cole and stella... 10 months later :)

so cole and stella are a little older now ;) cole is almost 3 1/2 and stella is 18 months. a lot has been going on in the last 10 months or so...
 
cole is potty trained now (since june) and started preschool at the end of august and loves it. i thought he might have a hard time adjusting to a new room, new teachers, and new kids - but it turns out that he adapts pretty easily when he's having fun. he did 3 weeks of soccer camp during the summer through his school and just started their fall camp a couple weeks ago. 


cole painting on first day of school

hanging out in his new big classroom with new friends. for the first couple of weeks he kept telling me his classroom was too big since it's probably 3-4 times bigger than his toddler classroom.

we've been doing lots of fun stuff while he's not at school....the life of a 3 year old...




cole at legoland

cole with tutu being an "egg" at the hardrock cafe in hollywood. tutu took us to see cole's first movie in a theater - planes! 



backyard fun with stella

museum of making music - playing an electric guitar - those things are heavy! 

...a ukulele

... and the drums!

stella is turning out to be one tough cookie with the contant beating she gets from cole. she's been walking since 10 months and has been on the go ever since. she's also my little climber. at 15 months she started pulling the bathroom drawers out and using them as stairs. and last night she was jumping from the ottomon to the rocking chair over and over again before bedtime!! she is definitely the little dare devil. she's also the good eater and will eat almost anything in front of her... including paper, sand, dirt, plants, crayons, lint...anything and everything! she's finally started talking the last month or two and has several words in her vocabulary: mama, dada, bubbles!, thank you, more, paw patrol (latest nick jr show). she does talk a lot, we just don't understand what she's saying :)

some recent pics of stella...

on the train at the carlsbad outlets



backyard balloon fun

cooking!

having a serious phone conversation

after a yummy mud snack