I keep telling people my boys are like Pete and Repeat, exact carbon copies of each other. Let's take a look at the proof, shall we? (I hate to admit it, but I had to look at the background a few times to make sure I wasn't mislabeling the pictures...)
Dylan:
Colton:
Dylan:
Colton:
Video of Colton giving me a tiny smile one morning. (There are better videos coming of the smiley boy!):
Dylan:
Colton:
Dylan:
Colton:
Told you they looked alike. If I'm a Xerox, Kristen is the deluxe version. She is due to have TWINS in January, a boy and a girl! I can't wait to see if little Avery Christine and Christopher David are duplicates of Ashlyn and Jackson!
Found some camping chairs just their size at Cabela's:
Target practice:
Drawing on my "teaching" whiteboard:
He writes his name pretty well...just kidding.
We spent all day yesterday at Mountasia Family Fun center. Dylan was cracking us up with his Lightning McQueen quotes as we rode the go karts over and over:
It was my favorite part too:
Passed out even though it was pretty noisy:
Another car ride. Freaky looking, no?:
He golfs like a left-handed Happy Gilmore and cheats horribly. He picks everyone's ball up and puts them right by the hole before tapping them in. Thanks, buddy:
Little Slugger and Big Slugger:
He got to the top even though his "forearms were on fire":
We stayed through nap time to get our money's worth. Dylan fell asleep on the way home clutching the 7 little "go karts" he won at the arcade:
Before the updates, I was going through my camera videos and found a few I hadn't ever posted...as well as a few new ones.
Video of Dylan playing pretend upstairs back in February:
Video of Dylan going down the backyard slide into the little pool at the beginning of the summer:
Video of Dylan "playing" with Colton while he was "tanning" the bilirubin away:
Video of Colton not thrilled with tummy time:
Last weekend I froze Dylan's finger puppets in some ice and let him hammer them out to "save" them:
2 videos of the hammering:
Tummy time:
Video of Colton talking and almost rolling over:
Dinner with the Hewitt family (Adrian, Stephanie, Addy, Derek, and Avery), our dear friends from Euless right before they moved to Garland, TX:
1st BBQ with daddy:
Dylan 33 Month Update:
*"Excuse me, but what are you doing? You should go hold baby Colton sometime." (As if I don't. Sheesh.)
*"Hey, what do ya fink (think), mama?"
*"Eat your food, brother. It's yummy." And then he tries to push Colton's face back into my chest to help him stay focused.
*As he's walking out the door with Autrey: "I feel like I'm forgetting something." I may have said that once or twice lately...
*Me: "Let's go ride your bike."
Dylan: "Ok, mama. I'll give it a try. Let's get going."
*Dylan said "Hello" to a guy on our walk who said "Hi" back. Dylan then says to me, "I just made a new friend."
*Walking to the car on a hot day: "Let's turn on the ABC." (He meant A/C)
*When he is eating he will sometimes randomly say "Ech! Tiggers don't like honey" even if he likes whatever we're eating.
*During sacrament while at church with Nana: "Where's Buster?" in a loud voice as Buster passed the bread and water.
*He likes rhyming words. We continue to work on colors and counting objects. I'm going to start introducing individual ABC letters. The other day he pointed out all the "E"s on signs as we walked to the school park and back. He also pointed to the "F"s, calling them "E"s, but that's pretty good. He also knows "X" from the treasure map on Mickey Mouse Clubhouse DVD.
*He still likes cars/toys to "watch" him eat/go potty/etc.
*Dylan and I love to chase each other around the kitchen island. It is so fun. We laugh and laugh. It's actually a good workout for me, which shows just how much my body atrophied this pregnancy.
*During a nap he got out of his twin bed for the 1st time on his own. We found him 'reading' his books after he had pulled them all off his little shelf. I guess it's better than emptying his drawers or going out of his room. It's been a few weeks and he hasn't done it again. Hasn't earned the title of "flight risk" quite yet.
Colton 3 Month Update:
*Colton is now in size 1 diapers. He can still fit in most of his newborn clothes, but he is also wearing 0-3 month clothes.
*I am loving how chunky he is, especially the rolls at the top of his thighs. His skin is so soft.
*He does the "bow and arrow" position with his arms.
*He now enjoys his nightly baths.
*Unlike Dylan as a baby, Colton will take a binky. It's nice, but it makes me nervous that it will become a bad habit. It's a better alternative than having him use me as a binky and nursing forever like he was though. I'm planning on letting him use it for a few months and then phasing it out before he becomes attached to it. I want to avoid future "sleep prop", teeth, and language problems down the road if he were to hang onto it.
*He is starting to do better about not having to be held all the time. He will be content in the swing or on his blanket on the floor for short stretches.
*At the end of July he had slept 5-6 1/2 hours in a row before but it wasn't the norm. On August 1st he slept 8 hours in a row and on August 10 he slept for 10 hours in a row! Light at the end of the sleep deprivation tunnel!!
*Daily naptime is what we are working on now, since Colton is Mr. Cat Napper during the day.
*It is cute to see him reach out and "play" with the objects on his crib mirror toy.
On Thursday, we flew to New Mexico to meet up with the Dukes at Nana's house for the weekend. The boys did great on the plane rides. On the ground was a different story though. Colton is a typical needy infant and Dylan is going through a phase where he is either good as gold or a little terror. Adding lack of sleep to the mix from staying up late and getting up early caused Dylan to have a tough trip. Unfortunately, I was still not recovered from mastitis and was low on patience to properly deal with the crying and the throw-himself-on-the-ground tantrums over sharing toys with his cousins even though he loves being with them. That explains why there are not a lot of pictures. Oh, well. Life goes on. It won't be so bad when I start consistently getting a good night's sleep. Anyway, enough whining. Here are the boys hanging out in the airport while Autrey was getting the rental car. Is it me or does Dylan look grown up and tall in this picture?
Dylan and Tommy in their twinkie Toy Story jammies:
The boys and I took a nap on Nana's bed. I woke up 1st and had to take pictures of the cuteness:
We attempted to get a picture of the 6 grandkids, but this was as good as we could get with shadows and crying and blinking:
Dylan riding Nana's tire horse he named Dunny, of course:
Despite the craziness, I'm glad we went to Nana's. We got to see everyone, Autrey got to golf twice, and we escaped the blistering 100+ degree Texas heat. That's a win in my book.
