Baby Love: Ice, walking and party planning

What a week!! We started out our week with a nice ice storm. We got about an inch of ice between Tues and Wednesday. Tuesday night at 10:58 our power went out....until 1pm Wednesday afternoon:( I couldn't sleep because I need a fan and I was too busy trying to listen for Cole. I ended up shutting the cats in our basement and keeping Cole and our door open so I could hear him. He woke up around 11:30 so I tried bringing him in our room to sleep to keep him warm. That didn't work, he though it was play time. I finally gave up around 1:30 and put him back in his crib. I had to open his black out curtains because his room was so dark, so that helped give him some light. He still woke up quite a few times but only for a minute or 2. I put 2 quilts and 1 fleece blankets on him to keep him warm.

When he woke up at 7, we called my mom to make sure she had power and packed up to head to their house.When we left our house the thermostat said 60 degrees. Brrrr!! We weren't sure how long we would be there. On our way we actually slid into a mailbox in my parents neighborhood and banged up the front of my car:( Luckily we weren't going fast but Jared had no control of the car (Jared took the day off and the little girl I watch took off because they didn't have power either). All is well, we gave them our name and info and moved on.

I was worried he wouldn't nap, because he has never slept anywhere other then our house. It took about 45 minutes to get him down for his first nap, but he slept an hour once asleep!! His next nap didn't take quite as long to get him down and he still napped over an hour. Wahoo!! That means he can nap in other places! Luckily our neighbor called around 1 to tell us the power came back on!! We waited a while to let the house heat up. So around 5:30 we headed home for the night.

After our fun filled Wednesday, things got back to normal on Thursday. Wouldn't you know it, Cole took his first 3 steps!! He was holding onto the couch and I was holding his monitor. Apparently he really wanted it and let go of the couch and took 3 steps before falling into me! I was shocked. Of course I cried:) I'm so proud of him, but sad at how fast he is growing up. He has taken a few steps here and there, but he isn't running around quite yet:)

Onto other news... I have been working on planning Cole's first birthday party!! I've decided to go with a Frog Prince theme. I have some super cute stuff. Maybe I will post later about some things I have in mind....we'll see. Here are some pics from our past week. I took some ice pictures but have no clue where I put them on the computer:/

His new thing is talking on his "phone"