Yummy nummy nummy

Oh what a mess. Carter is eating solid food...well, let me rephrase that, Carter is mashing real food in his hand, smearing it on his face, dropping it in his high chair, and barely getting any in his mouth. He's been eating puffs for a long time. (aunt shelly's mom introduced those to him at the end of september.) He does a great job with them, never misses one. This week we started on other solid food. Boy its a whole new ball game when the food isn't dry and hard :)

ENJOY :)

Bad knees and skinny jeans

Well call it a christmas miracle if you want. I have been running and dieting for almost 2 weeks...and that's pretty much a record for me. I've lost about 5 pounds and I can finally say I've lost all of the weight I gained while I was pregnant. Well at least since the doctor started counting. I'm pretty sure I gained about 10 pounds before I ever even went to my first prenatal appointment, haha, but that doesn't count right? I've not really been dieting, but I haven't been eating big mac's and taco supremes everyday...hey ya gotta start somewhere right? I also have not had a regular soda, and I really haven't had too much caffine either. We've been eating lots of chicken and lean beef and not too much pasta. I just ask myself, would I let Carter eat this when he gets a little older? If the answer is no, then I don't eat it. I am well on my way to those infamous skinny jeans we all have. I try to run or ride my bike for at least 30 minutes everyday..depending on how long I can get carter to hang out in his pack and play if clayton isn't home. Unfortunatly I've started having pain in my knees with every step while running. I've done some research, and apparently it's Carter's fault. Hip widening and flater feet from pregnancy and childbirth can cause problems in your knees....who knew? Really not too sure what I am suppose to do to make it better, except ice my knees after I run and put heat on them before bed. I also bought those lovely knee support things and I wear them whenever they hurt and while I'm running.
On another note, Carter has really started to say Mama all the time. Mama pick me up, mama feed me, mama change me, mamaamammamammamamamamam I'm grumpy. mama this, mama that. The only problem is he doesn't say all the stuff after he says mamamamamama so I have to fill in the blanks :)

Carpet Farm

Daddy and Carter like to farm the living room :P

Carter's first Turkey Day!

Gerber sweet potatoes were his favorite food, til he had Grandma's sweet potatoes...now he'll never go back :)

Carter and Papa playing VROOM VROOM VROOM

Praying for Baby Jackson

PLEASE pray for baby Jackson. Jackson is my friend Shelly's nephew. He was born Saturday November 17 after a slightly complicated delivery. Mommy had a 21 hour labor and 2 hours of pushing. Jackson was born with a respiratory infection and had to have a little help breathing. He improved greatly over the next 24 hours and was allowed to go home Tuesday. During his first night home he was rushed back to the hospital because he was not breathing and was unresponsive. That brings us to the present. And that's all the information I have. PLEASE pray for him and his family. It's not fair that some of us are giving perfectly healthy babies and others have to deal with scary scary situations. I'm so scared for him and I don't know what else to do except pray.

UPDATE:
Jack is doing good. He got to go home with his mommy, daddy, and the rest of the family for Thanksgiving. Thank you all for all the prayers!

Shock and Awe

This will be a post unlike any of the others, because it's not about Carter :)

When my dad was 16 or 17 he had a daughter. He lived in Ohio then, and didn't meet my mom until several years later. When we lived in Seattle my sister and her husband and their twin boys lived with us for awhile, she is 16 or so years older than me and this was when I was 5 or 6. Eventually they got their own home in seattle and also had another son. They moved back to Ohio a year before we moved to missouri. My dad died a few days before we moved to missouri and the last time I saw my sister was at his funeral. I was nine. I remember the time they spent living with us vaguely. I haven't seen or even talked to them in 14 years. I'm not sure why we never stayed in contact. I was little and I'm sure it was sorta weird for my sister to call her step mom and check in with her when our dad wasn't alive anymore.
I don't know what it was, but for some reason last night, something told me to look for my nephews on myspace. I wasn't completely sure I even knew their last names, it had been so long. But I tried it anyway. And low and behold I found them! How crazy is that? My heart started to race when I saw Nick's name and the town my dad grew up in listed as his home town. I was so shocked I didn't know what to do or say. So I just sent him a message and asked him if he was who I thought he was, even though I knew it had to be. My twin nephews are now almost 19 and one is a dad! That makes me a great aunt. I can hardly believe it! I don't know a lot about them, as I've only talked to my nephew Nick through a few short messages on myspace, but I'm looking forward to catching up with my sister and my nephews. It's exciting and scary at the same time. My dad was an only child and his parents have both passed away. So they are the only family I have on his side.
When I was younger I use to think that the only way I would ever see my sister again was on a Montel reunion show or something(seriously I thought that lol). But thanks to the world wide web, I get to have a connection with a piece of my family that I haven't had in years!

If Dogs Squeal, Do Pigs Bark?

Carter LOVES talking to Bentley. He tries to bark, but it sounds more like a pig.