Melissa and David's Wedding

Below are some pictures from Melissa and David's Wedding on 12-11-10!! Cole had a blast as always dancing the night away!! We had a hard time getting him to leave.

This is Mom and I at their house before the Wedding!

These are by the pretty Christmas Tree at the Reception Hall:

Little Man dancing and eating a Candy cane!!

Christmas Cookies- 2010

We did our traditional Chirstmas Cookies this weekend and it was GREAT! Nate stayed up till midnight on Friday night cooking about 6 dozen cookies!! Saturday we spent the morning decorating them all. Nate does an AMAZING job!! I decorated a few then I would go do something else and come back to decorate a few more.

Below is a picture of Cole and I decorating a cookie


Below are all the Sugar Cookies we made. We also made Reindeer cookies that I only have a picture on my phone of.


Both my Kiddos LOVED their cookies!!!

Entertrainment Junction

Cole and I went to Entertrainment Junction with Amy and Braden for the first time on Friday! We allo had a blast. It is so fun to see Braden and Cole play! I love that he will have such great friends to grow up with.

We also learned that it is hard to get both boys to look and smile towards the camera at the same time :)

Festival of Lights and 17 months

Nate, Cole and I celebrated his 17 month Birthday with a trip to the Zoo for Festival of Lights. Cole LOVED the lights and the music! He was dancing away in the wagon. Below is a picture of him so excited when we entered.

He was all bundled up and happy to be there. Cole and Daddy had fun and we got a cute picture of the three of us by the large tree.

Cole even enjoyed sitting with Santa. He did not like it so much last week, so we were unsure of him sitting with him, but he LOVED it. He even went back as I was paying for the pictures to hug Santa. He also loved the candy canes!!!

Cole at 15 months

Cole is just so grown up now. He is really a lot of fun!! He is starting to talk more, still not many words, but we get versions of the following... Ma Ma, Clover, Uh-oh, Thank you, all done, all gone, hello, and milk. He is a BIG boy. Cole is 29.7 pounds (95 %) and 34 1/2 inches (110%). He must have gotten his height from Uncle Neal, and Cousin Vince, Frank and Evan. Hey has 11 teeth with two currently coming in. The ones coming in are his 1 year molars. He has two of them and the last two are on the way!!!

This fall has been really busy with Football and Cole does GREAT! We have not had to leave a game early yet. He has been to 4 Glen Este Varsity Games, 3 Glen Este JV game, 2 UC games and 1 Mount st. Joe game. He loves to walk around and listen to the Band and Cheerleaders.

He has also been very good at playing by himself during the day while I work from home. He loves to stack things and line up his cars. His newest love is puzzles. He tries to do some that are too big for him, but he is actually starting to get some of those pieces in too. he sure can make a mess. We say "Hurricane Cole has came thru" after he gets everything out. The house looks rough at night after he goes to bed.

I really like the Independence of the stage we are at, so I hope it only gets better. We are truly blessed and love every minute of being parents to Cole Beaners :)

Pictures from 1 year to 15 months....

Cole's new love

Cole has discovered the TV!! He watched Sesame Street today for the first time. I am hoping to use this new found love to my advantage when I need to get things done around the house or with work.

Clover's surgery

Clover had surgery today on her tooth and it all went well. We were all glad to get Clover from the vet, especially Cole.

She was real worn out and not herself at all tonight, but the Vet says she will be better within the next day or so. We have to giver her 4 different medications, so that is difficult with the surgery being in her mouth. Cole is having a hard time leaving her alone, so we have had to separate them.

Cole's 1 year pictures

Below are Cole's 1 year pictures. He didnt want to hold still for these, so we had to be fast in making him smile and snaping the pictures. They turned out cute, just more work for Mom and Dad.

Cole is 1

I can not believe it, Cole is 1 year old!!!! How did my baby get so big so fast. His first Birthdya was a blast. We started the day with presents at home. He loved toy dog and tent!! He was so excited to come into the living room and just see everything sitting there. The face was priceless. After gifts at the house, we headed to get his haircut and then of to take cookies to the NICU nurses at the hospital. It was great to see the nurses that were there for him when he was born in such a rough way. After naps, we did dinner and cake here. What a wonderful day we had on July 9, 2010

We got Cole his first haircut on his birthday. It was much needed. He did great! Very interested, but sat as nice as I had even seen him sit.

Saturday July 10 we had his B-day Party at Blue Rock Park. It was PERFECT weather. We had such a geat time. Cole wanted nothing to do with the cake, but everyone else loved the cake. He got so many great items and it was a wonderful time with friends and family.