Sibling love

Nothing in the world makes me happier than seeing Caroline and Carter adoration for each other!! They absolutely love each other to bits!! Of course occasionally Carter will get into one of Caroline's special toys and upset her, but 98% of the time they play so well. Caroline is a total Mother Hen. Comforting, carrying, feeding... Doing whatever she can for Carter. Today my mom took the kids to Chuck E Cheese and on the way Caroline told Nana that Carter had something in his mouth. My mom quickly pulled over and sure enough he had bit off a piece of something that he found on the ground and it was floating around his mouth. Without Caroline who knows what could've happened. Love that girl!!


Lately we've been having trouble with her sleeping in her room. She is scared of monsters, thunder, the dark, and anything else she can think of. She comes down almost every night and makes a nap mat by our bed. Well last night at bedtime Caroline asked Justin, "Why does God want me to sleep upstairs?" Poor thing, she hates being up there alone. Not sure what we are going to do.


Finally here's Carter enjoying Chuck e Cheese. Glad they had a good day, my first day was nice too!!


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Lots of Happenings!

August has been a busy month around here. Two Fridays ago I got a call to interview for a new position at a new school. I got the job, made the hard decision to accept, and am now the Campus Test Facilitator at Crouch!  So far, I am really enjoying meeting the new people, learning about a new school, and fulfilling my job requirements. With this position I will be coordinating all testing, training teachers on testing procedures, making sure we follow all rules and procedures, and looking at data from the tests to see what we can do better and differently.   My new school is huge, over 1100 students, so that will be a challenge but I am really excited!  Right now, my office is filled with someone else's boxes so I am without a home base right  now. I'm ready to be organized and have  a space to call my own. 

 Other than work, of course these two keep me busy!  Love them so much, going back to work was so hard due to what I am leaving behind. However, I know they are in good hands and  Caroline loves going to her school. Carter is completely spoiled when I'm away so I'm sure he loves his days with his Granny and Nana!  Justin will be out of town for about the next two weeks, so we will see how I juggle being alone with two little ones and working! It's going to be crazy!!  Justin's job is really picking up lately, which is a blessing when running your own business!

 Last weekend I hosted my sister's bachelorette party! I had to get tips on everything to do from my Dallas friends because I am about as lame as they come and know nothing about cool, fun places for us young people.  Luckily I got good advice, and we had a blast. I think I am still recovering, even a week later, I don't think we went to bed until  4. Too late for this mom!!

 Yesterday was my little niece's first birthday party. We had it at our house because Andrea, Jesse, and Maddy live in Conroe but everyone else is up here. The party was adorable, Andrea is unbelievably creative. Maddy loved her cake, obviously!  I cannot believe she is one...I feel like Andrea and I were both huge and ready to pop yesterday.

 This little man loved the party too, or maybe he loved the bites of cake and ice cream he got from all the guests.

Tomorrow the kids come to school and things will really pick up!!  I am sure before I know it I'll be putting up my Christmas tree and wondering where the first semester went!

10 months already!

Saturday this little dude who happens to be suffering with allergies in this picture, turned 10 months!! 10 months!! That is 2 months shy of one year!!  Where did my bitty baby go??  At 10 months Caroline was walking, she was a big girl!!  Now he is my big boy!  With her I couldn't wait for the next milestone, with him I'm screaming for time to SLOOOOOWWWWW down!

At 10 months Carter is crawling and cruising, and standing briefly on his own without support. He babbles all sorts of sounds, babbaba, banana, mamamama, dadadada.  I thought he had learned to wave, but hasn't shown off that skill in a week or so.  He claps and loves to be sung and talked to all the time. He loves table food drinking out of a cup. He still nurses and eats three meals a day.
He loves to play with his toys and interact with his big sister. He is getting tons of hair and it's getting lighter. Caroline wasn't a true blonde until near her first birthday. I think he is trending the same way.

 I love these two so much and we've had such a nice summer together. I am sooooo dreading returning to work. It gets harder and harder each year.   God has blessed us so much!

Conroe Crew

Early last week we made a quick trip to Conroe to see family, celebrate Papa Mike's birthday,  and for Justin to meet with clients.  On Monday we loaded up the car and headed to the Houston zoo. It was hot, but not too terrible, we had a great time!

 Papa Mike allowed Caroline to make a build a bear, she picked a Giraffe. She was really proud of her animal.

 The whole group!

Can't wait to watch these two grow up together!

Toothy Grin

Since the day Carter turned 9 months teeth have been popping through his gums like crazy. Today I noticed the front two and bottom two are all the way through!! Also, a couple of days ago he began cruising and walking behind toys. He's growing and changing so fast!


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