Sweet Boy

Collin is 7 1/2 months and seems to be growing up so fast to me! He now sits up on his own for long periods of time before crashing. He is making all those "consonant/vowel" sounds like ba ba, da da. On his tummy, he pushes his whole upper body off the ground and has attempted to get the knees involved a couple times. About a week ago he even {reached} for me when Trav was holding him. Kinda a bummer for Trav I think, but I was elated. I suppose when you spend the majority of your time with him and provide all his sustanance, that's bound to happen. And my favorite yet, is that he's discovered how to scrunch up his nose and blow air in and out really fast so it sounds funny. This cracks him (and us) up.

Last week, I was folding clothes on our bed, when I realized that the second I stopped paying attention to him and kept folding, he'd do the nose thing. The second I'd turned to him, he'd laugh and enjoy the attention, but once I went back to folding, it would only take about 15 sec. for hime to do it again. What a mischievious boy!! :)

Also last week, we were shopping at Sam's Club, and had stopped to talk about something when we noticed Collin light up and smile so big. That's when we realized we had conveniently stopped right next to a large, high def. t.v. that was playing a cartoon. He was loving it, Trav I'm sure was seeing this as another good reason to purchase said t.v., and I just groaned.

My back is feeling better, but it has been a long (and boring) few days trying to rest and take it easy. On one of those days, we were chilling on the spare {chiropractic} bed and Collin was hamming it up, being SO happy. I love this picture.

If you enlarge this one, it shows really well what his eye color looks like. We still don't have a "name" for them. Are they hazel, brown, grey?? Who's to know. Perhaps on his driver's license, next to eye color it will just say: trippy.

This clip would only be interesting to grandma's and maybe a doting aunt :) Nothing special, just a bit of his mannerisms and laughing.
Well we had a few weeks of {this} kind of weather. Say hello to marshmellow boy.

But for the past several days we have had glorious {fall} weather. Trav looked out our window and commented that we had a "traffic light" in our front yard. I think he was right :)

Sorry if fall leaves bore you, but I'm fairly fascinated by them. Must have been all the deprivation of them growing up. I think the Shaws have the prettiest tree on their street. A big mix of color!

Just a few we enjoy on our walks.

I've been doing some crafting lately.... I pulled out my decoration box and found a grocery bag full of wooden "parts" that I thought made a turkey. I missed an enrichment activity in my old ward, but had paid for the craft, so they gave me a bag full of parts to assemble on my own. Two years later and I had forgotten what it was supposed to look like. Thanks to Facebook, someone posted a picture and I was able to copy it. Funny thing was, she showed me that I had the parts for a turkey AND a cat. And here I was trying to make them all work into one decoration. Would have been a pretty ugly turkey. :)

And for our last bit of exciting (but not really that exciting) news, Ole' Dirty (remember, pronounced Deer-tay) hit 100,000 miles! What a trusty old car we have. Although not so trusty, since it's still doing the whole "rocking" back and forth occasionally if you're going over 65mph.

We had the Elders over for dinner on Sunday, and Trav was dropping them off at their next appt. when they were nearing the monumentous 100,000 mark. When they arrived at their destination, Trav realized that Elder Mckee had directed him via the "scenic route" to get to the house because he wanted to be there when the odometer struck 100,000. Oh, Elder Mckee.