here it is!

(you can just see his tooth, right by the tip of my finger)

so, here it is, cole's tooth... ta-dah! it's finally up enough to catch on camera, but let me tell you, it was a process. not only finding just the right setting on my camera, but waiting for him to fall asleep for his nap so i could actually get a good view of it! his nap this morning was much-needed; he was up for a few hours last night (or rather, really really early this morning) and so none of us got a whole lot of sleep. he slept EXCELLENT the past 5 or 6 nights, ever since that little pearly white popped through, so i'm guessing the next one is really close- i can feel a bump where his other bottom front tooth will be coming through, so it's no wonder that he's a bit fussy again! poor baby! anyway, uncle tedly was asking about cole's new tooth so these photos are kinda for him but i thought all the rest of the family would enjoy seeing them too.

(just barely visible, i had to turn off the flash for these otherwise the entire photo was WAY washed out...)

yesterday, when kelvin got out of the shower after work, he picked cole up and said "cole and i are going to andy's so i can get some songs from him for my phone; you can take a little time for yourself... stay home or go out, whatever you wanna do." oh my, i almost fell over! i didn't expect to hear that! so, i took him up on it and had a chance to go look around for a few hours by myself. i wanted to find some dress shoes for sundays but just didn't find what i was looking for. so i hit up bath and body (it opened monday) and got some lavender-vanilla body wash and pillow mist... i LOVE that scent! then i went to target where i found some hair lotion (to try to tame the frizz- it's from umberto and it was on sale, so i figured, why not... it was a good deal and i haven't had anything for my fuzz for awhile), a scented oil burner (way cheaper than bath and body, and i can get just the lavender-vanilla oil from there when this stuff is gone) and some new pacifiers for cole. they're nuk from gerber and they are called naturalflex (or something like that), and they're supposed to imitate nursing. they do, as far as i can tell, but i think cole has totally forgotten how to work a pacifier... he just chews on it, and then when he tries to suck on it, it kinda pops out. then he gets frustrated. at least he likes this one, so i'm hoping he'll get the hang of it. he can't go around sucking on our fingers or shoulders forever... and if nothing else, he at least likes chewing on it! that's worth something, anyway.