1st Birthday!!

Somehow Carter turned one year old! We can't believe that happened already. We had a train theme birthday party at the park for him. It was fun with all our family. He had fun with the pinata and eating cake. He knew exactly what to do with the bat and hit the pinata. Maybe he saw me putting the candy in it. It was a fun celebration and we are so happy and blessed to have such a great fun loving son! Happy 1st Birthday Carter! We love you!

New pictures of Carter---almost 1 year old!!

Here are a few new pictures of Carter. He is almost one year old! I can't believe it! My second baby almost a toddler now. Here is him on the deck, his new hobby now--playing on the deck and opening and closing the screen door. Then him pushing his walker, he is getting close to going on his own. And then eating a sucker. He grabbed it from Taylor and she agreed to sharing. He loved it and didn't want to share it again!

Girls day out!

My sweet thoughtful husband surprised Taylor and I today with our 1st girls day out! He arranged for us to have pedicures together and then dinner. Isn't that so sweet! We went and each had our toes painted pretty. She chose blue and orange--so one foot is blue and one foot is orange and each big toe has a flower on it. Then she chose purple for me complete with a flower. We had fun and she was a very good girl. Then we went to eat dinner at Applebee's. And to top off the girls day we went to Target--which was her idea--however I don't think any girls day is complete without a trip to Target. We found some good deals on clearance Easter stuff and other things we really didn't need. But we had fun! Thanks daddy!!! We love you!

HAPPY EASTER!!

Some new things for Carter

Carter has had some new things going on too. First he got ear tubes after having 6 ear infections from Thanksgiving to February. Poor guy! So far he is doing better and hasn't been sick, yea! He also is into climbing now. He is such a boy! He climbs on anything he can. One day he started climbing the stairs out of no where. There is a little stool by our toy box and window he likes to climb on so he can look out the window and get to his toys. He always has a little grin on his face when he does this. He also is pointing to things he wants now. Today I opened the fridge and closed it before he got the chance to get in there. (you know how he loves the fridge) He looked at me in shock that I didn't let him in there. So he pointed to the door and gave me a sweet little look so I opened the door of course. He is almost 11 months and I can't believe it! Then we got a swing set too!!! We are so excited and the kids LOVE it!!! We plan on adding more to it right now its just swings and a slide, but they don't care.

Some new things for Taylor

Taylor has been able to do some new things lately. First Zach surprised us with Disney on Ice tickets. We went last year too but this year was so much better. The characters were better and with Taylor being a year older that helped. She wore her Tinkerbell dress and fit right in with the other 1000 little girls dressed like princesses. There was the Lion King, Cars, The Little Mermaid, and Tinkerbell there along with Mickey and Minnie Mouse. It was fun and she was so fun to watch. Then a few days later she went to the dentist for the first time. She did great! A friend recommended a dentist in KC so we went there. First they cleaned her teeth with her choice of strawberry toothpaste, flossed them, and took xrays. The Dr counted her teeth and sparkles with her princess mirror and magic wand of course. Then at the end she got a token to pick out a new toy and got ice cream from their ice cream machine. Yes--the dentist has an ice cream machine! So needless to say she did great and had a good experience at the dentist. And also I chopped her hair! It is about ear length but looks cute on her, only she looks older now.

A few new things for Taylor