Nothing Runs like A Deere...

For Colson's first birthday Grandma and Grandpa Polatis gave him a John Deere ATV. It is one of his favorite toys. He's started to stand up on it and lean over putting him bum in the air making it look like he's doing tricks. It's pretty darn cute. When pressing one of the buttons there's a song that it plays. In the video Colson's kind of dancing to it while he sits on it, but you can really hear the words too well...so I typed them up!

I can push or pull all your heavy loads

Fast or slow start me up here we go!

Dirt and mud are no match for me...

'Cause I'm a rough and rugged John Deere ATV.

Colson Walks for Real!!!!

So when I posted that last video, it was sooooo the wrong video. That was from like October! It was late at night when I posted so I never really checked it. So I promise I'm not crazy. Hopefully this works!

Go Colson Go

Colson has just taken off walking. He walks everywhere. When he falls he just gets back up and walks again. We're working on him walking in shoes. Here's a peek.

A Late Christmas Post

I realize these pictures are late, but there are just some of our christmas pictures from Denver. Colson's First New Year Nielson style!

Colson's 1st Birthday Party

I decided that for Colson's first birthday I was going to make the best cake ever. I started at 6:00am and didin't get done until late afternoon. I completly thre away one cake because it was breaking and wouldn't stack right. I was tempted to just buy a cake, but I couldn't bring myself to it so I went back to the drawing board and came up with what is below. Since Colson's nickname is monkey we decided that a monkey would be the best choice. I think that it cake out pretty cute. Colson really didn't dig in like we thought he would. Really do most children? We had to help him see that he could just put his hands in his cake. He played in it a little as all of his cousins and sunts and uncles encouraged him to make a big mess!

Ya that onsie was so stained by the time he was done........

To Celebrate Colson's birthday even more we headed to his 12month check up the day after his birthday. They wanted to make sure he was getting enough iron for him to grow properly so the Doctor ordered blood tests. They took blood from both of his arms because his veins were so tiny they couldn't get as much blood out as they needed. I was the one who "got" to hold him down in my arms as they repeatedly poked him. The green wrap around his little arms is where they poked him. If that wasn't enough after that he got his vaccines in both of his legs. He just layed on our laps the rest of the night. Happy happy birthday.

Colson

Colson