The BOYDelicious Life: The Adventures of Rash Boy and Pork Chop

I know, I know, it sounds like a comic book gone bad but sadly, "Rash Boy and Pork Chop" are names that accurately describe my children this week.

Tate is becoming the little chunker .Which is actually exciting since Collin never has been able to chunk up. And speaking of Collin, we think the poor boy has inherited my HIVES!!! He's been broken out all week and we still can't figure out what triggered it :( Fortunately he's been in pretty good spirits and some of the hives appear to be fading. You know it's bad when he brings YOU the lotion and wants you to put it on him. We are praying they clear up soon.

Other than scratching and eating all day..... We finally got Collin the haircut he desperately needed. I watched Cheryl cut it and will hopefully be able to copy it when the time come but if not, Cheryl says she'll be there for back up :)

We went to visit Great Grandma Brown and she had some mold-able cookie dough so Collin made cookies!

Showing off his snake

After they baked we watched Mickey's Christmas.

Tate was working the charm on grandma while we baked. He was talking and smiling and grandma ate it up. Look how huge he looks in this picture! He's one month and already wearing 3 month clothes! I'm just not use to that.

Thursday night Santa came through our neighborhood on a firetruck. The city of Winter Garden does this every year and of course Collin was thrilled!

This is the best picture I could get of his reaction since I was holding him but believe me, there was lots of ah's and loud exclamations of "firetruck!" It pretty much made his night.

We ended the week with our ward Christmas party! The theme was from the Grinch so we all got to wear our pj's. We had so much fun!

The children made special glasses to spot the Grinch with and then gathered around the stage for a reading of How the Grinch Stole Christmas. This little girl in the picture below was Collin's first kiss. He pretty much attacked her and slobbered all over her face when he was around 1. Funny how he picked the spot right next to her :)

The Grinch made several appearances throughout the story, much to the delight of the children. They would all scream, "the Grinch!" Collin just screamed because everyone else was screaming.

I must say it kept him pretty entertained.

This is Collin's Best Friend and partner in crime, Ryan.

At the end of the night we held hands and sang Christmas carols with the Grinch. So, so cute!

They even decorated the gym to look like Whoville. Don't those mountains look real!?

Tate enjoyed the festivities in his own way. Wonder how many more months we get before we have a little wiggle worm instead of a sleeping baby? Better enjoy it while we can :)

School

Tuesday: F is for Feelings

Collin put little "footprints" on his letter F

We then discussed feelings and I tried to get Collin to make different face to demonstrate those different feelings. Here is Collin's take on that.

Happy

Sad

Angry

Scared

As you can see, he didn't really get it. So Tate and I decided to help.

Tate properly demonstrated feeling startled, and when Collin asked to take my picture I demonstrated mad?... Scary? Not really sure :)

Wednesday: F is for Fingers
I gathered a few items and put them in a bag. I then had Collin feel inside and try to guess what each item was.

He thought this game was great and was excited to pull out each new item.

We also played with play dough since you do that with your fingers and killed two birds with one stone by making 8's. (number of the week.)

Thursday: F is for Frogs
We read one of Collin's favorite books, The Icky Sticky Frog" (a book I picked up from Targets dollar bin)

And we played with these frog jumpers I also got from the dollar bin. Frogs were everywhere!

Friday: F is for Farm
We gathered a few animals that would be found on a farm and sang Old McDonald. We also played a game on the computer where you guess which animal made the sound.