Music Time!!

Jack and I have been going to music, "Kindermusik", once a week since January. At our first class Mrs. Thornell asked the children to come and get an instrument out of the basket, take an instrument to their mom, sit and watch patiently while everyone had a turn to play their instrument and then return the instruments to the basket. All of this to toddlers!! I thought there was no way in the world we were ready for something like this! I started watching and all of the children, including Jack, were following her instructions! I was amazed!! As each week has progressed, I have watched them all learn how to share (sometimes too much), learn how to sit patiently and wait, learn how to follow instructions and learn lots of fun songs and dances while playing some sort of "instrument". Not to mention, we have made lots of great friends as well. It has really been such a fun, fun experience!! What I first thought was going to be a disaster has turned out to be such a great thing!

The Easter Bunny Came!

Easter was a little different for us this year! I was in the bed all weekend with the stomach virus, so needless to say we don't have too many pictures of Jack on Easter morning. Thank goodness we were already in Belzoni when I got sick, so that I could have help from mom and dad, because Bryan was sick also. This is the one and only picture I have from him at an egg hunt we went to on Saturday. I'm still hoping Tiffany got a good shot of him on Easter day in his precious Easter outfit. If so, I'll post it later!! We're just thankful we are all ok now and just because mommy and daddy weren't able to be around on Easter Day, we all know what Easter is really all about!

How did my baby become a big boy so fast??

His blankie is never too far from him!!

It's amazing how time just slips by. I am becoming more aware of that daily just by watching Jack grow so much!! He simply amazes us with all that he learns everyday! He can plainly tell you what he wants and what he doesn't want. He now knows his colors and shapes, loves building with his blocks, he sits down and reads his books outloud as if he knows how to read, and is beginning to pick out letters of the alphabet. Not to mention, he is the funniest, sweetest thing in the world:) I think I've been trying to rush things along lately because of the pregnancy, but I am now ready to take a step back, slow down, and just enjoy it all! These years are priceless!!

New Orleans Trip

In the shark mouth!!

Enjoying a delicious meal at the Gumbo Shoppe-Yummy!

The three boys outside Camilla Grill for breakfast!

In the butterfly garden of the Insectarium- sleeping, of course!

Fun ride on the carousel with MeMe!

Yes, he's touching a snake!!


Cool little underwater play area!

This was typical Jack most of the trip:))

Mom, Tiffany, Will, Tyler, Jack and I went on a little mini-vacation to New Orleans this week. We all had such a good time, minus Jack waking at 5:30 everyday and also minus the trip home, due to illnesses running rampart in the car-sorry mom! We toured around the zoo, aquarium, IMAX (well not Jack, he was scared of the dinosaurs) and the insectarium. The kids all loved those spots, and it was so fun to watch them enjoy it so much!! By the way, the insectarium is very cool- by far my favorite of all of the kid spots!! We also did lots of good eating, shopping and just walking around the french quarter people watching!! We also even got to have a fabulous meal and visit with Sut, Roger, Rainer and Ana!! This was definitely not a very relaxing trip, but it sure was fun!!

It's a Baby Girl!!!!

We are still in shock, but soooo excited to announce that we are having a GIRL!!!!! However, most importantly is that the baby is doing great and everything is as it should be!! It was so surreal to hear the sonogram lady say, "It's a girl!!" She then immediately started calling the baby, she and her, as she was pointing out her organs and bones. I was seriously just in shock, so thank goodness Bryan was videoing the whole thing, because I really didn't hear a word she said after that except, "She looks great!" I guess we just had our minds made up it was a boy with Bryan being one of four boys and Tiffany having two boys. As much as we wanted a girl, it just seemed out of our reach! Needless to say, we are already in love with our precious baby girl. We keep telling Jack he is going to have a little sister, but he really just looks at us like, "What in the world is a sister??" We'll have to see how he is going to do with this whole thing:)) Now comes all of the fun planning and shopping for the nursery and the ever so "picky" name picking. I can't wait to get started. We truly feel very blessed in every way!!

Easter Egg Painting

We had so much fun painting ceramic Easter eggs and eating lunch with Rebecca, Cullen and lots of other moms and babies at Different Strokes today. They used their handprints to make bunnies and then painted cute little dots and their names on them. They are going to be precious!! Thank goodness the girls at Different Strokes are so laid back. Jack was running around trying to play with everything(breakable)and they just smiled and acted like no big deal- they were extremely nice!! It was really a fun mommy/baby day!

On another note...everything seems to be going great with Carter baby #2. I began to feel the baby move at 16 weeks- I'm 18 weeks now. It moves all of the time:) I really don't remember feeling Jack move so much. It's funny how you forget things, or could it mean this baby is just going to be more active than Jack??!! We go to the doctor tomorrow and have our big sonogram. Boy or Girl, we will soon find out, but all we are really hoping for is another healthy, happy baby!!!

Spring Fever

Love this one- Turtles!
Kiss the Froggy!
Fun carousel ride
"What's That?"
With the weather being so great lately, we can't stand to sit still! We have been on the go! Last week we went to the Natural Science Museum and Jack had a ball running up to the glass trying to touch the fish. This weekend, we all went to the zoo. It was the perfect day for a zoo trip- not too hot, which means not to smelly:)! We are trying to take full advantage of these perfect days. I just cannot be thankful enough to be able to share these beautiful days with Jack! These are memories that will last a lifetime!