Mike just heard Autumn say, "whooooaaaaa" in her sleep. HA!
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Monday, January 5, 2009
So there's how many of you?
One, two, three, brad's cut out of the pic but that's four...five. Six, seven, eight...::counting in my head and not out loud now::
Ummm...16?
The three of us didn't do such a good job of looking at the same camera.
Christmas Eve was a good time for Autumn. I'm pretty sure everyone gave her a piece of chocolate at least once. Look at those lips.
She's in her pajamas and still eating chocolate.
Mike's mom has this little set up in the playroom with chairs that have Autumn's and Tyler's names on them. Autumn went straight for the one that was hers. She also liked to pick up the chairs and rearrange them.
Also in the playroom: The Riding Train of Awesomeness. I have a video of that I need to post. I was pretty happy with how Autumn interacted with Tyler. She was mostly sweet and gentle. I was kind of concerned because she can be fairly violent with her toys. Hahahaha. One of the best things was Tyler's pacifier. If he lost it and she noticed, Autumn would carry it back to him and pop it into his mouth. Another funny time was when Tyler was pressing buttons on some electronic equipment. Autumn started gasping and flapping like she was trying to tell him to stop before he got in trouble.
The family tradition is to give out "sibling gifts" on Christmas Eve and then close out the night with a family photo. How fun is that?
We ended up giving Autumn her presents, too. I did a good job picking what was her only gift from us: A doll and stroller. Too good of a job because when we took it away to get her to open other gifts, she had her first major meltdown. Nice. We got her settled down and appropriately informed that meltdowns are not acceptable (haha), she was great with the gifts and we gave her stroller back.
Kyle was the first one to notice that the doll really looks creepily like Autumn. Haha. It was weird to look at the top of their two heads. I couldn't get a good photo but this one was all right. Note the very similar outfits.
And that's it for Christmas Eve! I'm slowly but surely plugging my way through the holidays!
Ummm...16?
The three of us didn't do such a good job of looking at the same camera.
Christmas Eve was a good time for Autumn. I'm pretty sure everyone gave her a piece of chocolate at least once. Look at those lips.
She's in her pajamas and still eating chocolate.
Mike's mom has this little set up in the playroom with chairs that have Autumn's and Tyler's names on them. Autumn went straight for the one that was hers. She also liked to pick up the chairs and rearrange them.
Also in the playroom: The Riding Train of Awesomeness. I have a video of that I need to post. I was pretty happy with how Autumn interacted with Tyler. She was mostly sweet and gentle. I was kind of concerned because she can be fairly violent with her toys. Hahahaha. One of the best things was Tyler's pacifier. If he lost it and she noticed, Autumn would carry it back to him and pop it into his mouth. Another funny time was when Tyler was pressing buttons on some electronic equipment. Autumn started gasping and flapping like she was trying to tell him to stop before he got in trouble.
The family tradition is to give out "sibling gifts" on Christmas Eve and then close out the night with a family photo. How fun is that?
We ended up giving Autumn her presents, too. I did a good job picking what was her only gift from us: A doll and stroller. Too good of a job because when we took it away to get her to open other gifts, she had her first major meltdown. Nice. We got her settled down and appropriately informed that meltdowns are not acceptable (haha), she was great with the gifts and we gave her stroller back.
Kyle was the first one to notice that the doll really looks creepily like Autumn. Haha. It was weird to look at the top of their two heads. I couldn't get a good photo but this one was all right. Note the very similar outfits.
And that's it for Christmas Eve! I'm slowly but surely plugging my way through the holidays!
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Happy New Year!
We've had an awesome Christmas and New Year and we hope you have, too. I'm going to kind of try to catch up on the holidays. We've been pretty busy. Last week Mike's family had a Christmas party and that was a ton of fun. I got to show off the dress I made for Autumn:
Speaking of Autumn, her grandparents' house is like her own personal kitty heaven:
I love Bella's face here.
Oh, and there has been much Rock Band-ing the last 2 weeks. The best lead singer prize absolutely goes to Mike's Uncle Allen who is a musician in real life--unlike most of us. :P Here he is with Mike's mom singing backup.
Tyler and Autumn are into the music big time. Tyler likes the drums and Autumn kind of does, too, but she always wants the microphone. I don't think anyone's real shocked there.
Here's the Colley Family Band. lol. Mike and I got a copy of Rock Band for the Wii and the band made up of Mike, Liz, Donnie and me is called The Angry Monkeys. Hehe! If anyone has seen it--it's an invader zim reference. That's also our guild name in Warcraft for anyone who even has a clue what I'm talking about. Wow. That's a lot of nerdiness in one caption--Rock Band, cartoons, and games!
To wrap things up, have some Daredevil Monkey. This might be one of the last photos of Autumn in her little cheerleader pose because she's gotten a leetle too wiggly.
Speaking of Autumn, her grandparents' house is like her own personal kitty heaven:
I love Bella's face here.
Oh, and there has been much Rock Band-ing the last 2 weeks. The best lead singer prize absolutely goes to Mike's Uncle Allen who is a musician in real life--unlike most of us. :P Here he is with Mike's mom singing backup.
Tyler and Autumn are into the music big time. Tyler likes the drums and Autumn kind of does, too, but she always wants the microphone. I don't think anyone's real shocked there.
Here's the Colley Family Band. lol. Mike and I got a copy of Rock Band for the Wii and the band made up of Mike, Liz, Donnie and me is called The Angry Monkeys. Hehe! If anyone has seen it--it's an invader zim reference. That's also our guild name in Warcraft for anyone who even has a clue what I'm talking about. Wow. That's a lot of nerdiness in one caption--Rock Band, cartoons, and games!
To wrap things up, have some Daredevil Monkey. This might be one of the last photos of Autumn in her little cheerleader pose because she's gotten a leetle too wiggly.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Monday, December 22, 2008
Christmas with the Italians
Wow, it's been a busy week! Miss Autumn had a sore throat, I finished pretty much all my shopping, and this weekend we went to Birmingham to visit with Mike's extended family. It was, as always, a blast. If nothing else, it's worth the drive for the people watching. Ha!
One of Mike's cousins turned 40 yesterday so, of course, there was cake:
And the ritualdefacement decorating of the birthday person's vehicle:
Autumn did a lot of snuggling and watching. I think the crowd freaked her out a little. :)
Here are Brad and Mr. Tyler. Tyler was little less shy than Autumn was.
Tyler and Autumn were pretty cute together. By Sunday night, Autumn was trying to rub his tummy. Which, as many of you know, means he's "in the club." :P
Well, happy Christmas week everyone! I'm sure we'll be posting again soon. Papa D and Mama Lainey are having more fun than the kids are preparing for Christmas so there will be many cute moments to share.
One of Mike's cousins turned 40 yesterday so, of course, there was cake:
And the ritual
Autumn did a lot of snuggling and watching. I think the crowd freaked her out a little. :)
Here are Brad and Mr. Tyler. Tyler was little less shy than Autumn was.
Tyler and Autumn were pretty cute together. By Sunday night, Autumn was trying to rub his tummy. Which, as many of you know, means he's "in the club." :P
Well, happy Christmas week everyone! I'm sure we'll be posting again soon. Papa D and Mama Lainey are having more fun than the kids are preparing for Christmas so there will be many cute moments to share.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Dancing with Autumn
Well, since the Glamour Monkey post is freaking Mike out a little, I decided to go ahead and post this video so that we have a new top post. :)
We listen to a lot of music. Deezer, Pandora, and Last.fm are a few of our favorite internet radio sites, if anyone is interested. They are cool because we can build playlists and find new music--I've found some of my favorite bands through Pandora. Aaaanyway, it's not unusual to see Miss Autumn suddenly burst into wiggles and bounces and hums. It's kind of funny because she seems to have seriously eclectic taste (I guess kind of like her mama and papa).
For example, I think one of Autumn's favorite songs is Paralyzer by Finger Eleven. She will drop anything and start dancing to that one. Once we were at the mall in Collierville and walked by an outside speaker playing Paralyzer. Autumn stopped, turned around, marched over the speaker, and started wiggling and bopping.
But then, one time, we were watching Tristan und Isolde on PBS. When the lady started singing, Autumn dropped what she was playing with, came over to where I was sitting on the floor, and plopped right down in my lap. She spent the next several minutes just sitting there, staring with her huge baby eyes, and occasionally waving her hands to the music...who needs Baby Einstein, right??
So, anyway, this video isn't so much a dancing video as it is a compilation of the bops, head bangs, wiggles, bounces, finger and toe taps and flails that we see throughout the day. It was really hard to even catch this much because her dances can be either random or short or over by the time I get the camera on. :P But, I hope you enjoy this leetle snippet of some of the best parts of our days.
We listen to a lot of music. Deezer, Pandora, and Last.fm are a few of our favorite internet radio sites, if anyone is interested. They are cool because we can build playlists and find new music--I've found some of my favorite bands through Pandora. Aaaanyway, it's not unusual to see Miss Autumn suddenly burst into wiggles and bounces and hums. It's kind of funny because she seems to have seriously eclectic taste (I guess kind of like her mama and papa).
For example, I think one of Autumn's favorite songs is Paralyzer by Finger Eleven. She will drop anything and start dancing to that one. Once we were at the mall in Collierville and walked by an outside speaker playing Paralyzer. Autumn stopped, turned around, marched over the speaker, and started wiggling and bopping.
But then, one time, we were watching Tristan und Isolde on PBS. When the lady started singing, Autumn dropped what she was playing with, came over to where I was sitting on the floor, and plopped right down in my lap. She spent the next several minutes just sitting there, staring with her huge baby eyes, and occasionally waving her hands to the music...who needs Baby Einstein, right??
So, anyway, this video isn't so much a dancing video as it is a compilation of the bops, head bangs, wiggles, bounces, finger and toe taps and flails that we see throughout the day. It was really hard to even catch this much because her dances can be either random or short or over by the time I get the camera on. :P But, I hope you enjoy this leetle snippet of some of the best parts of our days.
Monday, December 8, 2008
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