Friends, Careers and Growing Up

Colby officially has his first best friend. Although it's not a conventional friendship and not always reciprocated...Colby is infatuated with Torreys. He gives her hugs and kisses all the time and loves to play fetch with her or just chill on the floor. I admit I'm a smidgen jealous b/c Colby has thus far refused to give Mommy a kiss...but they are pretty cute together.

Looks like we have a future CPA on our hands. He's mastered the 10-key and I've started to teach him a little tax law. ;)

Our "baby" had his 18 month appointment last weekend. He's now 33 inches (70th percentile) and 24 lbs. Despite being on an eating strike for the last couple months, he bumped up from the 20th to the 30th percentile in weight!

He's developing great, and while he doesn't have a whole lot of (understandable) words...he did more than double his vocab b/w 15 and 18 months, which is all the pediatrition wanted. Colby loves to talk and babbles all day long and I have a feeling his words are going to take off during the next couple months.

His newest thing is counting...he walks around saying "one, two, THREE" when he throws Torreys' ball, points to things in his books, jumps off the step, etc. It comes out "do, doo, DA", but we know what he means. ;)

DAM Pictures!

Denver Art Museum pictures, that is! I know you're thinking...what kind of parent in their right mind takes a 17 month old to an art museum??! The DAM actually has tons of fun kid's activities...and it was a free family day so we didn't have to worry about the disapproving glances you know you all gave before having kids of your own!

Playing with the magic light-up balls.

Enjoying the "big" city view.

Stacking blocks with daddy.

Animals!!!

The DAM tourtoise. Exhausted after his first museum experience!

Slacking!

As a few people have pointed out, I've been totally slacking on this whole blog thing since Christmas. (It's nice to know you noticed!) Apparantly not much happens in January/February around here though... In any case, here's some recent pics.

Colby sporting his Hefner look...

My Valentine (well, besides Steve that is...)

Torreys had a ball last weekend as we dogsat for a couple friends. Here's 3 of the 4 dogs we had at the house. #4 is a small dog, so she kind of steers clear of this gang...

Here they are helping Colby eat dinner...

Chillin on the couch.

A White Christmas...

Yep, we had a 'white Christmas' here in Denver. Apparently it was the first true one in more than 40 years! It was a beautiful day...a great day for a birthday!

Here's some pics of Christmas at the Borchert's....

I'm not sure what it is...but it's all mine!!!

Gotta train them early. :)

Torreys' favorite gift. I think it lasted about 20 minutes...

Trying out the new sled with Daddy.

Yummy!

My Little Gymnast

Colby and I have been taking a tumbling class at one of the local rec centers and since yesterday was the last class we decided to take a few pictures. He LOVES the class...although he now uses the couch arm as a pummel horse to practice his flips, so I'm not sure it was the smartest idea on my part...

He loves the mini tramp...although he doesn't get the 'jumping' part...he just runs around it!

He's showing off his balancing skills here...next class we'll work on the arms out part.

Just hanging out...

Quality Time with Daddy

Since Colby has been doing so well with his signs, daddy decided to teach him one of his own. See if you can figure out what it is...

Hint: He doesn't get to use it very much during Broncos games this year...at least not when the Broncos have the ball...

Who IS this guy??!

As you can see, Santa wasn't really a big hit this year! Maybe next year he'll realize he's the guy that's going to bring him all the toys...

We did manage to get a halfway decent family shot though.