Catching up!

School has kept me very busy lately, and with Spring Break still so very far away (we're talking 4 weeks) I haven't had much time to blog. SO, here will be a quick update of our life the last month.


Carter has rediscovered the teddy bear my godmother gave him at my baby shower. He likes to hug him, sleep with him, and wrestle him. (I can't get the movie to move up here, so check that out at the end of the post!)


Carter and I went to our first circus performance! This was the best family shot we could manage. Carter sat back and took it all in. It wasn't until we left and got home we could even tell if he really liked it. He has since not stopped talking about the elephant and motorcycles.


Taking it all in.


Enjoying a hot dog dinner.


Clapping away.


Meeting a clown. This would have been scary for me too, except I knew him. He's a shriner and the husband of a para at my school.




The train obsession is still in fun affect.


Nanny and Papa came for a visit. It was really great to see him having a blast with my dad. We get to see him so rarely it made me so happy.







And last, but not least -- well before the video -- we are attempting the toddler bed today. I'm so proud of my BIG boy!

Which one should I choose?

Under

Two weeks ago, when we had a few snow days, we spent most of our time UNDER things. Under the table, under his play table, and under stools and chairs. Of course we were always playing with our trains UNDER everything. :)

Carter J's new obsession

First it was Elmo, then dinosaurs, now it is Thomas the train. Currently, he is in love with all things trains and Thomas. He was playing with his trains on an old piece of flooring, so we decided to get him some proper track. He's in love!

Snow day

Winter is officailly here and that means snow and wind in Nebraska. The weatherman forcasted between 6-8" falling from Sunday to Tuesday and he was dead on right. Carter wasn't too kean on winter last year and wasn't all that thrilled with the snow in Steamboat, so I didn't have high hopes for playing in this latest snowfall. Although he didn't want to sled, he had a great time throwing snowballs at mommy and daddy!

Christmas break

We are lucky enough that the whole family got to have most of Christmas vacation together. I get almost two weeks off from school (so does Carter ;) ) and Dustin takes off the last week of the year. I'm so thankful that we get to spend this time as a family and with OUR families.

We started Christmas eve off with a little bit of painting.


That afternoon we went to Amazing Pizza Machine. It has a small section for toddlers/little kids. We played some games and won some tickets. Carter chose some stamps and a plastic shark. He LOVES his new stamps.


Christmas morning we woke Carter up (I wonder how much longer we'll get to wake HIM up Christmas morning) and started in on stockings.


Although I'm not sure he entirely "gets" Christmas, it was fun to watch him enjoying unwrapping his presents.

I think he would have preferred if they were all unwrapped though so he could just PLAY! :)

Christmas night we headed to Adrian to enjoy the holidays with Dustin's family. Carter throughly enjoyed a second Christmas morning at Grandma and Grandpa's. He loves his new animals. Especially "daddy horsey" which has been going almost everywhere with us.

Checking out some of his new books.

Playing pizza / tea party with Grandpa and loving it!

The next day we hopped in the car and drove as far as Limon before stopping for the night. The next day we stopped at Denver's downtown aquarium to stretch our legs, check out the sights, and get some lunch. Carter loved all of the fish and waterlife. We enjoyed it as well.

There were lots of these bubbles to look at fish from "inside" the aquarium.

Daddy and Carter checking out the tiger that was there too.

He loved the shark exhibit. There were glass openings on the floor were he could lay on his belly and check out the sharks under him. He loved it, but didn't want them to get too close!

We finally made it to Steamboat where Carter had a great time playing with Papa.

Mom took us to see her friend's horses. Carter wasn't too sure about getting all that close.

We fed the horses some carrots.

But then Carter didn't want to get close again :)

When we got back we each took a turn ringing the bell.

Mom and Dad got to go on a hike at Fishcreek Falls. We had a nice time snowshoeing with lots of laughing.

When we got home he was ready to play, play, play.

I guess 35 degrees is acceptable for outside play.

Then we put him to work! (just kidding)

After this we went to the zoo and then played in the garage to play with his sand table. The kid did NOT want to go inside.

It has been a wonderful break with wonderful family time!

Merry Christmas!