God Bless

In our bedtime prayers we ask God to bless the people we love.  Carter's decided it's much quicker to say God bless all the people in the whole world......and God bless firemen.

Carter is a big fan of firemen.  And as you can see, our kids love to dress up like them whenever possible.

eating already

Guess who's eating baby food already.  I know! Can you believe Ashely is already starting rice cereal?  She hasn't mastered the spoon yet.  Almost everything comes right back out, but she seems to like it.  Fruits and veggies are soon to come.  Yay!

This little girl will be 5 months old in just a couple of days!  It has gone quickly, but somehow I'm still just as tired as when she was 2 weeks old.  Perhaps that's just the way it will be for awhile....a long while.

Balloon Story

So about 3 months ago we took the kids out to eat at Red Robin.  While leaving, Carter and Ryan got helium balloons to take home.  Carter was holding the string of his balloon in his hand.  While getting out of the car, Carter let go of the string and the balloon started to float away.  He asked me to chase it down the front yard and across the street.  Unfortunately that little balloon was too quick for me and was too high for me to reach in a matter of seconds. Carter was heart broken.  It was as if Carter had this balloon his entire life (not just 20 minutes).  If you saw him you might think his best friend had just moved away.  He was THAT sad! 

The balloon has come up in conversation several times since the "incident".  He asks if I think it's still in the air or if I think it ever reached Mars. He constantly says, "Remember yesterday (fyi.. anything that has happened in the past regardless of the length of time Carter says it happened yesterday), Remember yesterday when my balloon floated away." 

It has been several weeks since he's asked about the balloon.  By now, I've forgotten all about it.  That's until I picked him up from school last week.  The class made a craft to take home.  I believe it was a picture of a dandelion so the kids could make dandelion wishes. At the bottom of the craft it says, "I wish" with a space for the teachers to write in whatever the child wishes for. So this is the bottom of Carter's craft:

For those who can read it, it says:

I would wish for my Mom to get my balloon back.  - Carter

Oh that poor kid!  I just love him!!

Easter 2012

What a busy week or I guess you can say Spring Break 2012.  Kyle and I took a very quick (36 hour) business trip to Florida.  We hit the beach, had drinks and meals on the outside patio, soaked up the sun by the pool and even saw a movie. I got a massage while Kyle was in the business meeting. I must admit, I was spoiled to have such a relaxing getaway!  After the trip, we met up with the kids at Grandpa and Grandma Meek's house in Evansville for Easter. We kept busy playing outside, coloring eggs and doing the annual Easter Egg Hunt.  I've captured some of the fun below:

Coloring Eggs.  The kids loved dropping the eggs in the dye, but totally lost interest while waiting for the eggs to be done.

Cousins: Aidan (5 1/2 yrs), Carter (4 yrs) Ryan (2 yrs)

Carter and Ryan ready for the egg hunt.

Let the Easter Egg Hunt begin!

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