Friday 2 weeks ago Carter and I headed to Waco, after a jaunt around town to find house keys after a mix up with my parents during my girls afternoon. We finally made it there and relaxed the next couple of days with Christiaan, spent Sunday with his mom for her birthday, and then loaded up his truck Monday morning and headed for Crystal Beach! We took Christiaan's nephew Julius with us to play with Chandler. We were meeting my aunt Karen and uncle Drew, Hayden, Miranda, and Chandler there at a beach house that Christiaan had found. We spent Monday through Thursday there, and did a whole lotta nuthin'! The guys spent a lot of time fishing on the beach, and the little boys did some fishing and playing in the water. I got a little bit roasted while we were there. We tried to make a whole little set up under a beach umbrella with a fan for Carter, but true to himself, he was not a fan of the heat and humidity so we rotated turns staying with him at the house. It was really interesting to see all the new houses being built and all the blank slabs where Ike took out basically the whole of Crystal Beach. The first afternoon that we were there Hayden got stabbed in the foot by a sting ray! Even though it was pretty painful for him, it was pretty comical. I mean seriously, who does that happen to? Besides the Crocodile Hunter I guess....
Thursday we hosed off the sand, packed back up, and headed back to Waco. It seemed like it took FOR-EV-ER to get there, especially long to get through God-forsaken Houston. Not enough money in the world could get me to live there. Anyways. Poor Christiaan coughed the whole way back. He had begun having low grade fever and night sweats the week before, and by the time we got back Thursday afternoon his temp was getting higher. I convinced him(with a lot of nagging, sorry baby!) to go the the doctor Friday morning, and they found nothing wrong but did blood work. He continued to get worse, and Saturday morning had the doctor call in a Z-pack. I suspected that he had mono, and it was finally confirmed Tuesday when the bloodwork came back. Poor guy! Definitely did not want to leave him so sick, but I HAD to come back and get some work done on my classroom. Ugh. We did get to spend some good quality time with Christiaan's sister Kristi, who moved to Ft. Lauderdale, FL shortly after Carter was born. This was her time visit back to Texas, and she probably won't make it back until around the holidays.
On a good, no AWESOME, news note.....
I'M GONNA BE AN AUNT!!!!
Friday night I got a text from Micah that said "call me" with a picture of my mom holding a baby onesie that said "What happens at grandma's, stays at grandma's." I am so uber excited! Carter and his cousin will be almost exactly a year apart!
So back to the grind and into the classroom I go! Since I had to move rooms so that Kasi and I can be close to each other, I decided to start fresh with all new decor. Its going slowly, but it will all get done and I will post pictures later. I am not ready to leave Carter all day every day and I have loved being off with him this summer, but at least he will be with aunt Karen. They are so looking forward to having him and Cole there every day!
Enough talk, on to the pictures!!
Eh, he's not so much a morning person
First cracker
I think he looks like a little man in the new jammies!
I'm sorry, but have you ever seen anything cuter than this??
Watching TV at Nana's with Julius
At the beach! This lasted about 10 minutes
Miranda dug a pond and the boys stored the tiny catfish they were catching, like these...
While Drew caught this.....
And Christiaan caught this....
Chandler and JuJu were inseparable the whole trip
Christiaan got a giant flag pole and wanted to fly a tiny TCU flag underneath his huge Baylor flag, but we didn't really know where to find a TCU flag, except at the campus store, and, um, no.
Christiaan gave Carter some driving lessons
Oh my lord, the rumors this picture started on Facebook! Christiaan and I went for a walk one evening and I took this pretty picture and posted it on my Facebook, and the engagement rumors began swirling! We thought it was quite hilarious.
We took advantage of the pretty scenery to take some family pics
The ferry boats to get back to Galveston Island from Crystal Beach
JuJu, Carter, and me on the top of the ferry boat
Back in Waco, we spent a few days with Christiaan's family. Nana bought Carter a Jumperoo, which he thinks is the coolest thing ever, but unfortunately it will have to wait for Christiaan's next trip here, as the only way it would have made it back with us was tied to the roof of my car. No thanks! If I could ever figure out how to post a video on the thing, I would put one of him jumping in it because its hilarious!
Aunt Kristi hadn't seen Carter since he was about a week old!
Uncle Jason
Well that about wraps up the week! I am already behind on blogging about the current week, but hopefully I will find the time to catch up this weekend. Does it take everyone a million years to write one stupid blog post with a few pictures?? Good grief, it frustrates me! I was thinking about having a class blog this year, but I'm seriously reconsidering that idea.
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