Easter Weekend

Just another example of Carter's climbing skillz....

What Mom?? I could see my cartoons better when i stood up....

Last weekend Carter and I were invited to a Stingerette reunion at the home of one of my fellow class of 2000 drill team girls. Our director, Mrs. Holliman, sells the Stella and Dot jewelry, so they thought it was a great excuse for all of us to get together! There were 3 other little ones there, and 2 of the girls are currently preggo. Shelby, Emily and I were emailing earlier in the week about being apprehensive about bringing our toddlers to a house that is not used to little ones, but they were invited so we obliged! I spent the better part of 2 hours chasing after Carter, taking nice breakables out of his gooey hands, pulling him off of furniture and the fireplace, keeping him and Molly out of the toilet paper, and attempting to properly replace all of the TV/stereo equipment in the house. We may or may not be invited back.


We tried to get their picture together. Again with the herding cats thing. And the beautiful white couch?? Miranda, you are a brave woman! Aven and Molly are deep in converstaion, and Carter could clearly care less.

Aven was quite taken with Molly! But who wouldn't be, pretty little thing!

Then the boys decided to have a wrestling match, and Molly kept far away(remote in hand...)

Then we got brave and added Dylan to the mix. Although, if size is any indication, he can easily defend himself! He made my little dude look tiny, and although there is a 9 month difference, can you really tell? Tough guy!

Aven made another new friend in Dylan. He was in a loving mood that day apparently, as he was giving out the smooches!

I loved getting to see these girls and Mrs. Holliman, and having our little ones play together, and getting myself a Mother's Day gift(from Christiaan, of course!). I hope we can get together again after all the other additions arrive!

The next day was Easter Sunday. Christiaan had to work, so he couldn't attend church with us, but my family joined us at C3, and then we had lunch and went to Karen and Drew's.

Carter took part in the Easter egg hunt at church. They didn't take the little guys outside since most of them cannot walk. Carter put an entire egg in his mouth. Not the contents, the whole dang egg. I had attended the 9:00 service since it was my Sunday to work the 10:45 service nursery duty, and when I walked into the babies room, Carter promptly escaped and went straight to the bigger kids room. So, he joined in on their egg hunt outside.

Although this time around, he was more interested in playing on the slide, surprise, surprise!

We attempted a picture in front of the church

We were able to get an awesome family picture though!

And then our luck ran out after that before could get a good one of the 3 of us.

When we got home, he begged to play outside, so I thought maybe we would try the whole egg hunt thing again so I could get some cute pictures.

He picked up the one egg, threw it across the yard, and then refused to sit with his basket for a photo op. There ya go.

(By the way, if you gave Carter this basket last year at Easter, would you please tell me?? At that point last year Carter was 3 weeks old and my brain was not thinking straight yet)

One of his favorite things to do these days is to play with Libby. Generally there is more taunting of her than anything, although occasionally he will actually throw the ball, at which point he cracks up when she chases it!

The taunting phase

Last week was TAKS testing at school, on top of other obligations, and this weekend is the last weekend that Christiaan will not be working the afternoon/evening shift for awhile. This morning Carter had surgery to put tubes in his ears, and it went well! I meant to take pictures of the process, but it was early and he was a handful. Hopefully it will end all our many doctor visits that we have had the last 5 months!