TGIF

Forewarning:

Its been a long and tiring couple of weeks, so forgive me if I am not all Suzy Sunshine during this post. Maybe by the end of it I will have let out some steam and get over myself. Probably not. Blogger generally just makes me angry.

So its been like 3 weeks since the last post, and we have been crazy busy. On September 11th we went to Brannan's 1st birthday party. How is he already a year old?? And how is Carter already 6 months? And how am I turning 29 next week?? I am old. Its official. Anyways, back to the point. After the party Christiaan went back to Waco for the Baylor game and Carter and I hung out with Brooke and her mom. With school starting, we hadn't hardly seen each other. We also got to see Jake, Chay, and Bentley. Last Friday Carter had his 6 month check up visit. He got shots but did really well with them. The doctor said that he is about to have a tooth pop through. I sure hope it does soon, because it is really bothering him! Last week he started with all the teething fun of the runny nose and junk. I was worried that he was getting sick for the first time, but Dr. Ewert said it was just his tooth! On Saturday Christiaan and I went with Karen and Drew to the Baylor vs. TCU game at TCU. It was a huge rivalry between the 2 guys! Although Baylor pretty much got their butt whooped from the get-go.

Here are some updates on Carter these days:

-he weighs 15 lb 6 oz(well as of last Friday)

-he is 25 inches long

-he is in the 10th percentile all around. Little guy!!

-He LOVES to eat food! All food! He hasn't turned up his nose at anything yet, including licking pickles! He eats baby food twice a day at least.

-Since he likes to eat actual food so much, he gives us trouble drinking bottles, but generally eats 5-6 oz every 4-5 hours or so.

-he is starting to sleep better during the night, just wakes up a couple times to relocate his binky sometimes

-He sits up on his own now!

-he likes to play on his tummy so that he can turn around. He is THISCLOSE to crawling. When that happens we are in serious trouble. Anyone want to donate some baby gates? or one of those octogon cage thingys? Those suckers are exPENsive!

Ok that's about it. I am running out of steam. Commence excessive picture time.

Look out dude, she's about to smack you!

You people sure look stupid making all these faces at us...

Brannan: I'm bailing while she's distracted!

( I LOVE that Bentley is this adorable tiny girl, and yet she beats down on the boys that are bigger than her! So so funny!! My kind of girl!)

Holy cow, you are funny!

My loves :)

Yep, that is Mountain Dew. No, we didn't give him any. Like he needs any assistance whatsoever in the energy department! Me on the other hand...

Auntie Brooke

Bentley and Jake

Brannan and Matt

I did not swim at the swim party. I am just not ready to expose my post-baby body in that public of a forum.

Under the waterfall with Uncle Mattie

Bentley playing in the fountain

Aaaand the birthday boy!!!

Daintily picking off the icing. That is the best part after all!

Ah there ya go!

Brothers!

Our little fam

Matt took Jack to the Ranger game that night. He bought Jack an authentic jersey to wear but wouldn't pay for a measly T-shirt for himself. If you know Matt Travis, that makes perfect sense!

Jack: "Dad, at the ballpark I want to go all the way to the top!!"

Matt: "Well son, you are in luck! That's where we are sitting!"

Courtesy of Jack's stellar photography skills. Not bad for a 5 year old actually!

Big 6 month old! This outfit was Caleb's, or Micah's, I'm not really sure which one. Maybe both. Anyways, dug out of the depths of my parents' attic specially for the next generation!

Yep, I'm big stuff. This sitting up stuff rocks! Who needs a Bumbo?

Our view of the Baylor-TCU game from the shade(haha suckers!). Thank God Christiaan scored those seats cuz it was H-O-T-T hot!!!

Karen and Drew

Drew bought a hat and shirts for them when they got out there

Um yeah, the score. I'm gonna blame that one on the whole TCU is #4 in the nation thing, not my evil curse reappearing.

Playing at the doctor's office. Note the destoyed protective paper below him. That stuff lasted about .5 seconds after he sat down!

Chillin' with Cole at Aunt K's

I get to kiss these cheeks everyday and you don't. Be jealous.

Well there you have it, the last few weeks in one super long post! No promises as to when you will see the next one, seeing as next week's calendar of daily activities looks no less full than the last few, and we will be in Waco next weekend. Lots of fun stuff coming up!

P.S. It took me over 4 hours from the first word I typed to just now when I'm about to click "Publish Post." Thus the reason my posts are so few and far between!!