Saturday, October 30, 2010
Fall Football Season Comes to an End
The funniest part of the day was one of Landon's coaches telling him to put on his mean face when lining up on defense. Wouldn't you be scared?
Landon loved playing flag football, and he will definitely be playing in the spring. I watched a transformation in my child over the past 8 weeks. He learned sportsmanship, teamwork, listening skills, how to handle disappointment, courage and Independence. He also had a blast!
Friday, October 29, 2010
North Carolina State Fair 2010
Between the 4 of us, we packed away:
- an elephant ear
- hot dogs
- cheese fries
- John Deere ice cream
- oyster sandwich (that one was all Christopher - yuck!)
- sour Mt. Olive pickles (Carter surprised us with this one...he needed his own pickle!)
- honey
- cotton candy
We were only there for about 3 hours...wonder why our bellies hurt afterwards?!
Landon also surprised me this year with his Independence. He wasn't scared of any rides (even the roller coaster that scared Mommy) and rode everything by himself. I felt kind of sad seeing him ride a few things alone (like the roller coaster...he looked so little sitting in that car by himself) and the spinny berry thing (thank goodness some winner mom & her daughter got in it with him). I can't wait until Carter is big enough so they can ride together. But Landon had a blast. And Carter rode his first ride - the carousel.
Til next year deep-fried goodness and rickety rides...
Thursday, October 28, 2010
First Step
We've noticed just in the past week he is getting more stable and confident. He'll walk barely holding on to 1 finger (a week ago he would clutch on to both hands) and he can stand for a few seconds not holding on to anything.
He's getting there!
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
A Few More ATL Pics
Another bar we hit up with over 100 beers on tap...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Baby Blues & A Case of the Crazies
Rainy Day
And one really crazy ninja/sumo wrestler/knight/monster...
Potty Problems
Monday, October 25, 2010
at least they all have their shots...
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Urban Geocaching
See this bronze guy? He had a cache hidden under his right foot. And as soon as we grabbed the cache, we took off running from him because there were people around...and I took his hand directly to my forehead. I'm always good for a laugh.
Olympic Park was the start of 2 multicaches that we completed (a multicache is a series of caches that build on each other to take you to the final cache). This one started at the Quilt of Nations where we had to count the number of flags on the arbor and add that to a number given to us to find the 2nd location, which ended up being an old church turned theatre. We had to take the street number of the theatre and add to a number given to us to find the 3rd location and final cache. This was the most awesome cache we have ever seen. It was a box attached to a light pole, complete with a padlock and wires running down from the box into the ground. It looked very legit. Christopher had the genius idea (after quite a while of searching) to put the street number from the 2nd location into the padlock combo..and IT OPENED! We also completed a multicache that consisted of a series of 6 locations all over Olympic Park.
Friday, October 22, 2010
World of Coca-Cola
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Georgia Aquarium
Here's a video montage of some of the awesome things we saw: beluga whales, sea otters, whale shark feeding, octopus and garden eels.
*a cool note about the octopus...according to the aquarium, she usually comes out about once a week and she was out all day the day we were there. There was talk all over the aquarium about her being out.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Atlanta
Here's the view from our hotel balcony (18 floors up)...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Carter's 15 Month Check-Up
Height: 29 3/4 inches (10%)
Weight: 23 pounds, 1 ounce (25%)
Head Circumference: 45 1/2 centimeters (10%)
Carter has made progress since his 12 month check-up (pulling up, cruising and walking behind things) so the doctor isn't concerned that he isn't walking yet. She hopes to see him walking by his 18 month check-up (and mentioned physical therapy if he isn't) so we've got a lot of homework to do. She also said that he'll start resisting ordinary things (like diaper changes and baths...that's a whole 'nother post) and saying "no" a lot in the next few months so get ready!
Friday, October 15, 2010
Your Daily Dose of Cuteness
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Moneymaker
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Green Acres 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
Flag Football Saturday
He makes a really good center (I think it really gives him confidence to touch the ball, even if he is just passing it through his legs).
And when he gets tired waiting for the other kids to line up, he can use the ball as a head rest...
Cheering on Landon! Go # 4!!!
His team took a loss dropping us out of the # 1 spot in the league, but the boys had a great time. Landon ran REALLY fast with the ball (we've been coaching him on that for weeks)...except he ran the wrong way! Baby steps!