roll over aunt hannah

So, I finally caught Colin rolling over on video. It's short, but it's awesome. He's done it several times, but usually just once at a time and then he's done. But today he was on fire. Please to be enjoying the video.

Also, after three days of working on getting this stupid video to upload, here is Colin's birthday wishes for his aunt Hannah. Sorry it took so long, but we love you Hannah! Can't wait to see you in 4 weeks!

dr. horrible's sing-along blog

Have any of you ever seen Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog? It's a short film that was made way back during the writers' strike, but I just discovered it a week or so ago. Hilarious. Check it out here. Really, check it out. 

This is a post by the creator Joss Whedon (of Buffy the Vampire fame) explaining a little bit about why he made the movie. It's about a wannabe super villain named Dr. Horrible (Neil Patrick Harris) who is in love with a girl from the Laundromat (Felicia Day). He's also trying to join the Evil League of Evil, run by Bad Horse (the thoroughbred of sin), but he is thwarted by his nemesis Captain Hammer (Nathan Fillion). 

When I first saw it I thought it was pretty funny, and Nate liked it okay too. Nothing spectacular, but still good. But now we can't get the songs out of our heads. The songs are definitely the best part. They're good on their own, but watching the movie gives them context and makes them that much better. So when you have 45 minutes to kill, go watch Dr. Horrible try to take over the world. 

Also, the lyrics to the songs can be found here. 

Have I mentioned that you should go watch it yet? Because you should. Go.

cha cha boochi

Cha cha chaboochi roll call! After about a billion tries, we finally uploaded a movie. I can't tell you how many times I've sat here for over an hour trying to get a file to upload. It took both me and Nate, but we finally got this priceless gem here for your viewing pleasure. Please to be enjoying.

blue bear, blue bear what do you see?

I don't know where this little ditty came from, but it made for some fun pictures. I was looking for something warm for Colin to wear to Nate's football game last Monday, and I found this fuzzy blue bear suit. He looked kind of dorky, but he had fun rolling around in it until he spit up inside the hood. Then it was not so much fun as it was gross.



Nothing special about this picture. He was just being cute. I believe this was taken on Thursday before the football fiasco. There were no happy faces in the house after the game.



I think Colin is starting to like the exersaucer more. He doesn't like playing in it for more than a few minutes at a time, and I have to be right next to him, but he does like it. I keep trying to stick him in there so I can do the dishes or eat breakfast or something, but he quickly notices that I'm not there and decides he's had enough. When he gets in there the first thing he does is go for those chickens and spin them silly. He gets a kick out of the sound it makes.



On Saturday Grandma and Grandpa Hanks were up visiting at Caleb and Heather's house. Colin went with his Granny to visit, since he hasn't met them before. (The Silveys all call them Grandma and Grandpa even though they are really only Heather's grandparents. But we love them just the same!)


Here they are with both Colin and Sara.


On Sunday Colin lost his clothing privileges because he couldn't keep his spit to himself. I took him downstairs and Nana put him in a little outfit that used to belong to one of my brothers. What a handsome retro boy he turned out to be! (It was extra awesome because the bottom wasn't snapped all the way so his diaper hung out for all to see.)


And now we're caught up to today. Colin woke up all smiles today. He had eaten just an hour and a half earlier, so I laid him down in bed next to me (6:20 was a little early for me today after getting up twice to pump) we played for a while and then he just closed his eyes and zonked out. What a sweet boy he was, letting his mom take a nap too. I got him dressed for the day, then he spit all over his clothes for a couple of hours, so I got him dressed again. This time I put on a cute little outfit from his Granny that is reminiscent of what his dad used to wear. Isn't he the cutest little muscle-shirt-wearing, tow-truck-driving baby you've ever seen?

byu football

I don't want to talk about it. Still. It hurts my heart.

exersaucer!

I put the exersaucer together today (almost all by myself—Nate decided to come help a little bit just so I couldn't say I did it myself) and let Colin try it out this evening.

He wasn't sure if he liked it...

Still not sure...

Yep! He loves it! (He was hungry and ornery to start with, but I liked the angry pictures.)

He's only 3.5 months old, and he's already too tall for the lowest setting.

ahoy

Ahoy and avast! Here be Colin in his pirate suit alongside his pirate pillow. He looked cute, so I took lots of pictures. Here are a few of my favorites.




Colin likes to read books. Well, he likes to smash the books into his face and try to eat them. Here he is enjoying one of his favorite books about Pooh Bear.


He's pretty darn cute when he's asleep. And he's much easier to keep happy when he's asleep. I like it when he's asleep. I also like this picture because you can kind of see his wispy little faux hawk.


Bath time! I realized the other night that I didn't have any pictures of him actually in his tub. He loves to splash and play and wiggle in the bath. Sometimes that makes him hard to clean.


This morning little naked Colin and I had a good time playing on the bed. I let him eat Daddy's sucker for a while ...


... and then we got out the toys! He especially like playing with the Bumble Lion from Granny and Papa.


This is my new desktop picture. So cute!


He also played with his Ikea dragon. I think Ikea is a good name for a dragon, but I'll have to run it by Nate. He's the one in the family that knows what dragon names should sound like. Oh, maybe Elliot will work, you know, like Pete's Dragon.




Next we got out Horatio the Hippo, who was a gift from Kelli and Grant. Horatio is very soft and snuggly. (Horatio is the name that came with the Hippo, and I love it.)


These three goofy animals are also from Ikea, and I love them. Colin does too. They're very bright (almost obnoxiously bright) and fun to look at. They don't currently have names, unless Gurgle and Coo and Phbbt count as names. (That pretty much sums up Colin's vocabulary at the moment.)


After he got some clothes on I set him down and he had a meeting with some of his jungle friends. (I consider dragons to be jungle animals, yes.) They had a wonderful chat while I tried to tidy up his bedroom. Baloo and King Louie attended the meeting, along with Horatio the Hippo, D.I. the Giraffe, and Gorilla the Gorilla. (Okay, the gorilla doesn't have a name either. I'll have to work on that one. Any suggestions?)


That's it for now. I'm sure I'll take more pictures over the weekend to share. There is a football game after all. Go Cougs!

colin rolled over!

And he did it all by himself, without his mommy pushing him over. Huzzah! Here's a picture from after the fact because I wasn't fast enough to get the camera during the fact. (He also couldn't be persuaded to do it again for the camera.)

The second one has nothing to do with rolling over. It's from Sunday. I just think it's a cute picture.

the whos down in whoville

Despite Colin and I being sick again, we've all had a pretty good week. Colin's been sleeping really well at night—8-10 hour stretches!—and that has helped me out a ton. Nate and I canned pears all by ourselves for the first time. We only did 12 jars, but we're still pretty proud of ourselves. I watched the BYU game Thursday night and was pleased with parts of it. I would have liked another shut out, but a win will do, I guess. I can't think of any more highlights at the moment, so let's get to the pictures of my boy.

One morning as I dressed Colin in his pre-lunch clothes (he gets a new outfit around noon because the old one is soaked), I decided it was more important to amuse myself than it was for him to look nice. So I put him in some cute little pajama pants and a large shirt that didn't match. Oh, and I put the pants on under the onesie because it made me laugh. He was not impressed, as you can tell by the picture.


Another day Colin and I were sitting on my bed having a chat. He made a funny face. Also, his pants made him look huge.

Then he stared off the side of the bed for a while.

Here are a few of his different expressions from his bouncy chair photo shoot. He went through about 5 shirts this day, so by the end I didn't care if he matched or not so long as he was covered.

Okay, I guess by the end I didn't even care if he was wearing a shirt so long as he was covered. I'm sure I'm going to win the mom of the year award for this outfit. (Yes, he's just wearing a bib and pants.) He looks so long with his tummy exposed.

Now that's what I call a happy face!

He wasn't in time out here, just chillin' in the big chair. With his arm up on the armrest he really looks like he's just hanging out. Also, his face looks huge.

I thought I should take a picture of Colin with Ethan since they spend so much time together. Ethan helps babysit Colin 3 days a week while I'm at work. They're good friends.

The rest of these pictures are from today. I was going through Colin's clothes to get him dressed for the day, and I came across this hat from Cousin Mason. It goes well with his pajama dress.

Two outfits later at Granny's house, Colin took a nap on the puzzle blanket. (I asked Daddy to pack the diaper bad and we ended up with no blankets.)

Wearing the Whoville pajamas from Uncle Brad and Aunt DeAnna. Also, he's wedged into the couch.

I don't know why this picture came up in this order, but these are the super cute fall decorations I bought last night at Ladies Night at the Real Deals store in Springville. I went with my new sister-in-law Kelli, and we had a lot of fun hauling Colin around with us, fighting all the other ladies in the jam packed stores. (Those are little pumpkins on the garland-thingy.)

Cousin Sara got some Whoville jammies too, and we took pictures of the cute li'l cousins together. Colin looks like he could smash Sara if he rolled over on her.


Sara wasn't so thrilled with the whole picture taking experience. Still cute though.

They were both much happier after conference and let us take more pictures.

Colin likes to try and get both fists in his mouth at the same time. That's my adorable little weirdo!

At home Colin played with Nana's plastic ball thing. He's really good at holding on to it, but he also tries to eat it, but he just ends up smashing it onto his face.

Colin and Daddy having a secret conversation.

I just wanted a full length shot of those adorable pj's.

He pulled some funny faces when I flipped him onto his belly. Okay, he pulled a normal face and then a funny face. Scroll down for the funny.

I got bored and decided to amuse myself again with putting ridiculous clothes on my helpless kid. He's ready to go out on the town now! (He already had on the pajamas and the bib. I added the hat, then the shoes, then the shorts. It was fun for me. And he never asked me not to.)

Hey, a picture of me!