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His grin in this picture makes him look so much like Dave!

Colt and I have the weekend to ourselves, Dave left this afternoon for chuckar hunting with my dad. Its opening weekend and its been a tradition with them to go every year, he was really looking forward to it. He was literally glowing when he left the house this morning, I have not seen him that excited about anything in quite awhile!

Colt is growing up so quickly, he is 3 months old now and he is getting bigger and learning more everyday. Yesterday he was taking a nap and I hear him grunting so I go into his room and he has rolled over on his belly and can not figure out how to get back, then this morning he woke me up at 6 because he had rolled on his belly again. I still have not actually seen him roll over but Dave has, I am hoping to capture the moment on my video camera the next time he does it! He is such a fun, loving and good little boy! Dave thinks he is starting to realize who is mom is though because whenever he gets real fussy he only calms down if I hold him but the minute I try and pass him on he starts crying again. I think its kind of cute, he is only little once and I plan to enjoy every minute of it! He is a great sleeper he sleeps from 7-7 pretty much every night on occasion he might wake up a little earlier or a little later but for the most part he is consistently sleeping 12 hours a night. He takes 3 naps a day, a short morning and evening nap and a longer afternoon nap. The rest of the time he is awake and loves to be played with, he is very low key though if I need to get something done he is usually pretty good about sitting in his swing or bouncer until I get it done and then we go back to playing. He has also started to enjoy being read to, he likes to look at the bright colors in the books and to my dismay he is fascinated by the television so we try to turn it off when he is in the room:)

I go back to work on the 15th of this month, I have such mixed emotions. For the most part I am really dreading it, the last thing I want to do right now is go back and teach high schoolers and send my little boy off to daycare everyday. However, I am really trying to keep a positive attitude about all of it, after all I really did enjoy teaching before I had Colt and I am sure once we get in a routine I will enjoy it again. Part of me keeps hoping that somehow next year I will not have to go back to work but I do not want to get my hopes up, besides thats a long way off!

I am really enjoying reading all my friends blogs and I love all the pictures you are posting, I am trying to do a better job at posting comments for all of you and I love it when you leave comments for me!! For those of you who do not have a blog but have young children (Julie Price, Rachel Mclachlan, Mari McPherson) you should really put one together, its quite easy and fast and it is so fun to see how your little ones are growing!

Well I am off to watch the movie "We Are Marshall" with Byson. My mom and I are taking Colt to the pumpkin patch tomorrow so I will post those pics later, the holidays are so much more meaningful now that Colt is here!