A Week of Firsts

To the thrill and relief of many out there, Cole finally got his first haircut. Chad and I put him in the Bumbo, gave him a graham cracker and pulled out the scissors and clippers to bring the red Mellenhead under control. As you can see from the pictures, it had to be done. I was a little sad about it though because we waited until Grant was one year old. Cole just seems so young but given how much hair he was born with it was bound to be necessary before his first birthday.

Below is the finished product. He looks so much better but so much older. He has a natural fauxhawk, which I'm considering gelling up but haven't done yet.

Last Saturday, we headed up to Phoenix to see my brothers and sister because Brad was down from Utah for a little vacation between semesters. We did some shopping at Arizona Mills, relaxed at David's for a little while then headed to the Diamondbacks/Giants baseball game. Chad and I go every season to a couple of games. We always get lower level seats in left field. We went to Carolina's for excellent, authentic mexican food. Brad was truly impressed and assured me that I came through on my promise of good mexican food. When we got the game, we had ourselves a little surprise. Our tickets weren't scanning and the ticket takers discovered that our tickets were for the previous night's game. We spent $18 per ticket for a game we didn't attend. Luckly, the game wasn't a sell out so we bought upper level $6 tickets that actually cost us $24. The game was still fun. We got free bobbleheads. Grant ate his way through the game with cotton candy, popcorn, some of mom's ice cream and who knows what else. He was really good though and had a great time with David and Brad.

(Chad and Cole at the game ... we took a similar picture of Grant in the same onesie at his first game when he was 2-1/2 weeks old. I would post it but it is on the hard drive that I can't get information off of)

(David, Grant, Brad, Cole and Shelli)

(Lindsay, Cole, Grant and Chad)

Last night, we took Grant to Monsters v. Aliens. It is a 3-D movie. Grant always gets a large popcorn when we take him to the movie. Chad and I help him out during the movie but he manages to east a significant amount of the bag all on his own. By the end of the movie, there was very little popcorn left. He sits mezmorized to the screen, slowly and unceasingly putting a couple of pieces of popcorn into his mouth until the movie ends. Unfortunately, the glasses were too big for his face and kept falling off his nose. He didn't wear them through most of the movie but he sure looked cute when he did.

This is Cole today at the zoo. He loves giant red grapes in his mesh sucky thing. He just sucks and chews until the grapes are complete mush. He also looked super cute in his hat and glasses. We went to the zoo with our friends Sandra Nixon and her two kids Jack and Chase. Chad was working and her husband was helping another friend with some things so we took advantage of a free morning to enjoy the last sem-cool weekend before true summer hits.