Future NFL Hall of Famer???

I've been training Christopher on some basic football technique such as how to run with and secure the ball (as noted on a prior post) and I found some success with that. Now, we're on to some offensive line drills. Christopher has to learn to hike the ball and push forward into the defensive lineman. Thankfully, we got video documentation. Lets see how this went.




O.K., it seems we've got more work to do here...first not to run away from the defensive lineman! Maybe baseball or golf might be a better option.

National Geographic...LOOK OUT!

Christopher apparently got hold of my camera and decided that we didn't have enough pictures of him. I think he has a future in photography....what do you think?


Okay, maybe not.

More Outside Time

The temperature weekend before last was a tropical 59o F. This was a fantastic phenomenon, we thought, because of the 4 Nor'easters that we've experienced this last winter...the "Snowpocolypse" or "Snowmageddon" as the experience was titled by many locals. This seemed to be the winter that would press right through Spring and right to the summer months....an unforgiven bludgeoning that nature doled out on the American Northeast. Regardless, we took advantage of the "wonderful" weather and took Christopher outside for a few to get some steam out. We all seemed to have a good time.

One of Christopher's new "fun" things to do is sit on top of his big rubber ball, bounce up and down, and fall off. Doesn't seem like much fun to me, but, then again, I'm not a 2-year old with immeasurable amounts of pent-up energy.



After we were done with the bouncing-ball game, we played a little football. We practiced throwing the ball, and did some run-and-evade drills. The one thing that I learned from evaluating the "drills" is that my son is no speed-demon....which is good for us!

We got tired of that in about 2-minutes (his average attention span) and decided to use his dump truck as a riding toy. It wasn't built to be a riding toy, but it has apparently evolved into one that is more than functional for Christopher.

Mini-Hef

The kid thinks he's so sexy in his Christmas pajamas...Col calls these his "Hugh Heffner's" All I can say is, "Don't hate the playa, hate the game!"

Play Time

Christopher discovered that he fits perfectly in our cabinets...

Christopher rockin' Mr. Potatohead's glasses...he's all Masterpiece Theater and stuff

Tickle-time with Daddy....

Snow Play

After our 2nd Nor'easter storm, the official region-wide lock down (a.k.a. State of Emergency), and our son's steadily increasing cabin-fever, we all decided that maybe some snow-time would be in order. Unfortunately for us, it was absolutely frigid outside so we didn't get a lot of outside time in, but we fit in what we could. We did just enough to take a little bit of the edge off of Christopher's hyperactivity to keep him reeled for the remainder of the day. We were going to go back outside again the next day, but it was still frigid. We asked Christopher, who again had a heightened level of energy, if he wanted to go outside. He replied,"Nooooooo. Cooooooooold." So we opted to get him dressed and go to the local mall play area in the morning before it got over-populated with kids. That ended up being the best idea we've ever had as parents (to this point). He played for about an hour-and-a-half and ended up being very manageable for the remainder of the Nor'easter lock down. Below are some photographic memories of Christopher playing in the snow.

In his Winter Onsie


Not a fan of the mittens, but forgot once he got outside


Throwing snowballs....the first thing Daddy taught him to do with snow


our special needs snowman....I was trying to build one in a hurry because he was very cold and wanting to go inside. So we got a little one put up in about 5 minutes and called it a day.


the finished product

Charlie's 2nd Birthday

A good friend of Colleen has a little girl, Charlie, who celebrated her 2nd birthday last month. We were invited. Christopher had a blast.

Charlie and her mom, Kristi


Let them eat cake....and ice cream...and make a huge mess


Christopher and Charlie playing with balloons


The poor kid was tuckered by the end of the night