Twenty Three Months Old!

For this picture, Cole insisted that Guido the Orangutan wear the silly red hat.  And Mommy has learned by now to choose her battles.  This was a could-have-been battle she chose not to fight.

Which is probably why Cole is smiling in this picture.  Behind the thumb-in-mouth, that is.  (Another battle not fought ... yet.)

So anyhow, Cole is twenty three months old.  As in, almost two years old.  But not quite.  This month, Cole has begun to do this super-adorable thing were he waves his hands as if he's sprinkling water over us.  The first time he did this, we asked what he was doing, and he responded, "Throwing love."  It's been a recurring thing since, and we love it.

Cole also really enjoys going to the Museum of Science and Nature, which is conveniently located pretty close to our house.  He's been loving the dinosaur skeletons, among other neat exhibits. One of his favorite things at the Museum is an evolution computer game where you try and catch butterflies with different traits, which affects the traits of the next generation of butterflies (that you also try to catch, which affects the traits of the next generation, and so on and so on and so on).  He totally understands evolution now.

We have had beautiful weather this month, and then snow.  And good former Minnesotans as we are, we have thoroughly enjoyed both.  (But mostly the nice, sunny days.  Which invariably follow the snowy days, which has been a lovely change from Minnesota weather.)  3/21/2013.