First Day of "School"

September 11th this year was a big day in our house. Carter started his first day of "School". The program is called PDO, which stands for Parents Day Out. A local Presbyterian church offers this wonderful play based program where he attends one day per week. We chose for him to attend every Tuesday. He is there for four hours a day! Wahoo. This is the only FREE time I have every week. I would love to say I go do something crazy every week for the four hours he has class, but no, it's a way to get errands completed that I am otherwise not as efficient completing when taking my little man around with me everywhere. No need to focus on snack time, if I brought water or milk or if a dirty diaper needs changing.

Carter LOVES.LOVES.LOVES school. He adores his two teachers and his seven classmates, too. He actually runs into class every week, shouts out his two teachers names, "Julie, Tami", goes up to each one and gives them a big hug and tells them each "hi" in the most enthusiastic and adorable voice ever. Then he starts with either his daily art project or with puzzles.

He looks forward to class every week. He pretends to call his classmate friends from his pretend phone all the time. He loves it and we do too. Could not be happier with where he is going every Tuesday, the location, the people and the program. Happy a friend referred us to this program and thankful we all love it so much.

Here are some photos from Carter's 1st Day of School on 9/11/12

Made him some protein fruit pancakes to start his morning off right

Checking out his Monkey lunchbox

Smiling big and excited for school

Did not want to let go of his lunch box and held it for the entire drive while saying, "ooo, ooo, ahhh, ahhh" (Monkey Sound)

12/12/12

Today is December 12, 2012, or 12/12/12. It is the Century's last sequential date. They say there will not be another sequential date until 1/1/1301 (01/01/01). I think it is a date that looks cool but it is also cool fact to know we'll never experience a date like this again in our lifetime.

In our family of three, we also recognized today that our little man turned 23 months old. That means we are one month away from him being two. When people have asked him this past week how old he is...his response has been, one! That will only be true for one more month. Not sure how he learned that response but also cannot believe that in one months time he'll need to answer two, and so will I. 

I captured an adorable picture while we were all playing tonight before bed. I told him to say, "Happy Birthday Carter" and when he was done repeating that, he gave me this huge smile! Thanks buddy for the cute smile to capture today's date and your 23rd month of life!! Mommy & daddy love you little man! xoxo

Where has the time gone

Oh my, tomorrow marks one year since our last blog post. Seriously?!?! A year? How has that much time passed already. When you have a child it seems to go by in the blink of an eye. As soon as we became pregnant, everyone, even strangers, would tell us to enjoy every day because with a child it goes by too fast. Those people, were.NOT.kidding!

Hard to believe, Carter, is no longer an infant but now a toddler. I feel like he was just born, how is he a toddler already. Over the past year, he has done so much, learned so much and taught Jeff and I so much. It has truly been an amazing year. I look forward to what the years to come hold for me as a woman, a wife and a mother, and hold for our family of three, but for now I  focusing on and enjoying living in the now.

Christmas, has always been my favorite holiday. However it is just getting better. Never thought it possible for it to get any better, but when experiencing it through the eyes of our little boy who thinks everything is amazing, fun, exciting and in his words, "wow", it truly is the best it could be. Wishing you and yours an amazing December and reminding you to enjoy and cherish every day because the time goes by too fast and before you know it, you'll be asking yourself, where has the time gone.

Hope to be back soon.

~Megs