Brothers

Today we had a "Big Brother, Little Brother" photo shoot. Carter had so much fun playing with his baby brother and trying to make him smile.

Wiggly Tooth

Carter's tooth is finally wiggly.  He came up to me this morning and showed me his wiggly tooth.  He's been waiting several months to have his first wiggly tooth.  He noticed a lot of the kids in his class have started losing their baby teeth and was wondering when it was going to be his turn...the wait is over!  He's going to lose his first tooth!  My baby is growing up so fast.  Would you believe I have it documented when each and every one of his teeth came in?  I'm kinda crazy, I know.  :)  

Carter's Kinder Field Trip

Today Carter's Kindergarten class went on a field trip to the Wildlife Zoo.  Carter was a little nervous about riding the school bus, but I assured him it would be lots of fun.  Jacob and I met him at the zoo, we were there to meet him when he got off the school bus.  He was so proud of himself for riding the bus and he really seemed to enjoy it.  Once we got into the zoo we walked around just the 3 of us at first, then we met up with his friends and ate lunch with them and spent the rest of the afternoon checking things out with his buddies.

Aquarium Fun

Starfish

He didn't want to touch them

He loved the stingrays

 Petting Zoo

He loves animals

....and they love him :)

Getting ready to feed the giraffes

Buddies

Carter and his best friend, Jeffrey

Showing Jeffrey the stingrays

Riding the train

Jacob was all smiles during Carter's field trip

Jacob riding the train

What Girls Like

My conversation with Carter today....

Carter:  "Mom, do you know what boys like?"

Me: "Yes, they like Legos, trucks, dirt bikes, quads, skateboards...."

Carter:  "I know what girls like."

Me: "Oh yeah, what do girls like?"

Carter: "Girls like flowers, special care, love and most of all they love to boss boys around!"

Carter cracks me up, he's always coming up with the funniest things.

Jacob's 2 Months Old Today

• Jacob's Milestones ~ Smiling, cooing, laughing (especially at big brother, Carter)

• Jacob's Weight ~ 11 pounds 6 ounces

• Jacob's Length ~ 23 inches long

• Jacob's Routine
• 7:00 am ~ Jacob drinks 4 ounces and gets dressed for the day
• 7:30 am ~ Jacob does tummy time 
• 8:30 am ~ Jacob takes his morning nap
• 10:00 am ~  Jacob drinks 4 ounces
• 10:30 am ~ Jacob plays
• 11:00 am ~ Jacob takes his afternoon nap
• 1:00 pm ~ Jacob drinks 4 ounces
• 1:30 pm ~ Jacob plays
• 2:00 pm ~ Jacob takes his second afternoon nap
• 3:30 pm ~ Jacob plays 
• 4:00 pm ~  Jacob drinks 4 ounces
• 4:30 pm ~ Jacob plays 
• 6:30 pm ~ Jacob takes a bath
• 7:00 pm  ~  Jacob drinks 4 ounces
• 7:30 pm ~ Jacob goes to bed for the night
• 12:00 am ~  Jacob drinks 4 ounces
• 4:00 am ~ Jacob drinks 4 ounces

**This schedule isn't set in stone.  We let Jacob tell us what he needs and when, he's more of an on demand schedule.

Carter and Jacob both wearing the same outfit at 2 months old

Happy Easter

Happy Easter!  We started our day by celebrating Easter with our boys at home.  We opened Easter baskets and hunted for Easter eggs.

Carter and Jacob's baskets

Then we had a light breakfast and headed over to Mimi and Pa's.

Carter put stickers on us and called us a "clown family"

Future Blonde

Jacob has started losing his hair. When I looked at it in the sunlight today, it looked like it's coming back in blonde. What do you think?

Park Fun

Today Ben and I took the boys to the park for some family fun.  I carried Jacob in the carrier while Ben and Carter fed the ducks.

My boys and me

Carter and Ben feeding the ducks

Carter feeding the ducks

Jacob Smiles

Nothing melts your heart like the first time your baby smiles at you.  Jacob has been smiling since he was 6 weeks old and I've been trying to capture it on camera ever since. My camera was never close by and by them time I grabbed it, he wasn't smiling anymore. This went on for a while until I finally captured his smile. The first smile I was able to capture was while we were waiting in the grocery store check-out line and the second smile was during a midnight feeding.

Grocery shopping smiles

Midnight feeding smiles