Three pictures that show off how great my camera is and how cute my baby boy is!

Splash Park

We went to the Catherine Strong Splash Park today with our Nurturing Your Newborn friends. Got some pictures with my BRAND NEW DIGICAM that I am loving...

The rest of the pictures of carter and his friends are posted on our photo site.

He Got Me Good!

Okay so after days of stewing over the fact that my husband got me a Red Lobster Gift Card ($25, at that) for my birthday...today came in the mail a little surprise!! Check it out!! My new camera! I am SO excited!

THANK YOU HONEY!!!

Turning 29

Today is my 29th birthday!! I had a really nice day. Funny how presents, cake and parties aren't as important as you get older. Nothing beats the gift I receive every morning when I walk into Carter's room and he immediately starts laughing and hiding in the crib. He loves me to try to catch him and he squeals when I do.


I spent the day with family and some of my best friends. I feel so lucky to have so many people in my life who love me! It was a really nice day.

My day pretty much revolved around eating from morning till night. What could be better?

830am - homemade pancakes a la Jaclyn. Yum! Doodle ate 'em up, too!
1230pm - Chili's for bottomless chips and salsa with Lauren (Lyla in tow), Jac, Susie, Tess, Jacqui (who gave me a gift of perfume coincidentally named Fleur de Coco #821 - how cool is that?) and Alfie.
3pm - hair appt (thank you Tess for the much-needed highlights and Jac for doodle-sitting!)
630pm - Carraba's for dinner with dad, mel and brianna. Tess watched Carter for us so we could have a nice, relaxing meal without a screaming child. Carter does not like restaurants right now.
9pm - back at the house for yummy Publix cake compliments of Susie and Jac.

Thank you for all the phone calls, emails, text messages, birthday hugs! XOXO

Big boy pictures

I took Carter to Kiddie Kandids and got some pictures for his one year birthday. I didn't expect him to be such a ham in front of the camera. Check out this cutie.

Hunker Down!

We were lucky to survive the storm with very little problems. Just a flicker or two of the lights and lots of wind and rain. Hopefully the family up north fares as well cause Fay is heading their way now!

All better

Carter's rash is all gone and he's finally gained his independence back. He's not being so clingy anymore. Back to walking all around. He's really getting good at it! Check out the new video I posted.



It's pouring rain right now. They say Hurricane Fay is heading for us. I hope it turns out to be minor. If we lose power and my freezer defrosts, I'll just cry with every bag of 6 months worth of pumped and frozen breastmilk I'd have to throw away. Maybe Joe's FPL connections will keep our power on. Wishful thinking.

Roseola Strikes

No Pictures Please

Poor Carter had a fever all weekend. We were up Saturday and Sunday nights. It got up to 103.2 degrees so you can imagine he didn't sleep very well. Then Monday it broke and he seemed fine...we even went to Jaclyn's for a quick play date with the boys. Then the next morning I noticed a rash forming on his chest. By lunchtime it was on his face. So he definitely had the roseola virus. He's been a greal GRUMP dealing with it. The little guy wants nothing to do with crawling, let alone walking. So mommy holds him alllll day long. Right now he is sleeping on my lap, actually. He's so sweet. I think I'll take a picture of him right now and post it so you can all see :)

roseola rash

Eight oh eight oh eight

I came home from work yesterday to find my boy walking ALL OVER the place!! I was so sad to be gone and miss his first real confident steps. But luckily Gammy and Joe got some cute video. Check it out on our Picasa site pictures . He still realizes he can get around much faster by crawling though.

We just dropped Bjorn and Gammy off at the airport. We're really going to miss them. Now the bank is giving them the run around on the house down the street. I think they are waiting for a higher bid which is nonsense, since they got over asking price!! I pray it all works out and they are soon living down here!!

I'm excited about Carter's birthday coming up...I'm thinking of having the fam and some friends over for a pool party!

Step by step, ooh baby

Check out my little walkin' boy! He is so cute taking his first steps. Still quite wobbly but getting better every day. I can't believe he'll be 11 months old this week. Time sure is flying by! We're trying to figure out what to do for his first birthday. We'll probably have local family and friends over but I don't think he'd really be able to appreciate a true party being so young still.

Gammy and Bjorn fly home this Friday. We'll be very sad to have them go, but Bjorn is missing his mommy and his home in Myrtle Beach. He entertains Carter all day and for the most part they play very well together. It's been fun seeing them interact and really get to know each other. Carter imitates Bjorn a lot, too. He's making all sorts of grunts and shouts and sounds I've never heard before!

Good news! Gammy and Gampy made an offer on a house in our neighborhood and they accepted!! Cross your fingers that the inspection goes well... we're hoping that no surprises are found and soon we'll be neighbors!! :-)