Dress up

Colin has been taking swim lessons for the past few weeks. He takes them twice a week with his friends Charlotte and Liza Greer, and we alternate between their pools (aka Rachel and Lucy's pools). Colin has been making good progress, he has no fear and happily jumps in and swims under water. The last two weeks he has gone from sinking when he jumped in to swimming under the water towards me as I back up. It's great to see him learning that if he does his "scoops" and kicks that he will get to where he wants to go.
After their lesson, we all have lunch and the kids play. It's been really fun for the kids and the moms! Inevitably the girls pull out their dress up clothes and Colin goes right along with them. Here he is on Tuesday in a peacock costume and today in a pink tutu and high heels. The funniest part about today was he was really MAD that he couldn't wear the pink shoes Charlotte was wearing, it was hilarious!
And PS don't worry Colin is definitely ALL boy he's just secure in his boyhood and likes to please his girlfriends ��

A Princess and Her Knight in Shining Armor

On Saturday, Colin went to Charlotte's princess themed 3rd birthday party. I couldn't find a prince costume so we went with a knight instead. The costume arrived in the mail a few days prior to the party and Coljn has dressed up in it at least once a day since its arrival. He first took it over to his friends Trey's house for some pirate vs knight fighting.

Since its gotten hot in Florida already he only kept it on a few minutes at he birthday party but that was enough for me to snap a few pictures. The rest of the time he spent playing on the playground and running thru the fountains of the park where the party was. We will miss all of Colin's little friends when we go to Little Rock.

Bad bad blogger

I'm going to blame it on our beach lifestyle and recent travels, here are some photos of Colin and I hope to write an update on what we've been up to....lots of beach time, visits with so many different parts of family, which was wonderful and the everyday life in between.

Sharks and Fun at Charlotte's

Don't be fooled by the bathing suit,it's still pretty cold here, but will HOPEFULLY be warming up this weekend. I can't remember the last time we got such cold temps in March here. And yes a high of 66 with a low in the 40s is cold! How will I survive the winter in Little Rock?!

And then a sleepover at Charlotte's house included naked baby time in the bucket, trampoline jumping, Colin letting Charlotte dress him up in her angel wings, popsicles, a half hearted attempt of putting them to sleep in big boy/girl beds in the same room ( it lasted about 8 minutes) and lots more 2 year old fun...and the mommies had fun too.

Life at the beach

I've been REALLY enjoying our beach lifestyle. After living at my dads house for the last almost 2 years, it's nice to be just a family of 3. Today Evan got home at 4:30 from the hospital....4:30!!! So we headed out for an afternoon walk and stopped at a little dog park on the water. Colin was entertained with our game of throwing rocks into the water. It was a simple thing but I'm soaking in these simple things....

Introducing...

4 eyes Colin. He found these in a doctors toy kit at his friend Liza Greer's house last night and kept them on for a good hour

And PS another "toddlerism"