Beach Combing

We spent some time at the beach when we were visiting the coast.

It is unusual that the beach offers this kind of sunny weather in Washington. Dad and I found lots of beach glass for Mom. Aunt Renee, Jack, Henry, and I even made a sand castle.

Pirates!

I met Mom and Dad at the beach house for 4th of July. We were pirates in the annual parade. Joe, Kelly, and Addy joined us this year for an extra good time! The weather was fantastic.

A Trip with Nani

Nani took Jack, Henry, and I on a trip to a hotel in Westport on the Washington coast. We had so much fun hanging out and doing fun stuff.

I keep asking Mom: "When are we going to go to Nani's house?"

What's New With Colton?

We have had a busy busy busy summer so far! It feels like it just started but things are already in full swing! I start my summer school session for Montessori on July 27th. I will go to summer school for 2 weeks so they can determine which classroom would be the best fit for me. School starts September 1st! I am sooo excited. We have school uniform colors and I already got my new school lunch box.

"Boom, Boom, Pow" by Black Eyed Peas is one of my current favorite songs. I am really good at recognizing a song after just a few notes! I am also a fan of: "the hide and seek song" ...which Mom says is really called: "Ready or Not" by The Fugees.

In other news: My latest meal time antic -

"I like it Mom, I just don't want to eat it."

Tractor!!

We went to Vancouver for Father's Day. Grandpa had a surprise for us...his friend Dennis restored the old Patterson family tractor and Grandpa took us for rides.

The Carousel - my favorite

The carousel is my favorite part of the zoo, though I still don't like to ride the horses so I talked Mom into sitting on the sleigh with me.

A Trip to the Zoo

Our zoo has a new penguin exhibit and since Mom had to take her new car to the dealership for its very first maintenance check-up we thought we would take the loaner car over to the zoo and check out the penguins. We had great weather and lots of fun...though Mom forgot to take photos when we got to the penguin part....silly Mom.

We did get photos of the flamingos and a cool pic of the giraffe.

Happy Mothers Day.

Some silly faces....

...one amazing kid.

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.

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.