Did You Miss Us?

We've been away. I know; it's hard to survive without us. Truly, I didn't have much of an excuse not to update on Friday. Laziness. But, Saturday we spent almost seven hours in the car. Sunday we had super loads of fun in Morro Bay with Granny and Grandaddy and then we snuck home early to avoid traffic on Monday. But, lots and lots has happened. Well, in our world, our version of lots and lots anyway.

First, Collin woke up from a nap, in a good mood! Sure, it happens kind of often. But, I felt the need to document the occasion for a change. Look at that face. Pretty cool, huh? I'm glad I had it to reflect upon today when he woke up as the spawn of Satan today.

Second, he decided that after dinner, it was fully necessary to strip off all his clothes and throw them around the house. This is him mid-swing. Yeah, yeah I stopped it. Yeah, yeah, it's not cool to throw things. Sure. But, it was funny, briefly.

And, it resulted in naked story time, which he chose to partake in alone, seated in front of the entertainment center. He dragged the chair there all by himself, which was a feat in itself, and took his little books there one at a time to read. It was really quite something to watch.

It was a good thing he got all the naked stuff out of his system before we got ready to go visit Granny. He was so excited the morning that we left! Eddie, however, was nervous. He didn't quite want to leave his bed. Collin thought he'd comfort him by drawing him pictures of how much fun we'd all have on his trusty little erasable pad. Eddie wasn't amused. He was even less amused moments later when Collin used the pad to schwack him on the head. Time out soon followed.

At Granny's house, he discovered G.I. Joe for the first time. Wow! This is the moment, the defining moment, if you will, of his little life, I think. You are witnessing his first steps, into little boyhood, right here. Here is what I want to know though; how does a little boy who's never seen G.I. Joe, never heard of the guy, never seen a gun, a cartoon with anything like it, know what to do with a weapon of any kind? Yep, he gets a rocket/torpedo/whatever and immediately "shoots" Mommy in the belly with it complete with sound effects. Pretty snazzy. Yep, those are my feet.

He also got to experience a forest his size. We went to the "Elfin Forest.," which is a forest of really pretty trees and shrubbery that is sort of pint sized. You can't tell really from the pictures, but it's all quite lovely and small!

The little man looks relatively to scale! I'm kidding, of course. The trees are normal size, they are just smaller varieties.