Wordful Wednesday – Carter Again
Yep, Carter get’s the spotlight, again. I can do that? Right? After all with Evan being the oldest, he has 18 months of photos of just him before Carter came along.
I just love swimming pics. The sun, the clear water, the giddiness – just makes for some great pics! So here is another one.
This post is part of Wordless Wednesday, for more like it, visit 5 Minutes for Mom, Wordless Wednesday and 7 Clown Circus (Wordful Wednesday)
To view a list of my Wordful Wednesday posts, click HERE.
Stumble Upon
Del.icio.us
Buzz
Wordless Wednesday: Being Watched
Have you ever felt as if you were being watched…
Thanks dad for the few hours of entertainment…although we are now down to one sole survivor!
This post is part of Wordful Wednesday, for more like it, visit 7 Clown Circus.
To view a list of my Wordful Wednesday posts, click HERE.
Never too Early to Encourage…
Some domestic duties that I would LOVE to give up. It might be another 13 years before either one of them can run to the store for me or another 10 years before either can cook up dinner. But it is never to early, right??
And of course, their future wives will thank me 
This post is part of Wordful Wednesday, for more like it, visit 7 Clown Circus.
To view a list of my Wordful Wednesday posts, click HERE.
Do You Think We Got Enough?
This weekend, my mom and I went to a “local” farmer’s market (about 30 minutes away). While we were there, we decided we should stop by an organic turkey farm that was nearby. And goodness, I’m glad we did.
Because of the holiday weekend, they were trying to get rid of all the skinless ground turkey breast. So they were giving it at buy one pound get one free. So my mom and I bought all together 18 pounds of ground turkey breast!!
Needless to say, we took ALL of it off their hands!
I got 8 pounds of ground turkey breast for $22.00!! WOOT! Glad I have a deep freezer!
This post is part of Wordful Wednesday, for more like it, visit 7 Clown Circus.
To view a list of my Wordful Wednesday posts, click HERE.
Multitasking
Carter LOVES bubbles. He can blow bubbles all day long. The past few weeks, he has mastered blowing at the wand perfectly to create bubbles after bubbles, without making a mess and getting the soap all over his face and clothes.
But now, he has learned to multitask. Yes, my child is a genius because he doesn’t want to take any chances not getting bubbles to come out! So he has mastered the blow AND wave technique.
This post is part of Wordful Wednesday, for more like it, visit 7 Clown Circus.
To view a list of my Wordful Wednesday posts, click HERE.
All things Pink
*Warning: Welcome to my Wordful Wednesday Post. And YES, today will be very wordy, but oh so worth the story that goes with the picture at the end!! *
I was never a “pinky” type of girl growing up. Actually I ran from it as much as possible. But something happened around my 18th birthday. I began a fondness of pink. I found myself buying more and more pink clothes, pink accented running shoes, pink accessories.
And now, with 3 guys in the house, I need it more than ever – HA! Any opportunity that I can have something pink – even if it doesn’t match my decor – I must have it. Just like this basket I got to make at Longaberger last fall. Some of my friends made fun of me that I was making a basket that matched NOTHING in my home. But I need some sort of “girly” things amongst the blues and sport paraphernalia in the house!!
The funny thing is, Evan and Carter have now started to realized that pink must be a “mommy color”. If you ask Evan what Mommy’s favorite color is, he will not hesitate to say pink. Even in his Mother’s Day gift:
But the best story so far is one that involves my lil’ C Man! God has blessed me with such a sensitive little boy and I hope he never outgrows the caringness he has for others. Even at 22 months of age, he is so aware of others around him. He makes sure everyone who is playing with him, has a toy. If he is playing with his Hot Wheels, he finds me to give me a car. If we are playing trains at the bookstore, he gets upset if he sees another kid not sharing with others, even if he has the trains he wants. He offers his own toys to Evan if Evan seems upset.
My mom and I took Carter to Toys R Us Monday night. It was bribery, I admit. He was upset that Evan and Daddy left without him, so us ladies tried to make it up to him by taking him to the toy store. As he walked and played through out the store, we waited for him to find something he really wanted. He walked and played and walked and played, but not really wanting anything in particular.
Until he found a bin of baseballs. He picked up one for himself and then found a few pink baseballs. He squealed with delight, “Mommy baseball, mommy baseball.”
“Yes, Carter, that is a pink baseball.”
“Mommy!”
I took it and he was happy! I held onto it for several minutes. All the while, he kept checking to see if I still had it. Occasionally, he would ask me if I still had my “mommy baseball”
When he was occupied with another toy, I strategically placed the ball away so that he wouldn’t see me.
A couple moments passed and he looked at me and asked, “Mommy’s baseball?”
Darn it!
I followed him back to the bin, where he again, picked me out a pink baseball.
I thanked him and continued to walk around with him, waiting for a moment to again discard the baseball.
Because, come on, I can’t be bringing a PINK baseball home to 3 guys! Especially since I don’t play!!
Again, I found a moment to “lose” the ball.
And once again, Carter noticed and asked me where my baseball was.
Fine!
Again I followed him back to the baseball bin and again allowed him to pick out a pink baseball for me.
At this point I knew that I would be purchasing 2 baseballs during this trip. A white one for him and a pink one for me. He wanted to get me a pink baseball, what else could I do.
We got to the check out lane and he double checked that I STILL had my ball. He placed both balls on the register, while saying “mommy’s baseball”.
I handed him his new baseball and kept mine. We headed out to the truck where again he doubled checked to make sure I still had my new baseball.
My mom and I laughed about bringing home a pink ball for the boys to play with, when my mom had a great idea. She encouraged me to put the ball away in my keep sake box. Because one of these days I will need to remember how sweet my little boy was! One day when he is all grown, I will bring the ball back out and retell the story, and reminisce about how he needed to take care of me that day!
Thank you Carter, for taking such good care of me! I pray you always stay this sensitive to those around you! You are my precious little boy!
This post is part of Wordful Wednesday, for more like it, visit 7 Clown Circus.
To view a list of my Wordful Wednesday posts, click HERE.
How I Spent Mother’s Day 2010
I didn’t do a Mother’s Day post – I am not really into doing those types of posts. But for posterity sake, I am doing a small recap because I got some GREAT pics of my boys on a Mother’s Day outing.
My morning started off with breakfast in bed and presents. And let me just tell you, I got my first “handmade” present from Evan, that he worked on with his preschool teacher, Miss Margaret. Oh my word – it brought tears to my eyes.
Then we kinda bummed around for awhile – both kids have been battling illness with fevers, so we didn’t really want to take them out around people. So we decided to go to a local nature preserve and play for a little while.
Since I couldn’t get a picture with both boys at the same time, I will be happy with 2 separate pics that turned out pretty well! I’ll take ‘em since neither kid will sit still for any amount of time – ha!
My precious boy, who made me a “mom”.
My boy, who reminds me daily that life should be enjoyed and that laughing should be the norm!
This post is part of Wordful Wednesday, for more like it, visit 7 Clown Circus.
To view a list of my Wordful Wednesday posts, click HERE.
This is One Scary Football Player
I don’t know about you, but that’s the scariest football player I have EVER seen!! He was giving me his “mean football face” ! Ha!
This post is part of Wordful Wednesday, for more like it, visit 7 Clown Circus.
To view a list of my Wordless (and Wordful) Wednesday posts, click HERE.
Heading to the Big Leagues…Maybe??
(Today’s Wordful Wednesday is brought to you in video format )
Evan has been begging asking when he can start playing baseball on a team. Not quite sure if he will be able to compete or not?? What do you think?
He’s 3, people!! I don’t know if I am a little biased or not (which may be the case) but this kid has some crazy mad athletic skills!
This post is part of Wordful Wednesday, for more like it, visit 7 Clown Circus.
To view a list of my Wordless (and Wordful) Wednesday posts, click HERE.
Line Em’ Up – A Commonality
Today, I had a few moments of quiet time with Carter while Evan was still sleeping. We played quietly in his room. He pull out some vehicles from a toy box and began to line them up.
He started with his tractor! Then following the tractor was his semi truck then his fire truck. He was being very meticulous during the whole process and not saying a word.
Then one by one he would move them to another part of the play area and again line then back up, not necessarily in the same order.
What’s the big deal, you ask? Although the activity in itself isn’t mind boggling, what is?? Well let me tell you.
IT IS THE VERY FIRST THING BOTH BOYS HAVE IN COMMON!! I am pulling at strings here, I admit ! Yes, I needed to put that in all caps, because my 2 boys have NOTHING in common. They don’t look anything alike, they don’t act anything like, they don’t have any of the same interests (during the same ages), they don’t play the same way, they don’t like the same toys, NOTHING. Until now. Although I have to admit, Evan was a little bit more OCD about his vehicles where he would line all of them up, EVERY morning. For about a month!! We would put them away in his stool every evening, and the very first thing he would do in the morning would be to run out and get his vehicles and line them up. So today, I got to walk down memory lane a little bit.
This post is part of Wordful Wednesday, for more like it, visit 7 Clown Circus.
To view a list of my Wordless (and Wordful) Wednesday posts, click HERE.
