two great things....

Cars and helping Daddy wrapped up in one - what could better?



August/September were good and bad car months! We sold the Jetta and got a more family friendly vehicle ( Toyota Highlander)!! The great thing is we actually saved money and got a bigger, newer, fewer miles car!! Yea- God is good! The not so great thing is that Chris' car went in to the shop 3 times!!! Not so yea. But all is fixed now and hopefully it will last a bit longer!!

Big Boy

Cort is loving practicing with a big boy cup. He does a great job but tends to get over excited after a few sips and tips it back too far.

Practicing with Baby Nancy

We sometimes keep our good friend's little one, Nancy. Cort didn't used to pay much attention to her but now he does. he really likes handing her things and crawling with her.

Cute Baby Nancy - love the big blue eyes



Little kiss night night


"here you go"

Singing in the Shower...tub

Cort continues to love music. He sings or has us sing quite often and he is very particular about songs in the car. They don't have to be children's songs - he just wants to approve of them.
A few of his classic children's favorites are Happy and You Know it, Little Bunny FuFu, Pop goes the weasel and Old MacDonald had a Farm. He either sings or does movements to all of these quite enthusiastically. Here's some pics of him doing it in the bath tub...

Happy and You Know it


shout hooray

clap your hands

Pop Goes the Weasel

he always pops his head for pop goes the weasel.


Little Bunny FuFu


" I don't want to see you...."

First Day of School

We decided to send Cort to Mother's Morning Out this year one day a week. He LOVES IT!! He actually runs down the hallway and and tries to climb over the gate to get into the room before the teacher comes to get him. He always gets a good report. It's so funny to pack his little bookbag and his lunch box. It makes him seem so big.
Here's a picture of his first day of School - Sept 6.

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!!!

Boxing

Ok - we're not really boxing but we were having lots of fun with his lego box. I am not really sure how it started but somehow he thought it was hilarious to put the box on my mom's head.


Even better on his head.


And then he decided to try to crawl in...

And then I guess he just thought why not dive in!!

Sweetest thing

Cort has always loved music. He has danced, swayed, bounced, "sung" to it for as long as I can remember. Over the past few months he has started doing a lot more actual singing to songs. This usually entails either jabbering to the tune, saying a word here and there in the right place, or something like that. It's all really cute. Old MacDonald holds a special place in my heart because it was the first song he sang to and he did really young(eieio). But I have a def. new favorite.
I sing Jesus Loves Me to him almost every night would putting him to sleep but have never really sung it with him out side of that. At night, he cuddles into me and sucks his paci as I sing to him so he never sings along. Well, the other evening I was changing his diaper and for some reason I started singing Jesus Loves Me. He joined right in and sang, "bible so so so" Too cute. Melted my heart.
We'll work on the tells me part. :)

Beach trip

So maybe one day I'll get caught up on blogging and get back into the roll of things. Here's me trying:

The first week in August Chris, Cort, and I went down to the beach for the week. A college roomie of mine joined us in the house down the street with her family and another college roomie and her husband joined us for the weekend. Fun times!!

John ,Kelly, Jessica, Nicolas, David, Me, Chris, and Cort


Kelly, Jessica, and Me

Cort loved the beach. No fears of the ocean, loved the sand, the birds, everything about it. It was a great family get away and great time with friends. We would go down to the beach in the morning and stay through lunch. The weather couldn't have been better because it wasn't too hot and we never got rained off the beach.


Driving down...


Cort loved playing in the sand with Chris. Everyday Chris would build him a tunnel for his truck - everyday the tunnel got bigger and bigger -everyday the tunnel collapsed. By the end of the week it was more about the guys figuring out how to big a tunnel big enough for Cort to crawl through than it was about Cort playing with tunnel!!!










Cort trying to build sand castles



and dribble castles(Cort loved making these and would say dibble dibble as he did it- too cute)


Cort enjoyed just running around the beach and would often want out of his stroller on our walks - he would go forever if we let him.






He loved the water but never played in it for long periods of time. He liked it best when there were tidal pools on the beach. He enjoyed finding seashells and then throwing them back in the water. He also liked to run down to the waves and then turn around for them to chase him.







Watching Daddy Fly his Kite...


Chillin with Nicolas in his pool...

Just Goofing around....



Cort really enjoyed getting to snack on the beach - he gobbled up some fruit, and loved that we had Pringles and that Daddy would slip him famous amos cookies.



We took Cort to the aquarium one morning( thanks Grandmommie and Granddaddy) and he really enjoyed that. They had this great tunnel that you walked through and big sharks would swim right over you. He would whisper, "shark" and reach out to touch them. He also loved petting the stingrays.
















The community we stayed in had several duck ponds so we would take daily drives on the golf cart( the beep, beep) and feed the ducks. Cort loved it - though I think he may have eaten more bread than he gave to the ducks.

My grandparents live just a few minutes north of where we were staying so we visited them a few times while we were there. On our last visit we took a walk down the pier and got some ice cream. Cort was fascinated with seeing the ocean through the cracks in the pier and LOVED his cookies and cream ice cream.








Last but not least - my favorite picture from the trip....