Swine Flu...

For Sam's birthday he got the H1N1 shot...we both did...since our little guy is under 6 months old it was very important for us to get it to keep him as healthy as possible. The next morning I came downstairs to get the milk to send with Cohen to his nanny and this is what I found in our fridge:

Sam had labeled the milk pre-shot (moo) and post-shot (oink) so that I would know to send the oink milk with Cohen...HA!

Sam's Birthday

It's crazy to think that this time last year we were just getting to Thailand...it has been quite a year! Sam loves powdered sugar donuts so instead of a birthday cake we created a donut cake.

for safety reasons we did not put 31 candles on the cake!

Happy birthday Sam...we LOVE you!

Sam has wanted one of these rockets since this summer's launch

a pile of weiners...enjoying the birthday celebration as well

Cohen and great uncle Jim...who he LOVES. We have a great video of Cohen talking and laughing with Jim but it is too big of a file for the blog...Jim's face is so expressive and he talks in such a funny voice when talking to Cohen that he LOVES it!! Cohen reading with Auntie Kate

Hands are AMAZING!!!

Cohen has discovered his hands...he LOVES them!

He loves to look at them

and wave them around...and look more closely....

and even MORE closely!!

Sometimes they are so close he has to cross his eyes to see them.

AND THEN....

he shoves them in his mouth...

or folds them together!

It is so fun to see what he discovers and the hands have definitely kept us laughing these past few days!

Day at the park

Cohen and I met our friends Brooke and Hudson and Brittni and Griffin for some lunch and a fun afternoon enjoying the gorgeous weather at the park.

Brooke, Hudson and Cohen
I love this little orange sweatshirt!
me and my little guy

check out the belly!! LOVE it!
Griffin LOVES the sand!
Hudson LOVES leaves (so he is in luck this time of year!)
the park sure makes you hungry...
and sleepy!!

Let the holiday season begin!!!

I was very excited today when I was notified via email that Elf Yourself was back for another year...so naturally I had to take a quick break and create my first one of the season. Many more to come as I find these very funny!!

Enjoy...the BABIES!

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

HALLOWEEN!!

Cohen started Halloween off by wearing his baby's first halloween onesie from Jill...

then it was time for the family costumes...our little ear of corn...

Josh as the ballon of ballon boy and Crystal the iPod dancer...both of them had trouble walking around since their costumes stuck out so far.

Josh also dropped about 10lbs since he was so hot in the mylar!

my cute little corn

Cohen LOVED Crystal's wig!

Skater Bri and her little Charlie Brown

dirt cake...mmmmm

festive food all around

Bri made the eyeballs

Spooky Juice

Bri's dip...also very fun!

Crystal made the eyeballs for the wine glasses

oh what can you even say...Fudge those are some WHITE legs!

Griffin HATED the mustache

Then we lined the little boys up...

"Hey Cohen...what is that thing on your head?"

SO cute...Charlie Brown!

grandma and Auntie Kate

Brooke and her little bee...

Fudge, Jesse and Sam

Jared and Emily

a.k.a Cookie Monster and coooookie

Then we had to line the boys up again with Hudson

Someday my little one will hold his own with these boys...we do tell all of them that they will be great friends, whether they like it or not! :)

Joel and Isaac

grandma, grandpa and Cohen (minus the costume that got too hot!)

Auntie Kate...complete with cast thanks to a dog bite!

Sparrow (straight from Children's hospital) and Jesse (off to work after the party)

the vikings Thanks everyone for a great Halloween...can't wait to dress up again next year!!

Our little pumpkin...

Another find in the dollar bin...too cute!!

This is what we call the deep sleep.
Every once in a while we'll attempt to wake Cohen up to eat and there is NO waking him...he just flops back down on your shoulder and continues to sleep.

Instead of waking him up it is so much better to snuggle!

Little Ghost

I couldn't pass up this little shirt from the dollar bin at Target...so Cohen got to dress up for a few days Halloween week.

New Favorite Photo

Well if anyone had any doubt that my two boys look alike just take a look at this photo! I snapped this picture the other day and LOVE it!!

LOTS of snow!!!

Tuesday night around 8:30 the snow started coming down...it came down all day Wednesday and into Thursday.

This is what our deck looked like Thursday morning.
These pics were sent to my coworker Mandy in LA who was complaining about her cold hands.

Luckily Wednesday is my day off so Cohen and I were able to stay inside and keep warm, but there are no snowdays when you work from home and work for a company based out of California so we trudged over to daycare on Thursday morning then Sam picked him up and brought him home in the afternoon...he was SO cute all bundled up in his car seat.

I wanted to bundle him up and take him out in the snow for some pictures...Sam did not really like that idea...so I plopped him down in front of the snow in his seat and took some pics...his first big snowstorm! (living in Colorado he is bound to see many more in his lifetime!)

Shhhhhhh...

Look at Cohen's face...he is SHOCKED that mommy dressed him in this outfit! :) Our neighbors bought Cohen this Rockies outfit hoping that they could work on the next generation seeing as we were a lost cause. We will allow it as they are not in the same conference, it is not the Yankees, and the chance of them actually meeting up post season again anytime soon is slim to none...so yes Cohen...you can wear it...just don't tell any of our friends in Boston!!!

Hiccups...Sneezes...Talking!

We captured a few fun Cohen videos this past week...

this poor little guy gets the hiccups all of the time!

his little sneezes are so cute...have to watch until the end of the video

and my new favorite are his super cute little noises talking back to us!!

Wiggle Worm...

Auntie Kate gave Cohen this cute little onesie...and he sure is a wiggle worm now!!

serious
smiley! (my favorite!)

New Friend Paully

Our friend Paul...or as we call him Paully...sent Cohen a gift from Scotland.

When we were in Scotland a few years ago I would make Sam and Paul stop all of the time to take pictures of the Highland Cows because I thought they were so cute.

So naturally Paully found a stuffed one for Cohen, which we have named Paully due to the crazy amounts of red hair they each have (see above pic for proof).

Cohen LOVES Paully!! He grips on to the horns and the shaggy hair and will NOT let go! We find little red hairs stuck to his hands for hours afterward.

This is how he was introduced to Cohen by Paul "Dear Cohen, Welcome to the world! Mostly it's a good place, and you'll have a great mom and dad to look after you, but already you'll know what it is like for the Red Sox to let you down. Get used to it. Enclosed is a cow. It's hairier than your average cow and you will probably have to visit Scotland to see a real one. You may not have heard of Scotland yet. It's a bit like America but smaller and better. Scottish people are famous for drinking, fighting, having red hair and inventing things. Mostly we invent things to help us to drink and fight people who don't have red hair better..."

Don't worry little one...mom and dad will introduce you to Scotland!!

Other Boston happenings...

Cohen is such a mellow little guy...he likes to just hang out when he's awake.

here he is hanging in the hotel while we pack up
too cute to not take pics of

after about the 20th picture he just stares

While we were there it snowed...these were the biggest snowflakes I have ever seen...but I don't think the picture does them justice!

Cohen sleeping in the hotel is the same as at home...SO proud of his little hand he got out of his swaddle!

Milk bubbles have started appearing quite frequently now, the funny thing is they are HOURS after he has eaten, usually right before he is ready to eat again.

We didn't get to see much of the city this time, but we took the little guy to our favorite breakfast place.

The Paramount Cafe...which I am sure he will enjoy much more once he can actually eat the food there!

We know he'll grow to love this city like we do! Can't wait for a longer stay in Boston next time!