Cole's First Birthday

Mickey says, "Happy 1st Birthday, Cole!"

Cole tries out his new set of wheels from Grandma Sally and Grandpa Bill

Carefully testing the waters

Making sure we get every crumb

Good cake, guys. Good cake.

Sledding

"I can't move my arms!"

"I make this look good!"

We learned very quickly that Cole is very much like his mom...not a fan of snow. Our sledding trip was cut short as the tears froze a little too quickly on Cole's cheeks.

Christmas

Against our better judgement, we braved the winter Christmas storm of 2009 to join the Phelps clan for Christmas in Spencer. It was worth the trip and Cole has enjoyed playing with all of his new toys.

2 points!!

Rick and Cole show off their matching hats. Not sure if Cole is upset over the matchy-matchy or that he found out there weren't any more presents to open.




"Have you been naughty or nice"

We spent the days leading up to Christmas learning what Santa says...and apparently Santa and Old McDonald are friends.

Cole's Baptism

Apparently, we didn't get enough food at Thanksgiving so we found an excuse to celebrate again as we capped off our Thanksgiving weekend with Cole's baptism.

Cole and mom with Great Grandpa Tom and Great Grandma Vee.

Cole's baptism

Godparents Betsy and Bryan "blessing" Cole

Thanksgiving

Jack was asked to provide an appetizer for Thanksgiving and decided if it's good enough for snoopy's Thanksgiving, it's good enough for us. We feasted on popcorn, pretzels, jelly beans and toast.

Grandma Helen came for the Thanksgiving holiday

Happy Halloween! (Take 2)

Oh look! We have a new stuffed animal in our house!

My mistake...it's Cole!!!

Happy Halloween, everyone!

Cole dressed up as a lion for his Halloween daycare party and was a huge hit! Better yet, someone at school taught him how to roar...

"I love my chair!"

It was hard to pass up this photo op as Cole climbed into his chair, cleverly coordinating with its colors.

Happy Halloween!

Lions...

...and tigers...
...and bears. Oh my!

(Okay, technically he's a monkey, but you get the picture.)

Cole had a great time gathering treats at 'Night Eyes' at the Blank Park Zoo

Mom just had fun snapping pictures

Happy Halloween!

Our football star in the making

Hanging out with Dad and the Vikings

(Kudos to Dad, as this was a forced smile; the Vikings lost.)

Cole working on his touchdown victory dance

Family bonding

Cole and Griffin spent the day together while everyone else went to the Hawkeye game. We enjoyed cheering on the Hawks, playing ball, laughing and bouncing...

we did not enjoy cuddle time so much