let it snow and other tidbits

i can hardly believe the snow we're getting- i remember last year, it was after christmas that we got any REAL snow... not until february. cole likes it- he's not too sure about the actual snow, but he gets a kick out of watching the plows and stuff.

i was capturing our son's odd fascination with empty soda bottles (kelvin's, not mine!!) and managed to catch a little of the snowstorm in the background.

and his obsession with the microwave also mystifies me... but he is VERY good at letting me know when it beeps, just in case i didn't hear it myself. it's a duty he doesn't take lightly, that's for sure!!!

when nothing else seems to satisfy, wooden spoons usually work (for a few minutes, anyway). cole's been using the spoon like a cane, it's really funny to watch! that, or he bangs it on the back of his head. don't ask, because i don't have an answer for that one...

we braved the roads to go to hobby lobby (again) and walmart today. really, if people didn't drive like complete morons in the snow, they wouldn't be that bad. by the time we headed home (around 10:30 0r so), it had already stopped snowing. whoever plows the parking lot at hobby lobby does it backwards- they left the entrance completely unplowed... meaning i had to take another way out. after several failed attempts at getting out onto the main road, i allowed myself a nice loud "arghhhh!"; when we got to walmart and i went to get cole out of his carseat, he pointed at me, growled, and laughed. hmmm. guess we know who was paying attention!!

cole had been trying new words lately; usually just once, then we don't hear them again. like, a few mornings ago, he said "shoe" while i was getting his shoes on. and this morning, he said "man". he has a toy cop car that came with a little policeman, which happens to have made the cole's dresser his permanent beat... for the purposes of keeping a squirmy boy in place during diaper changes and whatnot. we've just been referring to him as "man", so that's what cole called him too! he can also pick both mommy and daddy out of a photo, too- this morning he was looking at a picture of kelvin and i, and when i asked where daddy was, he pointed to kelvin. he pointed to me (in the photo) when i asked him where mommy was- yay!!

and lastly, we've discovered the secret to avoiding a tantrum when we try to get his jacket on to go somewhere: if we get our coats and shoes on first, then he's more than happy to cooperate. huh. wish we'd known that before... could've saved a lot of headaches..!