So sorry...

Wow I did not realize how long it has been since I posted! Cole is 18 months old and we had his well baby checkup today-he is 34.25 inches tall and weights 28lbs 14 ounces. He is such a good kid, I feel very blessed! Ted and I went to Aruba for our belated honeymoon, we left Thanksgiving morning and were gone for 6 days. Overall we had a good time, we had rain so that was a buzz kill and the island is pretty expensive. We are going to put up the tree this evening so we will see how Cole handles that! I promise to post pictures!! We love you all and hope your holidays are wonderful!!

12 month well baby check up

Cole had his 12 month well baby check up today. He weights 27.12 pounds and is 32 inches tall!! He is in the 93 %!
He really is such a good kid, he is not a picky eater, he loves the pontoon and being outside. He walks with assistance but not really on his own, he can balance himself without any troubles but he does not want to walk. To be really honest I am okay with that, I am so scared of what will happen when he does start to walk! He & I started swimming classes and he just LOVES it!!!! He also likes to try and show off for the little girls, we are in so much trouble with our little flirt!!!
Love and miss you all:)

Daddy's present to Cole

Daddy got Cole a BMW..of course what else would we expect??? Cole loved it but....

"How do I get on it???"

"I think I can, I think I can..."

"TaDa!!!" His legs are not quite long enough so he just pushes it around the house. But he loves very much.

Happy Birthday Cole!!!

5/27/07 was Mr. Cole's first birthday and he had so much fun! I was very suprised how laid back he was at his party, he never fussed or got mad when he was getting passed around. He tried really hard to open his own gifts but I think he was on quite a sugar high by that time! As you will see form the following pictures he liked to eat his cake but really took his sweet time. I think he was a bit surprised that I let him get so dirty!

Cole's own cake was a fishy because he is very in love with fish!

Cake time!

At first Cole was pretty unsure of what to do with the cake.

"Mom you are really going let me get dirty??"

Yummy Cake!!!

I am a mess and pretty happy about it!

Family Photos

Our Happy little family!

Grandma Allred

Great Grandma Simnitch

Grandma Hogrefe

Grandpa Van Fleet

Grandma & Grandpa Van Fleet!!

Easter pictures

The Easter Bunny brought fun toys for Cole!

This look screams "What do you want? Can't you see I am playing with my new toys??!!"

Cole's first cell phone!

Easter Bunny brought Cole his very own cell phone! He loves it....gee...I wonder where he got that from!

Mom quit taking my picture I am trying to call someone!

The Happy Family

It is so hard to get all three of us to look at the camera at the same time!!!

Swingin into Spring

At first Cole was not too sure about the swing thing!

Then it got better.....

And he found out that it was fun and asked when we are going to Cedar Point!

Carrera checks out the swing

Cole was napping and I could not wait to try out his swing, so poor Carrera had to go first!!!

I think she liked it!

Behind Bars

Ahhhh....a mothers dream...to see her son behind bars! This better be the only time I see this!!!

Dirt Sweet Dirt

All that grassy area is Ted's land in Michigan for his buisness. It is 2.5 acres, zoned industrial and close to an interstate highway. Ted is very excited and a bit nervous for the move! Our little family is so pround of him!!!

New pictures below

There are new pictures below this one of Ted and the beer girl, just scroll down and enjoy.

Ted at St. Patty's

"Dude what are you doing to her??"

"I'm bending her head so I can sport her body..duh"

Everyone thinks my dear sweet hubby is so mellow and he is so NOT!! Ted bent the cut out girls head and thought his head looked better on her body. What in the world have I gotten into?????

Cole loves his learning table

Up until recently we had to take the legs off of this becasue he could not play with it and balance himself. Well he has mastered that!!!

Bath Time

Cole loves his bath and gets super mad when he is taken out! I believe that I created a half human half fish baby!!!!

Cruising Cole

Cole is such a busy body & anything he can pull himself up onto he will.

Sunday Paper

"Mom these cartoons are funny!!!!"

Cole "walking"

Grandma H. got Cole this walking thing. We gave it to him last night and it did not take long for him to get up and go on it!!!

Get that tongue in your mouth!!!!

Long awaited house photos

Yea, I finally took some house photos. I am not thrilled with the dining room ones as I feel they did not do the room justice but at least you get the jist. I will add the living room photos once that has been painted. We just love the new place and could not be happier!
Enjoy!!!

Sun Porch

I love my three season porch! We got lucky and found the wicker furniture at a end of buisness sale. The previous owner had those yellow roll down curtains already so i was very excited to find furniture to match it! Please excuse the curtains, Ted tried to clean them once but they did nto clean up well. Once the nice weather stays for more than 2 days we are going to try again.

As soon as it is nice out I will be serving up margaritas and quacamole so stop by!!

Cole's Room

Where the "prince" gets his beauty sleep. He also has a matching dresser and yellow mirror in his room that I forgot to get a photo of.

My Mom painted Cole's name for me & I just love them!!