My Dog, My Cat, My Mama, and Me

Carter's favorite book this past week has been My Dog, My Cat, My Mama and Me. He asks me to read it to him AT LEAST 15 times a day. The whole premise of the book is discovering why your dog, cat and mom get fatter and fatter but then become thin after having babies. I find it quite comical that he has discovered this book 2 weeks before becoming a big brother!



We also solved the mystery of our missing things. Apparently Carter has been sneaking off with them and putting them in the kitchen garbage. Thankfully we caught him in the act but the bummer is we have taken out multiple bags that I'm sure have treasures in them. Oh well...

Random pics

Here are some recent pics:


Carter has just recently started enjoying his adirondack chair. He loves to grab a few books and chill every once in a while which is nice for me too!


But he never sits still for very long! Here he is running around the meeting room at our Winter Getaway. He had a lot of fun with the students...what a blessing that he is such a people guy!


Another of his favorite things is going "bye bye". He runs to the back door where we keep his jacket and says "coat" and "hat" repeatedly until we get him ready to go!

And last but not least, some 37 week belly shots! And day or week now:)

Carter's favorite word right now is "cookie". He asks me for one all day long! Funny thing is that he has never even had a cookie...but for now Goldfish, Teddy Grahams and crackers are all cookies in his mind and he LOVES them!!

Dancing with Dad II

Three things that Tim loves: Carter, 80s music and dancing...all of them captured in one moment here:)

Go Hawkeyes!

The Iowa Hawkeyes won the Orange Bowl this year! On the big game night Tim was trying to teach Carter a very important word:) We aren't sure why he growls while saying "Hawkeyes". Carter even got to watch a couple plays. His favorite part of the night though was the pregame marching band! Go Hawks!!

More Words...

One of Carter's new favorite things to do is make animal noises. So many of his books have animals in them and he'll point to a cow and go, "Moooooooooooooo".
Or when we ask him what a horse says he'll say, "Neighhhhhhhhhhhhhh". He's pretty consistent with getting the "Meowww" of a cat or "Woof woof" of a dog. Once in a while he'll even get the "Quack" of a duck right but every other animal says "moooo" or "neigh" in his mind!!

Christmas 2009

I'm a bit behind AGAIN...but I guess that is just the kind of blogger that I am:)

We had a whirlwind of a Christmas with a couple days with each of our families in the Cities and then downtown on the 26th for TCX. Carter seemed to enjoy opening gifts and really loves his new toys. Everyday he wants to play with his mega bloks, wooden puzzles, bristle blocks and balls. Here are a couple of pics:

Out in the cold with Grampy and Mimi

Enjoying the pool and Nana and Papa's new apartment


Opening gifts...

And playing with his new toys in his new outfit (thanks Shan and Bud)!!