Some silly faces....
...one amazing kid.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Henry's Birthday
April is the month of Henry's Birthday. He turned 6 this year.
He had a cool SpongeBob cake.
A Visit from Auntie Jamie
After Easter, Auntie Jamie came to visit! We had lots of fun hanging out.
She taught me how to play Uno and Memory.
Fishin' for Frogs
My cousins and I spent some time looking for frogs in the pond...there is a lot of duck weed in the pond right now so they had lots of places to hide.
Easter Weekend at the Beach
Here are some photos of our Easter Weekend at the beach house with Grandma and Grandpa and my cousins.
We had an outdoor egg hunt again and I found lots and lots of eggs...though this year I only ate just a little bit of candy so I wouldn't puke.
Mom and Aunt Renee made all of us line up for a photo in front of the pump house.
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Ultimate Cage Fighting or Mixed Martial Arts?
A note from Mom:
Colton did battle with either Seddi or Kali last night. It all happened so fast I'm not exactly sure which one made contact. In any case, Colton is now sporting a sweet set of stitches and a really cute dragon toy that he refuses to let out of his sight.
We were reading bedtime stories when Seddi got a wild hair and bounded up the stairs into Colton's room. Kali was lying on the bed and before I knew it Seddi had jumped up on the bed and Kali made her way off the bed to the window. Colton screamed and Seddi ran out of the room. I turned to see if Colton was okay and there was a scratch under his eye and a slow trickle of blood running down his face. Closer inspection in the bathroom with some hydrogen peroxide revealed that the cut was deep enough to require a trip to the ER for a professional opinion. When I told Colton that we were going to have to go to the doctor he screamed:
"NOOOOO! I don't want a shot!!
I didn't have the heart to tell him that he was in for much worse than a shot.
So, at 9pm - Colton in his green bear footie pjs - the three of us head out to the closest emergency room. We arrive and get escorted immediately to an exam room where they take a quick look and ask all the usual questions and a nurse shows up with a cute little stuffed dragon that he says Colton can keep if he would like. This of course made that "doctor" - really cool. Next they send in the doctor to discuss our "options" for repair. At this point the doctor was doing the hard sell on sedating him so that they could properly clean and stitch the cut. Glueing, he said, was also an option though some kids tend to pick at the glue. The sedative he proposed was a cocktail of drugs that included something I think they use as a tranquilizer for horses, some other drug to prevent him from over salivating (that had a side effect of potentially making his heart race), mixed with another drug they give to adults with anxiety...and one or two other things I can't quite remember. I think the doctor could see that I was not jumping for joy over the thought of my 35 lb. son being unconscious...but I have to admit that it occurred to me that there was little likelihood of getting out of there without one of us being deeply traumatized. Imagine the alternative: physical restraint and hoping that he doesn't jerk at just the wrong moment and end up with a stitch in the eye.
So, the ER nurses (gotta love them) convinced the doc that since Colton had been such a calm patient up until this point that perhaps they should try to clean the cut and if he works through that fine then proceed to the stitching without a sedative cocktail. If it looks like he's not going to have any of it then we can always give him the sedative at that point.
My sweet son...fell asleep with the topical litocaine taped to his face. When the doc came in to do the local anesthesia and the assistant realized he was asleep, he burritod him up in a sheet and he never woke up when he was being injected with the local anesthesia and remained asleep through the entire stiching process. He did twinge once in a while and we assumed he was so sound asleep he must've thought he was having some kind of bad dream. The doc and assistant remarked that this was the first time they had ever stitched a patient that was sleeping without sedation. It was really amazing. Even more amazing...we were in and out of that emergency room in under 2 hrs.
He never woke when we picked him up and carried him to the car and he never woke when we carried him from the car to his bed. Slept straight through until morning.
I woke him this morning before leaving for work so that I could explain how the doctor had fixed the scratch and show him what it looked like.
My nurse friend and cousin (both with the same name interestingly enough) will probably most appreciate this photo. I chose blue stitches...figured they were more exciting then black.
Sweet Angel Face
The other night when Mom left to run some errands, Dad and I played Mario Kart. I am getting pretty good. Just as Mom was leaving I drove my car off the edge of a cliff (in the game). Mom said: "Oh, that's okay, that happens to me all the time."
I told her: "Well that's because you're not very good at this game. Hah ha ha!"
Also, last week I informed Mom that "Now that I'm hundred feets tall I can say those grown up words like: goddammit."
Mom cleared that up real quickly and told me that I can't say those words until I'm a Dad.
Fun Outside
Mom said we had to take some photos this weekend so we could send them to Grandma and Grandpa and Nani and Papa in our Easter cards.
These days I am not thrilled about stopping long enough to pose for photos...so I had some fun with Mom...she was not thrilled with my antics.
Seddi is getting bigger and bigger. Mom says she weighs more than I do now, and she's only 6 months old.
The Many Faces of Colton Fisher
I've been up to lots of antics and these photos are the proof. The other day I told Dad that I was going to work at Costco when I grow up. Also, I am going to cook dinner. Why? Because then I get to decide what we are having...
I found out last week that I have been accepted to montessori school in the fall. Mom and Dad are really excited. I am excited too, although Mom tells me there isn't a slide there so I'm not real sure how much I will like it.
I am excited for the arrival of summer so that I can play outside in my alligator pool. I am always asking Mom "Is it summer yet?". We have been having some really nice weather...but Dad tells me that summer doesn't really arrive until after Mom's birthday.
Jack's Birthday
It's been awhile since we posted and update on this blog. Let's see, what have we been up to lately?
In February we went fishing. Here are some photos from Jack's Birthday Party Fishing Extravaganza. Dad wasn't so sure he liked the idea of my first fish being caught in a trout pond. But I had fun anyway.
Addy came with us.
Each of us caught 3 fish.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Snickerdoodles!
Mom and I made snickerdoodle cookies last weekend. It was the first time for both of us. I think we did a pretty good job of it too.
Mom let me put in lots of ingredients and turn on the mixer to mix them.
Then she made them into little balls and I got to put the cinnamon sugar on each one.
I think the best part was the tasting.
I love cookie dough!
Apologies
We here at Colton's Antics have been very busy training a new puppy and finishing a longstanding bathroom remodel project. We are sure you understand that life often gets in the way of things like bloggin' and keeping in touch. We promise to be better about this in the coming months...so quit your complainin'!!!
Monday, January 19, 2009
Today On the Deck
Today was another beautiful day! We are getting spoiled around here with this weather.
I didn't even need to beg Mom to let me go out without a coat. Though I did manage to slurp the entire cup of hot cocoa she got for me.
This is my "freeze" position...like Frozone on "The Incredibles". You push your hands forward and spread your fingers to throw out the "freeze". You can see that Seddi thought I was pretty cool.
(Mom is really loving this new camera...)
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