This Weekend

Here's the handsome guy enjoying a bean and cheese burrito, yumm!

And here's Ryan and Cole enjoying the game today in their new jerseys!

Christmas

This Christmas was little bit more exciting for Cole.  Instead of sleeping through opening presents he helped open presents!  But before Christmas we headed to meet Santa and Mrs Claus for breakfast!

 (please ignore the snot, otherwise, this is a great pic)

 Cole was more impressed with our waiter than with Santa.  Oh well, at least they had good breakfast.  Here's all our presents Christmas morning.  We may have gotten a little carried away with the basketball goal.  Fortunately Elmo & Ryan like it, so surely it will be a success as Cole gets bigger.

 And every baby needs a wooden nail set to practice their hammering skills!

Cole's First Birthday!!

We had so much fun at Cole's birthday party!  We did a monster theme!  Check out the decorations!

Here's the bday boy enjoying the bday song!

Family Pic

Eating Cake

Cutie Patootie

Check out this handsome guy enjoying his first pbj, I'd call it a major success. Very little ended up on the floor and he made 'mmmm' sounds the whole time he ate it!


And here he is enjoying some chicken spaghetti. He likes to suck all the cheese off and then pull the noodles out of his mouth


- Chels

Brushing teeth

Cole LOVES brushing his teeth. Yesterday morning I let him work on his teeth for about ten minutes and then finally took the brush away. He was not a happy camper! Here he is enjoying some good teeth brushing time!






- Chels

Eating and the Thunder

Check out this cutie enjoying lunch.



And here he is working on a burrito!



This kid really enjoys eating, especially if there are people eating around him!

My company purchases Thunder season tickets and at the beginning of every season does a drawing for employees that want tickets. I was a little disappointed when I ended up with two tickets to the game against the Houston rockets, but it turned out great bc one of the Thunder's high profile players got traded to Houston. It was fun to see him come back and play in OKC. Stevie went with me and this is us during the game



And here's the halftime show performers, acrobats... With jump ropes.



- Chels

11 months!

Cole turned 11 months just a little over two weeks ago! Here's a couple of my favorites.





My brother came in town last week for Thanksgiving so we did his birthday dinner at Ted's and had to embarass him. Check out that sombrero!



And then the cute baby!



- Chels

Weekend Fun

I snapped this pic Saturday afternoon. Cole spent the better part of the afternoon crawling around the back porch, checking things out and screaming (all in fun, of course)!



Yesterday Cole had a GREAT time in his high chair eating.






And sometime you are just so hungry you MUST drink a bottle while on Dad's shoulders.


- Chels

Catch All Post

I've got a couple different topics to cover, hence the title. First check out these green guys! Cole does not usually see Ryan in the mornings so he gets super excited when Ryan comes home from work and sometimes the excitement is too much and he crashes.



The other day my mom texted me this next picture with the caption 'sometimes you just have a three frog day'. Cole loves all things soft and his favorite (aside from Mushu, the cat) is his stuffed frogs. We have three just in case we lose one (can't be too prepared) and some days you just need all three.




Cole will be 11 months on Monday (where has the time gone) which means we are in birthday party planning mode! We are about a month away from the party so I've been getting some good use out of the cricut! Here's a sampling what's been made, we are doing a monster's theme!


- Chels

Bathing Beauty

Enjoying some bath time!!

- Chels

Halloween!!!!

I've finally had a chance to post some Halloween pics!!  I would call it a major success!

Family Pic!

Popeye punches Bluto!

Olive Oyl, Popeye & Bluto!

Yeah!  Go Popeye!!!

Dallas Aquarium

This last weekend we headed down to Dallas for one of my cousin's wedding.  Saturday during the day we headed to the aquarium to check it out.  Cole loved it!!

Right after we got there!

Watching a monkey!

Watching penguins!

Too busy to pay attention!

Pumpkin Patch

Weekend before last we headed to the pumpkin patch to get the obligatory first fall pics with Cole.  He loved it!  He loves animals, outside and apparently pumpkins!

Family photo in front of the welcome sign.

Cole loved the pony ride!

So much so we took him twice!!

When did my baby start looking like a little boy??

Family pic on a tractor tire.

Cole thought the cutouts were HILARIOUS!