A weekend with Colin

Colin and I spent the weekend just the two of us. It was great, but we sure did miss Daddy. Scott was gone Friday through late tonight deer hunting up in Hurley. It sure is true that you don't realize what a team you are until you are the one and only caregiver. Scott is a great partner to have and a wonderful Daddy. Colin's first words each morning were "I see Daddy." And throughout the weekend he kept asking "Where Daddy go?"

We started the weekend off by going to our former neighbors new house, the Patzner's, in Andover Friday night. They have 3 little boys that Colin got to play with. Colin had fun playing and watching the boys run around. They are a little older than Colin so he wasn't so sure about getting in and actually playing with them. I had a great time catching up with Lori. Her husband Neil and Scott both hunt WI so we try to get together this weekend each year since we are both hunting widows. Colin crashed in the car on the way home and slept great until 5 am Sat. morning. I couldn't believe it. My baby that never gets up in the night was awake. I rocked him for a few minutes and he fell back asleep until 7:30, so that was great.

Saturday morning Colin helped me clean the house. What a great little helper he was. Then we got ready and went to lunch with Heather and Koralyn and then they came back to our house for a playdate. Koralyn is about a year older than Colin and Heather is sure she and Colin are going to get married someday! They sure did play well together which was nice. Heather and I were able to just hang back for the most part and catch up. When it was time to go they even exchanged a kiss! How adorable. Heather took pictures so once she sends them to me (hint, hint!) I will post a few.

After Heather and Koralyn left Colin took a wonderful 2.5 hour nap and I caught up on things around the house. Then we called Grandma Geach since she was also a hunting widower for the weekend and we went shopping. Colin is such a good little shopper. He was pretty excited about getting a new pair of shoes at Kohl's that Grandma bought him. It was so funny, he was walking like a penguin in them and laughing at himself when he would walk by the mirror. What a funny little guy. Then we went to Fuddrucker's and had dinner. It was a nice night together.

Sunday morning we relaxed at home and just played. After Colin's nap (yes, another 2 hours!) we headed to the outlet mall for more shopping. Colin even helped pick out a Birthday gift for Auntie Stacy. So I told her that if she doesn't like it she can blame Colin!

I guess you could say we pretty much shopped all weekend. Not a bad weekend :)

Tonight Scott comes home and both Colin and I can't wait. We are lucky, this year he is home for a few days. Usually he is gone Friday through the following Saturday or Sunday after Thanksgiving Day for deer season. But this year he is home for a few days and we will all head back up Wednesday night for Thanksgiving weekend.

Have a great week everyone!