Choo Choo...

Colin and I went on a train ride this morning!  Garet has a conference this week, so we came to Charlotte... on a train!  This way Garet and Suzi can meet us here at the end of the week, and we will only have one car here.

So, we were at the train station in Greensboro at 7:30 this morning.  Colin was a great help with the bags!

He could see some of the trains outside and was very excited!

There was a group of people sitting behind us that kept "awwwww"-ing at Colin.  In fact, they then asked if they could take his picture.  Then they asked if they could take a picture with him.  We got one too =)

A little after 8, we walked up to prepare to board out train!  We said "see you later" to Daddy, and grabbed all of our stuff, then got to stand outside and wait for our train to get there.

Here it comes!

Colin was so excited!  He was smiling so big!  I kept telling him that we were going to get on that train!
Once we were on the train and it started going, he was so interested in looking out the window!  (luckily it wasn't too full, so we each got a seat)

The trip took 1.5 hours.  After the first 15 minutes, I already had his pen and paper pulled out to give him something to do.  I was a little worried that he was going to get bored.  We had books and a snack to keep us busy too.  Colin did soooo well!  We were about 15 minutes from Charlotte and Colin started to get restless.  In this next picture he was either: A. playing peek-a-boo with the poor teenager behind us (who, by the way, wasn't paying him any attention) or B. licking the window.  I'm pretty sure it was B.

He was starting to let out little screams and laughing really big.  On a quiet train.  So I was thankful it was only a 1.5 hour trip =)  This was us attempting to get a picture together - Colin was already saying "see" to see the picture..

 Overall, the train was a hit!  Colin did awesome!  And it was a great way to get to my parents house.  Now we are waiting for him to get up from his nap and we get to visit with family! 

Sweet faces...

As I mentioned over on Beane A Day, I almost forgot to take a picture today!  Garet and Colin went out after dinner, so when they got home... before bath and bed... I snapped a few pictures...

Colin had fun with water and so his shirt was soaked... so we got rid of it.  And then everytime I snapped a picture Colin wanted to see it, so we made it a game.  Garet would give an order, I would snap the picture, then we would all look at it and laugh =)

Say AHHHH!

Stick out your tongue!

 Touch your hair!

Give kisses!  

(I'm pretty sure Colin thought he was kissing in that picture)

SMILE!

What a fun child we have!!

Fun visit...

My parents came to visit for a night!  It was so much fun!  They got here on Tuesday around lunch, Colin showed them the house (which they've seen, but we had boxes everywhere!) and he showed them how he likes to play outside!

We got out more sidewalk chalk and now our sidewalk is a wonderful masterpiece!
My parents brought a truck that they had at their house... Colin loves to play with it there, but we have blocks that fit with it, so they brought it to us.  Colin loves it just as much here =)  I think he was showing Grandmama what all the buttons do...

Then, Grandmama showed him how to draw with the chalk on the seat!

On Wednesday we all went to the Natural Science Center!  I mentioned it over on Beane A Day... we had so much fun.  There was a whole section geared towards 5 and under, and Colin had a blast!  We could have just stayed in that part and he would have been happy!  There was also a boat when we first walked in, so G and I posed for the camera...

Colin is drawn to water!  We took off his shirt so he wouldn't be soaked!

And Grandmama put on a puppet show!

There was a big dinosaur section...

... they didn't really faze Colin at all.
Then we went outside to see all the animals!  There was an area with goats, sheep and chickens where you could walk inside and pet them!

Colin, again, wasn't scared at all!  He went right up to them to pet them.  Then he pointed to each of them =)

It was a lot of fun seeing Colin's reaction to each animal.  Here is Papaw with Colin... they are pretending to be a turtle!

There were lots of animals to see!  They even had tigers!  And this was the closest I think I've ever been to them!  One of the tigers kept walking right next to the window! 

It was a busy morning, but I think we all had a blast!  There was a reptile/bug house that we walked through too.  I didn't get many pictures in there, there were lots of bugs and snakes... here is the building:

It was the one didicated to Davis Kelly.

They left yesterday afternoon.  We had so much fun having them here!  Can't wait for the next visit!

Out and about...

We had a busy and fun weekend!  Saturday, we drove to High Point to a big consignment sale - and someone may have gotten a few new toys =)

Then we stopped by the library to return books, and then check out some more!  Colin loves to run around the kid section in the library - and he got to show off his computer skills!

He's so serious.  I mean, wouldn't you be serious if you were putting words together?!

We picked up a few stickers from the library, which ended up on Colin's face...

And don't look too close... the "sticker" on the left is actually the price from one of his new toys. 
Sunday morning, the boys had a bike ride and picnic at a park down the street.

And Garet remembered to take the camera!  Yay!  I love this next picture...

...sometimes when you eat cereal, you need your other hand to help the spoon in your mouth =)

After we got home from church and Colin had his nap, we went to a Greensboro Grasshoppers game!

It was Colin's first game =)  We may have been more excited than him!  He sat for the first few innings just watching everything.

We had seats right behind home plate!  Colin and I had to take a long walk around to stretch our legs (and get some energy out!) but when we got back to our seats, Colin was interested in the game again.

After we had dinner, we went back to our seats and I caught an eye rub!

I said, "Colin are you getting sleepy??"  And he was like, "nope"

During the 7th inning Colin just wanted to run back and forth down, which was fine, there wasn't anyone else on our row.

He was having a great time!  There was a cute little boy sitting in the row next to us and Garet told Colin to go give him a high five... so he walked over to the little boy and just stood there staring at him.  haha  The poor kid was like, "hey"  and Colin just ran back to us with the biggest smile!  We told the boy that Colin was supposed to give him a five, so the next time Colin got his high five.  It was too cute... and the kid was probably like 8 or so.

By the 8th inning we figured it was time to leave.  We had a great time! 

And on the way out, Colin got a little baseball to keep =)

It was a great way to end the weekend! 

The week...

We read our new library books:

We made dinner:

Which turned out perfect:

We went on walks and then played some basketball:

And we made great shots:

We celebrated Daddy's birthday - the day began with the traditional birthday donuts...

And later in the day, going to the pool...

Colin was actually super excited... he just didn't want to smile for the picture I guess =)

We gave high fives:

Of course, we had cake!

We've been running.... all over the place...

We've had snacks, and especially enjoy a cold popsicle on these hot days!

We played with the sidewalk chalk:

I may have gotten a little carried away...

BUT, Colin made me do it!  See:

(he's handing me more chalk)

We have been super busy outside with the wagon and the basketball hoop.  It has just been WAY to hot to stay out for too long.

We've been reading to Suzi:

We played with cars...

I thought it would be a good idea to make a road with tape...
Colin thought it was a good idea to wad up the tape and then run over it with his bike...

.... And now we are ready for the Olympics and the weekend!  YAY!