I have a little fun with Carson’s hair after he takes a bath.
I love that his favorite favorite favorite is “handsome hair”.
I look back at pictures from when he was little and he had wispy curly hair and I keep wondering what would happen if I let it grow a little longer. But he looks so cute all clean cut!
Carson & I went to the basketball game today – Michigan won big near the end (after trailing early).
In the car going home, I thanked Carson for going to the game with me and he said “you’re welcome!”
I told him it was really fun.
He said “But when we won? It was WEALLY fun!”
And then he said “The bad team was winning at the beginning but then we got ahead!”
When I asked what is favorite part of the game was, he said it was when we won. And his second favorite part was “bout when we got some slam …
I really should title this “A year-plus of posts” because I really feel like it’s been that long since I’ve been really writing here. So I’m going to do a massive update post (with no pictures, because that is my big road-block lately) and try to get caught up.
Football started, school started, activities started, we went to Purdue for an away game, the Tigers made the World Series (Carson still loves baseball), Tigers didn’t win the World Series, Halloween, Mallory’s birthday, basketball season started (Carson still loves basketball), Thanksgiving, Christmas, trip to Tampa for the bowl game, Mallory lost …
Carson is still such a little dude and it is so funny to hear some of the stuff he comes up with.
Leaving Florida last week, Mallory said “we are closer to Miami!” and Carson said, “and MY Ami!”
He informed us that when he gets older, he will play football – QB – at Michigan and that his name will be Denard Robinson. When he is done playing football his name will be something else (not Carson or Denard). This goes back and forth about whether he will be Denard Robinson or Denard Brandt.
Rick just headed to the basement [where the kids …
Carson just came to our bed and snuggled down in between Rick and me. He said we were “surrounding” him and I said it was a Carson sandwich.
He said “you and daddy are the ‘bweads’ and I’m the TURKEY!”
Yes indeed.
Almost every single morning, Carson’s first words are “MOMMYYYYYYYY!!!! Will you take me to school?” And when I tell him no (because it would make me late for work), he starts crying and showing a huge pouty lower lip with big fat tears falling from his eyes over his big fat cheeks.
It kills me.
So a few weekends ago on a Saturday Carson ran downstairs (at like 8.30a) and asked if I’d take him to school that day. I was just about to walk out the door to run to the grocery store for bacon or milk or something, so I …
My sweet boy has started coming into our bed early every morning (at like 3a). It's pretty cute except the mornings where he doesn't fall right back to sleep. I don't know if it is because he's sick (working on some croup right now) or what, but it is hard when I don't get to fall back a sleep for a while or at all.
This morning he came in and butzied and produced some good snots (also probably due to croup) and then declared it wake up time because the sun was out. I tried explaining that he went …
Despite my plan to take pictures of the kids opening all their gifts (I think have that plan every Christmas), I again ended up just letting myself sit back and enjoy the moment instead. So alas, I don’t have any gifts of our hotel room chaos.
But here are a couple that I snapped with my iPhone.
Our hotel Christmas tree. I bought this little tree about 10 years ago when my Great Aunt Marion scolded me for not having a tree in my apartment. This year Rick had it set up with the gifts under the tree when we got to …
After arriving in Florida on 12/23, there was early practice on Monday (for the players, not the families), followed by a party on the beach (for the players and the families). Seeing as how I’m not a fan of playing volleyball, and ladder golf seemed a little dangerous with Carson, I instead took up a spot next to the middle volleyball court where a huge game had developed. It started with a few kids, but then the football players started joining in.
It was Denard and Frank Clark v Dennis Norfleet and Cam Gordon (each team had other players too but …
Rick is still continuing his taking pictures of the kids every morning tradition. He still isn’t so great at getting the pictures off the camera’s memory card, so when I finally get around to doing it for him, it’s always hysterical to see what goes on next to the giant ruler in the kids’ bathroom every morning.
Here some recent outtakes. We have some pretty funny kids.