Colin in Cabo

Colin’s Cabo Top 11

Mexico from Colin's point of view, with commentary from Mom and Dad

1. "Lizards and Guacamole!" : Two resort dweller iguanas stalked Dad's guacamole while he watched Colin go down the waterslide. The biggest iguana raced over and nabbed a big chunk of avocado, getting it stuck in his frill and then wiped it off on the plate. Colin saw all of this happen and laughed uproariously!
   
2. Making "Bar Friends": Colin made friends all around the resort who knew his name. Funny thing about being one of the only kids at the resort. (See #9)
   
3. Spanish: Colin learned "Me llamo Colin" and "Un momento por favor!"
   
4. Pool Buddies: Colin made friends with San Francisco brother Jack and Thomas and discovered new action figures like Sand Man, Star Wars droids, The Incredible Hulk, and Iron Man. He also had fun with Indiana twins Charlie and Max.
   
5. Discovering New Drinks: The Spiderman is a yummy strawberry smoothie with chocolate syrup poured on, thus resembling Spiderman.
   
6. Sea Gull Stalker: He watched as a seagull stalked Luke's uneaten pizza at the side of the pool. This big bird flew in for the robbery and then flew away with the pizza in his beak. Here's a comment direct from Colin's soul, not directed at anyone,"Oh, I wish I could fly!"
   
7. Picture Recap: Looking at pictures with mommy taken the night before by the resort staff: "Luke's crying in all of the pictures. He's cried everyday in Mexico." True, unfortunately.
   
8. Toy Story Diving Adventures: Playing with dive sticks and going down after them is so much fun, especially when the sticks are Buzz, Woody, and the alien.
   
9. Waterslide Adventures: Racing down the waterslide while onlookers and fellow slide participants cheered him on was super fun. He relished the attention, though unaware that many of the onlookers had been partaking of the bar for a majority of the afternoon and many were getting pretty giddy!
   
10. Crash!: A full week of pool play 8 hours a day took its toll. The last full day there he crashed for a self imposed mid-afternoon nap while the surf and sand lingered outside, begging him for just one more outing to the pool.
    
11. Buzz Lighty: Lastly, we can't forget Colin's creativity early one morning while the rest of us slept. He was so proud that he had stripped to his skivvies and had colored Buzz Lightyear's costume onto his body using his markers. He even wrote Buzz's name on his left wrist. He was so proud of himself that we just had to laugh!
    

Colin's First Day of School

Colin had a good first day of school and enjoyed being back in Miss Christina's class. Some of the students were the same from last year, along with a few new faces.

He continues to ride the bus both too and from school, which works really well for our family. His morning bus driver comes roaring up our hill earlier than we are scheduled for, so most mornings are a mad dash to get out the door and down the street in time. His afternoon bus is like a preschool party with him and his friends laughing, singing songs, and about as wound up as one could imagine. God bless that school bus driver -- literally!

Visit from Texas Grandma

After our visit to Colorado we had a visit from my mom, and the boys had fun hanging out with her. Colin, in particular, enjoyed taking her to Toy Story 3. Dare I share that my mom hadn't been to a movie in the theatre since Jerry Maguire, which was in 1996. Ehmh, it had been a while, and that was back when Tom Cruise was still an enjoyable actor to watch (before the whole Oprah couch jumping incident, etc.).....but I digress!

Anyhow, Colin enjoyed his third watching of Toy Story 3 and we have had many a recap of the garbage truck incidents and discussions about Lotso Bear not having a happy heart.

We are glad you came to visit us, Grandma!

Back from the Dark

Shortly after my last post our home computer was having serious issues. We nursed it back to health so that we could recover files and some of the programs, but with no connection to the internet.

We were fortunate that I had Matt's iPad for use for email and other social connecting, but their Blogger ap is only as good as you know how to use it, and with no access to my pictures to post, what was the point, right?

Well I am happy to say I am back in business thanks to the help of my brother and I am lovin' my new "toy!" I've still been a little slow to catch up, as that's just life when you have sick children.

But, in the interest of wearing my "family curator hat," I hope to catch up on some of the big events of the past almost 2 months.

Odds and Ends from CO

Star Wars Holy Grail

Colin discovered Darth Vader and Storm Troopers at a recent parade where several of the characters marched in the procession. He was delighted to hear of Daddy's stash of related toys and begged PaPa to get them out of the garage. I had heard of this stash for over a dozen years, and now I got to meet his childhood love!

This later turned into the need for a Skype call with Daddy to identify all of the spaceships and characters, and Colin was then hard pressed to the leave the house because he had located the Star Wars Holy Grail of toys. Ebay folks would pay big bucks for these originals in great condition, but our 4 year old just played gleefully with them and began asking lots of questions about when his Daddy was growing up (thinking, "hey, my Dad really WAS cool!")

Colin is showing off Dad's speeder bike, which is just like the one he bought a friend for a birthday party. That manufacturer in China has gotten a lot of mileage out of that mold!