Collin: 11 months

Bringing Collin home.

I cannot believe how quickly these last 11 months have flown by. I just look at Collin each day and am amazed at how much I love and adore him. This is what we brought home. He was such a cute-little hairy monkey! I see new babies at the hospital I work at and cannot even begin to remember Collin ever being that little!

Collin in the rear facing car seat one last time.

Collin graduated (and I know, it was a little early) from the rear facing car seat to a front facing. I know his age was a bit off (excuse the 4 weeks and don't judge) but it just works this way. He loves being able to see us. He loves to play games. His favorite game right now is Peek-a-Boo. He will sit in the back seat and we will look back, and he will pull the blanket up and than down, over and over, giggling every time we say boo! He also loves to go into a room and open and close the door. I will say "open" and he will open the door and than when I say "close", he closes the door. Collin loves bath time. I took some pictures (the non-child pornography, mind you) because he loves to take baths. He even sometimes throws fits when we get him out!

A lot of the time, we are the ones getting the bath from all the splashing from Collin!


Collin loves to cheese for the camera. It is so funny to see him get so excited when you pull the camera out. I have a funny picture of my nephew Tatum with Collin, and Collin is grinning ear-to-ear with Tatum just looking like, "what are you doing?" They are pretty cute playing together.
Collin also has taken up walking and standing all alone. This is a recent achievement. For the last two weeks, Collin has adored being able to walk with us. He just started standing all alone, not hanging on to anything. He acts like it is nothing big, like he has been doing it for the last 11 months. I was teary eyed just seeing him stand there. He has thinned out a ton. Here's picture to see how the cheeks were before he started crawling and getting around.

I miss those chubby cheeks, but love seeing this little cute and active boy get around and get into mischief. And mischief is something that Collin is so good at.

Collin loves our dog (or better his) dog Skip. Skip is not always such a big fan. But he is obliging in hit attentions and dealing with the pulling of hair, and kissing. Skip just usually moves away or licks Collin, which pretty much is gross and funny all at once!

Collin giving Skip the "back-kiss" which equals even more hair on the kid.

Collin loves to give kisses to his Mom and sometimes Dad. H e is becoming more and more independent and just loves people. I serve in our church's primary, teaching 4-5 year olds. He loves the kids, and lets other teachers hold him and care for him. He is always happy and smiling, and just in turn makes us so happy. I think we will be doing two birthday parties. It just overall works better that way with our smaller house and huge families. So happy 11 months Collin!!! We love you so much!