Books for Ollie

We were upstairs about to get ready for bed when I saw that Brody was getting books off the shelf.  He told me he was getting books for Ollie.  He found ones that he thought Ollie would like.  Apparently Ollie didn't have the patience to wait for the books. 

Night Trains

Brad thought it would be a great idea to have night trains.  He got out his headlamp and his flashlight for the boys to use.  I took a picture but it didn't show how dark it was since I had the flash on. 

So then I attempted to take a few pictures in the dark. 

The boys had a blast!

Ultimate Train Track

We had another unscheduled weekend.  "Uncle" Eugene came over and helped build the ultimate train track.  They used up almost every single train track piece.  We have had to keep it out for a few days to get the most out of the Ultimate Train Track.

In the corner

A few nights ago it took Colt a very long time to go to sleep.  I kept checking on him and he just couldn't seem to settle down.  I suggested that he sleep on the bean bag chair.  He thought that was a fun idea so he tried for a little while.   After more time trying to settle down he finally decided to sleep in the corner of the room.  What a silly little guy!

You can barely see him in the corner behind the bean bag.

Here he is in the corner.

I decided to take a picture of Brody sleeping too.  He loves to be covered in a blanket, where Colt prefers to have no blanket on him (most of the time).



Autumn's Birthday

The boys were invited to Autumn's birthday party.  (Jamie is Autumn's mom and she is a friend of mine from high school.  We reconnected on facebook and were excited to learn that we live very close to each other)

I forgot my camera but Jamie was able to get some fun pictures.

The birthday party was at Kidz Bounce which is the same place we have our church services.  The boys knew what to do and had a lot of fun!

I actually got the chance to bounce with them. 

Another favorite of birthday parties....eating cupcakes!

Thanks for the invite Autumn!  We had a fun time.  

Robot

I meant to post this a while back (and maybe I did, but I can't find it).  Sorry if its a repeat.

We were playing with Brody's robot a few weeks ago and Ollie just loved it.  He started clapping right along with the dancing robot.

(I received this bib "Talk to Me" from participating in a research study about babies and speech --nothing to do with Colt.  Nonetheless they are great bibs!)

Isn't he so cute?

Cartacular

We had a rare weekend where we had nothing planned (except for an early morning run for me and church).  It was nice to just let the day happen.  It also allowed for Brad to create a game that he called CARTACULAR. 

The boys spent a few hours getting every single car in the house and lining them up.  In the process we even found Dinoco which was a car that had been lost for months.   Once the cars were ready Brad had to figure out the rules of the game.  

Here are the cars, lined up, coordinated by color. Pretty impressive!

On the other side of the rug the boys had set up their people.  The cars were to be pushed to the other side in hopes of hitting someone.  If the car crashed into another one it had to be put in the bin.  It was also put in the bin if it ran off the rug. 

Colt didn't have enough patience to play so he just watched and pushed cars a few times. 

The people lined up at the other end. 

Cartacular ended up taking a long time and Brody lost his patience so there was never a winner. Brad loved the game so much that he hopes to play it again soon. 

I love watching Brody's reaction on these videos when his car runs off the rug.   He was such a good sport about it.