the Goods, the Bads, and the Uglies

GOOD: Kole is a little sweetheart.
Jessica Mortensen and I had an early morning 9 am get together (okay, early for me when Ryan and I stayed up until 2:30 the night before) to figure out the decorations for our Church Christmas Party.  Jess is so talented and had so many great ideas, that we had a plan in place in no time, but we had to chat and catch up b/c no "meeting" should be under 20 minutes.  While we were "working" on ideas, Kole brought us each a plateful of salad, with celery, fresh strawberries, unwashed carrots from Kole's wheelbarrow garden and some shredded cheese.  It tasted great, we loved it, and wanted him to take pictures of it, just to prove how much. I must love Kole, b/c these are some lovely no make-up, hair not combed, pictures of me, Jess looks perfect as always. Sigh, what can you do?

GOOD:
Braydon is brave and Kole mastered his fear, I think.
 I had Ryan climb up in our nook above our front door to put some Christmas decorations up there.  Kole decided he wanted to climb up too.  He would climb a couple of rungs and then climb back down, this happened a couple of times.  Braydon walked over to see what we were doing and decided he wanted to climb up. So, Braydon got on the ladder and climbed right up.  Kole was down below telling Braydon to be careful, that what he was doing was dangerous.  Braydon made it up there and was hanging out with Ryan, so Kole decided he had to try.  He started climbing and while he was climbing he kept saying over and over again,"come on Kole, you can do it." It was so cute.  He made it to the top and was shaky and all sweaty, but he was so proud of himself.  Braydon wondered what the big deal was.  The brave just don't understand sometimes.  So after a photo-op it was time climb to down, Braydon was fine (check out his cool boxers) as for Kole ........ that was another story. Let's just say they all made it safely down the ladder eventually, with Kole kissing the ground, so glad to be safe.