Catching Up

I have not been on here sense Cole has been born so let me quickly catch you up on the last three months.

1. Cole is perfect!
2. Katie and Jake are awesome parents
3. Cole prefers his papaw Kenny over me- but not for long

Katie and Jake are very attentive parents and it is sweet to see Jake help Katie as much as he does with Cole. Cole is a very happy baby and there is never a shortage of willing arms to hold the little guy.
As you may know my #2 daughter, Rebekah was married in June. The wedding was held in Ellendale, North Dakota. Katie, Cole, Kendra, Rachel and I all rode the Amtrak from Hammond, Louisiana to Fargo North Dakota- that was a 31 hour train trip!! Kenny flew to the wedding- I still don't know how he dodged the bullet on that one! Anyway, it was great fun…for the first 4 hours, and then it was just a beating! The whining, crying and fussing was just more than I could stand! We will never take Rachel on another train trip ever! HA, HA
Cole was a perfect angel it was the others that were the problem. Katie immediately got extra mommy points for making that trip. You can only imagine what it was like to pack and plan for all the needs of a 6 week old baby. We did manage to have a lot of laughs and you must hear Katie's "Nodak" accent.
Cole was able to meet Great Grandma Joyce, Grandpa Charles and "The Aunts" and a few cousins on the trip also. Being with Cole for 24/7 for 8 days forced my mommy instincts to kick in. Up to then it was a little strange and awkward holding him and I felt like I was going to break him. However, after, oh let's say 10 hours on the train it all came back to me and felt just as right as rain to hold him and feed him and juggle him around. Katie is a good sport and keeps an ever alert eye on the baby but is not soo over protective that she freaks out over every little thing. She does have to remind her sisters that he IS NOT A TOY and to be careful! When we returned to Louisiana and got off the train and we all still loved each other but we agreed that we had had enough family time together!
Cole just adores Kenny!! Kenny can get Cole to laugh and smile and coo like nobody's business!! I on the other hand get barely a response! Oh, yeah he smiles up at me while I'm feeding him his bottle – but that doesn't count he would smile at anyone that was feeding him!! Just the sound of Papaws voice makes Cole go crazy! What is up with that?? I pretend like it bothers me but it really does not! I know I will win Cole over; I'm just letting Papaw have his little moment in the sun. I know the way to a child's heart is thru play dough, tent forts and ice-cream…I'll win him over!!
Katie has quite work and is taking a few college classes this fall. I'm glad she is able to stay home and not have to put Cole in day care. It will not be easy but she and Jake can do it!
Kenny, Rachel and I drove over to Lafayette Sunday afternoon and enjoyed spending the day with them. I did make a few observations. When Katie put the nursery together she hung every little outfit on a hanger- yes every little footed sleeper, everything but plain onesies. I made a comment about how that was not practical- she argued that she liked it that way! Well, I chuckled to myself Sunday when I noticed that all of his little outfits were now in a basket and not on hangers!! My first "told ya so!!"
This  Grandma thing is going to be fun!!