Mall Play

There's a great little play area in the mall here. I wish we had utilized it a little more when the weather was really hot. Here's just a few random pics of Cort enjoying it.

Pretend Play

Elmo has been Cort's favorite pretend play buddy recently. A few weeks ago he desperately wanted Elmo to color with him. He kept trying to put the crayon in his hand and he'd say, "do, do."






Later he wanted Elmo to do flashcards with him.


He even tries to have Elmo go Night, night and shares his paci with him. Too cute. Maybe he's practicing for baby. :)

He is really into feeding things too. My favorite is when he feeds his cars. He has a few that have mouths and eyes so he tries to share real and pretend food with them.
He also puts his cars and trains to bed by laying them on his blanket and saying, "Night, Night, choo choo" or "night night car"

Where'd the rain go?

We haven't seen much rain this summer but when we do Cort loves it. He likes to run in it when I let him and always throws his arms up, palms up to say it's raining. Now when he just hears thunder he'll stop whatever he's doing and and do the "it's raining" pose. The "it's raining" pose looks much like the "where'd it go" pose. Which is def. another favorite game. We hide things ( most often cars) all day and ask "where'd it go?" Funny the things that delight little ones so much.



( I think in this one he also saw an airplane and was pointing to it)

Lots of old pics and events I haven't posted....

Touch a Truck Day ( these are back from July!!!!)

Chris and I took Cort to Touch a truck downtown. We thought he would love it has he is so obsessed with trucks and cars but while he didn't hate it - he didn't exactly love it either. There were horns and sirens going off constantly and our sweet little boy is not a fun of an abundance of noise. He loves when we honk our horns or hears one horn or one siren on the street but i guess ONE is the important number here. None the less, he still had a good time. Kelley and Sophie met us down there too - Sophie loved it!!

Sophie and Cort with Chris on the fire truck


Cort loved the trolley ( no horns)


Not so sure about the Ambulance

Sophie and Cort playing in the fountain


So sweet....



Curious George ( AUGUST)

So, I took Cort to see his first movie. It was so hot here in August we could barely get out of the house. A local movie theater does free Thursday morning movies in the summer so we decided to try it out. Cort loved it. He LOVED curious George. He sat there with his little snack in his movie chair booster seat and laughed, danced, and labeled everything he saw on the screen. It was really cute. All the other kids we were with left early but not us Cort sat through almost the WHOLE thing ( except about the last 15 min.) I am not sure this makes me proud that my son was the one that was willing to watch a big screen TV for an hour and 15 min. but we had a great time anyway!!!!




Back To School Bash at the Water park( August)

Our church has an annual back to school bash at a local water park. We went for the first time this year and Cort loved it. He had such a good time splashing in the wade in pool and he LOVED the Lazy river. He kept going over and trying to drag the huge inter tubes in to the pool. He called them boats!! We'll def. have to go a few times next summer maybe then he'll be more open to going down the big slide with Daddy. He didn't particularly care for it this year - oh well, we gave it a try.
The Lazy River...




Splashin'


The Big scary slide ;) We really did him in with the lifegaurd took him from Chris so Chris could get off of the float!!! He was not a happy camper!!!