Mother's Day Monster

OK, so the idea was supposed to be that the kids would say a nice sweet message to be the Mother's Day card for Gran (Chris's mom) and she and Pappaw could see it on the blog and enjoy it. Well, that would have been nice.

So, Sunday morning when Carter treated mommy with breakfast in bed, our first attempt at a sweet Mother's Day message turned out a little different that expected. Between Carter doing his best monster impression and Millie lifting her shirt for the camera (and the camera not focusing at all -- auto-focus, mind you), it wasn't quite what was envisioned.

Here it is:




So, try two came after lunch when we figured having a full belly of pizza would help out. And it did. Carter and Millie were sweet and cooperative in smiling for the camera and saying Happy Mother's Day to Nana (Amy's mom) as Nana got in her truck to leave the restaurant.

The voice in the background is Nana, who is sitting in her truck. Carter tries to explain to her that he is saying Happy Mother's Day to Gran, who is "in the camera".




So, Happy Mudder's Day, Gran. We love you and thanks for being a great mom for almost 31 years now.

Carter Plays Ball

Now that the weather is nice we're playing quite a bit of ball outside. Here are some videos of our all star. Thanks James for the great video skills! We can't wait for you and Amy to be here permanently.


Here is a link to more of james' skills, pretty funny!
CARTER at BAT

Millie - 16/17 months and FIRST STEPS!!

Millie turned 16 months January 7th and she took her first couple of steps that night. About 2&1/2 weeks later she was going full swing. By February 7th she was finally walking everywhere. She was a little hesitant about public places at first but now she thinks she can do anything. Here are some pics...

EBATES

I know that I am WAY behind on my blogging and I promise I will get caught up soon. But until then I wanted to show you this pretty neat website, EBATES.com. If you do alot of online shopping then you could make some money or at least get some of your money back. In the form of cash, not a gift card or some other weird points deal. Just follow this link and if you make some type of purchase then you'll get a $10 check sometime in May.

http://www.ebates.com/refer-a-friend/bonusoffer/index.htm?id=34347061

For example: Use this link, sign up, and link to oldnavy.com, buy anything, and then you'll get a $10.00+3% of your purchase credited to your ebates account. Kind of confusing I know but I promise it's pretty cool. Or you can buy one of those Entertainment books and get $10 + $6 back. There are a ton of coupons for LR and NLR. Just check it out! (Plus I get a little a xtra cash if you buy something. Not a bad deal for me either:)

Getting Closer and OOOPS!!!

This might be why Millie is a little hesitant to start walking!!

First Haircut

Millie got her first little trim this morning. She had a little mullet action going and we had to put a stop to it!! It was hard to do, but some 'firsts' just have to happen, she will thank me for it later.

Merry Christmas!!

I haven't posted in FOREVER... but i had to give you a sneak preview of the Christmas card. You can not imagine how hard it is to get a pic of them together. Millie is on the move and Carter knows that I want him to work with me and he does the opposite. We did two different photo 'sessions' but there was a common thing in both...

For those of you that keep up with Lori Machen's blog, Molly is only a couple of months older than Carter. Anyone want to argue that girls mature faster than boys? He started whining as soon as we got to the mall, he just wanted to go shopping. Millie was not the least bit anxious until we actually placed her in Santa's lap. I'm sure that her anxiety was not helped at all by her older brother. All the Santa pics over the last 3 years have been priceless. I think this will provide plenty of laughs for a long time!! (I know Santa looks a little grumpy, but he was really nice. He took his time talking to Carter and did everything he could to prevent what ultimately happened...)