Collin is definitely 3

Mark is out of town for 2 weeks and I think the kids definitely go crazy when he's gone. Or maybe I'm just more crazy so they seem more crazy. Collin has been on one the last couple of days. It started a couple of nights ago when I was looking for his nose sucker. He is just learning to really blow his nose so I sometimes have to assist. He really doesn't like it. So I couldn't find his nose sucker and asked where it was. He told me that he had turned it. Not having a clue what that meant, he had to repeat it several times for me. He finally took me over to the diaper pail (which you put a diaper in and then turn the top over so the diaper will drop in). Apparently he disliked the nose sucker so much that he got rid of it. It was buried under a sackful of poopie diapers.
Then yesterday, my good friend Karen came to town and we were planning on meeting up with her for dinner. As soon as she called saying she was ready to go, I went in search of Collin. He was in his room with a handful of wetwipes. He informed me that he was cleaning the pen. And he needed his hands washed. Upon retrieving the pen, I noticed it was gummy. With further inspection, I realized it was Modge Podge. (Which I had mistakenly left out after finishing a project in the living room. In my defense it was tucked away on a table) I ran into the living room and discovered that Collin had dipped several nearby objects in the Modge Podge and also thought that he could paint my project. There were piles and piles of glue on the letter blocks I had just finished for his room. So I was able to quickly clean those up and went back to the bathroom to get Collin, only to discover that he was coloring the sink with a dry erase marker. Clara has those readily available in her room. So I cleaned that up and packed Collin out to the car where he told me that his toy was stuck. He pulled me over to the front of the car where I found a small toy he had stuffed into the grill of my car. I was able to fish that out and we finally made it to dinner. I was exhausted. And this all happened in the course of 5 minutes.
Then today as I was putting a diaper in the diaper pail, I noted that it wasn't turning over and dropping as it should. Looking closer, I found a piece of gum wedged in between the plunger and the side. Collin really likes turning things over in that thing.
Mark doesn't come home for a week and a half.

To Infinity and Beyond

This post is a long time coming. I've been wanting to post about it since Collin's birthday in March but didn't have a photo. I finally downloaded this off of my parents computer so I can finally post it. Collin has been into Buzz Lightyear for a while now. For his birthday he received several Buzz related gifts including these wings and arm shield things from my parents. He first saw them unwrapped when we arrived at my parents house for a visit shortly after his birthday. My mom wouldn't let him have them until his party so he could unwrap them. He waited impatiently all weekend until finally his party arrived. He promptly put them on and insisted on going outside. My dad took him out there. We saw him through the window and couldn't help but laugh as he squatted and prepped for a take-off. After several attempts, he came inside with just the saddest, most crestfallen look on his face. In a sad little voice he proclaimed "I can't fly". He thought that the wings would really make him fly and was so disappointed that they didn't work. We wanted to cry and laugh at the same time. He was just so sad.