Weekend Update

Not a really exciting weekend. It's funny I complained all summer about having too much to do and now that things are slowing down, I don't know what to do with myself! I think I'm in a end of summer funk!! But, I am SOOO looking forward to October and our Guatoberfest cruise!! My parents are headed to Mexico this week which means I have to change my days off and take one extra day off-oh darn!!

Saturday was my mom's birthday so we took her out to breakfast and then I had to go to work-BOO!! The boys went to the baseball game. I got a text from Wyatt that went like this...your son has lost it! He took his hot dog out of the bun and is handing me popcorn wanting me to throw it at him like a baseball so he can hit it with his hot dog bat!! I cracked up!!


Sunday we had a COFLAC outing at the zoo. Collin always enjoys the zoo! It started at 1pm which is just about nap time so he didn't last very long. It is really hard to schedule outings with little kids that nap-everyone is on a different schedule and we all know that a toddler with no nap is NO FUN!!








Wyatt and Collin got to spend the evening together while Mama went and had a little girl time-nice!! I had dinner at my friends Amy and Em's and every time it's like eating at a fancy restaurant-yum!! It's always nice to have a relaxing evening eating good food, drinking good wine and hanging with friends. If you have followed this blog since the beginning, I met Amy on the airplane on our first trip to Guatemala and we have been great friends since.

Monday we had nothing planned-oh what to do!! Wyatt and Collin did some yard work. Collin loves to help daddy. Daddy loves for Collin to help him...for about 15-20 minutes and then the patience runs out so Collin gets to help Mama-lol.BTW-Collin was dressed but had to put on his Bob the Builder PJS to help daddy!








Then we went shopping for our new undertaking-redoing our family room. We needed to shop for furniture, carpet, paint and a TV. We accomplished buying a TV and probably decided on a sectional. We get made fun of by our friends for being in the dark ages because we still have tube TVs but they still work. I always said we are keeping them until they die. Well, our TV in the family room died, as did all hope for Wyatt when I said lets bring up the one from the basement and use it until it dies. It is still alive but the carpet and couch are on their last leg so Wyatt got his new TV and soon we will have a new family room! Luckily, Collin slept through all but the first stop! The first stop was a nightmare! He had not had his nap or his morning or afternoon poop! He was crazy!! Literally climbing and jumping on furniture and farting like a maniac-P.U.!!!!! I'm not sure I could have taken much more of that but thank goodness he fell asleep and STAYED asleep!

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Memorable Moments-Bathroom Baseball

Today we played baseball while Collin sat on the potty(his idea). I sat in the hallway and pitched to him and he hit the ball with his bat. Unfortunately after about 10 minutes of bathroom baseball, no potty. Maybe next time!

Keeping up with Collin

Collin's Top 10-in no particular order of course!


APPLES


YO GABBA GABBA


SUPER WHY-THE MAIN CHARACTERS NAME IS WYATT-LOL


HONEY BEAR-COLLIN IS OBSESSED WITH THE HONEY BEAR AND HONEY


PEANUT BUTTER AKA PEA BUBBER


KAI LAN


CARROTS-LOVES THEM!!!



BASEBALL



WOW WOW WUBBZY


PUZZLES

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Favorite Foto(s) Friday-Family
I just couldn't pick one!

Waffle House

It's funny how kids let you know what is going on in their lives without really telling you. I think that daddy has been taking Collin to Waffle House (Daddy's favorite-WTH???)much more than I had suspected! While in NC last week, we were driving along and out of nowhere Collin announces "Waffle House" plain as day. And what do you know...there was a Waffle House. He continued to point them out the rest of the trip. It seems there is an Awful Waffle on every corner in the south.I don't recall him ever stating the name of a restaurant before. He may say "num num" and he loves Chik-fil-A but he calls it "Moo Chicky". I think that daddy and Collin hit the Waffle House and flirt with girls while mom is at work! No wonder they always say "hi" when we walk in !!

North Carolina

Last weekend Collin and I went with my parents to return the girls to my brother in North Carolina. We stayed a few days and had a nice visit. The kids had a great time. It was a pretty relaxing trip-as relaxing as life can be with 3 screaming crazies running around! We hung out at the pool, the kids played on their new pool in the backyard, we cooked out and hit the drive in movie, something I haven't done for years. It was nice to have some time to have Collin all to myself. He was very clingy and seemed pretty "out of his element" but he had a great time. I think he was just afraid I was going to leave him there so I could never leave his sight!

Crashed at the drive in-my mom is OUT!!


Collin sporting one of his cousins robes. We were calling him Hugh Hefner!


A cute pic of my niece I couldn't resist posting. Those eyes are just so stinkin cute! Even with her new haircut, compliments of her big sister, she's still adorable!


Buckethead Collin- I remember being called that a time or two. Unfortunately I wasn't 2 1/2!!!


Nothing better that a bunch of little naked kids running around having fun without a care in the world! Absolutely no inhibition-those were the days. Oh-and of course the blackmail material for future use!!

Wordless Wednesday-Anybody see the news story about the little kid driving the family van?

Weekend Review

Another fun filled weekend in the Wilson house. Saturday we hosted a play date for several of our COFLAC friends. We had a really nice time and I think everyone else did too. The kids seemed to have a really good time playing. I was a little concerned that Collin would run around yelling "MINE! MINE! MINE" but he was actually a pretty good host. The kids played magnet fishing, drew with sidewalk chalk,played basketball,played cars, played in the sandbox pretty much played everything! It was really nice to have a smaller group so that we are forced to get to know each other. When we have the large gatherings it's too easy to just play with your own kid and not really get a chance to talk to any of the other parents. Even Wyatt enjoyed it! He's never really happy about me dragging him to these gatherings but we have to remember it's about Collin, not about us.







Saturday night Collin spent the night with Nana, Pops, Brylie and Kahlen while Wyatt had a guys night out and I had a girls night out. Needless to say we were pretty much useless for most of the day on Sunday but we did manage to get it together enough to meet my long time friend Glenna and her family at the Clippers game. They live in California now and are in town for a couple of weeks. It was also my mom and dads wedding anniversary-39 years!!- so we took the girls off their hands for the evening and headed to the ballpark. Hello-CRAZY! How people go anywhere with 3 kids under 4 is beyond me! I'm sure the 62 juice boxes, popcorn, cotton candy and peanuts probably didn't help! Luckily, we sat in the bleachers so we had them coralled for the most part. Collin did get to see the Clippers mascots Lou Seal and Crash up close and personal which made him very happy. Unfortunately they scared the crap out of one of Glenna's kids! Poor guy!





Monday we decided to go to the Ohio State Fair and indulge in some more fabulous cuisine! Lemon shakes, corndogs, ribs, corn on the cob, roasted nuts, frozen chocolate covered banana, ice cream, sno cone, about 50 gallons of iced tea and last but not least...Collin's first taste of Pop Rocks!! We went to the petting zoo. I bought a bowl of carrots and Collin walked up to the first coralle and dumped the entire thing on top the goat's. We were picking carrots off the goats and putting them back in the bowl so he would have something to feed the other animals. We also went to the fishing area-that was always my favorite part of the fair as a kid. It seemed like we always caught a fish but not this time. Wyatt almost got snagged a couple of times but we managed to avoid tragedy!











Today was the businessmans special at the Clippers-which means the game was at noon- so I took the first couple hours off work and Collin and I went to the baseball game...again! Now, you might be thinking, wow,she really loves baseball. Not really. I really like the new park and I don't mind baseball but Collin LOVES it so it is something he really enjoys doing. Most of the time I can't even tell you who won becasue I am having so much fun watching him have fun! He has started singing the song "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and he is learning all the lines that the fans yell. He cheers and yells "swing"! Today we left before the game ended because I thought for sure it was going to start pouring. He had to stop at every opening to keep watching the game and he had to say "hi" to everyone. We were standing at one of the windows when Crash, the mascot, came up behind us and gave Collin a big hug. You would have thought the kid saw Santa Clause!! It was fun having a little mom/son time!

FFF-Favorite Foto Friday

This pic was taken at one of Collin's favorite places-the river, doing one of his favorite things-throwing rocks and sticks in the water, with one of his very favorite people-his cousin Brylie visiting from NC.

Wordless Wednesday

Weekend in Review

The weekend started off well because I didn't have to work until 0 dark 30. It seems like I always have overtime on Saturday, which is my Friday, so it sort of messes up the start of the weekend because I am tired and unmotivated-more than usual-LOL!

This weekend we didn't have a lot planned which was nice. It seems our summer has been jam packed with scheduled events. It's nice to have stuff to do but it is also nice to be able to stay home and have some quiet alone time with the family. It seems we are constantly on the go during the week and I really like to have some slow down time to really just hang out with Collin and Wyatt. Although, this weekend Wyatt was sick which doesn't happen very often. So we spent the weekend trying to avoid Daddy so we don't get re-infected!

Sunday we were supposed to go to the CPD Bulldogs baseball game but it was cancelled because the fields were too wet from the rain on Friday but the party was still on! Scott and Lindsay had a reaaly nice party for all of the Bulldog alumni and their families.








Collin was in a very anti-social mood-kind of strange for him so we didn't stay very long. I'm not sure what the problem was but he just kept saying "go home" "go home in Mamas car". We probably spent half an hour just sitting in the car so he would chill out(dad was busy playing poker).


We were home fairly early so we had some time to hang out. We decided to do a little painting outside since it was such a nice day. Nana's birthday is coming up pretty soon and I think she is the only one that doesn't have a CJW original.





Monday was another lay around day for Wyatt so Collin and I just ran errands and visited with Nana, Pops, Brylie and Kahlen. Nothing too exciting!

397

397...the number of times "The Chicken Dance" has been played according to the Itunes counter.When will it stop?????

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