Carter's Birthday Celebration

Carter is now three! For his birthday, he wanted to go fishing and to the zoo. So Thursday night, Eric's parents came and we all went fishing, had birthday cake, and opened presents. We had a great time fishing. The boys loved it and they even caught something! Isaac got two catfish and Carter got one. It was so much fun I think we'll try to make an effort to go more often. Friday, on his birthday, we went to the zoo with his buddy Matthew and then he got to go to Nana's and spend the night so that Eric and I can celebrate our anniversary today! Happy 7 yrs to us!

The guys walked away for a second, but I think I got it all under control!

This was the biggest one. The other two were just babies.

Papa and Carter were playing unicorns, but Carter moved his hat up right when we took the picture.

Carter had wanted a fish cake for his birthday because we were going fishing, but then when we decided to go to the zoo, he wanted a zoo cake. He's very thematic! I had a lot of fun making it and I think it turned out pretty good!

His friend, Matthew, has been SOOOO excited to give Carter a knight set for his birthday. After Carter opened it, we found out why. He said, all excited, "Now you don't have to wear my knight stuff, Carter!" Matthew's quite the problem solver!

Carter and Matthew are some pretty serious map readers. They knew just where they wanted us to go!

Ashlyn

My friend, Polly, came over and took some pictures of Ashlyn. These are just a few of my favorites!

You can never get on the floor in my house without Carter thinking you're a horse. While I was trying to get Ashlyn to smile, I made the mistake, as I often do, so here is Carter extremely pleased with himself because he knows this drives me crazy!

Isaac's Kindergarten Program

Isaac had his first program on Tuesday. We didn't know if we would make it or not. Earlier that day the nurse sent him home from school with pink eye that he didn't have (and I never thought he did)! I guess you can't be too careful? We did make it and he did GREAT! Cutest kid there, of course! I took pictures and a video clip to post, but Ashlyn pulled my camera off the table and it broke on the cafeteria floor. I don't know how it survived my sister Cari dropping it in the ocean, and not a baby, but oh well. Guess I'll have to buy me a new one!

Carter is all geared up for his birthday celebration. Eric will be gone on his birthday (Friday), so we are starting the festivities tonight and then carrying them over to tomorrow. Don't worry, you'll get a full report!

I can't leave him alone with Ashlyn for a second!

Just enjoying the pool awhile longer!

Ashlyn and Polly

Person with a heart beat...Manequin...what's the difference?

Eric got to do his first intubation yesterday. We are always laughing at the trust that these poor people put into medical students. As this lady was drifting off to sleep, the anesthesiologist leaned over to Eric and whispered "Have you ever done one of these before?", to which Eric replied "Only on a manequin." That was good enough for him and the rest is history! :)

How about some applesauce?

Ashlyn just started eating baby food a couple of weeks ago. I try not to give my babies fruit too soon so that they'll still like their veggies. She's not wild about rice cereal, but will tolerate it. She loves oatmeal, but since I have a huge box of rice cereal, I decided to get a little crazy and go ahead and mix some applesauce in it and see how she liked it. It didn't go over so well, but I blamed the rice cereal and decided to get REALLY crazy and just give her straight applesauce. I was feeling like a cool mom giving her a special treat and was waiting for my smiles of praise. The rice cereal was NOT the problem. I guess we won't have any issues with fruit taking the place of veggies. Sweet potatoes, please!

She's not crying here. This is just the most disgusted face she could muster! Of course I had to keep shoving it in because I thought it was funny!

Cake Decorating

A couple of my friends and I signed up for a cake decorating class at Hobby Lobby. It was a lot of fun! I think I mostly enjoyed the couple of hours a week to myself. Here are a couple of my cakes. I'm practically a pro! :) They have two more courses, but I think I need to wait awhile. My family has had waaaaaayyy too much cake these last couple of weeks! I'm all set for Carter's birthday next week, though!

(Carter's fingers found their way into the cake before I could take that picture, and as you can see, Isaac's finger is on its way!)



I had one more cake, my final one, but it was pretty sad. I must have been out of my groove...I didn't even take a picture!