Cole's new toy!

Well, new to Cole at least. Another fabulous loaner from Cousin Lukas...the activity center! Our child that loved to entertain himself for hours in the bouncy chair has grown tired of the buzzing blue fish. So...we have pulled out the activity center and found a winner! Here are some pictures of Cole playing in it this weekend. It was 77 degrees on Sunday, so we were playing outside (hence the dorky sun hat). You will see he is also a big fan of his Cookie Monster stuffed animal from the Miller's...thank you Mike & Anne!

We seem to be moving forward in some areas with Cole and regressing in others. At 9 weeks he started sleeping through the night. He would sleep a 9 hour stretch and I was thinking it was a little piece of heaven. I was also thinking that it would stay that way. Oh no, not so much. 2 weeks ago we started with the waking up all night again. So...our new schedule seems to be in bed at 8:30pm...up at 2:00am...up again at 4:00am. I have mastered nursing him in bed (while lying down), so that at 4am I bring him in our room and he eats and then we both sleep for another hour. We are making it work for now, but I am hopeful that my good sleeper returns soon.

Grammy Virg leaves next Wednesday to go back to Olympia. Next Friday my sister and Lukas come back to town and will be here for a week, taking care of Cole while I go to San Francisco on business. After they leave on March 1st we will not have visitors again until May, when Grammy comes back to watch Cole while Shawn and I go to Florida for our friend Courtney's wedding. All of the visitors and help from family has been amazing...we are so blessed.

We are taking Cole to the zoo on Sunday and will post some pictures from our outing!