Cole Entertains

Yesterday Cole was singing for me while we waited to pick Chase up from swim team practice. He sings this song ALL the time. Fortunately, he is not completely understandable due to some sinus congestion and his fake southern accent, because I don't think his teachers would appreciate him singing about how he loves chasing those big butt women...

Chloe

Miss Chloe made her grand entrance just after midnight on June 1. I was so sure she was going to be born in May, but we think she was just waiting for it to be hurricane season. She was quite the delicate little flower, weighing in at a whopping 9 pounds, seven ounces. The nurses in the delivery room had to go get bigger diapers, since the newborn ones wouldn't fit.

Chase and Cole were so excited and have been great with her. We haven't seen any signs of jealousy yet, which is surprising because we really expected Cole to have a hard time with a new baby. As you can see, he loves his baby sister:

And here's Chloe with her biggest brother:

Chloe snoozing in the swing (Thanks Mrs. Jane!):

I don't have time to write much else; she's due to wake up to eat any minute now and doesn't like to be kept waiting. Just wanted to take a minute and post about how much fun we're having with our new addition!

Chloe Caroline

Our hospital's billboard:

More details to follow when I have a few spare moments, but yes, that does say NINE pounds. She won't be spending much time in newborn clothes...

How to Make Chase Laugh

All it takes to crack Chase up is the word "butt."

Chase's Last Soccer Game

Saturday was Chase's last soccer game. He really improved a lot over the course of this season. At the beginning, he would usually just run (trot) along with everyone else and not really try to get at the ball. At some point, I (an obvious front-runner for mother-of-the-year) realized that he was wearing shoes that were WAY too small for him and that might have been slowing him down (His school uniform shoes were an 11.5, and despite the fact that he'd been complaining for a while that they were too tight, he just got them in August, so I assumed that they were fine and that he just wanted new shoes. When his complaints got more and more frequent, I had his feet measured and he needed a 3 XW. I'm surprised he could walk at all (I envision him walking with his toes curled under his feet.) Now, in my defense, his soccer shoes were a super roomy size 1, but I still think they may have hindered his running a little. Once we took care of the shoe situation, his speed on the soccer field increased dramatically.)

He scored his first goal of the season at his second-to-last game, and was really excited about his last game on Saturday. Unfortunately, the other team didn't show up, so our boys just had to split up and play against each other. I thought he would be really disappointed, but they got trophies and cupcakes after the "game," and that seemed to fix everything.

Now we start swim team. He is still insisting he doesn't want to do it (which only came up after I registered him), so we'll just have to see how that goes...

Batman & Superman to the Rescue

This afternoon while Cole was testing out his new batwings from Mrs. Jane, Mr. Charlie, John & Connor, Chase pulled out his old superman cape & they fought crime together. It was priceless.

Cole's 4th Birthday

For Cole's actual 4th birthday, we went to Chuck E Cheese's (at Cole's request) and then out for pizza. He had a GREAT time (I was exhausted).

The next weekend was his birthday party, and we planned a superhero party (he couldn't decide on just 1, so it was a batman, superman, spiderman combo). We rented a bouncehouse and were all ready to party when Cole started vomiting. After finding out that others in his class were sick too, we decided we'd have to cancel his party.

For a while, it looked like only Chase would get to enjoy the bouncehouse:
But by afternoon, Cole had perked up and was able to go out and play with Chase for a while before the bouncehouse people came back to pick it up. Here he is hamming it up for the camera:

Cole opening his Batman crocs:

And riding his new big boy bike:

And blowing out the candles on his Batman cake:

He was so sad that his friends didn't get to come over like we'd planned, but I think we managed to have a decent day after all. He's really getting to be such a big boy!