It has been so cold in St. Louis the past week. One of our guys is on the basketball team... so we've been going to a lot of evening games lately. It's only about a two minute walk to school... but it feels like our ears are going to fall off by the time we get there. We bundle Carter up so tight he can hardly move.




I'm also learning new ways to entertain Carter in the afternoon. His attention span is so short! I give him a spoon, banana, and water cup... that helps me keep my sanity for a good 30 minutes.

Check out the link below to an article that came out today about Joe's Place:

Christian Science Monitor

Beware if you ever visit our house... there is never a shortage of things to trip on. Carter found a couple of those things while I was getting ready this morning.



...and to answer your question Mom... I have still not been able to bring myself to cut his hair.

Lunch with Daddy...

and hugs and kisses from Mommy.

I just needed to take a minute to vent about my morning. First... today I got up late which meant late getting lunch going for the guys and late getting Carter fed. Everyone was late getting out the door to school and Carter was losing it because he had been up for an hour and had not eaten yet. I fed Carter (which is becoming more of an ordeal each day) and put him back down on the floor to play for a while so I could clean up the mess.
This was last night...

Anyways... he scooted into the kitchen and lost it because he was so tired. I picked him back up and walked upstairs to change him for the third time in less than an hour. We had been upstairs for maybe a minute when I heard a huge crash downstairs. The light fixture over the kitchen (where we had just been) had somehow come unscrewed and fallen. Thank you Jesus for protecting our little boy.

Now Carter is in bed and I have my (now cold) coffee and the morning news. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

The pants are still a bit big...

Reading with Daddy tonight. The poor guy really needs a haircut... I just can't bring myself to cut it. I think I need to break down and do it this weekend. :(

Our lives are crazier than ever now... but more full of laughs than I could have ever imagined. The guys in this house just never stop with the comments. I think my favorite so far is when one of them suggested that I get some high-top sneakers. We feel so privileged to be here.

Carter is also making us laugh so much. He giggles and talks in his own language. We love it! We also love that sleeping on his part has gotten so much better. He loves his bed... we figure it's probably because it is the only place where he can have some alone time. He fusses and fusses until we lay him down... after that he talks to himself until he falls asleep. We usually find him looking through the bars of his crib toward the door or the window when we go to get him up. He was so happy after his nap this morning that I couldn't help running downstairs to grab the camera.




He is also moving more and more each day. This afternoon he was so frustrated that I was in the kitchen that he finally got on his belly and slid around the island to the trash can where he found some boxes to play with until I was done with the dishes.

I thought I would take a moment to introduce a very good friend. His name is Bart. I spend a lot of time with Bart. I took his picture and posted it below. He is our central vacuum. I think I have had him in and out of the closet four times today... which is funny because that is the same number of high school boys who have been in and out, and in and out, and in and out of this house today.

I had to post one last picture today. We have a web cam which makes staying in touch with family so much easier. Yesterday my parents got a chance to see Carter scoot and today Dan's parents were able to see him. It's crazy to me that we are miles away and can still look at each other and talk.

It snowed last night! We love the snow. Our cat Eddie is staying here at the house with us for a couple days until he moves to his new home for the time being :( We let him outside in the middle of the night last night... so it was funny coming downstairs because we could see exactly where he had been.