Sink Your Teeth In !

Not that he has any teeth! He is teeth-ING, though. He's got a stuffed up nose some of the time but is remarkably content. Colin is such a joy! He never complains, even when he's uncomfortable.

It's also Solid Food Time. Fun, fun! Some of it actually goes in his mouth.

Hope you enjoy the pictures.

For some of you it may be the first clear look you have gotten at Colin's trademark hairstyle. Waddya think? It's pretty useful, actually. We can always tell the percent relative humidity by what his hair is doing. I keep telling him he looks like Bill Murray in "Kingpin" - that's the one about the washed up bowler on his comeback tour. Bad combover. He doesn't take it to heart, though.)

After I took the last picture Colin said, "Hey Dad - do I have somethin' on my face?"

Ian Said...

Tonight Ian said, "Hey Dad! You wanna learn 'Eagle Spanish'? You just say eagle-eagle-eagle-eagle-eagle! Like that!"

It was a good thing it was close to bedtime, because it turns out that 17 minutes of Eagle Spanish is about all mommies and daddies can take!

Prince of the Monarchs

A couple of years ago, Steph started collecting caterpillars with Ian. It has become a yearly thing. We all enjoy watching the transformation from caterpillar to chrysalis (Ian invents all kinds of plural forms of chrysalis. I've lost track of the real word!) to butterfly. Then we send them on their way. I always wish they'd come back to tell us about their travels!

Let's Go to the Game!

We always go to a home football game or two in the fall. It's a lot of fun on a nice day. This year Colin went with us!

Our Boys Love Their Books!

Ian looks forward to "Book Time." Colin kicks his feet and looks intently at the pictures.

If You Can't Have Fun What CAN you have?

This spring, I was to build a sandbox for Ian. A simple affair, just get some pressure treated lumber and zip it together with some screws. Well, lumber is expensive! Then, realizing that we needed a new picnic table anyway (we had this old one that I saved from the garbage pile at Steph's father's place of business), I decided to cut up the old one and use the pieces for the sandbox. So, the wood I used has been: a tree, lumber, a picnic table, garbage, a picnic table again, and now, a sandbox. Aren't you glad you read all that? Of course, considering that Ian loves Spiderman, I got the idea that it should be a Spiderman sandbox! Cool graphics, eh? It was fun to make and, as you can see, he gets good and thorough use out of it!

Colin said.....

The other day, Colin distinctly said, "Graaaaaaallkngkkkkaaah aaaaaahhhhphh !" I kid you not! Now is that a sweet thing to say to your daddy or what?