fun, sun and "stroller sass"

what a day, and it's not even over! i'll start at the beginning...

cole graciously allowed us to sleep until about 6.15 or so, and i woke up to the sounds of him jabbering away to himself. turns out, he was on his tummy, head up high, staring at our door and 'talking'. cute enough, right? not! i went to get a diaper and wipe from the bathroom, and when i came back, he had the side of his face pressed against the mesh of his pack-n-play. he was staring at me, one side of his face all flat and squished, the other eye twinkling away...he looked so funny, i burst out laughing! he pushed himself up straight, grinned really big, then squished his face back into the mesh...apparently he developed a major sense of self-awareness overnight, because he KNEW he was being funny. so the game continued until he got tired of it- like, a minute or so. i took a picture of him hamming it up, but it doesn't show up very well...we also picked up a toy for him yesterday; it's a little palm tree with three animals, and it spins like a windmill. it has a suction cup on the bottom, so i figured it would be a good investment, as it would cut down on the amount of time i spend picking toys up off the floor, only to have him whip them from his highchair tray again. good idea, until we put it into action. he LOVED the toy, but it took him all of 30 seconds to tear it off his tray and...well, lets just say i now have one MORE toy to pick up off the floor. go figure.



later in the morning, we bummed round town for awhile. kelvin went to check out a motor sports store, have the oil in his truck changed,and then we drove around, looked around at a few random places, then stopped to eat at this neat-looking place we had seen called macayos. it's a mexican restaurant, reminescent of chi-chi's...definitely not mcdonald's prices, but the food was awesome! and cole was so good, not one shriek from him the whole time! maybe next time we'll split an entee so we have room for dessert...the menu included fried icecream and chocolate cheesecake burritos.



when we got home, we decided that since it's such a beautiful day (over 80 and sunny), we'd check out the pool...after stepping into swimsuits and slathering on sunscreen, off we went. the water was pretty chilly- cole cried when we put his feet in the water, so that was that. into the stroller he went to play with his toys that don't necessarily require water, while kelvin and i layed out to catch some sun. eventually cole got bored and had a few things to say about being strapped in his stroller, so out he came and then went right back in- he fell asleep! by this time, there were quite a few kids from the other apartments out, braving the chilly water...including this particular boy and his dad. decked out in his spiderman trunks and trying to convince his dad (who had a rather impressive mullet...) that he wasn't cold so could he PLEASE stay longer, he came to the realization that one tends to feel lighter in the water. out he climbed, dripping and suppressing the shivers, to tell this to his dad...the discussion progressed rather slowly- he couldn't have been more than eight or so- until he finally decided that he felt too heavy out of the water, at which point he stated that he "wanted to feel lighter". dear old dad simply replied, "then get back in the water." i couldn't help it- i laughed out loud.



so- i do have photos of our pool excursion...at least, photos of kelvin and cole. i did have my suit on, stretchmarks displayed for all to see, but i am not quite ready for evidence that i was out and about with that much skin showing...:) i do have some tan lines, though!

hopefully, cole will sleep very well tonight; the sun and fresh air tends to make most people feel tired at the end of the day, however, our son seems to be exceptional in the fact that nothing wears him down! we'll see...