i love you

Tonight I was putting Cole to bed and we were rocking and talking, and he looked up at me and said "i love you." What a wonderful way to end my weekend.

spatula golf

Cole invented a new sport -- spatula golf! He's pretty good at entertaining himself and I give him points for creativity.

Dr. Badger

Cole is finally back to healthy after a week of being sick with a whole bunch of stuff including pink eye, an ear infection, and a 103 degree temperature. For a couple of days he pretty much just slept all day, had no appetite and was understandably quite whiny. No fun for any of us! After we got some antibiotics in him (which was NOT an easy job -- he fought the medicine like crazy), it wasn't long before he was back to his energetic self. My mom brought him this baby doll as a get-well present, which Cole likes to give medicine. We made up a medicine song to make taking medicine seem like fun (it didn't really work) so he sings it when he wants to give the baby medicine. Just like Cole, the baby gets medicine in her ears, eyes, nose and mouth. Good job, Dr. Badger.

Ride 'em cowboy

A favorite recent activity - riding his rocking horse, exclaiming "weeeeeee" the whole time.

mommies

Cole calls Cory "daddy" and he calls me "mommies". Not sure where the plural comes from other than that I often say "that's mommy's" when he goes to pick up something of mine that I don't want him to have. Anyway, there's not much of a story here, I just wanted to make a note of it because I'm guessing sometime soon he will transition into calling me something else and I want to remember the mommies stage.

SQUEEZE!

Cole is really into giving hugs and kisses these days. My favorite thing recently is that Cory taught him how to "squeeze" so instead of giving a hug he wants to give you a squeeze, which just means a big hug and he says "squeeeeeze" while he's doing it. Makes my day, for sure.

Easter

We hosted Easter brunch this year and had a wonderful time. My parents, Nathan & Krista and the kids, and lots of yummy food! Cole and Alex got all dressed up for the occasion, don't they look like such little men?




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