Hey Cole, wait up!

I spent last weekend in Seattle for my sister's baby shower. While I was away, Cole decided he had enough of just crawling around the house. He found his push cart, pulled himself up on it and took off walking! You can imagine my surprise to come home to a much more mobile little boy!

Cole is all over the place. He pushes the cart around the whole house, taking corners and everything! I am not sure if this means walking (on his own) is imminent?

Cole also got another tooth while I was away. We are up to 3 now! 2 bottom teeth and 1 on top. This morning when I peeked it looked like we may have 2 top teeth before the weekend is over. Our little man is growing up!

I've been trying to get good pictures of Cole walking with his cart, but haven't gotten the perfect one yet. In the meantime these will have to do!

Have a safe holiday weekend!

Seriously, you want me to feed myself?

Even though the look on his face doesn't say it...I secretly think Cole loves to feed himself. We're working on all kinds of fun foods...bananas, cheese, pineapple and he even had taco's! Well, not really taco's, but as close as he can get. He had the meat, cheese, tomato and even a little bit of mama's famous guacamole!

Cole is getting ready for another Daddy Weekend! I am flying to Seattle on Thursday night to host a baby shower for my sister on Saturday. Let's hope Shawn doesn't try to feed Cole beer and brats while I am away!

Daddy Weekend!

Well I am off to Vegas this morning for a part girls weekend with Amy and part work conference. We have today and tomorrow to play and then tomorrow evening I have to start working. This is my first play time away from Cole and I miss him already!

We learned the phrase "Daddy Weekend" from the Cresswell's. Whenever I spend time with Amy and the kids have a Daddy Weekend, we usually end up receiving text messages of the kids running around with no clothes on and endure stories of McDonald's for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I can only hope that my dear Shawn does in fact dress the baby and feed him properly. I left a very detailed list for daddy and look forward to rave reviews upon my return.

Here are a couple of pictures of what morning wake up is like with Cole these days. He greets me standing up in his crib holding the slats as if he's saying "Momma, let me out of this prison..." His other trick that drives Momma crazy is the minute I lay him down on the changing pad he is rolling over, sitting up and immediately going for the wipes warmer. I feel like struggling with him on the changing table is my part time job. Thank god for Daddy Weekends, maybe Shawn can break him of the habit.

Have a great weekend...and Viva Las Vegas!

Accepting it's okay to be average at 9 months old...

Yesterday we had Cole's 9 month check up. As expected, he is doing just great. I have accepted that "average" is an okay word to use to describe his size at this point in life. I am just shocked that he continues to fall in the 50th percentile for his height and weight. I compared notes with my sister yesterday and Cole is, at 9 months, the same size Lukas was at 6 months. The latest joke in the Blubaum house is that Cole got the Fromhold temper and Lukas got the Fromhold height. Only time will tell...

Here are the 9 month stats:

Weight: 21lb 2 oz (50th percentile)

Height: 28" (50th percentile)

Cole's tricks still include saying words like Dada, Mama, Baba. On Sunday he actually looked right at Shawn and said Dada! We were so excited to think he actually knew what he was saying. Since them he has resumed saying Dada to and about anything he can find. He is pulling himself up on everything and starting to take steps while holding onto objects. One of his favorite things is to stand up and hold onto the ottoman and pound on it like it's a set of drums. Grandpa Blubaum is calling him Ringo for now.

Here are some pictures of Cole from his morning, he had just woken up, that is why he looks so sleepy. The last one is referred to as independence. My mornings have gotten a bit easier in that now I can make Cole a bottle and hand it to him and he will feed himself. This free's up about 10 minutes for me in the morning. This can be the difference between finished hair and a ponytail!

Yo Baby!

It seems every day Cole is experiencing a new "first." Today's first was yogurt! His 9 month birthday is tomorrow, so I jumped the gun by one day introducing him to dairy. Today he got to try banana yogurt courtesy of YoBaby Yogurt. He LOVED it! I had a hard time getting him to eat the Spinach & Potatoes he was also having for lunch after he had bites of the yogurt. Cole has his 9 month check up on Monday morning and we'll report back on his new stats!

Something else fun that Cole has learned to do is how to turn the light on the fan on and off...and on...and off...and on...you get the picture. I snapped a quick picture of him and Shawn as he was demonstrating his new trick to Daddy.