A day in the life

Just a few photos from our day yesterday. We had scads of fun at home, playing and getting out and about (well, that was fun for me).

Cole is crazy about the wool monkey from Auntie Kathy, Uncle Al & the boys - we call him Orangelo (for Orange Jello).

He's also great at helping me with my projects - he holds the lens cap for me and pokes the lens, and even helps keep my ball of wool from rolling under the couch. :-) He's been a little anxious lately when I move too far away, so I'm trying to find good ways to not only play together, but also to play independently while staying close by. I'm not sure how well the knitting & sitting on the floor with him plan is going to go, but it was adorable to watch him pounce on the wool like a kitty. I'm knitting a little scarf for him, so if he wants to suck on the wool it's fine by me. It will end up being munched on anyway in the long run!

By the way... After I posted about his naptime irregularities and stuck photos of him cavorting around in the nude on the Internets for the "world" to see, Cole was an angel and had a long nap in the morning and napped again for over an hour and a half in the stroller in the early afternoon - long enough to walk to the west end, go to Capers and walk all the way back. No comments on this happening again - just reporting on yesterday. :-) In fact, only an excessively loud man in our elevator woke him up. What is with otherwise very nice people shouting things like "OH - HE'S SLEEPING!" into a stroller at a sleeping baby? Or continuing to spew loudness at his mother, who is bristling visibly and talking as politely as possible in a very low tone? I actually shushed a still-hammered youngish man on the street on New Year's Day around noon. Thank you for bellowing "HAPPY NEW YEAR BABY" to Cole while he slept - he thanks you for your well wishes, I'm sure.

Oh - and check out Cole's top teeth!!!

I've been meaning to take a picture of them, which is easier said than done at this stage. You can see them best when he's upside-down or from another angle when he's howling with laughter - neither are easy photos to get single-handedly. His three top teeth are out, with the fourth about to come through. Aren't they awesome? Love that gap - it makes me giggle. To get this photo I tickled him and snapped away - ticklish and an adorable gap in his front teeth? Seriously, he gets more squishable and kissable every single day.