labor day 2011.

our only plans for the labor day weekend were to have no plans.  it was amazing. 

we started off the weekend with a grumpy 2 year old who did not want to go to school.  this is rare - he is usually ready to go to school as soon as he opens his little eyes in the morning. i even let him wear his frog boots (who am i to judge, right?).  i snapped the photo below at a stop light and he freaked out.  he was really mad at me.  normally he loves having his picture taken.  i think he turned into a grumpy tween overnight.  oy.  luckily when he came home friday afternoon he was back to his normal, happy, momma-loving self.

colin's teacher at school has started a habit of giving the kids a happy face on their hand when they behave.  i am all for rewarding good behavior but i am not sure drawing on colin's hand with a washable marker is the way to do it.  every day when he gets home he runs to the playroom, grabs a couple of markers and walks around telling us (me, luke, and henry the dog) that he has his special markers so we better be good and listen.  then he offers (bugs us to death) to give us a happy face on our hand so we can be like him.  sweet boy.  he is actually not too bad at it.  i should have taken a picture of him chasing henry around the yard trying to give him a happy face.

saturday was the long-awaited, much anticipated texas tech game.  they were playing texas state (my school) so i figured it was a win-win situation for me.  i could be happy no matter which team was winning!  we ended up being able to watch the game on tv (via hooked up laptop) so everyone was happy.  look at my two studs in their tech gear, ready to go.  colin thought it was cool to carry his cowboy gun around too.  good thing we live in texas, right?  no one even looked at him strange when he walked into lowe's with it.  ha!

on sunday we started the morning with some coffee and cartoons.  colin loves him some charlie brown.  this lasted for about 30 seconds before he was done w/it but how cute is he?

we spent time with family, slept late, ate  yummy food, and lounged around.  we also worked on colin's room a lot this weekend.  by "we" i mean my husband and his mom. i helped a little.  we are so close to being done and i cannot wait to be finished!  hopefully it will be done this week and i can finally post pictures!  happy short week everyone!