Carter heavy

It's been a little while since I posted last. We've been pretty busy and the boys are on alternating nap schedules so I hardly ever have more than 20ish minutes of "alone time." This post is probably going to be "Carter heavy" in the picture department, but he's just go so much going on now that school is starting.

I guess I'll work backwards on my timeline. Yesterday was the Open House type thing at Carter's preschool. He got to play in the classroom with some of the toys, not everything was set out which seems hard to believe when you see how packed the room is. He loved it. They have an aquarium with fish and a terrarium with plants and pretend frogs, worms and lizards. He has 9 girls and 2 other boys in his class, with two teachers. The lead teacher, Mrs. Hewitt came by the house last week to introduce herself to Carter; he's been talking about her ever since. Here are some pictures of his classroom and one of his schedule that's on the wall. They stay pretty busy ...

Here is Carter playing around in Parker's old Rockets jersey. I took this so I could send it to Danny, who is a huge Rocket's fan. Oh, and his Mom is considered "stable" and has been moved into hospice in Nashville. For those that didn't know, his mom was diagnosed with kidney cancer about a month ago and took a quick turn for the worse and ended up in ICU. He's keeping us updated via Facebook, but this isn't something she's expected to recover from. They are focused on keeping her comfortable and spending time with her.

We had Cole's baptism scheduled for this past weekend, but with Danny's mom's condition worsening we have postponed it. But Nana, Papa and Sissy had planned on coming in from Abilene anyway so we had a long weekend of family time. Here is Nana playing with Cole.

Parker took Carter to feed the ducks the other day. There was a GINORMOUS turtle there. It was the largest turtle I've ever seen that wasn't in a zoo. The ducks kept pecking at it, they didn't want to share the bread that the boys were serving up.

Here's the aforementioned turtle



Cole was a very cute onlooker.

Cole is working on being a "good eater." He really wants to hold onto what ever he's eating, obviously baby food isn't a finger food. Now that he's aproaching 8 months I can introduce some dairy and that will help. But in the mean time we're trying other things. This picture was after Mom had been giving him some turkey (which he seemed to like) and she switched to roast beef pieces, which he didn't much care for.

Here's Carter doing his crab walk. We like to get out all his small animals and play "zoo." Then we try to walk like the animals would.

We also spend alot of time outside. Here are the boys getting the water out of the baby pool. Cole started it, it was hilarious. He turned over and tried to get out of the pool and then noticed that if he layed on it, all the water would rush around him. He enjoys the water. We just finished the Baby Splashes class at the swim club and now Cole is moving to the actual swim lessons. Carter is taking a little break this month and will probably start again in October. He'll be in a different class with a new teacher. He's been promoted out of Ms. Kara's class. I know he'll miss her.

What's not in the pictures is all the other stuff we keep busy with. We went to the Butterfly Exhibit at the Natural Science and History museum. I ended up joining that museum so we can go back for free. Carter liked the dinosaurs, but the butterflies were my favorite. They are amazing. We also go to K2 Academy and play around on the trampolines, balance beams and other fun gymnastic toys. We've been spending a ton of time at Mom and Dad's house; Brian and Carter seem to be permanent fixtures in their swimming pool. Mom is working hard on getting the yard in shape. They have an armadillo that has torn up the yard quite a bit looking for worms. Carter had fun digging in the garden for worms to put in the armadillo trap. They haven't caught him yet, but the hunt goes on.

Both boys are kinda sick right now. Cole has an ear infection, but after 3 days of antibiotics he's much better. Carter has the cold that caused Cole's infection, but I'm trying hard to keep Carter from getting an infection. We'll see how that works ...

I know there is a ton more that has gone on in the past two weeks, but I just can't recall it all. Maybe I'll get better at updating the blog like I used too.