This post is being written about 11 weeks after the fact, but because it was Carson’s first road game, I figured it was better late than never (written 11 weeks late, but I set the post date to be closer in line with when we the events occurred…)
OK, now that we have the formalities out of the way.
Everyone said I was nuts to take the kids to an away game, but for me it is easier to take them on an adventure like that than be stuck at home finding ways to entertain them all day.
I enlisted the help of …
Category: Carson
Yo, Cuz…
I totally meant to head downtown to check out this cool photography spot but instead we just hung out at Aunt Emily’s for a while.
Unfortunately this picture is semi-out of focus in real life – but it’s still pretty cute.
Shane wasn’t interested in hanging with the little kids, so he headed back to his Nintendo DS cave.
And then, because I can – I took a whole bunch of pictures of my baby boy (he was in a trance watching his sister and cousins run around the yard like the crazy people that they are).
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Bumblebees and Caterpillars
The first day of school for us wasn’t too special, since both of my kids were still going to the same daycare…but they did both move up a room, so I jumped on the “first day of school” bandwagon and took first day of school pictures.
Mallory is in pre-kindergarten this year (the Bumblebee room), and Carson graduated from the Inchworm room and is now a big Caterpillar!
It was really windy (it has been for days). Not so great when two of the four people in the picture have long hair, so we tried again with the dog – …
Undefeated!
I am so glad today is over. I was so nervous going into it – I just wanted the game to be over. I wanted to know how the team looked, I wanted to know who was going to start, etc. You’d think since Rick is at practice every day he’d give me some scoop but he doesn’t tell me anything. Blah.
We had a new tailgate spot today and we also had very unseasonably freezing cold weather. Well, it wasn’t really freezing, but there were like million-mile-per-hour winds. Well, they weren’t really a million miles per hour but the temps …
The #8
Carson got his fourth haircut today. It makes me so sad to cut off his wingy curls but most of the time they are a fuzzy mess and I just can’t deal.
My biggest issue was the back…so my hair chick pulled out the clippers, and attempted to relax me by saying she was only using the #8.
I hope the curls don’t get mad and not come back when his hair gets thick enough to have the curls look cute instead of messy. I keep trying to remember how we got through this stage with Mallory – and I think it …
I am so lucky.
That’s all.
Sometimes, a picture just won’t do
Imagine I wrote a post here about my sweet son, and how he has learned to wink. It started out with him trying to imitate me winking at him and has progressed to him winking on command {making my kids do silly things is truly one of my most favorite things about being a mom…}.
Carson winking consists of him squeezing both eyes tight. It is beyond adorable and I can’t stand it. I do need to get an actual picture so when I make a book from my blog, I have a record of it (but maybe in a few …
Run, Carson, run!
An empty fieldhouse? Check
A bossy big sister? Check
A little boy who can’t sit still? Check
Sunflowers & Siblings
I PROMISE YOU that I don’t tell them to hold hands like this. Mallory just reaches her hand out, sometimes telling Carson to hold her hand, but he always does without a fight. I really need to get a good close up of just their hands.
Anywho, I took the kids out to check the sunflowers at Domino’s Farms. Carson was more interested in anything that wasn’t sunflowers, like the cows across the street…that had an electric fence keeping them in. Or Carson out.
So all of us headed across the street – and I couldn’t get any good pictures there because …
A boy & his dog
Yep, still working on that post about our new house.
But here’s another peek…
The other night I couldn’t find the dog anywhere. He’s usually asleep somewhere in my room while I slave away over my computer editing pictures. We have baby gates up so I know he didn’t go downstairs and then I noticed both of the kids doors were open.
I grabbed the flashlight and looked in Mallory’s room first – only things on the floor in there were the piles and piles of clothes I need to go through and put away.
Next up was Carson’s room…and there, …