What's the Haps

Swim lessons - I'm looking for another mom who lives nearby, has a child in between 18 months and 3 years, wants to sign up for swimming lessons, and would like to do it around 7 pm. Very specific I know. This is when I would like to do it but if I can find someone else to sign up with me it won't be labeled a "private lesson" and it would be $50 cheaper for me. If you are interested let me know and I'll email you more details. And by the way...I'm not all sneaky or anything. This is what the swim instructor suggested trying to find.

The ever pressing Carson updates - He has already outgrown the "ho" I put on tape for the last blog. But fortunately, his bonofide hello is just as funny. I keep trying to get it on tape, but no success thus far. I know you've all seen the Seinfeld where they say hello really weird. Well...picture that. Pretty much exactly. It makes me laugh every time. It seems he's learning a new word every day. He is picking up on things that I didn't even realize though. For example, when did he learn to say clock? I don't even think I say that word. But he was reading his book and pointed to a clock and said clock.

Blackmail photos below. I'm not sure when and how I will use these...but they have to be worth something to him when he is 15. (Just kidding, I'm not that mean, but the photos are still kinda funny).

His hair grows super fast and I get so tired of paying to have it cut. So Karl attempted a hair cut. It wasn't horrible but not mother approved. So then I just buzzed it. It was my first time buzzing anything, so also not perfect...but good enough. Next time will be better. He looks like a real boy now (as opposed to a baby). See the buzz below.

I got a visit from my good friend Julia. We grew up in Spokane together and then went on to be college roommates. She was in town to visit her grandma and she, her husband, and two little girls stopped by for an afternoon. Emmy (her 2 1/2 yr old) was super sweet and wanted Carson to play dolls with her. Unfortunately, Carson is a boy and was in his own little world. He'll realize girls are cool someday. It was so great to see Julia and reminisce for a little bit. Karl loved having an XBox buddy while us girls chatted and the kids played. Here is a pic of Carson and Emmy on the couch. Emmy is very seriously feeding her baby a bottle - so cute.

We're Going Green

Not the environmental kind - although we do try and do our share. But the Irish kind. We are 2/15 part Irish (Office Quote). Actually, I don' think we are Irish at all. I always thought St Patrick's Day was fun as a kid though. My mom would get out the green food coloring and we would have green pancakes with green milk. We would get a visit from the leprechaun and I'd wear some elaborately green outfit to school. I definitely don't plan my outfits around the holidays anymore, but being a parent makes holidays fun in a whole new way. Carson is still young so I probably won't pull out all the stops, but soon I can do all these fun little holiday things.

Carson used to say "Hey" whenever someone walked into a room, when he played with our phones, etc. He is trying to switch to "Hello" though and it is pretty cute. He says "Ho" now whenever he is saying hi. Every time he says ho I feel like I should throw my hands up in the air, and wave them like I just don't care (Hip hop hooray, ho, hey, ho). Here's a video of him saying Ho.

I have this Moss Adams free hand out IPod speaker. You plug your IPod inside it and then it plays out loud (crappy quality, but it was free). Carson likes to carry it around. He threw it at the camera though, which then hit me in the face. It hurt pretty bad, but every time I watch this I laugh. Maybe you'll laugh too.

Carson is also trying really hard to jump lately. He does it daily. He'll stand on a book or a pillow or something and get into jump position. He'll crouch down and then say "pump" as he tries to jump (he's still not making it off the ground though). Here is a video of that too. Lot's of video this time.

Carson, my sis Vickie, and I went to the Zoo again this weekend. Last time Carson didn't even pay attention to the goats in the petting zoo, but this time he loved them. He made sure to touch every singe goat. Below is a video of Carson and a few of the goats.