Presents and more presents!

Noah was thrilled with his dancing and laughing Ernie, who exclaims "Rubber Ducky save me!" Even I got a kick out of that one.


Noah is really hilarious at opening presents. He grunts and groans and puts 100 percent into tearing them open. It cracked Dan and me up.


Noah is just thrilled with all the presents.


Giving Ernie a hug.

Noah looks like a mad professor in the below picture, but it was hilarious watching him
grooving on the piano.



P.S. Noah loved, loved the cards he got so thank you to those of you who sent them! They were perfect and he loved carrying them around (as well as carrying around the pics you sent, Marsha!)

Fire truck!

Today, I started to hear sirens and horns blowing. I thought, "Hmm, there must be an accident somewhere outside our subdivision." Carter woke up from his nap due to the noise and when we went downstairs, I peeked out the window and there were about 4 firetrucks and 10 firemen at our neighbors. Two trucks were parked right by our house. Carter was thrilled to see the firetrucks, and I was thrilled to find out no one was hurt. There was a gas leak at our neighbors. A fireman saw Carter staring longingly at the truck and invited him in. He got to sit in the back and at the wheel where he got to blow the horn and scare all our neighbors. Dan got home right in time to take pictures. Carter thought it was great and talked about it all night. Poor Noah slept through the whole thing!

First Day of School

Carter's first day of school! He was very thrilled with his backpack but didn't really grasp the concept of "school." In the five minutes he was outside before we took him to school, he managed to get dirt and grass stains all over his shirt. That's my boy!




This is his nervous face.

Carter at the end of the day with his teacher.


He is loving school! At the end of each day, I'll ask him what he did at school and he'll excitedly exclaim, "I ride the bus!" Apparently, they spend 3 hours driving Carter around town in the bus.

And everyday, Noah asks for Carter about a million times before he gets home. Even when we run errands, he'll ask people in the stores, "Where's Carter?"