so much to do, so little time!

from a toddler's point of view, you can never do too much in a day. rather, you can never get into too much trouble in one day... haha! after the stairs episode on friday, we continued to "get a lot done", as cole might put it. for starters, we "clipped coupons"......or rather, scattered the coupons on the floor. much easier to sort through there, i guess!

"ooooh, 40 cents off spaghetti sauce!!" quick question- why is it that there's no cents symbol on keyboards?? i just noticed that. oh, and all those coupons? either expired or will expire before i ever use them, so technically, no waste there!

then, we did laundry. cole likes the upstairs laundry... i may have already mentioned that. he "helped" fold a load of towels; more like i gave him a rag and he wiped down the inside of the dryer door for me. he did a wonderful job! *wink*

there's my little helper!! if the dryer had been running, i could have gotten an awfully funny shot of what he does when there's a load in- he backs up to the dryer so he can feel it vibrate against his heiny. it must tickle because he giggles like a madman.

this is what cole thought of taking a bath saturday morning. i put him down to throw away his diaper and he made a break for it... right up the stairs, of course.

brushing his teeth like a big boy...

we headed down to mom and dad's for the day, because kelvin wanted to help my dad split wood. i guess they got quite a bit done... :) cole hung out with sarah, chase, mom and i- he even took a nap after lunch: about an hour and a half, which is REALLY good, considering he was on the floor in a room other than his own! he did really good about not making too much of a mess with grandma's utensil drawer...

we got him boots and mittens from fleet farm before we left town. we looked all over- walmart, kmart, goodwill... the ONLY place we could find little toddler boots that weren't furry, pink or otherwise girly was fleet farm. he's not thrilled about the mittens, but he wasn't outside for long enough to get too cold- after they were done with splitting wood, kelvin and my dad took him out on the sled around the yard. we could hear him from inside the house, screaming with sheer delight! i guess sledding with daddy and grandpa is a blast!

and finally, cole's learning to spoon-feed himself! while i'm so proud of him hitting this milestone, at the same time i want to cry because he's becoming more independent. he doesn't need me for everything anymore!! i guess that's a good thing, since for one, i'm going to have my hands full with the baby soon, and two, it would just be weird if he still needed someone to spoon-feed him by the time he hit middle school. ahhh, well- he still needs me to clean up the mess after he's done!!

can you tell he's just a wee bit proud of himself?? it never fails- once he knows the camera is on and aimed anywhere remotely near him, he puts on the cheese-face. silly kid.

i don't have photos, but yesterday was sarah's last christmas concert for choir... chase went, of course, and usually kelvin and i go too, but kelvin and cole stayed home. cole needed a nap and kelvin was waiting for a guy to come look at the snowmobile. this guy came all the way up from oshkosh (he lives south of there so it was a bit of a drive)... guess he's coming back today to pick it up! i know it's tough for kelvin to sell the sled, but sometimes we have to make sacrifices even though it hurts. by the time the kids are older and we can afford it again, this one will have long been obsolete anyway... he's already dreaming of something bigger and better! this actually comes at a good time- there are some things we need to get for the baby, for cole, for us... kelvin needs new brakes and a windshield for his truck so now we can get that taken care of! yay!!! maybe this weekend, if he and levi do the brakes on the truck, i can head over to target and the mall and get a few things for the baby and cole... i need to hit hobby lobby to get stuff for birth announcements too. i really should get those ready to go... !!