The Proposing Knee

Now that Colton "crawl dog" Allen has mastered crawling, he's working on pulling himself up. As you can see, he's gotten about half way there and loves the 'proposing knee' position. Sometimes he's gets so excited about trying to stand up that he pulls the toys on top of himself - it goes a little something like this -- Colton crawls to toy and pulls himself into position...he starts babbling to the toy and shakes it profusely while keeping his hands in lockdown position on the toy....we try to help him stand up but he doesnt want our help.... babbling, toy shaking and playing continue....we hear a loud thud...both colton and toys are upside down... colton cries for about 5 seconds, recovers... and he's happy again. Repeat.

Man Down

This is what happens when Sulley fights sleep....

all tuckered out

One of greg's favorite things to do besides hanging out with his kids, is to sleep. so here he is killing two birds with one stone! Sulley can always go back to sleep or take nap when she's cuddled up with greg. Somehow I think alot of this same thing will go on this weekend...

A Sulley Sunday

Happy last Sunday in February!

The Goose is Loose

Little Miss Sulley, in all her glory.

This picture is kinda gross but what do you expect a wild woman to look like after dinner. She's obviously not the cleanest eater and is probably saving a little of the food (left on her shirt) for a snack later!

Sulley is doing great - still not pronouncing her vowel sounds as well as colton but she's entered a loud stage! Unlike Colton, her words and sounds aren't as defined; her noises consist of "ahhhhhhhhh uhhhhhhhhhhh ehhhhhhhhhhhhh!" She also is standing up 24/7 and moving herself around and can inch her way down the coffee table while standing. Sulley is into everything and has figured out how to open cabinet doors, etc. The other day she was standing by the dishwasher pulling out all the knives on the floor, prior to that she pulled out all the dish towels, and has also dumped over the basket of diapers underneath the changing table! Today she knocked over the fruit basket and got bonked in the head with an apple and a banana. Every day it seems as if we find something new to move away from her reach.

I expect that she'll be walking within the next month! We'll see

First Goose Egg

Cause: Sulley getting a little too excited while reaching for her cheerios on her Leap Frog Table and loosing her balance.

Effect: Massive tumble to the floor leaving, christening her with her first big goose egg on the side of her head!

i can eat ice cream and crawl too!

Colton LOVES ice cream which is not surprising since it's one of my favorite foods. the kid pretty much attacked greg while he was eating his popsicle. we're actually excited that he seemed interested in something edible and probably will continue to feed him such treats. colton seems to prefer vanilla ice cream coated with a hard chocolate shell. He's got the sweet tooth gene coming from both sides of the family so we're probably doomed. Oh, did i mention that he likes cherry jello too?

In other Colton news, he's pretty much crawling. Covering ground but not taking off yet. He's even started to try and pull himself up but hasn't been successful. He's also constantly babbling and doing a great job using his vowel sounds. He mostly says "ma ma ma" "ba ba ba" and "da da da."