Happy Halloween!

Carter's 2 Costumes this Halloween!

Memories

AS A COMMENT ON MY BLOG, LEAVE ONE MEMORY THAT YOU AND I HAD TOGETHER. IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU KNEW ME A LITTLE OR A LOT....ANYTHING YOU REMEMBER! NEXT, RE-POST THESE INSTRUCTIONS ON YOUR BLOG AND SEE HOW MANY PEOPLE LEAVE A MEMORY ABOUT YOU. IT'S ACTUALLY PRETTY COOL (AND FUNNY) TO SEE THE RESPONSES. IF YOU LEAVE A MEMORY ABOUT ME, I'LL ASSUME YOU'RE PLAYING THE GAME AND I'LL COME TO YOUR BLOG AND LEAVE ONE ABOUT YOU!
****Please, please don't tell my deepest darkest secrets!! My sister already told one to my then Fiancee and I thought I was going to die and that he'd leave me!!!****

My Two Boys

Everyone always asks who Carter looks like. I think the pictures below will prove that I did not sleep with the mailman. Carter is allllll Neil!


Here is Neil(above) when he was about 3-4 months old. I think he looks so much like Carter. And now you know where Carter gets his dark eyebrows from. And we know where Carter gets his "HUGENESS" from.
He loves his Bumbo chair. Here is Carter last week.(above) Carter is now 4 months old and weighs 19 lbs. 14 oz. He is 27 1/2 inches long. Off the charts again.......much like his daddy was.
Here is Neil when he is a little older. Another example of Father like Son.
Not only did Carter get his eyebrows from his daddy, he also got his kissable, full lips. Luckily he did not get his mommy's chicken lips. I only hope that Carter gets Neil's teeth and not mine.......(I know you were all thinking the same thing.)
And let me tell you, this child is ALL BOY! He has blown out of so many outfits lately and this day I was in a hurry to leave and so decided to bathe him in the sink. He didn't fit to well but he still enjoyed it. If he wasn't so dang cute, I'd give him a solid spanking......just kidding.
So what's your opinion? Do you think Carter looks a lot like Neil or am I just seeing things?
I love my two cute boys!

Carter's New Best Friend

(Dear Chloe, These pictures are for you like I promised. Please come and visit cousin Carter and Stanley soon. We miss you. Love Aunt Amanda.) We got a new kitty last week. His name is Stanley Manly. He is obsessed with Carter as these pictures will show.
Luckily Carter doesn't seem to mind Stanley invading his space. This night Carter was just laughing and kicking away and that didn't bother Stanley at all.
Sorry for the "personal" photo. I don't know how to photo shop it out. I thought for sure Stanley was going to jump in the tub with him.
Stanley loves Carter's toes. He snuck in his crib as I was putting him down for a nap. Don't worry-he wasn't allowed to stay there.
Another favorite of Stanleys is to sit with Carter and I while I nurse him. My thoughts on the subject are "2 is company, 3 is a crowd!" Luckily he spends most of his time outside in the garage-Stanley, not Carter.

My Worst Nightmare.........

(Look closely-there are several attached to the screen and others crawling around)

Grasshoppers. I am mildly afraid and deathly grossed out by grasshoppers. I don't know why they freak me out so much but they do. They have no sense of personal space and they are the only bug I know of that aren't afraid of you and they jump on you and at you constantly.

There is a field in our backyard that leads to the city library. I enjoy walking to the library but had to quit this summer because the field is infested with grasshoppers. One day I braved walking across there and they were jumping everywhere on me and the last straw was when one jumped on Carter. I thought someone would find our bodies being eaten by killer grasshoppers. I will NOT walk that way again. I will take the road that is 10 times longer from now on. And these suckers are HUGE by the way.

Well today I am in basement and I keep hearing these thuds against the windows.....grasshopper galore! They are everywhere in the window wells outside. Then I go upstairs to hear the same thing against the upstairs windows. And on my screen door out back this is what I see.........

This MASSIVE grasshopper was trying to get me. It attacked the screen and lost its life. But the point is, do these monsters know I am afraid of them and so they are going to make me pay? Do they know Neil is at work and now is their best time for attack? This is only one grasshopper but they are stuck in more than half of my screens around the house and there are small colonies set up on my back porch. I can't even go outside today-they are everywhere.............
And Neil really isn't much help-He thinks I am being dumb for being afraid. But if you could see how they have all migrated from the field into my yard, onto my porch, onto my screens........they will not rest until they are in my house!

Now I cannot wait until winter when grasshoppers are no longer around. Am I the only one terribly afraid of grasshoppers?

I love my husband but...............

I do-I love him dearly but yesterday he almost gave me a heart attack. We were in the kitchen and he spilled some water on the floor. No big deal, right? Wrong. The next time I turned around he's using my NICE kitchen towels to clean the floor!!!!!! After I screamed in shock, he apologized and said he didn't know these towels weren't for the floor. I then patiently showed him, again, where we keep the cleaning towels and why we have cleaning towels. I want him to help more in the kitchen but it's like Russian Roulette every time he's in there!! It reminds me of the time he took one of my tupperwares to store the grease from his bike chain........or the time he took my bathroom hand towel to use at his triathlon. Is my husband the only one who doesn't realize all things are not created equal???
(Neil never reads my blog but just in case....Neil, don't worry, I still love you and I won't kick you out, this time!)

Why I LOVE Sundays........

#1 Sweater Vests for church. Need I say more? Neil thinks they are a little metro-sexual but I think they are adorable on little boys. Needless to say-I win that battle.



#2 Walks along the River Trail. Carter's first time here. Next year he will probably experience it in his new bike trailer. We can't wait.

This picture is not from Sunday but from our weekend in Park City. This is how Carter spent some of his day. In the front pack. He had to be facing forward so he could look around. He loved just "hanging" there and peeking his little eyes out to see the town. We thought it was so cute.