Where has the time gone?

Cash is 9 months old today.

I found this quote the other day and it's oh so fitting for everything that we've been through, seen and shared these past 9 months.

It was the tiniest thing I ever decided to put my whole life into.

-Terri Guillemets

I'm sure he'll kill me for this one day, but he LOVES to walk his cute lil' naked butt to the bath at night.

He has brought so much joy into our lives and it has been such an amazing journey already.  It is so cool to see him learn and figure things out, and we love to see how excited he gets when we clap and cheer for him.

At 9 months old he's done/doing some pretty cool things!  We're working on our 6th tooth, have been crawling for a solid month, we're pulling ourself onto/up on everything, we love bathtime and we're pretty sure he'll be walking by the end of next month. He also barely wants anything to do with baby food cause he has to feed himself most of the time. Oh and he gives mommy kisses, much to dad's disliking, he's got a soft spot for her already.

So much room in my new 'big boy' car seat!

Thanks Cash for teaching mommy and daddy so many fun things.  We're so excited for the best thats yet to come!

How many is too many...really?

I realized the other day when I ordered Cash's 20th pair of shoes, that he has a slight shoe addiction.  Ok so maybe it's not so much Cash with the shoe addiction, but Mama with a shoe addiction.

The shoes that should be coming any day...how CUTE are these?

The "Shoe Shelf" in his closet is literally full!  I had to move up to a different rack to start putting his sandals (yes I know it's cold).

Maybe it's because they're so cute and tiny or maybe it's because boys clothes can start to look the same after awhile, but you can always change up the shoes.  Maybe it's because I'm just flat out addicted to shopping for anything Cash related.  Either way...he's got some pretty sweet kicks!  And I'm sooo excited that his tiny little feet are finally growing.  That's right, I think we've finally made it into size 3 and he's got plenty of those to choose from! So we packed away 3 pairs and are ready to wear out those size 3's!!

Here are a few of my faves!

Just like Daddy's!

These little shoes have squeakers in them. We'll see how long the squeaker lasts!

Side note - I DID NOT buy all of these...most of them, but not all :)  And for those who don't know me all that well, I'm quiet the bargain shopper and have yet to pay full price for any of these.  Maybe if they were full price he wouldn't have as many!?!? 

Oh and how could I forget.  Cash is not only crawling (now on all fours), but he recently started pulling himself up onto everything!  And I think we figured out why there have been so many sleepless nights...we see two more teeth coming through.  Finally, no more fangs :)

Forgot to post this a few weeks back.  Now that he's almost 9 MONTHS old...better late than never, right?  Oh and notice his first shiner...a puzzle got the best of him.

Running Running Running

We have a mover in our house and he is into EVERYTHING! Pretty sure he follows mommy wherever she goes and loves to go where he isn't supposed to.

I think Cash also finally realized that we do a lot of running! He loves to stand up and walk around, with our help of course, and just recently found the love of running :) Ok maybe we should call it walking fast.  He just giggles and giggles and hi-steps to keep up!

Sorry for the butt shots of mommy.  We're still trying to figure out our new Flip video camera and daddy's angle wasn't the greatest..

We're so excited that we're going to begin the finishing of our basement!  Hopefully sometime next week there will be drywall going up (hopefully).  It'll be fun to take pictures and share the progress. The thing we're (I'm) most excited about, we'll finally have a toy room for the toy store that is currently consuming our Living Room. 

What a Weekend!

I literally feel like a walking zombie today.  It was so hard to pull myself out of bed this morning.  We've been non-stop since last Thursday and we're TIRED!

Christmas for us is always go go go.  Poor Cash gave us dirty looks every time we put him back into his car seat to go the next stop, but he is such a people watcher that he was so excited to get to wherever it was we were headed next.

I do really love this time of year, no really I do.  We get to see so many family and friends that it makes the hustle all worth while. We started off Thursday with some dear friends who were back in town for the Holidays.  We miss Krista & Joe so much through out the year and we're so excited for BOTH of them to be moving home soon.

Here's Cash with his buddies Aiden and Gracy.  Cash and Aiden are just 10 days apart.  This will be fun watching them to cause trouble together, I think!!

Friday was our busiest day to date.  We had 3 stops to make and Cash was such a trooper.  We started the morning with Grandma Julie, headed off to see Grandpa and Shari Mom Hawkins, then to see the crazies at the Hawkins side.  I think we got a total of 45 minutes of sleep out of little man the whole day, but he had a blast dancing up a storm while the kiddos (and uncle Bob) played the new Michael Jackson game on the Wii.

This year on the Hawkins side we played a few Minute to Win It games.  Here's dad doing the "Booty Pop".  He won two of the four games all by himself

Saturday was a day with the Cole's.  We headed to Grandpa Rodney's then off to Lone Tree to visit the rest of the family.  Then capped it off yesterday with the Kleopfer's.  Oh and I can't forget Christmas last week with Grandma Karen and Gpa Steve where dad got a new gun!

Santa even came to visit me at Grandma Karen's house.

Yeah we know, it's crazy and our house officially looks like a toy store.  Thank goodness most of the new toys have off switches :) Plus it was so fun to watch little man's eyes light up when he (mom and dad) was opening his gifts. He really did show some interest in it and it was so sweet.  Guess this just means we'll be working that much harder to get the basement done ASAP!!

Oh and how could I have forgotten...we have a CRAWLER on our hands.  Not sure if it's technically "crawling" but more or less "dragging" himself around.  Whatever it is, he's getting pretty good at it.  Time to but up the baby gate for sure!!

Holiday Wishes

We've been pretty busy and lots of things have been going on around the Cole household these past few weeks and once things calm down I've got tons to talk about ;)

We had Cash's 6 month pics and family pics taken back in October with the Gehman's of Gehman Photography, they also did our wedding pics, and they turned out oh so FABULOUS!  We love their work and they are both pretty awesome individuals.  It's funny how much hair Cash has gotten in two months, not to mention three teeth and one more on the way.

Anyways, we wish you all a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and we hope the New Year keeps us all healthy, happy and still very busy.

Baby it's COLD outside!

Well...it finally feels like December.  We got our first snow a few days ago, and well I don't like it.  Guess I should either move or deal with it.  I think for now we'll just deal with it.

We had so much fun at Dustin & Carly's wedding.  What a beautiful day they had and everything was GORGEOUS.  I got a new camera last week and was so excited to use it over the weekend, but wouldn't 'ya know it...I think I took two pictures and they weren't even of Cash looking so handsome for the festivities.  Here are the few I did manage to get, poor thing was so sweaty he was showing off his WT look.

Cash learned a new trick at daycare last week.  Of course we've been working with him, but it took someone else to finally get it out of him.  Look...

I can wave HELLO!

I think we may try and get our Christmas shopping accomplished this weekend.  Let's hope it ALL gets checked off the list.  We've got quiet a lot to do yet, and I'm getting pretty nervous.  It's a good thing Cash likes shopping with mommy and grandma.  Daddy has a tournament this weekend at Wartburg, so that means we're heading to the mall.

We're so glad that we finally just get a week to chill...and I mean it literally this week!

So Big!!

Wow what a crazy week it's been!

We continued our Thanksgiving fun on Thursday with the Cole's, did some crazy Black Friday shopping (out the door at 3:30), and ended the fun with two more Thanksgiving's.  First to the Riggan's and then to the Hawkins' to finish it off.  It get's us excited, yet tired, thinking about the Christmas season.

Here's a picture of Cash just after we told him we've got eight Christmas' to attend.  I think he's confused.  Just like most people would be :)

I think I mentioned before how Cash is manuevering all over the place.  We've only caught him a few times up on all fours, so we're guessing that it still may be awhile before we see some crawling action.  The other night I layed the little booger on the floor to do some playing and next thing I knew I found this...

It's so amazing to watch Cash learn new things.  We've heard that they learn more things in the first two years of their lives then they do the rest of it.  Not sure if there is much truth to that, but we'll roll with it!

We've been trying to teach Cash the infamous "So Big" for awhile now with no such luck.  We came to find out that all he needed was a little coaxing from Grandpa Hawkins to finally figure out the trick.  It is so funny to see him throw his chubby little arms in the air.  He gets so excited when he realizes that he's done something pretty cool!

Check out those chompers!  He's got two, but we noticed last night that he's getting one of his top teeth as well. 

We've got another crazy weekend.  Nick's cousin Dustin and his fiance Carly are going to make it official.  Dad is in the wedding and the festivities kick off tomorrow night with some rehearsing. We hope to have some fun pictures to share with you next week.  We're so excited for the two of them and can't wait to see so many of our extended family and friends.

Oh and Dad's got his annual deer camp with the Robertson's.  Maybe he'll finally get that infamous deer, because we all know that Bow Season has not been good to him :)

Until next time...Have a wonderful week!