Ummm...A mod-podge of things.

Last week we got together with some friends and I made some cupcakes. Kolton didn't really get to eat any while we were there--we went to the park and he was distracted by all the playing. :) Anyway, so when we got home he wanted one and all he ate was the frosting. He made sure and eat every last bit of it though! :)
Thursday night was Brady's first night of softball for this season. He got all his stuff out that night to make sure he had everything. While we were watching an episode of "Dog, the Bounty Hunter"--yes we watch that show...--Kolton put on Brady's shoes and tried hitting one of the balls with the bat. I have no idea why he was doing it with the bat upside down but I thought it was cute.
He got annoyed with me towards the end of the video--he didn't want any more pictures to be taken. :) (I do take a LOT of pictures of this guy--I'd be sick of it too!)

I can't ever get good pictures of Brady playing softball. All my camera will focus on is the chain link fence. Its so frustrating. Here's somewhat of a picture, though, of Brady warming up before the games started. They lost the first game but won the second. Brady even slid to a base a jacked up his elbow! ;)

On Saturday we went to Dylen's track meet at OU. Comparing this time to last year, Kolton was SO easy to watch there! Last year it was so hard to entertain him and make sure he wasn't falling off the bleachers or something, but this time, we were there for 6 hours and he was awesome! He'd sit and watch all the kids run and eat all of Grandma and Grandpa's food. :)
Saturday night we watched The Blind Side. We borrowed it from the Foys a couple weeks ago and finally got to watch it. It was SO good! I loved it! I wish I could do that for someone!
On Saturday, Brady's boss pulled him in to his office and pulled up this list of all the employees of Reynolds. Of all the salesman in the city (there's like 70 or something) he's second for sales this month. This is his FIRST month of selling cars and he's second! He's pretty awesome! ;) On Wednesday he sold 3 in one day! Pretty crazy!

Today we went to the zoo with our new friends, Liz and her sons Dalton (2 years) and Nolan (3 months), and Brittney, Kade and Emery.

Kolton hasn't been since last year and its crazy how much he's "grown up" since then. He could find the animals on his own and actually would sit and look at them and talk to them. It was fun! Dalton knew where everything was and like showing Kolton. Here they are checking out the zebras.

This giraffe was licking the branch to death! It was really going at it! I love giraffes. I think they are so cool.

This was one of the animals Kolton was talking about as we drove to the zoo and how he wanted to go see them. He wanted to see the cheetahs, giraffes, lions and monkeys.

We played in the Children's Zoo for a little bit. We didn't stay too long in that area though because I swear this huge group kept following us everywhere and we couldn't do anything so we left. They boys liked petting the goats and looking at the bunny!

Theres Dalton and Kade pointing to the goat! Kolton would chase the goats trying to pet them. Those poor goats!


Standing in front of the lambs. He would not let me take any decent pictures of him today. He wouldn't look at me and say cheese for anything! If I got a picture of him looking and smiling it was by accident! ;)

I actually got him to climb on the statue things. Every time we've gone before he's been scared but this time I was able to explain to him that they were fake and so he'd actually go touch them and give them hugs. He actually LIKED doing it--i didn't have to force him! ;)


Dalton and Kolton in front of the gorilla. They were boring today--they were just sleeping.

And then seriously two seconds after we got out of the parking lot he did this:
Unfortunately, when we got home he didn't think he needed a nap anymore...All well, we had fun!

EASTER

Saturday night Kolton and I went to the Foy's house to dye Easter eggs. Each of the boys got to dye two eggs. We stripped them down and put aprons on them. They loved giving each other hugs in their aprons. It was hilarious!
They thought it was pretty fun to drop the eggs in the dye. They didn't so much like the waiting for them to actually change color, but overall I think Kolton liked it!



After we died them they put stickers on them. All they wanted were the basketballs and soccer balls and baseballs. Occasionally they picked a bug or firetruck, but they pretty much stuck with balls.

****Easter Morning****

On Easter morning Kolton woke up to a letter from the Easter bunny starting him on a scavenger hunt leading to his basket!

Kolton was led to 8 different spots starting with the vacuum, then mom's shoes, computer, toilet paper, stove, lamp in the living room, toothbrush, Kleenex box, and finally the bathtub where his basket was hidden. Inside each egg was some candy and then a picture of the next place he was supposed to go. He had so much fun doing it! He'd get really excited every time he'd find the egg in the hiding spot!






Easter morning Brady got up before everyone else and decided to take a shower. He just reached his arm in to the bathtub and turned on the water without even looking. After about 5-10 seconds he realized the water sounded different and ran and turned it off--not before soaking EVERYTHING in Kolton's basket and the chair the Easter bunny gave him. He ran into our room and woke me up to help him dry it all off. Unfortunately we couldn't dry the chair off enough for Kolton to sit in it until that night, but he was still excited for his presents! Brady's such a special man...:) Kolton ended up with some candy, the Disney version of Pinocchio, a gumball machine and a "Cars" chair.


Later we went to Brady's parents house and ate dinner with them and the Foys and the Stapelys (a couple from Brady's parents ward). Brady's mom made this cute cake that Brady couldn't resist...(He stole a bunny off of it and created a little "bunny hole")

Kolton and Kade got to do an Easter Egg hunt outside on Easter too!

Kolton L-O-V-E-D running around outside looking for more and more eggs! He had about 30 to find!!






We also went to Lilly's grave to give her some flowers for Easter. We tried to explain to Kolton that she was his sister and that because of what we were celebrating yesterday we could be resurrected and be a family forever.


I'm sad I can't get any videos to upload! I've been waiting for 2 hours and I can't get one to upload! I might try later...
We had a good Easter! Holidays are so much more fun when you have kids to celebrate with! It was great to be able to celebrate Easter with Brady and Kolton!

SPRING!

I think its finally spring now! I'm so excited! Kolton loves to play outside and I love to sit out there and watch him too! He will play and play for hours out there if you'd let him!
Kolton got some of my "winter" socks out of my drawer the other day and decided he wanted to wear them.
A couple of days ago Kolton and I went outside to play basketball and have a snack. Growing up I used to always eat graham crackers dipped in milk with my brothers. We loved it! We would say "1-2-3 MAGIC" as we'd try and crack the graham cracker the long way without breaking it--if you could you were magic! ;) Anyway, I introduced this snack to Kolton and he loved it! He ended up making a huge mess as soggy pieces of graham cracker would fall to the ground and milk was dripping everywhere, but we were outside so it wasn't that big of a deal! We did have to take his shirt off though--this is why you see a half naked toddler blowing bubbles! ;)


Yesterday we went to the park with Brittney, Kade and Emery. It was SO windy! I couldn't believe it! You literally had to brace yourself when the big gusts would come or you'd start to loose your balance! I couldn't believe how well Kolton did at the park. He could do everything by himself! I just stood and watched him go round and round climbing up and down and going down the slide and across and over and under. He's just getting SO big!



OK, look at the picture of Kolton above (his profile) and then look at the picture below...
Same kid? Sure does look like it! This is my brother Tyler when he was little at my grandparents house. My mom sent me this picture the other day and I COULD NOT believe how much they look alike! Its crazy!

We went to Target on Monday so I could find the book "Catching Fire"--the second book to the Hunger Games. Kolton found one of those water color books with a tiger on it! ;) he has NEVER seen Pooh & Friends and has absolutely no idea who the characters are so when I told him that was Tigger he said, "No, its a TIGER." Anyway, last night while we were waiting for Brady to come home from work Kolton asked if he could paint a picture for daddy. He did three of them and loved every second of it! It is so nice too because it isn't messy at all! He was so excited to show Brady when he came home. He ran and got all three pictures and gave them to him right away!

Kolton's bed broke the other day randomly so we put his mattress on the floor until we find him another bed. I wasn't thinking at all like a mother should and left his toy box right next to the head of his bed. Well, yesterday Kolton was in a very good mood just running around being all goofy and ran into his room and flung himself on his bed. He didn't land on his pillow, though--his head landed right on the edge of his wooden toy box! The force of it threw him back up into a sitting position and boy did he SCREAM! I felt so bad for him! He had no idea what hit him! You can see the results of it in the picture of him painting...It looks worse in person though! Needless to say, I moved the toy box across the room so hopefully we won't have that happen again! ;(


Here are my tulips now. I've never seen tulips open as wide as these ones have! I love them! I think they are coming to the end of their days, though. Sad. It was great to have them while I did though!

Every once in a while I'll scrub the kitchen sink. I swear every time I do it, he will copy me and clean the sink sometime later that day. This time I came out of the shower and found that he had pulled the chair over there and was cleaning the sink. He's such a good helper!

He asked for a sticker one afternoon and kept putting it on his head. He thought it was pretty sweet! :) He wanted to put one in my hair too--I didn't go for it! ;)

Here is a video of him hard at work cleaning the sink.

Easter Egg Hunt

Last night we went to an Easter Egg Hunt in Norman. We picked Brady up from work and headed right over to Andrew's Park for the egg hunt. They had it divided into all different ages (non-walkers, 2 & under, 3-4, 5-6, and 7-8). There were a TON of kids there! I'm glad they had it divided by ages otherwise there is no way Kolton would have been able to get any eggs! He was so excited to be able to use his basket and pick up the candy! We had bought the basket the day before and all he wanted to do was play with it. I didn't want him to break it by standing on it etc. so I wouldn't let him play with it. Originally we were going to go to the Moore Easter Egg Hunt this morning but since Brady had to work we went to Norman's last night. Anyway, so yesterday morning he woke up and wanted to play with his basket. I told him no and explained to him that he could use it tomorrow morning after we played all day, ate dinner, brushed our teeth and read the Book of Mormon, said prayer, went nigh-night and then when we woke up he could use it. After he took a bath and got dressed he told me he was going nigh-night (which he does a lot) so I put him to bed and after about 30 minutes he came out and told me he had woken up and now he could play with his basket because now it was "tomollow." It was cute.
Here he is waiting for the siren to go off signaling the start of the hunt. He was DYING to go in the roped off area and start!!
Parents weren't technically supposed to go in and help but I don't think a single parent (in Kolton's age group) didn't go in and help their kids. Brady and I took turns holding his basket and pointing to eggs for him to pick up.

Kolton showing me all his eggs. The "hunting" was literally done in probably 3 minutes. The kids really went at it!

The candy was less than desirable :) but Kolton enjoyed eating the eggs he got to pick up. I know it doesn't look like he likes it but I promise he did.

Brady told Kolton to take another bite so I could take a picture and so he was showing Brady that he already had a bite in his mouth so he'd take another one "in a minute"-one of his new favorite things to say. I'll tell him to come to me for something and he'll say back "in a minute" or "i'm comin' in a minute." :)

After the hunt Brady and Kolton ran over to one of the playgrounds and Kolton played for a little bit going down the slide several times!


Then we left and on our way back to our car a train came right past us. Kolton was SO excited to watch it! It kept honking its horn as it went past us and it was flippin' loud! He loved watching it though!

On Thursday I went outside to go throw away a dirty diaper (life of a mom :) ) and outside on the porch was a flower box. I was like "WHAT?! Someone sent me flowers?!" I was so excited! Turns out Brittney's mom sent Brady and I a bouquet of tulips with a nice letter to go with it thanking us for being friends with the Foys. How nice! THEN, that evening, Sterling's mom took me and Kolton out to dinner to Teds (YUM!) and also bought Brady a meal to go (he had to work) and thanked us for being their friends too. What an awesome day we had!