This is the Christmas package that Granny sent us. Carter loved the airplanes she taped to the side of the box. He had tons of fun playing in the box and he loved the two airplanes he got to open already. Christmas will be fun this year. He brings presents to me and says "Open", Help"

Here is Carter, Nate, and Ben (Nate's Brother).

Nate and I went and saw Kristin Chenoweth last night at the Lindner family Christmas party. We get tickets through Shriner's Hospital. She was fantastic! I've haven't seen a show I enjoyed more in years. The only drawback was that she only sang one Christmas song. But we really enjoyed it. In case anyone doesn't know who she is, she starred in Wicked on broadway and is now on the TV show Pushing Daisies. She also has three albums out, including a christian CD--Cool, huh! Anyway, you'll have to check out her song "Taylor, the Latte Boy"--absolutely hilarious.

Needless to say that this one was instigated by daddy!! I certainly don't encourage Carter to go throwing things down the stairs. We'll know who to blame when he puts a nice big whole in the wall. But hey--he loved it.

We are so lucky to have good friends close by to hang out with. Carter's friend Brian, and Tilly (the arm) have lots of playdates. We go to the children's museum together about once a week.

Here is our little boy. He sure isn't a baby anymore. He talks more and more everyday. He is using a lot more two and three word phrases now. It is so fun.

Touch a truck was so much fun. I hope your communities all do it. There were police cars, fire trucks, tanks, dump trucks, garbage trucks, buses, tractors, and more and the kids had free reign to get inside of them. Carter especially loved the bus and the gator. It was a blast, one I will try not to miss each year.

Carter loves playing in the water. We played in the pool tons this summer. It was so nice to be able to just sit it on the front porch and hang out. But with fall on its way we'll have to take more baths. This little blow up pool was great because I could throw it in my trunk and take it with me to friends houses. Here we were at Carter's grandma's house. What fun.

Messy stuff!!

Carter's new favorite thing is airplanes. He yells airplane and points up whenever he hears one, whether indoors or outdoors. Since we live quite near an airport we can hear several planes a day. Granted he sometimes mistakes a loud motorcycle or something else, but more often then not, he is right. He definitely notices them way more than I ever would. So who knows maybe he will follow in his grandpa's footsteps and take to the sky someday.

Nate is getting Carter prepared for the Football Season. For all of you who are not football fans (aka my family) Who-Dey is sort of a cheer for the Bengals. You know, "Who-Dey, Who-Dey, Who-Dey think gonna beat them Bengals". Nate is determined to have him saying it well by August.

We sold our little Audi a couple of weeks ago and we finally got a replacement. It is a 2003 Honda Accord--and I am lovin' it!!! Then again, I haven't driven a car with air conditioning for a few months now, so that simple luxury excited me. Plus, it has black leather interior, remote entry, radio controls on steering wheel, 6 CD-disc changer, and dual air-conditioning control. It is so nice to have a newer car. We just hope it will be reliable. We feel like one of our 4 cars is always broken down this past year. We hope to narrow it down to two reliable ones here in the near future.

I had a really nice mother's day. I woke up to presents and a baloon picked out by Carter of course. Nice Christmas wrapping, huh. It was a great day!