Ahhhh...

We've tried!

We've failed!

He does NOT want to!

We've tried bribes...telling him he can't go to pre-school in a diaper...telling him about some of his friends that are potty trained.

He does NOT care!

He TOTALLY could do it.

He's scared.

He says it hurts to poop in the potty. (He does have pooping issues!) But those are under control right now!

Any suggestions?

Wait?

Push it?

Pretty soon he won't be able to fit into the diapers any more!

5 months

Cole is 5 months old! I can't believe how fast time is going. It makes me so sad! I didn't even post anything about Cole's 4th month. Poor kid had an ear infection the ENTIRE month. So, now he's 5 months and gets tubes in his ears on Monday. Hopefully he'll be on the mend after that!

We love Cole so much. Words can not even begin to describe how much he means to our family. We brightens our day with his big smile and those great blue eyes! He softens my heart when he reaches up with his hands and touches my face and looks me in the eyes.

Eli was monitoring the drool! He doesn't like Cole to be messy! Everytime some would drip down, Eli would wipe his mouth and say, "There you go, that's better!"
He's such a good big brother! Eli LOVES Cole and Cole LOVES ELi!

Things Cole is doing:

Laughing...lots of it! Eli is the best at getting him to laugh. Even when Cole is upset, Eli can get him to laugh!

He likes to play in his exosaucer...which is also a jumper. He thinks it's great!

He likes to sit in his "bumbo" chair!

He is eating cereal and has tried squash and sweet potatoes!

When he's on his tummy, he pulls his legs under him as if he's going to try to go somewhere!

He has rolled over, but doesn't so it frequent! (Eli didn't either, must not really be their thing!!)

He's close to sleeping through the night ( I think he totally would be if he's ears wouldn't be messing with him all the time!)

He falls in the "long and skinny" category at the doctor! This is opposite of Eli. I'm wondering if Eli's going to be our wrestler and Cole a basketball player!

We love you, Cole. You complete our family and bring us so much joy!

prayers

I haven't been blogging lately b/c things around here have been crazy. Cole has had double ear infections for about a month now. Just as he seems to get rid of them, they come back. It hasn't been fun around here. I feel so bad for my little guy.

We have a surgery scheduled for Monday to get tubes. However he couldn't make it 1 week without getting another infection. We were back in the doctor this morning with another infection. This time, Dr. Patron had us do lab work to make sure he's not missing something else. Cole's been so upset. He also wrote a prescription for loratab...for a baby? Yep, it's that bad :(

He had another antibiotic shot, a catheter and 2 tubes of blood drawn. They are checking his hemoglobin to make sure he's antibodies are working since he hasn't been able to fight these infections at all.

So, please pray that his tests come back fine.

Pray that Cole is able to get over this infection and STAY healthy to get his tubes on Monday.

Pray that the pain will go away so he can sleep. (and Mommy too!)

Pray that my happy little boy will come back soon.

wrestling

It has officially started!

Aaron coaches middle school wrestling and they started practices Tuesday.

He loves it.

I love that he loves it!

Guess who else loves it?

Yep, Eli! How could he not?

Aaron's dad was a wrestler, Aaron was a wrestler and if you look at Eli, he just has that build! Tim got Eli that wrestling singlet for his brithday last year. Now anytime he wrestles around the house, he has to put in on. I have to admit, he looks pretty darn cute with it on!

Now, me? I'm not so much a wrestling fan. I don't dislike it, just not that interested in it. But I have a feeling that a few years down the road I will be a HUGE fan of it...one person in particular!

Christmas

Well, Christmas was a little different for us this year. Aaron had to work on Christmas day, so we did all of our celebrating before Christmas even arrived. The way Aaron's schedule works, he won't have to work Christmas day for another 4 years. So, Eli will be 6 and Cole will be 4. That's crazy to think about, but glad it's not evey year!

We started with celebrating with just our family. We openned presents on Wednesday afternoon.

Here is a little video of Cole playing with his present! It was so funny! He hit that lever probably 5 or 6 times in a row!

Then we headed to my parent's house. We had a nice supper and then basically we watched Eli open his presents! Lots of good stuff!On Christmas eve, we were supposed to go to my Grandparent's house, but with all the snow we couldn't go. So we stayed at home and played! (Oh and I took Cole to the doctor and found out he had a DOUBLE EAR INFECTION...poor baby!)

Then we headed to the Kirtley's to open presents! Again, Eli got LOTS of presents...I think he's a little spoiled, or really loved!!

It was a great Christmas. We are truly blessed to have such wonderful family! I love spending time with all of them! Hope your Christmas was just as blessed!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!

From our family to yours!

We hope you have a very blessed Christmas celebrating the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ.

Love,

Aaron, Shannon, Eli and Cole

laughing

Cole has been really finding his voice lately!

I think he's noticing how loud his brother can be, so he's picked up on screaming...not angry, mad, upset screaming.

More like a high pitch shrill that lets you know he's in the room!

I actually really enjoy hearing that noise!

Eli loves it to!

He has become more interested in Cole lately b/c he can make him laugh and smile.

Now, I would NOT encourage this behavior as the boys get older, but for now it was cute!

And, yes, Eli knows that he is in NO way ever to hit Cole.

He's fine with that!