The Little Gym

This was literally one second before the "I hate balls" meltdown!! log roll with mommy

pulling up for the bells

parachute

Everybody listening to the teacher...good babies!

Has anybody else heard of "The Little Gym"

I'm just now finding out about this and today we had our first of hopefully many classes!

They just opened a new one a few miles from our house and were offering free trial classes. So me and two of my mommy friends jumped on the band wagon to try it out and boy was it fun and quite stimulating!! It's a mommy and me type class so we got to participate in all of the activities such as...somersaults, front flips, log rolls, hand stands, wheel barrel, singing, pulling up on the mats, and much much more...The website describes the class like this...

Our Parent/Child Classes focus on:
Increasing physical strength, flexibility and coordination through gymnastics concepts
Awareness of spatial and perceptual concepts
Self-expression
Greater independence
Early socialization
Following directions and cooperating
Sharing and taking turns
Accepting challenges and new places
Developing Independence
Comfortably separating from parents
Feeling proud of accomplishments
Knowing colors and numbers
Preparation for pre-school and kindergarten

Colt did amazing UNTIL they brought out his new biggest fear (other than the vacuum and Edohana fire)...A BALL!!!! Seriously, he is deathly afraid of them apparently. Its ridiculous...check it out (I can't figure out how to rotate it so you'll have to tilt your head) It was incredibly sad and he was hard to console. It is just weirdest thing I've ever seen...

Has this happened to any of your kids?!! It was so sad, but I just had to get my camera and video it because I knew nobody would believe me! The teacher just said he was "overstimulated" but who knows...looks like I need to go buy a bunch of balls :) After the moms saw how Colt reacted to the balls they all gave their kids balls to make sure they weren't scared! HA!

Homecoming...

Yes...I still go to my high school's homecoming. Don't judge me. I still bleed blue and I always will. Sometimes, (maybe all the time) I even wish I was wearing my old uniform cheering on the field with the girls. HA! Do you think you can guess what I'll be for halloween?

With my mom working there as the counselor and educational diagnostician (Yaya), my mother in law being the secretary for the athletic director and former cheerleading coach for at least 11 years if not more (Gertie), my grandmother teaching college psychology, I really can't stay away :) I go up there at least once a week and take Colt to see his Grandmothers at work...and I'm pretty sure Colt and I haven't missed a home football game yet. With this being the homecoming game, Gertie had a garter mum made for him. It was the cutest little thing I've ever seen! (When yall were in school did the guys wear garter mums? Ours did). And a sweet friend of Gertie's had a shirt monogrammed for him as well. He's so cute and always dressed so festive. He must have a good mom :)

Gertie and her "baby boy"I was happy to see my besties, Amy and Krista, come out to support their alma mater. I do see them on a regular basis at our weekly "girls night in," but after 6.5 years...it was due time for them to come back to our old stompin' grounds...right girls?!

Just in case you were wondering...We won! Go Chargers!

Scarf Swap

Thirty-Two of precious Meredith's blog readers joined the scarf swap fun. We were all partnered up with another person and set out on a mission to buy a $15 scarf to send to our partner. After searching high and low for THE PERFECT scarf for JENN, all I found were perfect scarves WAY over budget. When in doubt, go to Forever 21 right?! So off I went...and of course, they never disappoint. Not only were there lots to choose from, they were all $7 or UNDER! I couldn't just buy one so I chose two....I hope you like them Jenn :)

After being away from home for two days, I came home to this little puppy on the front porch. Like I told Jenn, I only own one scarf and I'd be lucky to find it in my closet...So I was not going to be picky on colors because I'm not a scarf wearer, but I'm going to work on that :) I absolutely love the one she picked out for me. I'm the kind of person that likes to wear accessories that go with multiple things in my wardrobe instead of color specific. She did a great job and I couldn't have picked a better one myself! Thanks again! I love love love it! And thanks to Meredith for starting these fun swaps...I'm looking forward to the ornament swap next!!!!

Lets go out to dinner...

Hibachi might just be mine and Blake's favorite place to eat...Whether it be Benihanas, Edohanas, Fujis in Abilene, or any other hibachi place...You can find us front and center ready for the show and food! It never gets old! We order the SAME thing no matter where we are...Me: Hibachi chicken, steamed rice...Blake: Hibachi chicken DOUBLE FRIED rice! Colt, has a different opinion. Don't get me wrong, he is a great "eater outer" but when it comes to the HUGE FIRE at the beginning of our hibachi meal...he's out! Never fails...he always cries. It always scares him. Blake and I just so happen to be "one of those parents" who let their kids cry etc...So when the chef asked us " will the fire make him cry?" Our reply was, "yes, but do it anyways...real big." Just as I got my camera out to video it, I was too late. So as we left we saw another table just beginning their meal so we asked if we could let our baby see it just one more time :) (and you wonder how our baby wears hats and lifejackets without crying...you keep doing it until they don't mind anymore...You don't think I'm going to stop eating hibachi do you?!!) So I did get it on video this time...

I thought it was hilarious and super super sweet that the manager of the restaurant tried to console Colt during our meal by....

Showing him a magic trick?...it was cool, but he's 8 months old :)And showing him that his "boat" floated...which ended up sinking by the end of dinnerWhen I got home, I was cleaning out my purse when I realized...HAHAHAHA!!! This is what I pulled out of my purse...That does not include all of MY stuff that is in there...Camera, Wallet, Sunglasses, Regular Glasses, Phone, headphones, armband etc...

I can thank my mom for the HUGE bag I'm carrying right now. She went out of town for a week and I decided it would be fun to "shop" in her closet for a new bag! and I came across this perfect giant Valentino tote...It does the job quite nicely...Thanks mom :) I promise to return her soon... Daddy telling Colt T not to be scared of the fire...

Colt LOVES getting water through a straw
Tomorrow is homecoming! Colt may or may not be sporting the cutest little garder mum you ever did see! This will be his 3rd football game of the week....

We watched cousin Jordan play Tuesday

Cousin Kathleen cheer Wednesday

and Friday is the big game!


Doodad and Colt T being silly at dinner.
Colt at the football game Tuesday...

Have a great weekend! I'm working the garage sale with Gertie on Saturday...wish us luck :)

Our first (and not last) "close call"

The picture says it all!!!

We had a little scare as we were taking a few family photos...

As we were trying to make Colt laugh, he got a little too excited and started clapping and jumping. Before we knew it, he had catupulted himself head first down the stone/rock stairs! In a terror, I screamed bloody murder and ran to try and catch him. Obviously that didn't happen, but you wouldn't think I would turn and run the other way. BUT...I did. As soon as I knew I couldn't get to him and saw him "hit" I closed my eyes and ran the other way. I just KNEW there was going to be blood everywhere and I couldn't watch. By some miracle he didn't hit his head even though I swear I saw his head hit, everybody else said he didn't...he's totally fine...So much for "boy mom test" number ONE! I failed! Blake got there first and I knew he would handle it. Thank the good Lord there was NO blood, NO scratch...nothing! Just a few tears on Colt's part, but was a champ and took lots of cute smiley pictures afterwards (did I mention this picture was the second picture?!) As for me, I was a mess. I need to do better. I know this will not be the last thing like this that happens and I knew this was going to happen and I thought I had mentally prepared myself. BUT I didn't think 8 months would be the first set of stitches!!! and thank goodness its NOT! at least this week :)

Is that crazy that Tammy caught this in action?! After the fact, we were all saying, "why didn't anybody catch him?" We came inside to look at the pictures and low and behold...All four of them were trying to catch him!

Tonight, as I put Colt to bed and prayed over him as usual...I always ask God to surround him with a shield of angels to protect him and watch over him. So tonight it was a prayer of thanks for the answered prayer! I'm still in shock that he's totally fine, but should I be?

Lately...

...We've caught up with old friends and met eachother's baby!! It seems like yesterday Holly and I were cheering together on Friday nights and now 5 years later...here we are at the same Friday night football game with our babies still cheering for the big blue! ...Blake's finger is almost healed. He gets this glorious looking pin out next Tuesday....We've cleaned out our closets...making room for clothes that AREN'T from the 8th grade for clothes that fit and adding EIGHT trash bags to the garage sale pile!...We've lowered our crib...Can you figure out why? :)...Colt had been feeling a little crabby lately for who knows what reason. I think he's feeling better now that he slept from 9:30pm-11:15am this morning and then scarfed down the biggest bowl of cereal I've ever seen WITH a size 2 jar of blueberries and apples in it! Growth spurt maybe?!...Followed by wanting more!

...drinking a whole sippy cup of formula ...AND a whole sippy cup of water


...Colt got to go on his first few four wheeler rides at the ranch this weekend and I didn't even take a picture! Bad, bad mommy!



...I have fallen off of the diet wagon! I have been enjoying myself a little too much lately with all of the desserts, cookies, mexican food almost every day, pizza and cheese fries for the past 3 weeks!! It's been a fun ride, but now I must eat healthy for at least a week :)



...Fall primetime TV is amazing!!! I love coming home to a full nights worth of shows to watch. Grey's Anatomy, DWTS, So you think you can dance, Monk, Lie to me, The Mentalist, Two and a half men, CSI:Miami, 90210, Melrose Place...there is so much more, but thats all I can remember.

::Wishful Wednesday::

'I wish' .... I got paid $1 million a year to...

BE ON THE CAST OF SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE!

Ever since I was little, I have always wanted to be on SNL. My sister and I used to give each other a random object and the other person had to make up a commercial for it on the spot and say it in funny voice without laughing. It was so hilarious and alot harder than you think! Now, Blake and I play our own little version of SNL by making up a funny random sentence for the other one to say in a goofy voice without laughing. (This normally happens on a long road trip). To be honest, I'm pretty good! HA! So if anybody out there is hiring for SNL, I'm your girl :)