March March March

March started off with an amazing pedicure and hour-long massage from the loving, beautiful, caring, very missed FDAAT family. Thank you again!!!

Coen insisted upon eating his smoked ribs JUST LIKE DAD. He wouldn’t eat the pieces I cut up for him but had to eat it the manly way.

Coen modeled the hat I crocheted for my friend’s daughter. It was fun! Since then I’ve made a couple coffee cozies, a blanket, another hat, and a very lovely vest. (Guess which is a joke.)

I bought Coen rain boots, and there were puddles. There was just also snow still. This is March, mind you.

Painting is fun, even though Coen likes to “pretend” to eat the paint every once in a while. Then he laughs at himself VERY high-pitched.

We took Mitch’s friend Tom on a Schells Brewery Tour. Coen liked sampling the root beer. We found out that in each 12 oz. serving there was a cup of sugar. It was quite an active afternoon!

Yum Chobanni! Doesn’t he look so old?

Coen is such a gentleman and pulled the wagon for me even while holding and attempting to drink his milk steamer.

Coen and Me at the Glockenspiel in town.

Coen never stops moving. Ever. Even when he’s sick. Even when he’s tired. Even when he’s strapped in or tied down. But it’s fun.

His senior picture.

Lately Coen has been obsessed with letters. His fascination began at the beginning of March on the airplane ride home from Seattle, and now he can name all the uppercase letters and most of the lowercase ones if you write them or show them to him. However, if there are too many together he’ll just “read” the word. We’re so blessed to have such a smarty pants.

How did he get stuck?!

With all those brains, you’d hope he would have rethought putting his foot in the dirty toilet.

Coen has been very testy lately and sometimes struggles to communicate his ideas. He has been throwing big temper tantrums about most things, but we’re working on showing and using words.

Justin helped with the musical at St. Paul’s, where he is now student teaching in 6th grade. He really enjoys it here (surprise, surprise) and is having a great time with his supervising teacher, Aaron. Aaron was a year or two ahead of us at MLC when we went through…the first time. : ) They like to make “funny” jokes between each other throughout the school day.

Coen and I are helping with track & field at Justin’s school. We go Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays and help Beth Wolf, the Kindergarten teacher and head coach. I’m helping especially with dynamic warm-ups and the throwing events. It is very fun and I’m enjoying getting to know the faculty and students.