Afternoon in the country

 We haven't been to the country since this past rain and were pleasantly surprised to see some green vegetation and full tanks on this last trip (as seen behind Cole's cow aka CiCi).  Whenever we go out there, Cole likes to do 3 things: 1. Feed the cows; 2. Ride in the vroomvroom (polaris ranger); and 3. Ride in the tractor.  He fills up a bucket of cubes and chunks them through the fence at the cows as he hasn't quite gotten up the nerve to feed them any closer.  Given, I'll never forget the first time I tried to feed cows and thought it was a joke that they would eat the cubes out of your hand until that sandpapery tongue snatched it right from me.  Those are pictures that I will not be posting anytime soon!  Anyways, here lately the boy likes to sing "Old Macdonlad" and dance a little jig while he feeds cubes and I caught him this time:).  For me, I like going to the country to get out of town and to play with my camera.  Even though I like cooler weather, the signs of spring were a welcome sight.

The rest of January

Besides spending fun times with cousin, we have also been busy going to church activities, music class and gymnastics class; playing outside on oddly warm January days; and found lots of things to do inside like:

Painting on our new easel with our new apron.  I was really nervous about not having him strapped into his booster seat to paint and ending up with paint all over the house but he did really great!

Cooking in our matching aprons!  We like vegan blueberry muffin batter the best!

Playing with our new train....I caught him mid-ChooChoo!

Helping Dada build our very early birthday Jeep.  We had thought about getting him one for Christmas but I'm weird and prefer non-motorized, use-your-leg-muscles-to-move-and-burn-energy-to-go-to-bed-easier-at-night riding toys.  However, after he liked cousin's so much and the fact that Academy had a big sale on them after Christmas and the fact that he won't realize yet what he does and does not get on his actual birthday, we decided to get one now.

Crusing in our new Jeep!  I think he looks like he's checking cows in this picture:) Oh, and Russell will officially be teaching this child how to drive after I was told "Cole can't hear you, Mama.  I'm driving my Jeep" when I tried to show him how to not run into something.  That's better anyways as I still can't park worth a darn!

First week of January

So behind....We have been pretty darn busy so here is a recap from early January!

Cousin got a Barbie jeep for Christmas that she does not like to drive but prefers to ride in which is perfect because my little daredevil LOVES to drive!  I think they were having just a little bit of fun:)

Cousin turned 3 in January and had a fun Cinderella party.  Silly face...

Monkey see, monkey do!

 

Sweet face with her new doll figurine

Modeling cousin's new bling

 

One of cousin's classmates does pageants and shows the other girls how to model...I got so many cute pictures of her catwalk but this was my favorite!