Project 2011: Through His Eyes, Part 38

Ok so I only have 2 photos to post for last week.....this week has been awful, at best. So I will try to get the camera out more for our next round of pictures.

Even though we are still clinging on to summer, Carter feels the need to wrap Kya up in the blanket from her dog house. I'm sure she's totally roasting, but she's good about letting him do it anyway!

 His somewhat scenic shot from the other morning.

Tummy Time and....wait, did that just happen?

So there are certain things I do with Kendall every day - "reading" her books, practicing sitting up, tummy time, etc.  And everyone knows you don't do tummy time right after eating because...well, duh.  So I usually give her an hour, at minimum, after she eats before we venture into tummy time.

 So we got down on the floor, as usual.  And she doesn't usually stay right on her tummy.  She will roll back onto her back, either way.

 And I will put her back up on her tummy.  She usually lasts several minutes before she's done with it and wants to move on to something else.

 Like trying to EAT this ball.  Seriously - it's on one of her floor toys, that dangles right over her face, and she will get a death grip on that ball. Look at the focus in her eyes - she wants.that.ball.

 And after a few minutes, I will put her back up on her tummy. And yesterday, apparently one hour and two minutes wasn't long enough for her belly to settle that bottle, because THIS happened:

Now, is that timing, or what?!

I guess today, we'll give her more than one hour and two minutes!  ;)

Is there Something in My Teeth?

I think we started the feeding game with Kendall a little later than we did with Carter.  I think by four months, he was already on to baby foods such as bananas, peas, carrots, etc.  With Kendall, we are at five months and still just on baby rice cereal and oatmeal. I think the next trip to the store, I will grab some baby food and see how she does.  She's not wild about the rice cereal or the oatmeal, but she does manage to get some down.  I can't imagine it's the best tasting stuff on earth, but it does get her introduced to some flavor and texture.

Here is how we start out - she is clean and dry, the bib is clean and dry, her Bumbo is clean and dry, and MOM is clean and dry.  ;)

 And here is how we end up.........MESSY!

She's trying, I give her credit for that.  We'll see if she does better with some actual baby food.

Project 2011: Through His Eyes, Part 37

Here are Carter's pictures!

 His Disneyland gun

 The ceiling in his room....and the glow-in-the-dark solar system.  Well, some of it.

 Oh my, underneath his bed

 Bookshelf/movie shelf

 Mommy and Kendall

 Shucking some corn for dinner

 Eric froze all of the peaches that our neighbor gave us.  We have 6 huge bags of them now!

 Pizzzzzza

 We got Carter a subscription to Zoobooks via Idadeals.com a few months ago....so when these come in the mail, I sit down with Carter and we learn all about the specific animal.  This week's was panda bears.

 I see you!

Lindsey & Damon {wedding}

I did this couple's engagement shoot a while back, and their big day was 9-10-11 out at Sawtooth Winery......clear out in the middle of nowhere!  Here are some shots from their day.

And now, I have a small break before the fall weddings in October hit - oy!

Fun With Four

Here are the pictures from Carter's birthday parties.....just us with him, and then the family party we had yesterday.

 Carter is huge into action figures right now. I'm not sure where he even heard about Captain America, because there aren't any shows or movies right now that he knows of that even have Captain America. But regardless, Captain America is the man in our house right now.

 We also got him a fitted helmet and a real bat - he was so excited to get these!

 I also put four dollars in his birthday card - which are now in his piggy bank. Usually we give him all of our spare change, so he almost didn't even know what to do with actual bills!

 Eric brought home two cakes from The Cheesecake Factory - a chocolate tower cake and a carrot cake. Carter picked the carrot cake, so we stuck a candle in for him to make a wish and blow out. I don't think he understood the wish part, but he sure loved the part about blowing out the fire!

 Yesterday, we had a small party with our families.  We usually do a big party at a park somewhere, but I wanted to keep it low-key this year because of Kendall and her nap schedule, and limited funds. So we put together a nice dinner and invited immediate family only. It turned out to be a very fun party!

 One of Carter's favorite things up at the cabin is the binoculars, so I was sure to put them on the birthday list since he needs some down here, too.

 And a broom.  I kid you not, the first thing he wants to do at my parents' house is get their mini-broom from the trailer. He will sweep out the trailer, the back patio, etc. So they decided to get him one of his own for our house - and of course, he set off right to work! I think this present will come in handy for ME as well if he wants to be a little helper!

 In addition to his Spiderman and Captain America action figures, he also got Ironman.  The kid is pure boy!

 Ashley and David went to Disneyland for a vacation recently, so they got him a Pirates of the Caribbean play gun that displays a lighted skull on the wall.  It's so fun!  Hopefully he doesn't break that gun, because I would hate to have to go to Disneyland just to get a new one!  ;)  (This trip is actually in the planning stages for when he's 5)

 As usual, we let Carter pick the design for his cake. He opted for dinosaurs this year.

 And he had a hard time blowing out all FOUR candles!

 And we all discovered that the colorful frosting gave us all quite interesting tongues, too!