If there's one thing this boy know how to do it's entertain himself. I was standing at the stove cooking and I heard Carter's triumphant, "Ahh!" and then clapping so I looked down and saw this. Later, he wanted to show Dad how funny he was but Dad just thought he wanted to get cooked.
I made this cute monkey blanket for 4h(fourth Harris, the new baby). I thought monkeys to be appropriate since his big brother is already so monkey-like!
And here's a blanket I finished for Carter. I started it when I was still pregnant with him....
And of course, the wedding scrapbook! Yes, I finally finished it after 2 1/2 years!!!! It turned out pretty cool, so I guess it was worth the wait.
So now I've run out of projects. I know I'll be super busy here pretty soon but in the meantime, I don't quite know what to do with myself!
Carter loves playing with other kids. He especially likes older kids because they're so fast and they can do such cool things. Yesterday when he woke up from his nap he walked straight to the window where he could see some older kids playing football or something across the street. He went and found his ball and went back and watched them for about 15 minutes. He kept pointing at them and looking at me to see if he could go play. It was so cute and sad since he had to stay in the house. He is so lucky that he'll have a little brother to play with soon!
The boy loves to be in the kitchen with me while I cook, clean, whatever. This is his latest hang-out. You can see he's clapping in this second picture. My new favorite thing is that he claps for me whenever I do something that he thinks is cool like finish unloading the dishwasher, give him lunch, close the fridge, put something away, you get the idea. He watches and says, "Ahh" and claps for me. It makes me feel proud of my accomplishments. (Sorry he doesn't have pants on, he just woke up from his nap)
Well, we finally moved (and got internet!)!!! I feel like a new woman. A few things I love about our new place:
*I can back into the garage and unload groceries right into the kitchen instead of parking 50 yards away and making 3 trips up and down our dumb apartment stairs.
*We only share one wall with our neighbors who are very quiet.
*We live much closer to Dennison's office so he actually comes home for lunch!!!
*My neighbors don't scare me.
*Our church building is right behind us so we walk to church.
*I have more room to maneuver with my huge belly.
A few things Carter loves about our new place:
*Our backyard. Although it's small, he loves running around out there.
*Our neighbors dogs. He loves watching dogs, until they bark, then he gets too scared.
*Our bigger living room so he can practice running and throwing.
*More corners for Dad to hide behind to scare him.
*We only live a couple blocks from a super fun park.
*The new reachable storage shelf for the cereal.
A funny story:
Just a couple days after moving, I was sitting on the couch reading while Carter was taking a nap. I saw movement out of the corner of my eye so I looked and saw this girl, probably about 10 years old, in our backyard. Our yard is fenced off with a gate by the house. She had our frisbee in one hand and was bending down to pick up our soccer ball. I thought to myself, "Who is this girl? Did she accidentally throw her frisbee and ball that look just like ours into our backyard? Wait a minute, those are our things! Should I say something? What if they really are hers after all? No, those are definately ours...." So I walked out there and right as she was about to walk back through our gate I said, "Excuse me" and she looked at me, dropped the loot, and walked out with her head down. The funniest part is that she lives right next door and I see her almost everyday. It's always a little awkard when we just look at each other and don't say anything. I told Dennison about it when he got home from work and so he put a pad lock on our gate. Hopefully she doesn't try to hop the fence.
Carter thinks he's so cool when we put his shades on him. But he always takes them off and tries to put them back on by himself. I thought about taking a video of it but it's quite the drawn out process. As soon as he gets them to a position where they stay he walks around really carefully until they finally fall. So here's a few action shots.
And I finally helped him put them back on.
