Playing Nice!

Kayla can get Carter laughing so hard sometimes when she's not smothering him to death.  She just loves him so much and won't keep her hands to herself no matter what.  She is starting to get that she doesn't need to be touching him to be playing with him.  This was such a cute moment between them and they didn't even really notice that I was there.  I love it! Sorry it's not the best picture quality.  I just grabbed my phone to take the video.

Meeting New Cousin

 

So I'm excited to say that I'm an Aunt!  I became an Aunt when I married Graydon but this is the first one on my side.  My little brother Curtis and his wife Raye had baby Remington on May 13th!  He is such a cute baby and Carter looks huge next to him!  Carter is 6 months in this picture and Remington is almost a week old.  It was so fun to have them all together.

 

Kayla wanted to act like a baby too since she was by two of them so that is what she is doing in this picture.

 

And to show you how mobile Carter is getting it was very hard to keep this boy on his back so we could take a picture.  He really wanted to get Kayla.

Kayla's preschool graduation.

 

Today was Kayla's Preschool Graduation.  She still has 2 more years of preschool because she actually misses the deadline by 18 days.  But she loves, LOVES school.  I don't know what she will do this summer without it. 

 

Miss Appen is the teacher and she is actually Graydon's sister!  We love her and she does great with all the kids.  I'm so happy we have her to be Kayla's preschool teacher.  She said her part in the program so well and did pretty good at staying up there.  I only had to help her once to go back.  I love this girl!

Easter

The pictures are not in order so hang in there with me.  Easter was wonderful and very tiring.  We got to see all the cousins and don't they all look very nice.  Kayla has gotten old enough that we just send her out to play with her cousins and they get along really well.  It's so nice!

 

Carter in his Easter digs!  So handsome!

 

Kayla checking out her loot.  She really loved opening the eggs to see what was hiding inside.

 

Okay so now we are to Easter morning pictures.  First off I was very frustrated this morning because the camera was not charged.  I was very upset so these pictures were taken by my phone so they are not the best.  Kayla's favorite things she got was a Dora Wii game.  She can play it all by herself and she loves it!

 

Carter's favorite things was the grass in his basket.  I got the paper kind because I knew it would end up in his mouth.

 

Kayla helped Carter find his basket and to see what was in it. 

 

Kayla was very excited about everything she found.  It was fun watching her.

 

More Carter with the grass.  It was way too cute not to take lots of pictures.

Carter 6 months

Carter is now 6 months old!  Oh how the time flys!  So here's the update.  Carter loves anything that makes noise and put in his mouth.  He can sit up by himself now and rolls over both ways.  Carter loves his sister and she can always make him laugh.  She also is always on top of him and so that laughter ofter turns to tears.  He is babbling away and loves, LOVES his solid foods.  He is always drooling and we often have to change his clothes multiple times a day because he soaks them through

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Now for the stats: 

Weight 17lbs 6oz that's in the 55%.  Height 27inches that's in the 80%.  So he's tall and lean like his daddy.

Lost my voice found wisdom.

Well I caught the icky cold like sickness that is going around my house right now.  Stuffy nose, sore throat, stuffy ears, headache and lost of voice.  So I didn't lose my voice a little I lost it completely!  I can literally only do a slight whisper. I have gotten to use my sign language, too bad not many people know sign. But in silence you learn so much.

I have discovered:

My 3 year old will freeze and listen to me quicker if I only whisper. 

A room filled with 20 kids can be quieted and attention got with a snap and a silly dance.

Kayla says some of the silliest things when I can't talk and she tries to interpret my signals.

Graydon is the best, he took a sick day to take care of me and help me with the kids.  I don't know what I would do without him.

You listen a lot better if you keep your mouth shut!!

So this is me trying to find the positive in my sickness.  Have a nice day.

Mr. Carter Sitting Up!!

That's right he's sitting up!  It's not for long periods of time but he just thinks he's so big.  Oh he's here with his new favorite toy the wipes.  Something about the bag the wipes are in he loves to play with.  Just had to share how big he's getting.