Category Archives: Family

Carter has been picking up some new skills lately. Here you can see her feeding herself with a spoon, and learning to color with crayons. And check out that first photo - what a ham!

This actually happened quite a while ago, but I am just now getting around to posting the pictures. Tracy and Ryan took us to Butternut Farms to pick some apples. The kids had a great time. The weather could not have been better, and the apples had reached that perfect stage of ripeness. Carter got her first taste of a "real" apple, instead of mashed apples from a jar.

This post is a little late in coming, but this is the first time I've come up for air since we started moving. While we look for a new house, we are staying at my parents' place. Which means I've got an hour-and-a-half commute each way between here and work, which is making for 12+ hour workdays, in effect. By the time I get home I get only an hour or less with the kids before they head to bed, and then there is lot's more move-associated work to get done before I can go to bed myself. But some of that is tapering off now, so if I can muster up any enthusiasm on weekends you might start to see some updates here again. Stay tuned!

Well, it's official! We're coming back to New Hampshire! I will post a more detailed explanation tomorrow - but most of you have already heard about this anyway. I just wanted to get it out there - we're pretty excited, and I wanted to share it with all of you.

Once we started having kids, we didn't seem to take many pictures of the dogs anymore. The only time we really get them in a photo is when they are with the kids, or in the background of some other shot. Sometimes I feel bad about that - they used to be the center of our attention, but now they get less. They're still just as big a part of our family though, and once the kids go to bed they get all the special treatment - they even sleep in our bed! So here is a pic of one of my favorite furry ladies - I like this one because it is one of those rare pictures of Sadie that shows any part of her body that isn't jet black.

Lori was taking the kids for a walk around the neighborhood, and took lots of pictures in the process. Most of them were just typical pics of Sean - he likes to stop and check out just about everything between our house and the neighborhood mailbox. But amidst all the 'standard' pictures was this little gem. He has a habit of making weird faces all the time, but we never seem to catch many of them on film (well, on a memory card). Look at the larger version to see the odd face he is making - I love it.

Now tell me that isn't about the cutest thing you've ever seen. He was reading her a story. And she was just eating up the brotherly attention. I love how Sean always contorts his feet while he reads - still haven't figured that one out.

No photos or video yet, but Carter has been crawling for about a week now. And getting into trouble already, of course. It's time to search the house to eliminate anything swallowable, eye-poke-outable, baby-head-bumpable, and the like. She can motor around the living room like nobody's business, and we're just lucky that she's not that fast yet - so we've got time to head her off when we see her heading for something dangerous. We'll try to get some video soon.

The chitlins have started to get along much better lately. Sean is still a bit jealous when sister gets the attention, but they are having more and more moments like these. Not only is Carter being tolerated, but occasionally he even seems to enjoy her company. Who would have guessed?

What a character! Whenever we tried to put anything like this on Sean, he pulled it off immediately. We tried goofy sunglasses, Santa hats, reindeer antlers - nothing stayed on his head for more than eleven seconds. So when Lori put these on Carter, she didn't expect them to stay. So when Carter not only didn't mind, but even seemed to enjoy it, Lori bolted for the camera.