trick or treat...

Cole was a zebra for Halloween this year. I bought the costume a couple months ago and thought it was going to be way too big for him. It was a 6-12 month size and he was only going to be 6 months. But when Halloween came around, it fit him perfectly. Since he goes to bed early and nobody besides Vere and I would to see him in his costume, I took him down to Vere's work the Friday before when everyone at the office was dressed up. He was a hit! And he was in such a good mood, smiling at everyone and letting strangers hold him. It was fun!


Cole at Vere's office



The cookies I made for Vere to take to work. I'm having a small obsession with royal icing...



Me and C


 

Here is the whole costume with his feet

He also had his 6 month well check on Wednesday. He weighed 19 lbs. (85 percentile) and was 28.5 inches long (97 percentile). Which means he is already almost half as tall as I am! He is also crazy active now. We can no longer change Cole's diaper and expect him to just lie still. He's crazy! He just wants to flip over the entire time. It's almost impossible to change him! I have to start using his changing table exclusively now because it's sort of shaped like a U and it's harder for him to roll over in.

I thought this was funny. Cole is constantly moving, especially his feet. And this ball got stuck in between his feet and he was just moving it around because his feet were moving non stop. It was going on for like 5 minutes so I had to take a video.

Last week Cole started eating sweet potatoes and loves it! He is eating two solid meals a day now. One in the morning/early afternoon and the other just before bedtime. Although I haven't experienced the one or two more hours of sleep that I've been dreaming of. But on a good night, Cole will go 9-10 hours before waking up. Then will go back to sleep for another hour or two. I should probably just go to bed at 6:30 when Cole does and that will solve my sleep deprivation problem. Tomorrow he starts bananas.  

Cole's latest obsession... the tags and labels on anything and everything. He just loves looking at or chewing on the tags that are on his toys, clothes and bibs. And loves to look at the warning labels in his car seat, the mobile on his crib and on his activity center. For some reason they totally catch his eye and he is more interested in the tags then the toys themselves.


Inspecting the tag on his shorts


 

Chewing the tag on his bib


 

Tag on his toy


 

Another tag!




Seriously, it's borderline OCD




Or perhaps he can actually read... who knows!

 Cole is so funny. He has been laughing so much and playing and talking and really experimenting with sounds. He's started to figure out that he can also rollover from front to back. So tonight he was just rolling around on the floor chewing on a teething toy and squealing then grunting and then laughing. It's fun to see him having such a good time. There are two things that always get a laugh out of him: 1. Saying "cuckoo, cuckoo" over and over again. He thinks it's so funny for some reason. And 2. He likes it when I say "boing, boing, boing!" especially when I do it when we're walking down the stairs.

We also went up to C-mont to hang out with Christine and her two kids, Liam (4) and Abbey (1). We went to a cool park that had a huge pond with tons of ducks.




All of us at the park

 

Christine, Liam and Abbey  (Liam is eating a blue ring pop)



Liam pointing at the ducks

 Some other pics...

Vere and Tabatha at the Justin Bieber concert. Vere got major dad points for A) taking Tabatha to the Justin Bieber concert and B) wearing his red skinny jeans (not pictured).

Taking a close look at Tutu. This was before I gave him his haircut...you can kind of see the comb over.



Seriously, I leave him alone for 1 minute.



He can't crawl yet but somehow always manages to make his way to the diaper caddy

Chillin out in his chair that he got from the Haraguchis