11 Months

Coleman turned 11 months a few weeks ago.Soon he'll be one. I can't believe it.

He's starting to really get into anything.  

He love making a mess of my magazine pile that I really need to go through.

He's started pulling himself up to stand.

He loves being outside. The grass doesn't bother him.

He still loves playing with balls.

He loves watching his brothers and sister play outside. And probably wishes we had grass so he could go outside with them.

Still loves his binky.

He also loves opening any doors he can. He loves pulling the books off the shelf. He also loves trying to get in my kitchen cabinets.

About Coleman:
He's been crawling for a few weeks now.
He says uh-oh (not necessarily at the right time though) and loves to repeat us saying it too.
He says dadadadadadadada a lot. But I don't think he knows what he's saying.
He can kind of play "so big"
He love being tickled and has the cutest laugh.
He loves his family.
He hates being alone.
He has 6 teeth. 2 on the bottom and 4 on the top.
He wakes up way to early. Pretty much always by 7:30 (I don't remember the last time he slept past 7:30) and sometimes as early as 6:30. He eats, but doesn't go back to sleep. We still put him back in bed though. We have the pack n play in our room so I've been putting him in their so that his talking doesn't wake the other kids up. He my first child that does this. I hope he starts sleeping in later soon.
He loves to be held and is usually pretty happy when he's held. This makes it easier at church (at least the first hour. Doug has him the last 2 hours.)
He loves smoothies. I make one everyday for us all to share at lunch and he loves it. Sometimes he gets sad when it's gone.
He likes most of the baby food I make him. He doesn't like broccoli unless it's hidden in something else. He likes all the fruit he's tried though. He prefers fruits to vegetables.
He can pull himself up on things, but isn't walking around furniture.
He cries when we leave his sight. Once at play group my friends told me that while I was gone picking Jackson up from school, Coleman started crying until he saw Jordan and then went over to Jordan.
He likes baths.
He picks everything up off the ground and tries to eat it.
We still swaddle him.
He still loves his binky.
He likes being in the baby carrier as long as he's front facing.
He likes to try to get the vacuum when I'm vacuuming.
He likes balls and cars and Jackson's new hotwheel's track.

Jackson's interview...

What’s your name:  Jackson
How old are you?  6
Who is your best friend? Nathan
What is your favorite thing to do? play the wii.
What is your favorite color? green and orange. and red and yellow and blue.
What do you like to do with your family? play games.
What is your favorite toy? my big yellow bouncy ball.
What do you want to be when you grow up? I don''t know yet.
What makes you happy? When Colie-boy says uh-oh.
What makes you sad? When daddy's mean to me.
What is your favorite show to watch? The Jungle Book.
What is your favorite book? Hansel and Gretel. I read that book a lot, mommy.
What do you love to learn about? space and dinosaurs.
What was the best part of your birthday? Digging for Dinosaur bones.
Where do you like to go? To the park. (Jordan tried to convince him to say Disneyland.)
What is your favorite food? Cotton Candy
What was your favorite birthday present? Lightening McQueen and Phin McMissile.
If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go? Disneyland.
What food do like the least? Steamed broccoli.
What is your favorite song? I see my mother kneeling.
What’s your favorite thing you did when you were 3? Go to grandpa's house.
What’s your favorite weather? Sunny
What’s your favorite season? Spring
What’s your favorite holiday? Christmas
What’s your favorite month? December
What’s your favorite day? Tuesday or Thursday because of swimming lessons.
Anything else? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA hehehehehehehehehehehe ahuh

Jackson's 6!

  Jackson had his 6th birthday! He was so excited to be 6 and have his birthday. He loves birthdays. His birthday was on a Sunday so we didn't go anywhere other than church and Ashlee's house that day. We let him open his presents before church. 

I thought he found a pretty comfy spot to open his presents. 

This was from Jordan. I picked it out for Jordan to give Jack. Jordan saw a picture of something similar that we used to have and wanted one. I wanted to get one for Easter, I think, but couldn't find one. When I found one before Jackson's birthday I knew Jordan would want to give it to him. Jordan was very excited about it :)

Jordan's card for Jack.

Cute Jordan.

Jack was excited to get some Tootie Frooties that were almost as big as him.

Kenzie was excited too.

Because we don't have enough big toys in our house, we got Jackson a big race track. The kids have loved playing with it. I think it's 6 feet long or something. But it fold up pretty flat so it's easy to store.

After nap time we went to Ashee's house for dinner and cake and ice cream and presents. It was nice outside and the kids jumped outside on the trampoline most of the time we were there.

Jackson was very spoiled. He got a lot of great presents.

He was very excited to get a lot of baseball stuff.

Don't you like my dad's hat? :)

Jack's new love is chess so he was very excited to get this game that has chess (and checkers and pick up sticks and tic tac toe and several other games) in it. He loves playing it whenever he can. Luckily for him, Jordan will do most anything Jackson wants him to do most of the time.

Jack also loved this big yellow ball.

Jack got some things that you put in the water then they grow into animal sponges.  Jack and Alli are watching them.

Blowing out candles.

Coleman with great grandma Crabtree in the background.

We went to the jumpy house last week too for his birthday.

Since Coleman can crawl now we put him on the jumpy things and let him play. He didn't like the ones that were fully enclosed with just a net opening. He liked to see us better I think. But he liked the little kid zone as long as he could see us.

Jack wanted to take a picture with Colie.

Kenzie made a sad face when I took her picture.She likes to make sad, grumpy, and mad faces for the camera :)

There were pictures on the slides showing what you shouldn't do when you ride down the slide and one that showed what you should do. The boys liked looking at the pictures and choosing one that they would be like when they went down the slide. They didn't do anything they shouldn't do because most of the pictures were just showing ways you shouldn't ride with other people. There was one picture of a guy with his arms up (I think he didn't wait until the other person got down the slide :)) and the boys liked picking him the most. He had his hands up when he was going down and so that's what they would do. I thought it was pretty funny :)

Kenzie climbed up the slide a few times saying she would go down it, but once she got to the top she wouldn't so she came down the latter again.

We all had a fun week of celebrating his birthday! We are so happy he is in our family. He is a sweet boy and loves to help most of the time. He loves sharing. He often saves some of his snack everyday to share with his siblings and me on our walk home. He loves playing with his siblings. He loves being a leader to them (AKA convincing them to do what he wants...typical oldest child :)) He loves reading and learning. His favorite things to study are dinosaurs, space, and animals. He loves making up games with Jordan for them to play. He loves wearing shorts and pajamas. He says "Oh, come on." all the time. He's a cute boy and we love him so much!