the same shirt

Here's Carter on the day before his first birthday

And here's Jude at almost 3 months old, wearing the same shirt as pictured above

Cross your fingers

Carter always has his fingers crossed these days. I have no idea why but unless his hands are otherwise occupied, his fingers are crossed on one or both hands.

a sling

Did I win a sling? No. Did I make a sling? Yes! And Jude loves it. And, yes, I'm chewing in this picture.

toga

This is how I've been finding Carter after his naps or in the morning



And then it turned into the double

I don't know

It's not always easy being mommy

Today was a day I've been dreading for months. Jude's 2 month appointment and Carter's 18 month appointment at the same time! 3 shots for each, yikes. Luckily, Dennison was sweet enough to take an early lunch and come with me. Other than the shots, my boys did great! They're both healthy and happy and growing fast! Here's their stats:Jude: 13 lbs 13 ozs (80th percentile) and 24.75 inches (90th percentile)

Carter: 22 lbs 13 ounces (10th percentile) and 33 inches (75th percentile)

They're both sleeping now, but wish me luck for the rest of the day!

Christmas videos

Dennison got the awesome song in a text message from Rascal Flats (it's a long story) and when Carter heard it, he started to do this little dance.


Carter's Christmas present

Super long Christmas post

We had a wonderful Christmas! We got to spend a week in Utah visiting family and friends. It was a little scary at first because of all the snow - we didn't know if our flight would be cancelled - but we made it with only a couple hours waiting in the airport and on the plane before take-off. We had a blast and we were so busy! I took TONS of pictures, hence the extremely long post. There's just so many great pictures from the week that I had to share. And they have all loaded in reverse order so here's our trip, starting from yesterday and ending before Christmas. Enjoy! Above, is Carter's new favorite ball (from grandma and grandpa) with his feet inside while in the bathtub.

We traveled back home yesterday and Carter had a fever all day long. Here he is with all the blankets he gathered to snuggle with.


And here's the Christmas miracle. Dennison and Carter both fell asleep on the plane!

My mom, me, Carter, Annie, and Jude. Dain took the picture and little Price was sleeping.

Carter loved grandma and grandpa's big bathtub!


My cute little nephew Liam helping Carter at the Bean Museum

Carter fell asleep in the car on the way to the museum so he still wanted his blanket while checking out the animals. Notice his sweeeeeet boots, they will make several appearances throughout the post. They're the first shoes he has that he can put on all by himself and so he does every chance he gets. So cute. And so funny.

My sweet grandmother holding teddy bear Jude.

My beautiful sister with her little Isaac who is 6 weeks older than Jude. And my handsome dad in the background

Jude with his cousin.

Me and my teddy bear

My daddy with my boys

Carter not liking his snow clothes. He looks like an eskimo baby.

Carter in grandma's shoes. One of them is backwards, ha ha!

My little cousin Megan got a new kitten for Christmas. That was the turning point for Carter on Christmas night. There was a lot of unfamiliar people when we first walked into my grandparents house and Carter would not let me put him down.... until he saw the kitty.

There was plenty of foosball played throughout the week. I'm pretty sure I'm still undefeated:)

Carter opening his new favorite ball on Christmas morning.

Little Jude in some Christmas pjs.

Carter sportin his boots.

Carter opening his keyboard.

Jude's Christmas present.

Carter's new firetruck.

I hope you all had a very merry Christmas! And HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!