The Weekends Are Never Long Enough

July 31, 2011

Boys, we love spending the weekends together as a family. Oliver you absolutely love having Daddy home all day long. On Saturday we walked to get some coffee and donuts. Donuts are one of your favorite things. You rode around with your "ching ching" and my green hat. We also walked to the toy store, but you and your brother were asleep the entire time!

We spent Sunday afternoon at Nana and Papa's house. Carter, you had a great time bouncing around in the jumper. Standing upright is one thing you love and being able to bounce around made it even better. We celebrated Great Grandpa Hines birthday with cake and had a good time with family. Oliver, you sat with Uncle Ty Ty and had a great time playing the guitar and banjo. He's going to teach you how to play someday, you've already expressed such an interest in music...guitars especially. We can't wait to get you one someday...

The Pirate Song

July 30, 2011

The past couple of days you absolutely cannot get enough of the yo-ho yo-ho pirate song. We found a video online that you make me play over and over again. Not only are you absolutely obsessed with this song, but you have to also be wearing my green hat and holding your "ching ching". As soon as the song finishes you look over and say "pirate song pease!" every single time. You even figured out how to push play on the keyboard and thought that was really great! I love seeing you discover things that you absolutely adore and it makes me so happy to see you happy.

Carter, we discovered your first tooth popping through today! You have the start of a bottom tooth! I cannot believe how fast you're growing up. You are completely opposite of your brother at this point, but that is exactly what we expected from you. :) You are extremely close to crawling, you get better and better everyday. You and your brother have started to interact a little more and it makes my heart melt. You two bring so much joy to our lives. So glad that God blessed us with you.

Wow Is All I Can Say About Wednesday

May 12, 2011

We had an early start to our day, Carter had his two month check up (three weeks late-not my fault :) ) at nine a.m. this morning so I had to be up and ready with the boys and out of the house by eight forty-five. I got there on time with both boys in a great mood, Oliver ate his banana in the waiting room while brother was being weighed measured etc. Carter is now eleven weeks old, 12 pounds 14 ounces, and 23 inches long (although I don't think that measurement was very accurate). He is 75th percentile in weight and 50th percentile in height. He's my peanut compared to Oliver. Carter got his two shots and we were on our way home. Well, we stopped at work to see Daddy on his break and to give him kisses of course. 
Once we were home Oliver and I played toys for awhile until he was begging for a nap so I laid him down and he slept for a couple of hours. In the meantime I fed and hung out with my Carter boy. After Oliver woke up I decided that it would be a great day to take our lunch over to the park and enjoy the sunshine! When we woke up this morning it was completely overcast and cold, but by lunchtime is was sunny, warm, and not a cloud was in the sky. We took full advantage of it! We packed up our turkey sandwiches and baby carrots. Three trips down and up the stairs total. I have to take the stroller down then load Oliver up and then Carter. The last time down Carter decided to barf all over my sweater and then sneeze four times in a row therefore spraying four showers of barf on top of the large clump that was already soaking in. :) What a sweet boy.... We got to the park, ate our lunch, and ran around in the grass. Oliver picked a flower for me which was incredibly cute and sweet! He picked it, sniffed it, and ran it over to hand it to me. My heart melted a little bit.Oliver loves trees so he ran to each one and yelled "TREE!!!" until he got distracted by sticks on the ground that he referred to as "ching ching" and decided that he wanted to sword fight with Mommy so he grabbed one for each of us. His little mind truly impresses me each and every day. I ended up getting distracted with Carter so he went over and started sword fighting the stroller. So cute. Eventually Auntie Ky Ky stopped by for a little while and played with Oliver on the playground until she had to leave. He loves the slide. Kylie's buns do not. :)The rest of the afternoon was traumatic and I really just want to forget the rest of the afternoon so I won't go into detail. 
Daddy came home from work early so we stayed home, had dinner, played toys, and the boys went to bed at seven, which means we're going to bed early! We're wiped!


Some park pictures...

 picnic

 exploring

 flower for mama

 water break

 little brother

 enjoying each other

 seriously? so cute!

playing "ching ching" with the stroller.