Sunday, January 25, 2009

Painter's tape, cardboard and plastic bags



















These three items have provided an usual amount of entertainment at our house this month. Colter chose tape as his special treat for our last Montrose grocery run and proceeded to use three large rolls in just a few days. He built spider webs, gates, race courses and his all time favorite- knight's armor. The first time he did this he put all of the tape on his skin- that is the photo with the shorts- he learned a VERY painful lesson when it came time to take it off. It only took one fifteen minute tape pulling session for this guy and all other body armor was taped on top of his long sleeves and pants! He is Sir Colter the Brave and he calls me Your Majesty Queen Mommy. I like where this is going! Not to be outdone, Dylan is dressing up as a pirate, zebra, dragon and running around saying "ta-da!" He is learning so much these days and amazes me constantly with things he knows. Dylan can say a few words, like Blue, Colter, Bubble, Mine, Thank you, Hello- but is choosing not to most of the time. If you ask him "hey Dylan, can you say....?" he will look at you smile, tuck his head to the side all coy and cute and just giggle. Not an on demand performer- this little one! Dylan loves to listen to music on Colter's cd player and dance. He continues to be his own law of physics "A Dylan in motion, stays in motion" and is becoming more physically skilled all the time. Daddy and Tim took the boys skiing today, I am still on the sidelines, and said that Dylan was skiing by himself down the Magic Carpet with Trevor barely touching him. So cool. Colter is skiing all over the place and loves to go off jumps and ski up and down the walls on the sides of the run. After dropping Dylan with me, they went on a some of the blue runs on Lift 4! I can't wait to go skiing with the boys again in a couple of weeks. In case you are wondering where the plastic bag part comes in- it is not for hauling groceries. We went to our friend's cabin last weekend and went snowmobiling. I had to waterproof the toes that were sticking out of the cast, so a bread bag did the trick! The boys had a great time riding around and the weather was amazing. Overall I am not a fan of those motorized, two stroke, stinky machines, but once a year or so it is fun to zip around and explore a new area and the best part is that these were nice machines that actually worked the entire time. We are headed to the Front Range this week for Noah's next surgery- as long as our crew can stay healthy- so I will update when possible. Check carepages.com and sign up for NoahBlakney if you want more up to the date info.



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