Last year as Mike and I drove to my parents house to see the boys in their Halloween costumes, we discussed how Halloween would never be the same again. What a true statement!

Colin and I left the house around 4ish in full costume to go see Daddy at work. Nick and Cara thought he was the cutest thing in the world and Colin totally hammed it up with them. It was too funny.

From there, we drove to show Colin off at a few different places. He did a great job especially considering he barely napped today. He took a short 20 minute-ish nap in the car but quickly woke up when he heard Ethan and Micah's voices. He had such a great time that he didn't go to bed tonight until after 10pm!!

We took a billion pictures - shocker I know - but we uploaded them, I realized I have very few good ones. Here are a few decent ones.

our little monkey sitting by his pumpkin.

playing in the leaves.

Mickey Mouse, Monkey, and Miquel Cabera

Although you can't see Ethan's face in this picture, I love how they are looking at each other. I can see it beautifully in my mind. They adore each other.

Sweet faced Micah. He loved the fact that he was Mickey Mouse and that Colin had a banana in his pocket. He face here is so precious.

Lastly, Colin crawling off hoping to find someone nice enough to get him out of this huge crazy outfit ...

Colin has alot of cute Halloween things to wear (outfits and costumes), so I thought I'd post a few pictures of him.

This is the Halloween costume we chose NOT to have him wear. I think it's a frog. Online it said a dinosaur and when I put it on him this morning, Micah called him a dinosaur. It's your call on what it actually is.

Although it isn't the greatest picture of him, it shows off his top teeth pretty good. He has 4 top teeth now but you can only see 3. He's also sporting one of Aunt Merridith's Halloween shirts. (Told you Merr that it fit! Believe me now? :) )

As I have probably mentioned a bunch of times, Colin is on the move. He pulls himself up on everything - literally everything - and he likes to cruise around along everything he stands on. We tried taping him walking around his crib. Of course, one of the videos he is moving around alot but doesn't talk because he had his pipey in his mouth. The second video he is more talkative but doesn't really walk. The solution of what video to post? Just post both :) The adorable outfit is from Aunt Missy and Uncle Marky.





More pictures tomorrow and hopefully if I have time (realistically I probably won't though) I will write his 9 (*GASP*) month birthday post tomorrow.

I'm on a blogging roll. Here are two funny videos.

Background on the first video. Mike was out helping Brandon move, so it was just me and little man. He was playing in his exersaucer and he was shaking his head 'no' at me. I, therefore, started shaking my head 'no' at him which for some reason he found really stinkin funny. He would laugh so hard each time I did it. I went to grab the camera to show Mike and like usual, he stopped. The video starts off a little slow (and shaking since I was shaking my head at him) but there's a great part about 45 seconds into the video. It's total Colin lately.

The second video is the new trick Mike taught him while I was at work and the grocery store. While it's incredibly funny to me, it also scares the pants off of me. You'll notice my stern mom voice in there (I don't know when I got that voice!). I'm hoping it's a one day trick as it worries me that he will do it on everything he stands on.

So I was naughty and went shopping on Sunday. In my defense, I thought I had another pack of diapers in the basement and when I went to grab them since I only had 2 upstairs, I only found wipes. To CVS I went.

Now compared to other bargain coupon shoppers, this may not been a fantastic trip but I haven't had the time, knowledge, or heads up lately to find the good deals. I'm pretty proud of what I got especially since I could of got it cheaper with more items had I spent more time thinking it through.

While I spent $21 and some change, I still have $10 in extra care bucks to use later. Essentially I spent less than $12 and got the following:

2 plastic pumpkins
1 bag of candy corn
1 bag of candy pumpkins
1 Two-Pack box of Clear Care Solution
2 packs of diapers
1 package of Q-Tips
1 box of Gerber Graduate Whole Wheat crackers
1 container of Gerber baby food

Not too shabby. I'll be stopping by later this week to buy a few other freebies.

**EDIT: I forgot to mention, I'll get another $2 back on a rebate for the diapers. We are now down to less than $10. Yippee!!**

A few people have suggested giving it a few days and see if I still feel compelled to post the entry, so I think I'll give it a try. Although I know my feelings aren't going to change but I'll wait anyway.

So instead I'll post a few pictures of little man. Unfortunately, we didn't go to the zoo but we had some fun at the park.
"Hey Mom!! Let's go!!!"

"I can scream all I want out here!"

"You can do this too, Dad?"

"Mommy, think you could put down the camera so Daddy and I can just play on the slide?"