Merry Christmas....in February!

I wanted to catch up on everything since Christmas, so here's the quick version. If you didn't receive the Christmas card (pictured left) from us...well it's because I never got around to sending them out! I still have all 75 cards sitting here in my office :(. However, we had a GREAT Christmas...got to see LOTS of family and Cole had a blast opening presents. Dal, Jill, & I volunteered at the Salvation Army this year, which I hope becomes tradition for us :) Spending so much time with family and remembering Jesus's birth is definitely something to celebrate! Here's a few pictures from Christmas below...






The "Williams" clan (Dal's mom's side of family)













The "Ellis" clan (my dad's side of family)






The "Hinton" clan (my mom's side of family)






Cole LOVES flags so when Uncle Brent gave him this Alabama flag, Cole was sooo proud of it! He still carries his flag around to this day :)







My parents got Cole "The Happy Car" for Christmas...it is soooo cool! It is remote controlled so WE can control where Cole goes, when he stops, turns, etc...it has a switch for him to control it with the pedals and steering wheel for when he is older but right now, he just runs into the walls when he is in control of the car!
Dal's parents got Cole his very own recliner! Somehow I didn't get a picture of it but he absolutely LOVES it. Every morning, I tell him to get in his chair and he hops on in it with his milk and cheerios and watches an episode of the Backyardigans!


After Christmas, Dal, Cole and I took a trip up to Nashville. It was WONDERFUL!!! We stayed at the Opryland Hotel, saw the Rockettes, went to Charlie Brown ICE (where it was 6 degrees!) and ate a Aquarium...a really neat restaurant. I hope this becomes a yearly tradition for us!!!






January 2010....I'd rather forget about this month because it seemed like we were all sick all the time! We did have a great New Years though!


So James Spann predicted snow today and boy was he right...it is actually still falling as I type! Cole loved it and didn't like it one bit when we told him it was time to come inside...as you can see from one of the pictures!

Remember us??

Wow...ok so I realize that I'm waaaay behind on posting. It's pretty bad when not only your family gets on to you, but your friends do too! I hope to post pictures dating back to Christmas on here sometime next week.

For now though, I wanted to list Cole's 18 month old stats so I don't forget them! We went to the Dr. a few weeks ago and Cole weighed 25lbs 13oz and was 33 inches long. This put him in the 50th % for weight and 75th for height! He is growing and changing soooo much every day!

He can say lots of words now...and two phrases "I want that" and "What's that?". Recently he has been calling his daddy by his first name. I guess he hears me saying "Dal" and it sounds so much like "Da" so he just calls him what he hears me say! We're working on correcting that!

He also has used the potty a few times too! He poo pooed three times and tee tee once! We're not pushing him but he seems to be catching on the potty training thing pretty well.

We also bought him a ball, tee and bat recently. I will have to post a picture of him hitting off his tee....I was pretty impressed how quickly he picked up on hitting the ball off the tee too!

He is still into the Backyardigans sooo much...it's hilarious to hear him try to say "Backyardigans".

I hope to take his 18 month pictures before he turns 19 months old :)

Stay tuned for pictures very soon!