I was just in the kitchen, and heard Carter yelling "Nice, Nice!" I walk into the family room, and he has a death grip on our dogs back leg. Poor Roxy!

Knock knock

My little alarm clock (Carter) went off at 5:30 this morning. Gotta love it.

After yelling "MAMA" for the fifteenth time, and getting no response. I then hear, "Knock knock!!! Mama, knock! knock!!!!" The last couple of knock knocks had extra emphasis.

Even though I was tired as heck, that little booger still made me laugh.

Wow, i've been slacking!

Just a quick post today. I'll write more later, and I have a few pictures to put up too. :)

Carter and I have had a busy morning of chores. Laundry, dishes, picking up, grocery store, michaels (that's always a fun trip, not a chore) :) We got home, ate lunch, and then its glorious nap time!!!!!

I put him in bed, he asked me to pat his back for a minute (so cute!) and then he waved bye to me, which means he's ready to go to sleep. That doesn't happen all that often, usually he begs me to stay longer, by putting up his pointer finger which he thinks means "1 more minute" or "1 more." lol. Anyways, i'm gone for maybe 3 minutes before he is yelling "DADA, MAMA, DADA, MAMA" on and on and on....

I finally walk in, and he's pointing to his butt. Not that I blame the kid for not wanting to sleep with poop in his diaper, it was just funny to me because he has never done that before.

At the store today, I kept telling him my list. He would do his best to repeat, "milk, bread, bananas." He's turned into quite the little helper, although that list was short enough to remember even with my pea size brain. :)

Check back later for a few new pics, and some new scrapbooking pages I did this weekend!

AGHHH

I hate my closet. Nothing fits, and I have no money to buy anything that does.

I hate my closet. I hate my closet. I hate my closet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The end.

Like I needed one more thing to do on the computer.

In case I don't already spend enough time sitting in the computer chair, I added one more thing to use the computer for. :) I'm getting hooked! I'm thinking I will mix up my scrapbook albums from now on with some paper layouts, and some digital. Digital scrapbooking is fun, except I spend WAY too much time browsing through all the kit options! :) Here are a few random pages I have done in the past few days. I'm still learning my photoshop, so they aren't too elaborate!


Template by Liz at Scrappingwithliz.com

Kit is Moody Blues by Shabby Princess

Kit is A year in the life, by Lyndsay Riches

Kit is Under the sea, by Tabby Scrap Designs

Seriously?!?! Lil Kim got voted off DWTS instead of Ty??? You have GOT to be kidding me! She is SO much better than he is!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First digital scrapbook page

I did my first digital scrapbook page today. Normally i'm a paper scrapping type of girl. I thought I would give this a try and see if I can get a few pages done a little faster. Maybe i'll mix some digital pages into my regular paper albums. We'll see. :) I'm not sure if I like it or not, but I don't know what else to do with it right now. Maybe i'll come back to it later. :)

Kit is I am toddler hear me roar by SPinky Dink Scraps

I really have misplaced my brain!

This morning I got up, opened the cupboard to get a class...and sitting in front of me is a bag of frozen mixed vegetables, defrosted of course!!! It was the rest of the bag of the veggies I gave Carter for dinner. I didn't even put them in the food cupboard!!! Don't ask me WHY I put them in with the plates and glasses. I really am losing it!

Really? Are you kidding me?!?!

Jordan and I were greeters at church last night. Since we get there so early, and we don't go in to sit down until after worship has ended, we always save ourselves a couple of seats for when we sneak in. Last night, I was kinda surprised by this lady who I handed a bulletin to, she pretty much just grabbed it out of my hand, and kept walking through the doors. It's just not very common that someone completely ignores your smile, and hello, welcoming them to church.

So anyways, after we are done passing out bulletins, we go in to sit down. The seats I saved are full! Guess who decided to sit there, and move my purse, and bulletin that were saving our seats???? Yep, that rude lady!!! I couldn't believe it, I mean seriously, you are coming to CHURCH! I had to go get my purse, because I wasn't going to let it sit there the entire service, so I walk over, say "excuse me" and grab my purse, AND bulletin. She just looks at me, and doesn't say a word. I seriously just sat there and chuckled....some people just DON'T get it!

Carter vs. playground

Playground 1 - Carter 0

It's quite the task some days at the park to keep Carter from nearly killing himself. I seriously think he would jump off 5 ft. high equipment, and not think twice about it. He is absolutely fearless! He face planted this morning, and now has a big bruise on his cheek, and looks like he has a black eye. I took a few pics this morning after we got home from the park, but its bruised up more since then. Good thing I wasn't planning on getting his 18 month pics done quite yet!


Mischievous little boy!


He thinks he's pretty funny stuff!!!



We were saying prayers tonight, and we prayed that Grammy and Papa enjoy the rest of their vacation, and have a safe trip home. Carter puts his milk cup down, says "Grammy" (by shaking his finger, thats still how he signs Grammy, lol) and he says "Papa." Then he waves and says "bye bye" and "bus." He was so cute! My dad took him out to the motorhome alot while they were packing, and they call it "the bus" to Carter. I just love seeing him try to formulate a sentence, its adorable. :)

Amish friendship bread

A friend of mine gave me an amish friendship bread starter. I was really excited! I had some for the first time last year, and it was delicious!!!!

So anyways, i'm just confused as to how we can eat it, and not end up puking our brains out. Basically, you are given a starter. It has a cup of the mixture in it from your friends starter. It's kinda confusing! Anyways, it has instructions, but you let it sit out for 9 days. On day 5 or 6, you add a cup of milk, sugar, and flour. To make a long, rambling, confusing story short....basically you could be eating a loaf of bread that has milk it, which could possibly have been sitting out on the counter for months!!!! Make sense? So say I got a starter from a friend, and she got hers from a friend. On day 9, when their starter is done, you add more milk, sugar, and flour. Then you take out a cup of mixture, and put it in 4 seperate bags. Voila! 4 new starters! Then I give a couple of my starters to a friend. Although the amount gets smaller, and smaller...their still is a trace amount of milk/mixture leftover from my friends starter, and her friends! Are you totally confused yet??? :) Google it if i'm making no sense. But seriously, my question is, how can you eat something with milk in it, thats been sitting out for maybe only 10 days??? When it ferments (whatever that means) does that make it somehow more safe?

All I can picture is a sippy cup of milk thats been sitting in my car for a week. There is NOOOO way I would want to drink that nasty stuff!!!!!! Why is it different with the bread mixture? Someone enlighten me!!!!

My 2 loaves are now cooking in the oven. Regardless of how the heck it works, i'm still excited to eat some! :)

Boys will be boys!

Today Carter and I went to the park with my friend JoEllen, and her two boys Ethan and Gavin, and also my friend Danielle and her son Dillon. Us girls had a great time chatting, and the boys had lots of fun running around and playing in the sand! We stayed for 2 1/2 hours, our longest park trip yet!!!

Here are some pictures from our fun morning!

All 4 boys


Dillon :)


A of course, a few of Carter!

Just another day

After an emotional morning at MOPS, I was inspired to scrapbook tonight. I wanted to create a page to help me remember the everyday moments that seem to slip away as time goes by. No photos on these layouts, just memories. :) This is what I came up with.




The journaling says...(I realize my grammar is not the best...thats what happens when I just write, and don't proofread. Oh well though.) :)

Tuesday April 21st 2009.

My built in alarm clock...AKA you, woke me up at 6:12am! Way too early for you & I was tired!!! I changed your diaper, got your milk cup, and we went back into my bed to cuddle. I really just wanted a few more minutes of sleep! :) You began to wiggle your upper body, which is your baby sign for when you want to watch the TV show "The Wiggles." It's so cute!!! I showered while you ate breakfast. We had MOPS today, and we made it out of the door on time! You were a big helper this morning, and actually waited patiently at the door...while waving "bye bye." (as I gathered last minute stuff) At MOPS we got out of the car, and you saw Rhiannon. You immediately go give her a hug...completely unprompted by anyone. <3. You are such a sweet boy! After MOPS, we had lunch. You finished your grapes and said "mama" then signed "more" then said "ball" meaning....more grapes Mommy! Nap time was from 1:15 - 3:45! You woke up crying after sleeping for an hour, but i'm thakful you went back to sleep for another hour+! I enjoy the break of nap time!

After you woke up, we read a few books on the couch, and watched a few more minutes of "The Wiggles." Then we went out to Moreno Valley to get you a few pairs of play shorts...it was almost 100 degrees today! We got home about 5:15 and Daddy was home from work. You LOVE when Daddy gets home! We all played in the family room for a while. Fun stuff! I helped you practice your jumps for The Little Gym in the morning. You kept trying to sneak up behind me, and you would laugh hysterically! You would push my back with your arms, and you thought that was even funnier! You had both Daddy and I cracking up! Next was dinner time. You had veggies, fruit, and some yogurt. Go figure...thats ALL you will eat! You threw a FIT the night before when I offered you a chicken nugget and ketchup. I call you my little vegetarian. After dinner Daddy filled up the bath for you. I came in to take a few pictures since I don't have any recent bath pictures. All of the sudden, you lean over to the side, and take a big poop in the bathtub. Nice! I LOVE cleaning a poopy bathtub! (insert sarcasm here) :) We got the you and the tub cleaned up and then it was bedtime. After we played with you wrapped in your puppy towel of course! We bark and call you Carter the doggie...you love it. You pant like a dog the whole time. :) After a story, hugs, kisses and prayers....you were out for the night at 7:35. Sleep tight baby boy....hopefully past 6:12am!

I love this!

A friend made this for me today, and I absolutely love it! :)



Thank you Kara!

Thank heavens he isn't repeating me yet!

I was getting Carter ready for bed tonight, and we sat down to read a story. He has this book called, "Guess how much I love you?" Its about a rabbit called little nutbrown hair, and its Mom called Big nutbrown hair.

Anyways, as we sat down to read, I picked up the book and asked Carter if he was ready to read about the little brown nut hairs.

I don't think we are quite ready for that conversation yet!!!! I did get a pretty good laugh out of it though. :)

Never a day without laughter

I can't tell you how many times every day Carter will do something that has me busting up laughing! I was watching him tonight and thinking about how thankful I am to have him. Laughter is the best medicine for anything! :)

There were a couple flies in our house this morning that were driving me crazy. I looked around for the fly swatter, but I couldn't find it. The flies kept landing on the coffee table, so in place of the fly swatter, I grabbed one of Carter's books. He was playing with something in the kitchen, and I didn't think he was looking my way, so I took one big swat at the table with the book. Of course I missed, but then he was walking back my way, so I gave up. Two seconds later, he goes and grabs a book, lifts it up to his head, and slams it onto the coffee table. I tried SOOO hard not to laugh, but the proud look on his face, I just couldn't help it!!!!! He laughs this develish little laugh, and does it again. I don't know why it was so funny, but it was. Pretty soon I distracted him with something else and thankfully he gave up the book slamming.

Carter went to Grammy's today since I was working. Uncle Todd decided to come out for a visit since he had the day off. Carter absolutely LOVES him, its adorable! He doesn't want much to do with me, or my Mom when Todd's around. They wrestled, went for a walk, took a little cat nap on the couch, and had all sorts of fun. Carter kept running up to Todd's legs yelling "aghhhh" and would give him big bear hugs. <3

He loves the word "ball" now. We went to Target yesterday and I was wandering the kids toys and sporting goods aisles, trying to fill up his Easter basket. All I heard over and over...."baa, baa, baa, baa." He can't quite say the "l's" yet, but he's trying. Its really cute when he tries to say baseball. It sounds nothing like the word itself, more like "buh-baa."

So at random times throughout the day, we go through the progression of words he knows. I ask him to say Mommy, Daddy, Papa, Grammy, ball, and baseball. He will say all the words, except for Grammy. He made up his own baby sign for Grammy which he does ALL THE TIME! He sticks out his pointer finger, and shakes it (think "no no") We aren't quite sure where the sign came from, but its funny that he will say all the words you ask, until you get to Grammy, he shakes his finger around. :) Then I will say, "No Carter, say Grammy with your mouth, use your words." He just sticks his pointer finger in his mouth. haha.

Just for kicks, here is my favorite picture so far this week. :) I was in the kitching, and he starts yelling, "MAMA, MAMA!!!!" I walk around the corner, and this is what I found.


Never a dull moment! :)

In a blogging funk

Can you tell I haven't been in the mood to blog lately? As a matter of fact, i'm still not, but I decided it was time to write at least a sentence or two. :)

Life has been busy!!! Work has been really busy, which is awesome! My scheduled days have been almost completely booked for the past 8 weeks. It's incredible, and i'm SO thankful! I did have a nice break today, and it was a great chance to get caught up on laundry, grocery shopping, semi-cleaning the house, etc. :)

Carter learned a few new words this week. He says Papa, and also Ball. They don't really sound exactly like they should, but he's trying. :) He has been trying to say MINE for a few weeks now, I really don't know where he learned that one.

As for an update on my last post...a few people asked me about. We decided to wait until he is 17 months for his MMR shot. They like to wait about a month inbetween vaccines, so I decided to do it then that way we don't get behind on his 18 month shots. I will just take him in a couple weeks late for his 18 month appt. I feel better about the decision, and then at 18 months, he will be all caught up and done with vaccines for a while, YAY!

Thats all for now. Hopefully I will be back before another 2 months go by!

MMR Vaccination

Tomorrow is Carter's 15 month appointment. I postponed the MMR vaccination at his 12 month appointment, and said I would reevaluate my decision at 15 months. I am still SOO torn on what to do. I have prayed for guidance, and clarity, and I feel as though i'm still right where I was 3 months ago.

I wish I would just feel like I knew what the "right" decision was for us. I know this is such a controversial topic, and I don't think blogging about this is going to give me the answer i'm looking for, however I just need to get it out.

I understand that there is a lack of evidence on both sides of the argument. I have reseached vaccines off and on for the past year, and still have yet to make a solid decision.

I just feel like its a catch 22. If I give him the vax, and he has a bad reaction, I will never forgive myself. However if I don't give him the vax, and he contracts one of the illnesses, I would feel the same way.

I am praying God will help me make a decision. I just want to make an informed decision, and do what is best for Carter!

AGHHHHHHHHH

To Daddy: Love Carter

Happy Valentines Day!!!

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