Recap | March 2011

Poor sad and neglected blog :(  I've been working so hard on getting things at my photography blog up and going that I let this blog get VERY behind!  Well, I hope to change that right now.  Since I'm behind on several months I thought the easiest thing would be to do month by month recaps.  A recap of the month = MANY pictures, so here we go :)

We left off with Mardi Gras, so I think that's as good a place as any to pick up.  We went to one parade and watched from the Hargrove building downtown.  I will ONLY watch the parades there from now on!  It was wonderful being up there, away from the crowd.  On top of that, in between the parades we went downstairs into the basement where Hargrove put out an amazing spread of food and even had a little area for kids to color and watch a movie! 

The boys LOVED it and my friend, Lindsay and I could even enjoy the parades without having to worry if our children would be run over by other parade goers or get hit in the face by beads (believe me that is no fun!).

When we got home Parker got very creative with what he could make using all the beads we caught and when he decided on a road I thought a city was definitely in order!  Can you see his little car noise face, LOVE IT!

March is a rather odd month weather wise in Mobile.  You can be dressed like this...

or bundled up like this one day, then the next....

be on the beach playing in the sand :)  I will admit we were a bit chilly that day but we had a blast playing in the sand and being out in the sun shine after being cooped up in the house all winter long!

Here are just a few other things we did or learned this month:

Paper airplanes are FUN and daddy can make some pretty good ones!

 Parker pretty much mastered writing/spelling his name all by himself!

He's also becoming quite the "photographer"!

My baby has learned to jump and get both his feet off the ground!

And that he's becoming less and less of a baby everyday :(

Camping in the backyard = a GOOD time!

Bobby and I use to camp some while we were dating so we thought we'd test the boys on their camping trip readiness by having a practice trip in the backyard.  We concluded that while they didn't do horribly we may not be quite ready for a full fledged trip yet.  We also decided that when we do camp out again well make sure its not on a night when the moon was the fullest/brightest its been in 100 or so years!  The boys had a blast though!  They played in the tent all afternoon and asked a billion times when we were going to sleep.  I don't think I've ever seen them so eager to go to bed :)  They fell asleep quickly but poor Carter had a hard time staying that way because every time he'd move his new spot would be really cold so he woke up quite a bit.  All in all though, it was a lot of fun!

We even had a little cook out with all the fixings...

and a picnic!

Then right before bed we roasted marsh mellows and made s'mores.  Carter was a mighty good at making sure daddy got the fire going correctly ;)

Despite a rather restless nights sleep for Bobby and I, we had a great time at our little camp out!

Throw Me Something Mister!!!

Has it really been over a month since I posted last on this blog?  We haven't had a very eventful Feb. except for a cold that wouldn't leave our home but I think we're finally all starting to feel better.

This past week Parker had his Mardi Gras parade at school.  To say he was excited is a bit of an understatement.  Last weekend we went to a little parade a local neighborhood put together and that's all it took for him to realize Mardi Gras parade's = all kinds of goodies to bring home!  He was so excited that now it would be his turn to throw out the goodies...that was until he realized he wouldn't be wearing the mask he'd made earlier in the week at school.  This resulted in absolutely no smiles.  Oh well, he was still the cutest little parade thrower I've ever seen!

This little guy however, was full of smiles!  He was SO ready to catch some beads!

I love that they were able to pick out the costume they wanted to wear!  If I were able to choose for him its exactly what I would have picked!  PS:  I just love that forced smile ;)

Look at the turn out!  So much fun!

Carter's Birthday(s)

Carter ended up having 2 birthday celebrations this year because I kind of let his party planning get lost in the Christmas time shuffle.  Poor Carter!  I'm afraid his plight in life will be that he was born 2 weeks after Christmas.  I vow next year to start planning his party in Nov.

We had planned to have his party on his actual birthday but because I waited to the last minute to 1. decide where we were having it and 2. make the call to reserve our spot we had to have it on the Sat. after his birthday. To make up for it we took him and Parker to the Exploreum and then out to lunch. Here are some pictures from our morning.

He had a great time!  I even scored him some free desert at lunch.  I know our waiter probably thought I was lying when I said "its his birthday today!" and pointed to Carter but oh well!

The next weekend we had his party at the Watermelon Patch.  He had all of his favorite friends there minus a few that couldn't make it.  We frequent the Watermelon Patch for playdates a good bit and Carter always has a blast so I knew it would be the perfect place for his party and boy was I right!  He had a GREAT time!

Happy Birthday Carter Evan!  We love you so much and can't wait to celebrate many more years with you!

Rub-a-dub-dub

So, I told myself I wouldn't post these pictures before Carter's party pics but I just got done editing them and I'm so stinkin' excited about how they turned out I just couldn't wait to post them.  I'm planning on doing some sort of collage on the boy's bathroom of a selection of these but I haven't decided on which ones yet.

Happy Birthday Carter!

I can't believe that in just two short years Carter has gone from this sweet cuddly newborn to...

...this precious little boy!





There aren't enough words to express the joy and love he's brought to our family!  Over the last two years its been so fun to watch him grow into the sweet, funny and smart little guy that he's become.  Even though he was a little slow to start talking you wouldn't know that now.  He's vocabulary grows more and more every day (especially within in the last few months) and he's really starting to copy words we want him to try to say.  It won't be long before he's talking our ears off!  He even knows several letters (B, D, E and O) and will point them out on signs as we drive around town.  Within the last week I've even noticed him starting to work on recognizing different colors, yellow seems to be his favorite (just like Parker).  Smart little boy!

Its also been fun to see his and Parker's relationship grow over the last 2 years.  They know how to push each others buttons (they are brothers after all) but sometimes I'm amazed at how well they get along.  I love to hear Parker ask Carter if he wants him to play something with him and Carter will almost always give a very enthusiastic "YEAH"!

We've been blessed beyond anything we ever dreamed or deserve when God sent us this sweet little boy!  Happy Birthday Carter Evan!!!  We love you more than you will ever know!