Olibur's House

Cole just love going to "Olibur's House." Not to see Aunt Laura or Uncle Justin (both of whom he loves!) but to see the dog, Oliver. Yesterday we went to visit Oliver and went on an adventure in Grand Terrace with Laura's inlaws. I think Cole wants to learn to be a punk rocker like Amy and Rudy.
Cole has big muscles doesn't he?

Stickers in his shoe from hiking.

A whole evening with "Olibur" and not one picture of him? How did that happen?!

Lovey

Some kids sleep with their blankies or favorite stuffed animals. Cole sleeps with his monster truck.

Wordless Wednesday

Dump Truck Bath

You probably know by now that Cole is not a good sleeper. Either he won't go to sleep or he'll go to bed and then just get up like he was just resting and want to play. And he STILL doesn't sleep through the night. He's two for goodness sakes! Luke didn't either till 2.5. You could say I'm tired. So last night was one of those nights where he went to sleep at a decent hour and then woke up and decided to stay up. He doesn't have a crib anymore or his own room so it's not like I can FORCE him to stay in bed. What can I do?
So I got this brilliant idea that I was going to leave him with daddy while I take a warm bath. I slept wrong the night before and my shoulders were hurting and a bath sounded amazing. Too bad that Cole also thought a bath sounded amazing and before I could even turn the water on her announced he was going to have a "dump truck bath" and carried his sand covered dump truck to the tub. I guess he was right; the toy did need a bath. And as much as he tried to get me to join him, there's just not enough room in the tub for mommy, Cole AND a big yellow dump truck.

Tonight he is sleeping great though! All it took was not letting him nap and then taking him on a 1.8 mile hike!

Hiking Shoes

I'm trying hard to get the boys outside more. We don't have a backyard and so getting them out means getting ME out more too. Which is fine, I need to get outside in the fresh air and get some exercise anyways, it would just be NICE (not to mention convenient) to open the back door and say "go play" while I cook dinner or pick up toys. Or veg out. So in my attempt to get them out more we have taken up hiking in the trails near home. And by hiking I mean walking and exploring but going only as far as a two-year-old's legs can take him. Not to mention Luke must be home by 5 for his daily addiction: "The Most Extreme" on Animal Planet. So we leave at a time that will allow us to get back for at least part of Luke's show and we go exploring and the weather is so nice and the scenery is so gorgeous that I actually look forward to it now. Only today my car has a dead battery and so we are stranded and I am FINALLY doing a blog post since I am such a bad blogger. I just hope Ish gets my car running so we can go hiking again tomorrow!

Cole absolutely loves going hiking. He likes walking through the tall grass and finding ants and running "aster, aster!" If I ask him if he wants to go hiking he runs to get his shoes and repeats "iking" in his super excited tone. This morning I told him to get his shoes and he brought me a pair and dubbed them his "iking shoes" so that they shall be!