Four Boys and a Lady: October 2006

If you can believe it, Colin and Jake are one month away from their first birthday and if things keep progressing, we’re in for a wild ride of a year! The photo above perfectly encapsulates their personalities these days. Jake is up to a little mischief, while Colin sits quietly and watches. Obviously that’s an over-exaggeration and Colin definitely has his rambunctious moments, while Jake can be an angel, but it’s not far from the truth.

Since they began to crawl this past month, Jake has been on the go. He is in a constant state of movement always looking for the next thing to do. Despite Colin starting to crawl earlier, Jake perfected the art more quickly. He was on his hands and knees, while Colin was still sliding on this stomach to move. Now he can pull himself up to a standing position. This was an early problem in that he couldn’t figure out how to get back down once he was standing, but has since figured that out. He is absolutely fascinated with whatever any adult is doing and wants to emulate it. You can see his mind spinning as he’s watching you do something and making his own little mental notes.

The opening paragraph makes it sound like Colin just sits around quietly watching the world go by. He doesn’t have the same amount of energy that Jake has, but he is by no means a wallflower either. He loves to crawl around, but his favorite game these days is climbing up on pillows or his big blue bear. We put our couch throw pillows in the middle of the room and he loves to climb up and over them. Colleen got a big, stuffed blue bear that has to be three times the size of him and he climbs up on it’s lap and giggles and squeals.

As you can see by the main photo at the top, the boys dressed up for their first Halloween. Since there wasn’t any trick-or-treating for them this year, they mainly dressed up for a local street fair that Age took them to on Saturday.

The other big milestone for this month was their first haircuts. For the most part, both of them seemed to handle it pretty well. Each of them had a freak out, but it was brief and calmed down pretty quick. Colin didn’t like the clippers and Jake couldn’t see what was going on behind him!