April 25, 2011

It has been beautiful weather here in New Jersey so tomorrow we are heading to the zoo. Connor is jealous as he returns to school tomorrow from spring break and can't come with us, but it will be fun to take Carter now that he is old enough to watch the animals. I have a bit of a break from work and I am going to enjoy every minute I have away from work. I miss my kids terribly when I have to work.

Connor finally let me cut his long hair off. All of it. It looks 100% better. He looks so grown up now. It's hard to believe he is 8 years old already. The carnival starts tomorrow in our town and Connor has been reading the signs hung all over the side of the road. Can't hide the carnival from him anymore.

Jaxson is really interested in writing right now and can write his name finally. He has a book I bought him that he loves to sit and practice writing all his letters in. I took Jaxson rollerskating for the first time last Friday. He looked like a baby deer standing for the first time....shaky and scared. He did very well but told me after, "I fell alot so I don't like it"

Carter has started waving hi and bye to everyone. He uses his hand and just opens and closes it. Yesterday at church he saw a picture of Jesus and got very excited. As I got closer to the picture I said, "Carter, where is Jesus?" and he pointed his little finger right at that picture. He likes to growl still and say, "num, num" while he is eating. I took him for his birthday pictures last week but he ran into another child in the photo studio while we were waiting and got a little bruise on his forehead. I will wait until he is bruise free. I took all the boys after to the mall and Carter got his first picture with the Easter Bunny. I usually skip the Easter pictures after Connor made a fist at the age of three and tried to punch the Easter Bunny. I couldn't pass up the picture though. Carter was not afraid and had a beautiful smile for the Easter Bunny. He is a little dancer and this weekend I was playing a dance game on the xbox and when Lady Gaga came on Carter just started rocking out. I grabbed the camara and got it on video and will post it as soon as I figure out how. He has his grandmothers dance moves.

The three lizards have escaped, the fish are still swimming, and the dog is dong everything he can to stay out of the range of Carter's hands. His love is too rough for poor Dallas.