Happy Birthday to Cole.
A year ago right now, Mommy was asking a nurse for her epidural please.

All Cole's Grandmas
From Left to Right: Nana, Kokum, Porpor and Grandma Kathy




Rock'n'Roll Riding Horse
I've always wanted a big box like this!
This envelope is AWESOME!
Happy Birthday to You!


Cole seemed to know what to do with the cupcake right away. I wonder where he gets that from?




How does this work?

Last day of Farmer's Market for the Season - Cole and his sweet potato
Happy Halloween
Baby Mario goes trick or treating.

Trick or Treat

Anna gives Cole a chocolate for Halloween.

Ava and Cole - first encounters

Pre-Halloween Hype
Winnie the Pooh....
....before daycare on Friday....
....it's hard to catch a Pooh....
....an excited kind of Pooh....
....on camera....
...the day before Halloween!

The Perons visit with the newest Duffy
Baby Ava Duffy
Cole's excited about his first Halloween
Cole is proud of the stow-away snooker ball he took home from Jim and Amanda's
Mom's first post-Cole "race" - thinking fast thoughts

Cole with his bookbag on his first day of daycare
Cole and his new babysitter, Beth

nothing but net

Soccer ball

Pants

There is a long-standing joke that in Thunder Bay, it is a wonder any Pants Store can stay in business, so numerous are the stories of my husband and his friends' adolenscent adventures involving the removal of their pants in public places.

And for the past eleven and a half months that my son, Cole, has been alive, I have heard time and time again how strikingly he resembles Mark.

Today, when I put Cole down for his nap, I heard him talking away to himself and fiddling around in his crib for quite a long time before he settled. When I went in to check on him a few minutes later, there he was, curled up against the crib rails, snoring softly, and his pants..... discarded in the opposite corner.

I guess there really is some Thunder Bay in him after all.