Thanks Aunt Jessica

Aunt Jessica sent us some fun halloween clothes for Halloween. Thanks so much Aunt Jessica...we love them. Carter loves the shoes but his favorite is the hat. He decided that it was much more fun to wear it as a mask. Colt didn't enjoy it as much. After playing with it for a while Carter said, "Hey momma. I got a great idea. I can wear this to cover up my face when it snows so the snow won't get on my face!" As you all know...snow is a VERY BIG problem for us here in Beaumont! Thanks again Aunt Jessica & Uncle Ted! Love you guys.

Carter's 1st Field Trip

Carter went on his first field trip this past Tuesday. I was able to take off work and go with him. His class went to Wesley's Pumpkin Patch. They had such a good time. They all road the bus over to the pumpkin patch. When they arrived, they heard a pumpkin patch story, and then they roamed around the pumpkin patch looking at all the different pumpkins. Before they left, they were able to pick a little pumpkin that they wanted to bring back with them. They were all so cute. We went back to the school and had a picnic lunch outside. After lunch, his friends enjoyed the cookies that we made the night before!

YUMMY!

We stayed up Monday night and made cookies for Carter's field trip. We were going to make pumpkin shaped cookies, but I did not have all the ingredients I needed and brother wasn't cooperating (thanks to the teething thing). So we decided to just make plain sugar cookies and ice them and put sprinkles on them of course. Well, after about three cookies Carter decided that it was more fun to eat the sprinkles that fell onto the plate than to actually put the sprinkles on the cookies. After I took over and put sprinkles on about 10 cookies, Carter snatched the sprinkles from my hand. I asked, "Would you like to do some now?" He replied, "No, there just aren't any more sprinkles on my plate!" He then poured the sprinkles on his plate, handed the container back to me, and began eating them off the plate again! I died laughing. Kids are so smart...they just go straight for the good stuff!

THE TEETH ARE COMING!

Well, it's been a long hard road...but the teeth have arrived! :) Here are some pics of his swollen gums and some little specs of white. I know that 9 1/2 months seems late to be cutting his first tooth, but he is one month ahead of his brother!

Our little army man

So, Colt has mastered the art of not crawling, but dragging himself around on his elbows. He looks so funny pulling himself along. He does his own little version of an army crawl. He has been doing this for months now. Well, the other morning I was changing him out of his PJs. I put him down a minute to get some clothes out of the dryer. To my suprise, I looked back and he was following me ON ALL FOURS. Apparently it's worth the extra effort to get up off the floor when your stomach is dragging. It just proved that he can crawl, he just doesn't want to!

Fun in Little Rock

So here they are. I am finally getting the rest of our pictures up from our evacuation. We spent some time in Little Rock and went to the zoo, downtown, and road the trolly. There are so many things to do there. I wish we could have stayed longer. Here are some pics (a month later)!