Happy 1st Birthday Colton!

Colton turned one on Thanksgiving day. He had a fun day of celebrating with a houseful of relatives...about 32 of them (eight of them were kids three and under!)... I think Ellie was under the impression that all the Thanksgiving festivities were for Colton's birthday. When we sat down to eat Thanksgiving dinner she got all excited and said "HAPPY BIRTHDAY Colton!".

I think he was more interested in eating his party hat than his cake.

Bucko and Grandma Kristy

Great-Grandma Peggie has a tradition of giving money on birthdays. She gives the amount of your age. (Somehow I've been cut off...the past two years I haven't recieved mine. When I teased her about it last year she said I must have just lost it!) :'(

Cuddling with Daddy, Aunt Sheryl, and cousin Zach after a long day. Colton and Aunt Sheryl share a birthday.

funny

Colton always tries to play with the plug-in air freshener. Today he and Ellie were together in the hallway near the air freshener and I was around the corner and this is what I overheard.

Ellie said, "Colton this is freshener for when people toot. It goes up in the air (the air-freshener) and then it (the toot) goes away."

Not really sure who told her that's what it's for...but I guess it's true!

I thought it was pretty funny so I figured I should share the story...

Halloween

We had a fun Halloween. Ellie was a "butterfly" (Fairy Princess) and Colton was a BIG BAD Wolf. Ellie loved going around our little neighborhood loop saying "Trick or Treat!" to the neighbors. After Trick-or-Treating we went to our 2nd annual Red Robin Halloween dinner with Uncle Nate and Aunt Linda where we ate WAY too many french fries. It was a fun night.

Election Day

Well, I had big fears of standing in line for hours in the cold wind and rain waiting to cast my vote with two kids in tow. Guess I worried about nothing because we walked right in, grabbed a ballot and I was done filling in my ovals before Colton even realized he was strapped into a stationary stroller!

Ellie was pretty confused by the whole voting thing. I told her we were going to vote today and I immediately realized she thought I said boat. So I thought I did a really good job explaining to her that we weren't B-Boating we were V-Voting. Well, before we left the house to go vote she said, "Mommy, are we going to take a lunch to eat on the Boat?". Hmmm, guess I didn't explain it as well as I thought I did.

Our polling place was at our library so since it went so fast Ellie was able to go in and play on the library computers for a little bit. She even got to "vote" for her favorite cartoon character. Hopefully she's not confused about why we didn't get to ride on a boat today.