Getting Outside (March Week 2)

After getting over our March first week disaster, we were anxious to get outside and enjoy the sun. Olivia got up close and personal with the 'rain-a-deer' we see on our walk down to the golf course, and we had many fun family walks.

I was so excited to bring the kids over to Aunt Kathy's for a morning visit. She is SO generous with babysitting offers, and Olivia loves playing with her and visiting Toby. During this particular visit, O kept bringing Kathy one book after another to read, so we didn't get to chat much, but she doesn't have a lot of patience in the chatting department, so we kept it to a minimum :).

 

This is Olivia pretending to be a baby. She only gets her plus (pacifier) at naptime and bedtime, and she figured out that Carter usually had one attached to his carseat. For about a week I would randomly find her squished into his seat pretending to sleep with his plug. Cute enough that I laughed the first time, which only encouraged her.

 

Can you say copycat? She wants to be just like her Aunt Ashley when she gets big.

During the weekend I left the kids home with Alex and was able to go to Uncle Melvin's spring concert! It was a fifties theme, and an absolute blast. The costumes and singing were both amazing, and it was the first time I got to see Melvin sing...he was great!

 

Saturday was a gymnastics day, so I took Olivia for a day at Grandma Terece's. Unfortunately both Gma and Gpa were out of town, but we took Jenaye to the gymnastics meet, and had a great time!

On March 11th, Carter turned 7 months old! He celebrated his milestone with his first forward crawl! Who knew the carseat could be such incentive. He was so proud of himself the entire way, but it took him over a week to repeat that particular adventure. Our days of immobile baby were officially over.

 

Picnics in the car have become routine for us. It seems something always interrupts our well-laid plans. This time it was an accident (have we mentioned O is potty trained?) and mom forgetting to bring extra socks and shoes. No shoes (she wouldn't wear the wet ones) means no playing, so we ate in the car. It was fun, but a little cozy with two wiggly worms in there!

 

 Here's just a happy seven month old smile. C is turning into a total ham every time I pull out the camera.

And how most of the pictures turn out...needless to say I don't have the magic touch with cameras!