Coen's love for Elmo

Over the last 3 to 4 months Coen has grown to love Elmo. He ended up getting 3 Elmo's for Christmas & luckily all of them are different from each other. He normally only sleeps with one but tonight he had to have all 3 in bed with him. Here is a picture I took of him after he fell a sleep.

Tool time!

Here's a couple of pictures of Coen & Jonathan playing with the tools Coen got for Christmas. There like two peas in a pod. Your such a good sport babe!


I should never have any problems finding a handy man for repairs....I've got 2 of them!

Christmas 2009

We had a wonderful Christmas this year! Coen was a good little boy and got tons of new stuff. I'm officially parking outside now due to the fact our garage is full of toys & bikes. Jonathan & I both got new bikes this year so we can start bike ridding. Just to name a few, Coen got a new powered 4-wheeler, baseball hitting machine, work bench w/ tools, new table & chairs and much more. Here are some pictures of our Christmas.

Santa came by & left Coen a 4-wheeler


testing it out


a remote control car


Mr. Handy man!


he was showing us how his drill works


new table & chairs


Coen's new big boy bedding......& as you see he was testing out his Elmo underwear that mimi Jo got him....NO, he's not potty trained yet but he's doing a good job with it so far.


playing with a new bath toy.....thanks Maisa!

Sledding

After we had all the snow fall Friday night, us & our neighbors decided to go sledding at our church were there was a big hill to go down. We seen other people sledding & wanted to join in. We used a blow up air mattress that we bought at Walmart to use as a sled. It was way cooler than using a normal round disc sled. We all had a blast & I can't wait to do it again the next time we get snow.


All 3 of us


We took a running start & leap of faith onto the slippery air mattress that went straight down hill


we both landed......

hold on.......

Wee!!!!!!

Snow

The snow came early this year & we had so much fun playing in it with our neighbors David, Lindsay, Jimmy & Kristen. Friday night when all the snow was coming down we all gathered at our neighbors house for pizza & wings. Then we bundled up & headed out in the snow for a 2 hour snow ball fight. Then back in for some snow cream & cookies. It was a fun night for all of us. Coen seemed to enjoy the snow this year. He wasn't to crazy about it last year.

Coen throwing a snowball at someone


lots of snow to play in

Kristen, Coen & me

Rudolph

Rudolph the red nose reindeer had a very shiny nose...haha! This past weekend Coen & I put together a cute reindeer ornament to hang on the Christmas tree. Coen is all the time doing arts & crafts in school so I wanted to do something at home with him. I found the idea off a Christmas craft website & it was very simple. Rudolph's face is Coen's shoe print traced out on to foam paper. Then the antlers are Coen's hand prints, also traced out on to foam paper. Add some googlie eyes & a red nose & you have Rudolph. We also made one for each grandparent too. (Mimi, yours is coming soon!)

"O" Christmas Tree

This past weekend mom, dad & the 3 of us took our yearly trip to Sparta, NC to get a Christmas tree. I love this time of year & the fresh pine smell of a Christmas tree. The weather was very nice & not to cold. While we were in Sparta, we stopped to watch the Christmas parade that came through town. It was Coen's first parade. Here are several pictures.

Coen on a really big tree stump


Before heading up to where the trees are


The hay bell ride to the Christmas tree's

In front of our tree we picked out, before it was cut down

Coen had to see what was going on in the back of paw-paw's truck

Helping decorate the tree the next morning

Coen's new hair-cut

This past weekend we took Coen to get another hair-cut. Since his last hair cut in September his hair had grown out so much. This time we went with shaved look all over. He's so cute with his new look. He definitely doesn't look like a baby anymore. He now looks all grown up. Here are a couple of pictures I got of him the other night after dinner.

He's so silly!


By the way....notice the scarecrow lying face down on the floor, Coen likes to man handle Mr. Scarecrow by throwing him around. I guess this is because Coen & the scarecrow are the same height. He's a mess!

Ladybug cake

Some friends of ours are celebrating there little girl's 1st birthday this weekend and they asked me to make a cake for there daughter, Lily. So far this has been the biggest cake I have made. I also made Lily her own little cake so she could dig into it and have fun with it.

Halloween

This year for Halloween Coen was a vampire. He wasn't to spooky looking with spiked blonde hair, blue eyes and dimples but he sure made for a cute vampire. Here are some pictures of him dressed up and from his Halloween parade & party at school




at a Trunk-or-Treat at the church





Coen and Elijah before there Halloween parade at school

checking out his spiked hair

at the pumpkin patch on the playground

he was enjoying his snacks at his party

the rest of his friends in his class