How boring are my post titles lately? I guess I am just happy to be posting so I shouldn’t beat myself up too much!
We didn’t do a big vacation in January/February like we’ve done the past few years. And then when you add in the tornado this spring – we’ve been sort of stressed out. All I wanted was to get out of town for just one night and try to not think about the house (or Rick’s training!) for a couple of days.
We ended up in Ohio at Kalahari Waterpark. The most exciting part of the trip there was …
Category: Carson
Carson’s 3-yr pictures
I thought I’d share my journey in getting a good pictures of Carson for his third birthday.
Here is the first attempt – from early April. Not all the pictures from this session are this bad…some are worse. Gotta love a three-year old boy with a bossy big sister telling him to act silly while I’m trying to take pictures.
Fast forward three weeks – and I got these. GAH I LOVE THAT KID!!! I almost want to decorate an entire wall of our house with these pictures.
And of course Mallory wouldn’t let me just dress Carson up…
Carson ~ May 2012
Wednesday night – Carson was supposed to be going to sleep and wanted another cup of water. Rick told him he’d be right back with it but then he went outside with Mallory to ride bikes.
Carson started hollaring down for Rick “Daddy! Daddy? DAD-DDDDDDDYYYYYYY! I NEED MORE WATER!!!”
I started heading up there with his water and heard him say “I don’t know what is going on around here!”
I about wet my pants.
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One morning this week I was brushing my hair before work, Carson was in the bathroom with me and looked up at me and …
Carson’s Birthday Interview
We finally did Carson’s birthday interview this morning. It’s not the same as the one we did with Mallory, I’ll do that one too but this one seemed fun too.
1. What is your favorite color? Blue and yellow
2. What is your favorite toy? Mr Potato Head and Woody & Buzz (editor’s note – he had never played with a Mr Potato Head until two hours before we conducted this interview).
3. What is your favorite fruit? Strawberries
4. What is your favorite tv show? Tigers baseball
5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? applesauce
6. What is …
A Brain Dump
I have so much stuff I want to post about but don’t have the energy or creativity to do it right so instead I’m going to dump it all out here.
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Until this week, “Mommy” and “Mallory” sounded the same when Carson said them because he said Mallory “Maw-wee”. But now he says “Maw-oh-wee”. It makes it less confusing since I know who he’s calling for, but it makes me sad that he’s getting older.
Carson sometimes just has a piece of bread and vegetables for dinner. I refuse to make him a separate meal so if he doesn’t like …
What a difference a thumb makes
Carson loves to make the “I LOVE YOU” sign with his hand, so when you ask him to tell you he loves you, he makes that sign.
But every since he turned three, he follows it with “but if you put the thumb in, I can PEW you!” and he pretends to shoot us. I think Spiderman shoots webs like that?
Baseball boy
I’m sure it’s not that unusual that a 3yr old kid is all over baseball, but remember it’s my blog and my gig and I like to brag about my kids.
But Carson LOVES baseball. He loves Awex Lavila (Alex Avila) and can tell you what the score is on tv. He tells grownups that he likes their Digers (Tigers) hat. It’s hysterical.
Last week we were watching a Tigers game and someone got a home run. Carson said “Bye bye!!!”.
Love him.
Carson at 3
I need to get Carson’s birthday interviews going but in lieu of that, I’ll share some other stuff he’s doing/saying.
But first – he had his well-child doctor’s appointment last week. I had to wake him up at the daycare for his appointment and he was sort of a mess when we got to the doctor. He snapped out of it quickly and turned on the charm for the pediatrician. It was hysterical.
She was happy to hear that he’s sleeping well, and eating well, and that he’s totally potty-trained, even at night. She isn’t worried about his speech (even though …
Woody & Lightning & Tigers
Carson was so excited about turning three.
Apparently the unofficial theme was Toy Story and Cars and Tigers because most of his gifts fell into those categories. He also got his own Mobigo (with a Cars game…) and a tackling dummy.
Gigi & Grandpa and Lauren & Liam came over to celebrate with cake & ice cream, and watch our big three year old open his gifts.
FREE!
My sweet baby boy is three. I seriously can’t stand it.
We had a party with some of his little friends from school on Sunday, April 1 (my birthday!). Mallory’s best friend from kindergarten came too (with her little sister who is three days older than Carson) to help distract Mallory from bossing Carson and his friends around.
It was pretty cute. Carson was soooooo excited to see his friends outside of school, especially his BEST FWEND BEN BEN. The boys spent most of their time in the basketball section and my plan to have Mallory’s friend come to distract Mal worked …