thoughts from the backseat

Some thoughts and cute stuff from Caeden in the past few days -

I gave him a little bowl with about 6 pieces of a clementine orange, already broke apart in his carseat. I hear him say "look mama, I'm making eggs" - what's he doing?
Breaking the orange pieces in half - making a juicy mess all over his hands and seat.

Caeden: "Mama, let's go to Glenwood Springs and see grammie"
Me: "well, grammie lives in Colorado Springs and that's pretty far from here"
Caeden: "let's go to her neighboorhood and see Uncle Trevor so we can play cars"

Caeden: "Oh man, we have to go home, I need my lawn mower"

Me: "so, what should we do now" (expecting an answer of go to the park, store or see daddy)
Caeden: (in a very excited voice) "oh, let's go to Phoenix and go to the train park!"

That's all I can think of at the moment, but he is quite the talker and usually has something cute to say!

traveling.............

We spent the week with Kieran up in the mountains. He is working in Snowmass Village, about 10 minutes from Aspen and we are staying in El Jebel.
Here are a couple pictures - I've got lots more to put up later.

The view of El Jebel and the valley surrounding

How to entertain an 8 month when you hate to put him on the dirty floor!

Caeden near Maroon Bells

Colm near Maroon Bells

Attempting to get one of both of them............obviously the scenery, both near and far are much more interesting!

Happy Birthday Uncle Trevor!

Hard to believe my 16th birthday present is now 17 years old...............kinda makes you feel old.

Speaking of feeling old. I saw the other day that there is a new American Girl doll out. You know, those "history" dolls; they have a Kristen from the 1800-something's, Samantha from early 1900's, an Native American doll and so on. Well, their new doll is Julie - FROM 1974 - gee, don't I feel like a piece of history!

The boys

A few cute ones of Colm

Just to show he does have a serious face too................

The other morning we heard Caeden call, "Look, I'm in the boat" - here's where we found him.

"I'm ready to go outside"

Caeden walked up to me in the kitchen this afternoon and said, "I'm ready to outside" - this is how he was dressed.................

I then told him he had to have pants and socks and shoes on to go outside........he came back a few minutes later................

Can you tell the socks are on bottom side up and the pants are on backwards, but it was a good try!

He did finally get everything on properly and went out and enjoyed the nice sunshine and no wind we are experiencing today!

Caeden and Colm

Happy Colm

Caeden - "I'm a carpenter"
(note the pencil behind his ear)

Great-Grandma is famous!

Great-Grandma in Cheyenne made the Cheyenne paper!
(click link to read the article)
It's a great story of a special lady!

Go Rockies!