July 2009

Abby likes anything she can lick.
Carter got to go swimming in the lake for first time with his Grandma Karen. I think it's too cold to swim in, but I was raised with a heated pool.
He's a pro at eating. He got baby cereal for the first time in July, and he ate like he'd been eating for years. I had the camera and camcorder out thinking it was going to be a great show. Good thing we didn't sell tickets for it, we would have been refunding them. Landon and I are expert eaters and I'm pretty sure Carter inherited that from us, along with the countless dinners at the table he had to sit through watching us eat without getting much more than a tickle on the bottom of his foot.
Carter also got to go fishing for the first time in July. He even got to touch a slimy fish and drive Grandpa Dave's boat. And yes, he does have two life jackets, and yes he does have to wear them.
Carter, Cindy, and I went to Billings in July for weekend of eating and swimming. This is Carter's first time in a swimming pool (it was before swimming in the lake). We were still using the baby tub at the time, so it was a big deal to have all that water to play in. Unfortunately, we missed the opportune swimming time and ended up cutting it short because he got cranky.

Need I say more?

June 2009

We went to another wedding in June. Landon was a groom's man for his friend Jeremy. It's not very often that we get dressed up, so I thought I'd better post it.
We didn't think Mesa would like Carter, and she doesn't. She LOVES him. She is always kissing on him, gross I know. She has never liked kids and for the first few days we had Carter at home she'd follow us everywhere, even at 3 am. Any time he cried she'd be right there on my lap with him. We wouldn't leave her alone with him just in case she got mean. But so far she loves him. Since both Mesa and Carter go to work with me she's had to adjust to other people loving on him too. In two years she hasn't warmed up to our most frequent customers, but after she found out it was ok for them to love on Carter, then it was ok for them to love on her. Funny little dog.
I try to keep Carter busy at work with toys like hammers, nails, saw blades, etc., but sometimes he just needs to help me.

He's been sitting at the table with us almost since we brought him home. This is the best high chair ever. It reclines enough so even a baby only a month old is comfortable in it.

May 2009

Carter loves to go for walks. He was still a little small for the stroller so we had to add some extra padding. Amazingly, he leaves his sun glasses on. Of course he can't stay awake for more than about 20 minutes, but he still loves it.
At the end of May we went on a REALLY long road trip. Our final destinations were Portland, OR and Seattle, WA. We took 2 1/2 days going out there and about 3 coming home. We went to Portland so Landon could go fishing. I posted pictures a while ago of his fishing trip. Then we went to Seattle for my cousin Max' wedding. Carter did great traveling; he slept most of the way, learned how to roll over in the hotel in Missoula, and waited until we stopped for the day before pooping. We spent an afternoon at Pike's Market (culture shock for Landon), but only managed to take two pictures the whole time we were out there, except for the fishing trip, which we have about 50 pictures of.
My cousin Wyatt, who will be teaching Carter the finer points of baseball, spent some time cuddling with Carter while watching tv.
For Mother's Day we, just me and the little man, went to Billings. My mom, aunt, and a couple close friends, and I have been doing the Women's Run, aka the Women's Waddle, held the Saturday before Mother's Day for several years now. I was going to take Carter but it was a little rainy the day before so I thought I'd better ask Grandma Ash to watch him JUST IN CASE it was rainy on Saturday morning. All Grandma heard was blah, blah, blah, "will you watch Carter Saturday morning", blah, blah, blah. Forget the JUST IN CASE part. They had a great morning together, and so did us waddlers.

I can tell you this picture was taken in May, but because both my mom and mother-in-law didn't have the date set on their cameras right, May is all I can tell you. (I've since fixed that problem for both of them)

This One's for Krissi

MY FREE SOUP!
Krissi,
I shopped and shopped and shopped looking for the perfect buys, trying to save as much money as possible, when I came across my soup. The soup was on sale 10 for $10. Luckily, I had been carrying a 50 cents off coupon around for a really long time (it didn't have an expiration date). And, to top off my shopping trip, it was double coupon week. So my regularly priced $1.99 can of Soup at Hand, was FREE! So when the cashier at Albertson's asked how my day was going I didn't have to lie, "It's been great!". However, I ate the soup last week, and it's just not as good as the stuff out of the can that you add milk to, but if it's free it's for me.

April 2009

In April we went to Watford City for Easter. Carter got to spend time with his cousin, Cruz, who is 5 months older. Carter didn't seem to care. Notice Cruz's cute Easter outfit and Carter's fall colored outfit. Cruz was born in September and Cruz' fall clothes became Carter's spring clothes. He didn't care. We had Carter baptized at the end of April in the Fort Peck Luthern Church, the only church in Fort Peck.

March 2009

We took our first road trip, besides the 20 miles into town, in March. Landon had to work in Billings for a week so we went with him. My Aunt Kathie and her daughter-in-laws, aka my cousins wives, threw a shower for us at my Grandma Ash's, kids included. One of the little guys, Cash (I think he's about 3), came in while I was nursing Carter to see what I was doing. I told him I was feeding Carter and he said, "oh, giving him a bottle". Not knowing how to explain nursing, and not being at all covered up, I said, to the farm kid, "no, like a mama cow feeds her calf." He was fine with that and left. He came back in a couple minutes later with Levi, Lauren, Karson, Kadence, and Brandon to show them and said "see, she feeds him like a mama cow feeds her calf". It was so cute, and comical.

More Super Tiny Carter

He must really be concentrating on getting that pacifier back into his mouth.

I was trying to get a smile from him. Pretty good for being 3 weeks old.

Really Old Pictures

I thought I'd get some comments on posting another fishing picture instead of a Carter picture, but it appears that people have quit checking the blog. My July 31st resolution was/is to post at least once a week, including what I've missed in the past 6 months. So here you go. I think these were taken in early March (2-3 weeks old).



OOOHHHHH, please don't wake me.

Landon's Big Fish

They had to catch their bait first (shad). Pretty ugly bait but the sturgeon like it.




This is the biggest fish of Landon's life. At the end of May we went to Portland/Vancouver and Seattle for my cousin's wedding. Landon went on a charter boat fishing for white sturgeon (similar to but not the same as the pallid sturgeon that he works with) on the Columbia River. He caught two big ones and a little one. The big ones were 8 1/2 feet and 9 1/2 feet and somewhere around 400 pounds. They couldn't bring them into the boat because they're too big, but I think you get the picture. He didn't get to keep them either. They only keep the medium size (4') fish. As you can imagine, he was pretty excited about it. I'm sure he'll do another fishing trip next time we're out there.

Someone Please Stop Time!

I can't believe how much our little man has changed in two weeks and how fast that two weeks has gone. He is 6 days old in this picture, one of the few I have with his eyes open. I haven't taken as many pictures as I thought I would, maybe because I'd have to put him down for 2 minutes and go get a camera. I could stay home forever and hold him and kiss him and love on him, probably not too cool when he is 11, but for now that is what our days consist of (besides naps with dad on the couch after Rachel Ray and The Dr.s, you know, male bonding).