FYI-Not a fan of birthday hats!

Oh my goodness. Today was Harold's birthday. Harold is a little boy that is in Cole's class at school. His mom Darcie and I worked together. So Harold and Cole have been hanging out since in the womb! Darcie brought some birthday hats, sunglasses and cupcakes to school today. From the pictures you can tell Cole was not a fan. Hahaha....Hope this isn't any indication of what he is going to be like at his party :)Happy 1st Birthday Harold William

Mr. party pooper

Partying with Annabelle

I hate party hats!

Spring Break and Easter 2012

I was wondering if it was ever going to get here! it was 3 weeks later than it has been for the past 10 years of me working and then of course it flew bye. Cole and I had the whole week together. We had so much fun. We just did whatever we wanted to do and of course didn't get to everything that I had hoped :( We will have to make that up over summer break!! which is only 7 weeks away. Ok, back to Spring Break. The first morning of vacation Cole slept until 8am, which was a nice treat. That day we met up with Uncle Craig for lunch and yogurt, then mailed out my 1st birthday invitations. Later that night we went over to Uncle Brad and Ben's to do a load of laundry since we had a pipe mess up. Hopefully it will be fixed soon, but at least I am seeing all the Uncles :) Tuesday we went to get spring pictures made, see the "other" Coggin crew (Uncle Lincoln, Aunt Pam, Seth and Zane), and went to check out Opry Mills since it just re-opened. On Wednesday we walked all around TSU-ugh! (hopefully mommy FINALLY has everything completed for graduating in May!) then while mommy went to the dentist Cole hung out with KK. Thursday we went to Alabama to get our hair done and hang out with Julie. KK came along with us and got her hair done too! Friday, Good Friday we went shopping and got our things for Easter and my new shoes came in (Stride Rite tennis shoes in 5.5 DW) I am such a big boy in my tennis shoes-sniff, sniff. We had just a really good and relaxing spring break. Sunday was Easter. We went to church then to lunch with Papa, KK, and Uncle Craig and Brad. It is going to be hard to leave my little man on Monday.

Picture success for my birthday invitation

Like my new shoes?

being silly

Big boy with my tennis shoes

Posing with mommy

Relaxing with Uncle Ben

My new tooth brush!

He cracks us up walking all over the place with this-so funny!

The Easter bunny came!

Drinking my bottle

My sweet boy!

Happy Easter

Hey! Are we almost done?

11 months and such a big boy!!

Huh?

Seriously, these months are flying bye. Cole is doing so much these days. Tonight for instance...Casey was going upstairs to get Cole's bath ready. When he put him down Cole fussed for a second, as Casey was walking up the stairs he said "Well, come on". Cole flew over to the steps (he is such a fast crawler these days :) and began to climb them, ALL of them, like it was no thing. He has never done that. He has gone over to the stairs, climbed up one or two and then stepped back down, almost like he was afraid, but not tonight!! He has 4 good teeth in (2 top, 2 bottom) with two more on the top making slow appearances. His hair is growing so much. He is going to get it trimmed up over Spring Break when mommy gets her hair done. We have been trying some new foods. His new favorites are gold fish and greek yogurt. He is so curious about whatever we are putting in our mouths. The other morning I was eating a bowl of Peanut Butter Cheerios (my new fav) and he just put his big ole hand in my bowl and took a few :) We are also trying out different sippie cups. He doesn't seem to be a fan of any of them really, but is doing ok with the soft spouts ones like the Nuby's. He is also curious about walking. He took 4 big steps the other day. I was so glad that Aunt Pam, Seth and Zane saw it too or Casey probably would not have believed me. He has been talking one and two and then falling, but the other day at there house he took 4. He will be running before we know it. Since he took his big steps I went ahead and got some shoes. He got measured at Stride Rite for his 5 DW (double wide-hehehe) and so we got his first pair of tennis shoes. The birthday planning is underway! I cannot believe it is almost here. So exciting!!

Mom, is this sticker right?

What do you want me to do?

In the wagon with my girl, Annabelle

Good Morning, I am 11 months today!

Just a crawling...through the coffee table :)

Trying to escape

with KK

Papa and Cole and Uncle Clint's reception for  National Christian School AD of the Year

with the guest of honor