Reason 2,529 why I love my baby boy.
The kids were eating cereal out on the deck this morning at my aunt & uncle’s.
Mallory came in to get more cereal and shut the door behind her. A minute later I heard the door and went to help because I was a little worried Carson was trying to open it with his cereal bowl in his hands. As I opened the door, I saw he was empty handed.
Then I looked down and saw that he’d set his cereal bowl (that still had some milk in it) on the doormat so he …
Category: Carson
Lake Skege-what?
While on our up north adventure we adventured south-west-ish to visit our neighbors who were visiting their parents’ lake house on Lake Skegemog (I’ll admit I had to google the name of the lake again because really – what kind of name is that? And please don’t ask me to say it.).
Lake Skegemog is connected to the better known Elk Lake and the famously-known Torch Lake. As was the theme of the week, the weather was fantastic and we got to go boating and tubing and funning on the lake.
Mallory, Rick, Carson & Nathan on the tube
The three musketeers in …
I wanna be a Cowboy, baby
Another fun activity we did up north was taking the little kids horseback riding. Kaylie, Mallory, Alex & Carson all got to go on a short ride and they all LOVED it.
There was a slight misunderstranding on where this horsy ride was taking place, so here are some pictures from us wasting time (hahaha, how many Kid Rock songs can I quote in one blog post?) before the kids started their ride. I love the pictures of Carson looking like he’s having a serious conversation with a horse. Or pony. Or mini-horse. Or something.
All American Boy
Just some pictures of my little golfer from up north. My aunt & uncle had a pretty green lawn that Carson loved using as his personal golf course. I think have have to work on his form a little bit. Oh, and Rick is thrown in there for good measure – he enjoyed some long hilly bike rides while we were up there.
I Dee Yit!!!
Today was my turn to yell “I DEE YIT!” again ;-)
Rick wanted to water-ski, and seeing as how my dad is leaving tomorrow (and taking his boat with him), today was the last day we had access to a driver so ski Rick did.
He started on the dock and made a loop and then dropped a ski and made another loop. The kids were both yelling and cheering and it was fun.
Rick asked if I was going to go. I tried to say “oh no…that’s OK. it’s too cold…yada blada”.
Then my dad reminded me that Emily hadn’t been able to …
Fish Kids
Our first day “up north” found us in Harbor Springs at the Treehouse with Doug & Sue, et al. We went out to dinner Saturday evening and before dinner the kids all walked the docks and looked at all the boats.
I promise we didn’t plan to have them all wear blue.
from smallest to biggest – Carson (2), Alex (4), Mallory (4), Kaylie (almost 6), and Brendan (9).
The Fourth – 2011
It has been a few years since I’ve been up north for the fourth. I used to spend every fourth at my aunt & uncle’s place on Walloon so I was fired up that it worked out that we could come up this week this year. RIck has only been here once, which is surprising to me, given how much I love it, but we’ve taken full advantage of our days up here so far this year.
We came up a few days ago and spent a night with Doug & Sue and their kids in Harbor Springs, and then came …
Another Rite of Passage
Carson was due for another haircut – and while Rick and a bunch of other people mentioned that we should let Carson’s hair grow to see if it would be curly like Mallory’s, I couldn’t do it – at least not in the summer. Carson’s hair is thicker than it looks and when you play as hard as he does, he gets really sweaty. So I opted to give him another summer cut and then maybe in the fall see about letting to grow a little.
I am also aware that he ages every time I get him one of these …
Passed out
After a long night of playing and eating at Coach Hoke’s house, the kids fell asleep so fast they didn’t have time to get in trouble. Normally Carson gets moved to his crib before either kid falls asleep because they can’t leave each other alone.
Another “This is my life” picture post.
Mallory in her new Fancy Nancy dress that her Grandma made. And Carson riding the zipline with his sister’s pink sunglasses.
Not sure what else I need to say except thank goodness for days (and laughs) like this to make up for days (and tears) like yesterday.