powder day!

Here I am on the bunny hill...shreddin' it! I got skis and boots for Christmas- I love it!

catching up

Hi everyone! I am back and ready to blog! I was really sick for a few weeks...it's no fun being sick. I went to the hospital, rode in an ambulance, had lots of doctors poking me, took lots of pictures of my insides, and got lots of "water" taken out of my chest. As I told my class at school yesterday, "we don't have water in our chest, we're supposed to drink water". It was all kinda scary, but I feel so much better now I hardly remember it.

So, here's what I've been up to since then...

Meeting Santa...he even knew that I like Handy Manny!

Getting our Christmas tree (I picked it out!) and decorating it with new ornaments!



Oh, and Kolby turned 8 months too! I really missed her when I was sick- she got to come see me a couple times at the hospital once I was a little better. She can almost crawl, and she always wants to play with my stuff. But she's still so cute, smiley, and happy!

7 months and counting...

Kolby turned 7 months this weekend- she likes to "talk" a lot now just like me so that's what she's doing in this picture. Hmmm...what else is new?

• I learned how to play Go Fish
• Kolby likes to push up on all fours and scoot backwards
• We celebrated Debby's birthday last night with a yummy dinner from Maggianos
• We get to go to Young Life camp with Daddy this weekend! Yipee!
  

I should've been a bulldozer...

...because Daddy says I just keep "pushing the boundaries". Well, in my defense, I didn't really get the whole trick-or-treating concept and I just didn't want to wear my costume. Is that so wrong? But, once I saw all the other kids filling their pumpkins with candy, I changed my mind. Well, after a long talk with Daddy, I decided to change my bad attitude about the costume and transform into a race car driver! Check out the pictures from our fun Halloween...

Here's all the Mommy's and kiddos- I still wasn't wearing my costume and didn't want to be in the picture. Yep, I'm 2 1/2.

Here I am with my buddies- Elliot, Brooks, and Oscar!

I was a super fast race car driver- and got lots of candy!

Kolby was a carrot- she's too little to eat candy, but isn't she so cute?

Before Halloween we carved pumpkins- I didn't want to get my shirt dirty.

Ta-Da! One pumpkin says "Xander, Kolby" and the other is a Mack Truck!

Cousins Day!

I missed out, but Mommy took these pictures of the babies- they don't look as much like babies now that they can sit up. Pretty soon I think they'll actually want to play with me!

Six Months & Sitting Up!

Hi there, I am writing during commercials while watching CARS. Wanted to get you up so speed (yep, a CARS reference) on what's shakin' at our house these days...

Kolby can sit up now and she's way more fun to play with! I have had a renewed interest in all the baby toys too- making towers with the stacking cups is so fun! Oh, and in this picture it looks like Deac is our babysitter- Mom says to reassure you that she is not actually in charge of us (duh!).

Here we are snuggling with Daddy...

Kolby's official 6 month picture...isn't she cute?

I decided to join her for a few poses... none of which involved both of us looking at the camera while smiling, much to Mom's dismay :)

And, last but not least... naked baby! What a smile...

pumpkin patch!

Today we went to a pumpkin patch- Mom said it was a "fall festival", but I was just on the lookout for a pumpkin. We've been talking about pumpkins at school this week and I was excited to get one! Check out the pictures...

This is the pumpkin I picked out! I can't wait to see what's inside it...

Here I am on a cool old tractor thingy!

Here I am with my friends Presley and Oscar... Mommy said I was having a bad attitude at this point. I was just tired and hungry. Mommy says that's a bad combo- I agree.

This is as close as Kolby got to the pumpkins... but she had fun anyway!

A backhoe at our house!!!

Yipee! We just got home from going to the tool store and there was a BACKHOE in front of our neighbors house! Mommy and I walked up to check it out and even met the XCel worker guys who had used it to dig a BIG HOLE! I got to talk to the guys and see the hole- they are working on a main line for the electricity around here. They were really nice and asked me what kinds of machines are my favorites! Backhoes and excavators, of course! So cool!

Rainy Day...

We had a fun rainy afternoon today- since I've been learning about the ocean at school, Mom got the movie "Finding Nemo" and we watched it... I really liked the turtles! Kolby didn't really watch the movie- she's too little- but she hung out with us. Here we are just chillin'...

1,2,3,4,5!

So, I am learning to count with my fingers. I'm really good at 1 & 2, ok at 3, 4 is hard because my thumb won't stay down, but 5 is like a "high 5"! Got it! And, I've had some practice with 5 lately because this week Kolby was 5 months old!

Kolby is eating rice cereal (it looks yucky, but Mom says I used to eat it- gross!), she "talks" a lot, plays in the exer-saucer (and I dance to the music!), we love to LAUGH together, and she got to go to YL camp last weekend while I went to Debby & Dida's.

Happy 5 months, Kolbs!

Cousins!

Here's Kolby and River hangin' out at Aunt Kelly's and Uncle Chris's...more pictures to come of the 2 of them at our house last week. They are silly and I wish they would hurry up and get big so they could play with me...

While they were hangin' out, I got to start school! I LOVE my school this year and my new teacher Ms Angela! So far I have painted, played with tractors and tools, had fun in the sand/playground, and enjoyed learning about water and the letter "A". School is fun!

4 months of Kolby!

Kolby has been busy getting bigger- she is 4 months old now, and I think she is so cute! She weighs 14lbs 10oz (1lb more than me when I was that age), and is 25in long- same as me at 4 months! She smiles and laughs alot, holds onto her toes and tries to eat them, rolls over, and started eating her baby cereal in the bumbo last week. I try to remind her not to get her hands messy and have fun watching her face get covered in cereal!

While she's been doing all that, I've been busy building forts with Daddy (see picture below) and today I hung out with my little cousin River!

A New Pool!

Debby found the coolest new pool for us to try! Here are some pictures of us last week... so much fun! I liked the fountains, and they had a playground IN the water! Kolby went too and wore her swimsuit for the 1st time!

(not sure why this is all underlined, and I can't get it to go away...wierd)

Ahoy!

This weekend we went to Keystone and did something new! We got to ride in a boat on Lake Dillon! It was Dida, Debby, Marvin, Mommy & Me! So fun! Well, I was a little tired and cranky, but overall had a blast! And, there's some other pictures from our weekend too...

I got to help drive the boat with Mommy...

I am into "burying" things/people/the dog, so here is how I "buried" Kolby... Mommy said I had to be careful not to put anything right on her face. Got it.

My other favorite thing to do in Keystone is go on "adventures". Usually that means taking a hike around the house, but right now they're cutting down all the dead trees so there are lots of big "pachines" (yep, I say it with a "p" although Daddy is trying to get me to say "machines"...not sure how I feel about that) to look at! Mommy, Kolby, me, Nana, and Debby took a walk on Sunday!

Gettin' so big...

Kolby turned 3 months old this week! Still not as exciting as being 2 like me, but pretty cool I guess. :) She is so cute and getting more fun! She likes to hold her keys and some toys, we read books and she likes the pictures, and she laughs a lot which I think is so funny! I'm trying to read her lots of truck/tractor books in hopes that when she's a little bigger she'll want to play with those with me. Here's the pictures...

Friday Fun!

Need I say more? Here's all the fun things we did today... Kolby on her floor gym, went to Tiny Town with Debby (the pictures of me in "jail" and in town hall), and ate my first fudgesicle after swimming with Mommy! Not sure there could be a better summer day!

2 months old!

Kolby turned 2 months old this week! Here we are in her chair taking pictures... I know she doesn't look thrilled to have me in her picture in the 1st one, but trust me, she loved it.

kolby is so cute, mom...

I like to say that to Mommy sometimes...my little sister is pretty great! Thought I'd share some pictures of her meeting some new friends and family...

This is pretty silly... Kolby with her "friends"

On Mom's girls weekend Kolby met Anne Stevens...

Last week we went up to Sally's for dinner... Kolby hung out and gave her smiles to Great Grandma! We love her SO much!

Kolby was happy to snuggle with Sally and get lots of kisses...

And, she got to meet Cousin Bob for the first time!