2012

Happy New Year a few weeks late.  Happy MLK day.  Illness has struck the Coleman household again.  Jr. came down with the WORST cough I have ever heard.  It is only a matter of time before it works its way through the whole house.  Ed was gone in Missoula this weekend, so that was tough, but Nanny came to help out - and save Graham from being set outside with a sign reading "Perfectly good white baby."  I kid.  Sort of.

Poor Jr. is so sick and I am exhausted so what does Les Dastardly Bebe do?  Terrorize us both to our wits end.  I am not even kidding.  We would get up and move to the basement where he would be playing, he would then get up and go upstairs to empty out the pantry.  Jr. and I would move upstairs to play with Graham and he would empty the toy basket, rip all of the books off of the shelves, take whatever toy Jr. was playing with, throw a temper tantrum, throw all of the crayons on the floor, color on the wall and then crawl back downstairs to throw blocks at the TV.  We would beg him to stay with us and play nicely and he would yell "NOOOOO!" and run away.  This went on for about 6 hours. . .

Don't be fooled by the cuteness.  He is a little stinker.

Thank god Nanny showed up.  Things mellowed considerably.  And now, it appears the plague has moved onto Graham. 

Take me outside.

Sometimes I feel like we are always sick and have brief moments of wellness.  I swear they are fed well, get good sleep and are generally clean.  They go to a small daycare and rarely play in the contagion places like the kids museum or carousel.  What are we doing wrong?

Graham and his BFF, Nanny.

For our New Years, I took the boys and went to GF to spend time with Nanny, Dan, Uncle Bean, Faith (Doodie), and Treyson.  The boys played HARD, and had a blast.  Ed stayed home to work on the infinity garage.  I call it infinity garage because the work on it is never ending. 

He wanted to have his photo take with his new ball cannon.  It is VERY popular, but the boys have a hard time taking turns.

Developmental news on the boys:  Jr. is telling the most fascinating stories.  He has this great little imaginary life where he is married to Anabella, they have a baby, Frances, and somewhere between 5-10 cats that you can ride and they don't even get mad.  They live in a lovely purple and brick house near Paris.  He works in a place that has a lot of bears and he can watch zombie movies there.  My favorite was when we were in GF and I was trying to get Jr. to fall asleep in the bed with me, he told me that he and Anabella sleep with their baby and the baby kicks him all night IN THE NUTS!

Graham is talking.  He repeats the same words loudly!  Daddy!, Nanny!, Eddy!, Gaga (Virginia)!, NO!, Dog!, and sometimes, Mama!  He loves to dance and is quite the comedian.  He has to do everything his brother does.  I mean EVERYTHING.  It drives Jr. bonkers.  He constantly asks me - "why does Graham have to do everything I do?"  Because you are his favorite person.  Graham is all boy too.  Balls, blocks, guns, sticks, rocks, bugs and football.  He yells at the TV - "Go GO GO GO GO!"   It is super cute.

Oh and a happy belated birthday to Grandma Sheila.  We hope you had a wonderful cruise!  XOXOXO

Christmasdiculousness

We had a tremendous Christmas!  It lasted for a week at least and the Coleman brothers made out like bandits.  Seriously, those two are spoiled and very loved.  Thank you everyone for making us feel so special!

In my haste, I didn't get to post all of the holiday photos I wanted to.  Here are more.

He insists on sitting in chairs like his big brother.  Part cute, part danger watch.

Every day Graham throws a dance party on the couch/ottoman/chair.

He is actually growling.  Check out the video.

Dance party interrupted by brother hugs.

Wrestle hugs.

Can you see his little curls at the base of his head.  Plus his hair is redder and redder every day.

Seriously handsome - right?

Haunticka - it went by fast!

Riding the bison at the carousel.

Sharing an after Santa, after carousel ice cream cone.

Bear hug.

Mr. Blue Eyes.

Mountain goat.

Christmas Eve, Adrienne, Amelia and Kim came over to celebrate with us.  She is that cute in real life too.

They are very sweet together. 

Luckily Adrienne went along with Jr.'s EXTENSIVE instructions on how to build with blocks.

NEW HATS!  Thanks Grandma and Grandpa!

I can't get enough of these hugs!

Coleman(men)

Jr. was working on getting his camera set up to take a family photo of his own.

Christmas morning.  Graham opened one gift and just wanted to play with it.  Jr. opened EVERY gift in the house.  Like it was his job.

Video for Uncle Ock and Aunt Patty.



After presents Jr. got to play on the deck sans shoes.  It was like we were celebrating Christmas in Florida or something.



Nanny, Papa Dan and Uncle Bean showed up to extend Christmas cheer.

So many presents!  Jr. got a scooter and Graham got a bouncy car.  See below.

Worlds worst Christmas present, he cried for 30 minutes because we couldn't get the ball out of the car.  So sad.  He kept crying "Ball"  "Ball" "Ball". Video.

Holiday 2011

Happy Merry Christmas New Years!

Love the Colemans

He asked for a Mater that drives in the woods.

Graham asked that we get him away from this crazy nut IMMEDIATELY!

Woah November!


And just like that November slipped by.  What happened, the sun went away and we became house bound.  Jr. found his new obsession - video games.  All he wants to do is play the iPod, the kindle, the Wii and the computer.  I prefer that he play the computer because he plays PBSkids.org and learns about counting, the alphabet, shapes, colors and animals.  We do our best to limit his time and keep him coloring, reading and doing puzzles.  That big brain just needs to keep busy.

Graham is now so busy Ed and I can hardly keep up with the little bugger.  He is in to everything.  When Ed gets home, we are going to install a lock on the pantry door.  He gets food out and either feeds himself or Selma.  And then there is the rash.  Shortly after Halloween, he got this rash.  We have been to 2 MDs, 1 dermatologist, 1 homeopathic doctor and now the chiropractor.  We are stumped.  Just stumped.  It doesn't seem to bother him other than when I put lotion or cream on it.  I feel so bad about it.  Everyone looks at me like - what are you doing to your poor baby.  The big news about Graham is that he is big into talking.  He can now say so many names and animal sounds.  I am working on getting a video, but like I said, he doesn't like to hold still much.  He is still such a snuggly sweet little guy though.  He gives the best hugs weather you request them or not.  What a little love.

We had a nice Thanksgiving, even the weather cooperated and we got out for a hike.  Nona put on a fantastic spread, Tommy joined us and the boys actually ate. 

We pass our time by having play dates - lots of play dates.  It gives us something to look forward to on the weekends.  You know, you have to eat or Seri can't come over tomorrow.  You have to clean up your toys so that Lochlin can come over.  I know we are so evil.

We call him the Blue Snowball.



Hey there Blue Snowball.

Photo credits - Cissie.

Jr.'s new obsession - ipod, kindle or Wii.  I feel kind of bad about letting him play vids, but he is learning - right?

He didn't know that his hair was spiky.  He would have never let me take his photo if he did.

Jr. and his girl Seri.  We had a wonderful playdate.

Oh my isn't he so handsome.  He must get about 4 million smooches a day.

I let them play with cameras.  Seri's photos are here.

Their goal was to take photos of the bunny that lives under our deck.

I was trying to photograph his curls.  He can't hold still for the life of him.  We have now entered Mr. Busy Man stage.

Playing hunting on the Wii. 

The climber.  While up here he likes to dance and yell very loud!

And the kindle. 

Playdate with Lochlin.  These two had a BLAST!  They play so nicely together.