Testing the snow . . .
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Cormick is smug with the knowledge that he knows how to manipulate his father into freely giving away part of his fruit shake
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Singing a song of purple mustaches (or emitting a large belch - it's hard to tell from the picture)
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Why must all parents take pictures of their child making a mess with food? It's not an especially cute or flattering photo, so why do it? Maybe it's the freedom from society's conventions that makes parents relish these captured moments of their kids. If so, here's my contribution to the enduring tradition of messy/food/kid photos; let freedom reign!
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Tim attempts to clean Cormick a little rather than have ALL the yogurt wind up on his shirt
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Forlorn because he realizes his escapade with the chocolate yogurt is quickly coming to an end
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Why he seems angry I can't say. Perhaps it's the fact that his mother continually takes pictures rather than help him.
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The clean up process
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We received something in the mail today that was shipped with packing popcorn. I let Cormick dump them out and romp and play. The following pictures show the result of his activities with the popcorn.
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Trying to figure out how to get it to stop sticking to him
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Rolling around in the popcorn
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Sticking to his head despite his best efforts
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Reading Baby Einstein material. Damn you Disney!
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In my post yesterday I said that I wasn't sure whether Cormick would be able to right himself from a lying down position in his new snowsuit. Fortunately, Cormick obliged us by falling down and we were able to witness firsthand whether he could accomplish this difficult manuever. Before calling Child Protective Services, you should know that he was not crying or in harms way while I snapped these next couple of photos.
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He begins to try and right himself by rolling around . . .
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Still rolling around . . .
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And see, he does manage to sit up. But that's as far as he could get on his own.
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Could his face appear any rounder? I don't think so.
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Helping Dad put up the Christmas lights
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Despite having a delicious Thanksgiving meal prepared for him, Cormick refused to eat it.
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This was Cormick's first day in the new snowsuit. Even though there is no snow on the ground it was COLD. I know the suit looks pretty puffy, but it wasn't A Christmas Story situation as the next few pictures demonstrate.
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He can squat . . .
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He can run . . .
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He can even turn around. He never fell, though, so we can't be 100% sure he'd be able to get up on his own.
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Why does he look as if he's been caught doing something he shouldn't and now he's trying to appear innocent? Check out the next two pictures.
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Well well well. What do we have here? Cormick moved the toy oven over to the kitchen cabinets so he could climb into the sink and turn the water on full blast. What a great new trick.
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Water from the sink that he is squirting in his face (and all over the kitchen). Yet, it kept him busy for a good 20 minutes so I just kept taking pictures.
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Because of the cold weather, this is where Cormick can be found most of the time nowadays; his carseat. We continue to search vainly for something to keep him occupied around town since he cannot go outside for longer than five minutes.
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This is a video of Cormick and Ingrid running down the street on Halloween night. They kept chasing one another and giggling. The video quality isn't great but it's better if you click on the "YouTube" icon at the bottom right of the image and watch it on their website. It certainly gives you a sense of the chaos that was Halloween night. Plus, it's sort of funny how Cormick runs right up to the camera at the very end.

Halloween night -- finally! Cormick wasn't going to be teased anymore about inappropriately wearing a costume.
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Finally, a happy lion. We just needed to wait for the big night. His torso remained remarkably warm. Unfortunately, he sustained frost bite in every area not covered by fake lion fur.
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Yup. He loves knocking on doors - incessentantly in fact. To the point that people are forced to give a fake half-smile and say "he sure is persistent, isn't he?" No candy of course. I wasn't going to be one of those parents carrying their infant and knocking on doors while holding out a candy bag and intoning "Trick or Treat!" I wanted to ask one of them, "So it's your baby who's going to be scarfing down those 'Dots' later tonight, is it?"
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We went to downtown's Halloween celebration. Yes, this is costume number two. I couldn't resist. Next year, he'll begin wanting to dress in all black with "real" blood squirting out of his mask so I had to get my embarassingly cute and kitchy fix now.
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As you can guess, a lollipop and a lion costume are not the best mix -- he kept at it, though, and disregarded the mounting hairs on the sucker until he hawked out a large furball
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Tired lion (mother determined to get photo anyway is off camera)
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Peering over the edge at the Youth Center Halloween party
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Let me in! Let me in I tell you! My mother has dressed me in this bunny costume and I need to hide! (He was shaking the fence back and forth in an effort to escape the compromising position he was in.)
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Anxious bunny

Am I not an evil mother for dressing my son in this manner? Blackmail I tell you - blackmail. He'll never get away with anything as a teenager without the threat of this picture being posted at his school. Tonight we went to a Halloween party so that's why he's wearing the costume.

We played outside before we went to the party

Bunny screeching
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A little oatmeal up the nose does a body good
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Blowing bubbles
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Who could have guessed that the first snow Cormick remembers would happen in Colorado instead of N. Dakota?

Watching the snow fall on the deck

Touching the snowflakes

Dad and Cormick throwing rocks in the stream at Keystone

More aspen changing color in Keystone

It's Sister Mary Cormick.

Looking for inspiration from her creator . . .

Visiting the fall colored aspens in Cripple Creek, Colorado