After asking Santa exclusively for John Deere tractors and receiving what I have to imagine to be almost every John Deere tractor ever made, Cohen has already moved on to bigger and better things...as in monster trucks. Jeff and I are just happy that we realized this before we spent lots of time working on a John Deere bedroom for him, including a Jeff Prouse-original tractor bed. He has about fifteen monster trucks which he collectively refers to as "Monster Jam!" His favorite, Gravedigger, came with a video that has footage from the real Monster Jam of lots of other monster trucks. Since he watches the video on the trips to and from Jeff's office every day, in addition to the daily monster truck competitions he watches on TV with his Paw-Paw, it's safe to say that he can name almost any monster truck he sees. Luckily, he does take occasional breaks from "Monster Jam" and is always interested in doing anything that involves mommy's belly or "my baby" as he calls it.
Coloring a picture for his brother
Who didn't see this coming?!
I can almost guarantee that an internet-search would produce crayons made just for drawing on pregnant bellies - we improvised with Cohen's bath crayons.
Measured in Cohen units, my belly at 23 weeks could hold six blocks!
While I have never been the biggest fan of winter in general, I was very excited to get a whole weekend of snow to finally get a chance to take Cohen out to play. I was so proud that Cohen didn't complain much at all about wearing all of his snow clothes...when we were finished dressing him, he did inform me that "Cohen heavy!" (He always talks in the third person.) Unfortunately, no one warned me how difficult it would be to put on snow boots while wearing snowbibs at 24 weeks pregnant, or how much I would sweat while trying to put mittens on my child. I won't say that either of these were successful on my part, but at least we did make it outside!
Baby snowbunny!
This is Cohen's chapstick face...he likes to get "medicent" on his lips, but it seems to prevent him from opening his mouth - even when he tries to talk!
Cohen and I were both excited to make a snowman, but unfortunately we did not get the right kind of snow. In my defense, I did give it my very best try. We took a few rides on the sled, but Cohen preferred to spend most of his time working!
The primary objective was to fill up the dump truck with snow...
and then dump it out!
Upon further review, I think he may actually be trying to just get rid of the snow instead of really playing in it!
My snow angel
Cohen and the polar bear!
Since Cohen spent the last 5-10 minutes we were outside just eating snow off of his mittens, I decided it was time to go in and warm up - while we ate more snow. As hard as it is for me to believe, I have never had snowcream! So I found a recipe so Cohen and I could both try it for the first time - his face speaks for both of us!
Since I am pretty sure that the primary reason I went out to play in the snow when I was growing up is so that I could come in and have hot chocolate with marshmallows, I was surprised at how creative I got with snow treats for Cohen. We also made some REAL snowcones that were pretty good as well.
Jeff got to play in the snow with us on Saturday, so I was ready for some serious sledding since we would have some muscle to push us!
Unfortunately, Cohen got tired of sledding before Jeff and I did!
Snow Patrol!
Cohen was not much interested in snow activities on Saturday. He was very much over the mittens that he could not keep on his hands and was more interested in getting out his summer toys including his jeep and lawnmower. He asked for his bike at one point and also kept requesting that Jeff get the riding lawnmower out of the building. I'm surprised he didn't ask for bubbles too! I can't say that I blame him - I do prefer summer too!
Evil mittens
You know there is grass under here guys - it's not going to cut itself!
This kid was not ready to go in...I think winter is his favorite!
When we came inside, we made Cohen another snowcone that Jeff and I helped him finish. That was after we both had hot chocolate with marshmallows...and before we ate homemade vegetable soup, bread and oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Good thing it doesn't snow very often! Even though our snowstorm only gave us dumpy powder snow, we made sure that Cohen got to make a snowman anyway!
Pregnant ladies gotta eat!
And I just want to document that even though we still haven't decided on a name for our poor second baby boy, we are getting ready for him! We spent Sunday trying to organize and rearrange to make room for our new addition. To give me better access to all of the baby supplies, we had to pull everything out of the attic and rearrange it. This allowed Cohen to do some reminiscing!!
When I ask him now if he is going to take baths with his baby brother, he says "yeah in the baby whale tub!" That's gonna be a tight squeeze! His fun with the whale tub was short lived on this day, however. He was apparently trying to lift it into the actual bathtub and busted his lip. Could this have been our first signs of jealousy?
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