Category Archives: Family

Grandma Maxwell, Grampie Big-Truck, and Unca Adam came to visit the kids after Christmas. It was good to see them! Linda (excuse me, I mean Grandma Maxwell, hee hee) has been working third shift, so we've been missing her lately. It was nice to get some time together.

Carter got this little stuffed bunny last Easter, but it's been in storage - so she hasn't seen it in a while. While unpacking some boxes, we found it. Carter has since adopted it as her baby. In all of these pictures, she is making the same sound. It's a half "oooooooh" and a half "awwwwwww" sound. Basically, the sound we make when she does something exceptionally cute. In essence, she is trying to show us how cute she is while hugging her bunny.

Except in this last picture - where Bunny has angered Her Highness and must be disciplined!

Apparently my one-year-old daughter is already auditioning for Girls Gone Wild. Where, oh where did I go wrong?

While digging through our recent pictures tonight to find some to print to hang in the new house, I came across these - the two most unflattering pictures of the kids I've seen in a while. Heh.

Or worse yet - kissing siblings. Carter's kisses have a tendency to be a little on the ... shall we say ... 'open-mouth' side. Hopefully this sort of stuff stops by the time they are teenagers. But seriously - aren't they adorable? And we didn't even ask them to do this. Sean did this totally on his own. He really loves his little sister lately, and makes a real effort to show her. And the Santa hats are just icing on the cake. I picture this being the photo that we pull out when they are in high school and when we want to embarrass them in front of their friends.

We figured that he's big enough now to start helping out around the house. So I got to exercise the ultimate parental privilege - I found the job that I hate the most, and made him do it. It took him all day, but he managed to clear the whole driveway. And the good news is that he only lost two toes to frostbite.

For those who hadn't heard yet, we finally found a new place to live. It's a cute little house in Newton, NH. We close on Friday, and move in next Saturday. It's a little smaller than we would have liked, but it does have one quality that instantly sold me on it - it's on 8.14 acres. A few days ago I bought the AMC's book on trail building, and I'm excited to build some short trails out there. My brain has been going non-stop lately, with ideas for a little campsite for the kids and I to have fun campouts, a picnic shelter, and eventually a sweet-ass treehouse out in the middle somewhere. How cool would that be? I'm still not convinced whether it will be more for Sean, or for me. :) Stay tuned for more news and pictures as we begin to move in.

Here's a few pictures of the kids in the tub night before last. I love two of the pictures in the bottom row, where Carter is trying to escape from the tub. In both, the look on her face is classic.

Just a few random pictures from when Lori's dad visited the other day.

Here's a collection of photos from Carter's first birthday. She's starting to stand without support or help, and she's not even wobbling any more. Her first steps are just days away, I suspect. She loved the presents, and devoured the cake - this was actually the first time she had ever had cake, but she wasn't shy about it! Actually, Carter took way more interest in her first birthday than Sean did - when he turned one, he hardly even paid attention to what was going on, never mind getting involved or excited. I think Carter definitely takes after her mom's extroverted ways, and Sean is more like his introverted daddy.