this time, Matt and I were working hard on priming and all of the sudden the lights went out, there was Colton standing by the plug with a screwdriver that had the metal blown out of it in parts. Thank goodness the handle was rubber. We checked him over and no marks, he didn't even make a peep. He said his arm hurt, which I'm sure it did. We were so blessed. He could have been a goner. I took a picture of the screwdriver, but it's hard to tell with the metal. I've included pictures of Colton's room. He loves having a room all to himself. It's cute how he will go in there and play for hours by himself. He got to chose what he wanted in his room as far as the border, he chose Winnie the Pooh. I thought for sure he would have chose Lightning McQueen, or Nemo, but he wanted Pooh. Oh, ya, we found his desk at a yard sale for $3.00. We gave him an old keyboard and a mouse, he thinks he's all grown up. He likes to work at his desk, when I'm working in the office.

All Fall Down...

Colton has managed to fall 6 times this morning before noon. The first spill was the biggest, he fell from his chair at the table and landed on his back and head. He bit his lip in the process and got a bloody nose. Then he tripped 2 times on a rug, fell of his train and hit his head, ran into a wall while running out of his room playing like a dog and then tripped on the stairs. Poor kid. Now he is napping hope nothing happens to him, while he is sleeping. I think he needs to start this day over. Although he reminds me of my Grandma Tinker, she was really clumsy and was always hurting herself. It seemed as though she would hurt herself once and then she kept doing it all day long. I think it runs in the family. Sorry, Colton, you have your mom and Grandma's genes. Love ya little man.

Cute Phrases

I wanted to write these down before we forgot about them...

Here are a few of the cute phrases Colton says..

"I not stinky", "Mine"( not so cute), "Bus", "Ruck"(Truck), "car", "milsk" (milk), "I cute"

"Butt", "Boobie", discovering his body, "Rink" now "Dink" for Drink, "Pepples" (People), "That" "this", "hoclate" (chocolate), Hot Dog, "stinky", or one of my favorites, " I not stinky, dadda, stinky", "mama" (Grandma), "Pease" (please), "Tank You" ( Thank you), "Srel" (cereal)

He gets really soft spoken when he says "Baby", so cute. "Dog, Dog," always has to say it twice, "Ewes", (shoes), "Train", "Ahhh, whenever he sees a baby or a dog, "Bike", "Drew" (for the Price is Right, he loves that show), "no" ( another not so cute), "poon" (spoon), "acker" (cracker).

"Pzze" (Pizza), DDD (DVD), Tractor DDD means"Cars, DVD, he loves it, and the car says, ooom, oom. "Ath" (Bath), "Ammies" ( Jammies), "juice", "cheese" Nigh, Night" ,"I ove eww", for I love you.

Colton is growing up so fast. He thinks he is 20 and can do everything, like move furniture, run the DVD and join in on conversations.

His favorite songs are "Itsy, Bitsy, Spider, Ring around the Rosey and Popcorn Popping".

He loves eating apples and cheese with Grammy. He is a good reader for scriptures every night and kneels for prayer, it's really cute.

What a cutie, most of the time, he is two, so along comes the temper tantrums and the whinning. That is not so fun. It's really cute how Matt deals with him. He has his talks with him and tries to reason with him. Colton has his daddy wrapped around his little finger, but Daddy is gettting wiser. Matt is a great dad and loves his little man so much. We are so lucky to have Colton as a part of our family.

Quick update

baby Giraffe

baby snow leopard

Baby Elephant

I know it's been forever since I've written on this, but life is crazy and I haven't felt much like blogging. Matt has gone to work with dad while we are waiting to schedule mom's hyernia surgery. She's doing pretty good, just can't lift anything and hurts quite a bit. Bean, John and Carolyn have come to live at mom and dad's. So, the house is a bit crowded, but not too bad. Bean and John are in a motor home and Carolyn is staying in the spare bedroom. I have great examples from my parents on loving and supporting family members.

Colton is growing taller in leaps and bounds. He still only weighs about 22 lbs. and eats non stop. The Dr. said he's just tall and skinny. We celebrated his 2nd birthday at Hogle Zoo. Then had a family get together at Grandma Funks. It went pretty good, except the cake that I made special for his birthday, that looked like a zoo with cages and animals and all. Didn't make it. Bean left it on the top of the van and well, you can guess, it was gone. But, it's ok life goes on. The sad thing, I didn't take a picture of it when I finished, because I figured I would take one when we got to Arla's. Guess I was wrong, I spent so much time on that cake and it was so cute with ground coverings and monkeys hanging from vine licorice and all. The zoo was fun. We got to see a baby elephant, baby tiger cubs, baby snow leopards, baby monkey's and a baby giraffe.

It actually snowed here last week, it didn't stick to the ground, but it was strange to see. It's cooled off and is definitely fall.

Crazy Kid

Last night after Matt put Colton to bed, we heard him reading and talking. Then all of the sudden he starts screaming, which is unusual so Matt went up to check on him. When he got to the top of the stairs he heard Colton yelling, "Baby, Baby, Babies". I guess we forgot to give him his Baby's when he went to bed. Funny, cuz he has never cared before. He loves his babies, he has me wrap them in a blanket together and he loves them and feeds them and reads and talks to them. It is so cute. He will be a good big brother one day.

Then this afternoon, I've wanted to try on his Halloween costume from last year, because it was so big last year and he hasn't gained much weight, just height. So, I put it on and ya, it fits, so I don't have to buy a new one this year. He doesn't care for the head piece. It's an elephant costume, but I guess he loved the shoes and the costume. When I went to take it off he screamed bloody murder, so he won, it was easier just to let him wear it. He will take it off for nite, nite. He is talking to Grammy and Grandad Parker on the phone. Crazy Kid!!

Here is one of Colton's favorite things to do besides throwing paper on the ground..

Matt's Birthday and SLUSHY

Matt's BD at Blue Bird Rest. So, on the way home the other day, we stopped and got slushies, it was really hot outside. Well, just as we turned off the highway to go home, I hear "mama" at a normal tone, I turn around and this is what I saw. Crazy kid, it was everywhere, where ever you see red, it's slushy. Do you know how hard it is to get slushy out of the inside of a buckle? I thought I had it all until we used the car seat next and the buckle was stuck, because it was still sticky. It was on his bare legs and he didn't even care, his poor legs were frozen, by the time we got home. I was bad, I admit, but I took some video as I was driving down the back road, sorry it's crooked, but I was driving. He was so proud of himself!