King Carter enjoying a cupcake

Coloring Easter Eggs

Daddy teaching Carter to be "gentle" with the eggs!

Carter LOVED the blue dye!

Hmmm....that orange egg is pretty neat too though!

Oh, NO! Look at my chubby little hands mom! Oops I guess I should have used the spoon better

WOW! This egg is GREEN! Someone really enjoyed double dipping the eggs!

All done! Now time to dry the "cracked" masterpieces!

And of course we had to implement ELMO and his Sesame Street friends in some way. Carter had lots of fun coloring eggs today! He was definitely able to do them this year all by his big boy self!

Mr. Cool

Carter sporting his new spring jacket, shades and hat! What a cool dude!

A Quote to All My Stay-at-Home Mom Friends

" If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gifts from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitment and mystery of the world we live in."
~Rachel Carson

30 Weeks Down.....9 More to Go!

Well, today I am officially 30 weeks pregnant and since baby boy Micheli is a scheduled c-section at week 39, that means I only have 9 more weeks to go! Part of me anxiously anticipates week 39 so that I can get my body back to "normal proportions" but also of course just to get to meet our little guy. Darrell and I wonder...."Will he look a lot like big brother Carter?" "Will this baby maybe have brown eyes instead of blue?" " Will this baby be a "good sleeper!?!?!" We are also anxious, yet nervous for big brother and how the new baby is going to dramatically effect his little life. The bottom line is, I know we are giving Carter the greatest gift we could ever offer him....a sibling, but a part of me still knows it will be a tough transition for him and hope that he will accept little brother with open arms. Now the part of me that is not so anxious for the next 9 weeks to pass is because this may very well be my last pregnancy. I kind of get sad thinking this maybe my last experience to carry a baby. Never say never, but we are pretty sure our family will be complete with our two little boys and a dog (says Darrell) in the near future!
I leave you all with this quote:
"Each time you look at your child you see something mysterious and contradictory--bits and pieces of other people--grandparents, your mate, yourself, all captured in a certain stance, a shape of a head, a look in the eyes, combined with something very precious---a new human soul rich in individuality and possibility. " ~ Joan Sutton

Mommy's handsome fellows

Carter and daddy posing for a picture at a birthday party we went to today. Carter looked like such a big boy in one of his new spring outfits!

Flying a Kite

The weather was so nice today that we decided to take Carter out to fly a kite for the very first time. Of course we have an Elmo kite! Carter LOVED it. He kept saying "more, more" and ran really fast to keep the kite up in the air.

Uncle Kevin enjoyed the nice weather with us too and came out to help Carty fly his Elmo kite.

Mommy's turn

Daddy's turn

This is what I call the "I DO" picture! Carter is flying the kite all by himself. Run Carty, run!

Apparantly it takes 1 electrical engineer, 1 civil engineer and 1 two year old to figure out how to get the kite to "fly!"