ice cream!

cole has had a little taste of ice cream once before, so today when we got some ice cream we shared with him. he loved it! the picture of him scowling is when brad took the spoon away, so i could get a picture.

aoife's bday

we had aoife's 1st birthday party here at our house today. it was a great time. it was small, but there still seemed to be little kids every where you looked! it even made brad realize it was time to put the baby gates up. i think he got tired of chasing the kids off of the stairs! the birthday theme was rubber ducks and cole was quite happy with the ducks he received. BUT he really loved the balloon he got his hands on. he went crazy again bouncing the balloon off of his head and laughing about it.

pool fun

tonight bridget, john, and ella came over for dinner. it's great getting together with them, because it's always crazy at dinner time with kids but they totally understand it and go through the same thing. while brad cooked a great dinner, we let the kids play in the pool. they both love the water. sometimes cole gets a little overwhelmed though with ella's splashing, but he took her hat and splashed better then usual.

army crawl

cole is still perfecting his army crawl, but he's getting quite speedy at it now. he is very happy with himself that he can now get to maggie when he wants to!

more teeth!!

this morning i realized i had a bipolar boy! one second he was laughing and smiling so hard he kept closing his eyes, all because i was trying to get a dog hair away from his mouth.

then he was crying.

then he was making funny faces, and that's when i noticed something was wrong!

i zoomed in and i saw this....

TOOTH #4 (his top left)!

happy tooth!

i received two big boxes from pampered chef today, which made cole very happy. he had a great time playing in the boxes and with bubble wrap. he was in such a good mood today that i was quite shocked to realize a new tooth broke through!! he got the top right tooth FINALLY!!

father's day

yesterday we went to uncle jon's birthday party. cole had a great time watching all the new people he met. he also ate very well. i really think that if i allowed him he would eat all day long. this kid LOVES food. plus he was able to try some watermelon, which he of course liked.

we came back late last night to surprise brad for father's day. cole was so happy to see his daddy after being away for 5 days!! we spent the day together eating good food, just the thing brad loves. brad has become an amazing daddy, better then i could have hoped for. he works so hard to make our life better. we love him so much for all he does!! (the bottom picture is from the day cole made father's day gifts)