Cole's first ice cream cone

Thanks Ama!







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Springtime fun!

Mama finally blew up the pool - check out my new swim clothes. I'm all set for summer! Cole











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Pooping!

Today Cole pooped in the toilet for the first time!!!  I arrived home from work to find Delia, Kira and Cole sitting on the front steps waiting for me.  Cole was licking a ginormous lollipop (he's never had one before) and had green and purple all over his face.  Delia immediately noticed my dismayed look (WHAT WAS SHE THINKING?!?? was running through my head) and told Cole to run over and tell me his good news.  "Mama, mama!  I pooped in the toilet today and got a lollipop!"  Interesting...I was planning on doing the naked boy method when the weather got warm enough, but I guess she decided to jump start the process with bribery...I'm still not sure how I feel about that.  Picture to come....(of the lollipop, not the poop!)

What was hysterical though was tonight when I put Cole to bed he said "mama, i need to poop again - can i go to the toilet?"  and I said, "Cole, you never poop at night.  Why do you need to poop?"  And he said, "because I want a lollipop!"  And then goes "look, I'm trying" - and started making a face and grunting like he was pushing!  I doubled over in laughter!  I've never seen him do that before.  He always goes to the bathroom to "hide" while he's pooping and does it very quietly.  Where did he learn to grunt like that?!  I'm thinking this whole lollipop/bribery thing isn't the greatest idea.  The poor kids going to get hemorrhoids so he can suck on lollipops whenever he wants!  Ha, ha! 

Kira is now mobile!

Aside from her calculated rolls from side to side to get where she
wants... Kira is now crawling as of two days ago!! It started out as
a pretty funny hand toe crawl hop drag shuffle thing, but has already
progressed quite quickly to a more efficient somewhat crawling
motion. :-)

Double bath time!

Here's our trial run with both kids in the big bath tub. Cole was so
excited that Kira was big enough to go in the tub with him, so that
was good. They both had a grand ol' time, though I think Cole may have
felt a little confined. Kira could splash to her little hearts
content! :-)