Carter Family Update!

Well I have been awful at keeping this thing updated but I will try to do a better job in the future. Emma Claire turned THREE last month. I can't even believe it. She is for sure three going on thirteen! She loves to dance and is very into make-up...especially lip stick! Her favorite song is "All the Single Ladies" by Beyonce. She is extremely smart too. She knows all of her colors and is doing very well with all of her shapes. She can spell her name and can even right the letters "E and M" She has been going to preschool every Friday morning for a couple hours and she loves it! I am so proud of her! As of her three year doctor visit she has finally started to grow! She was in the 5th percentile for weight and 10th for height. She also has a "boyfriend" now and it is the scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz. It is currently her favorite movie. Emma is doing pretty good with potty training. She has her good days and then a bad couple of days but we are making some progress at least.

Our little Alivia Paige will be turning two next month and ohhhh what a handful she is! She has a mind of her own and it not afraid to let you know. She most certainly has started the terrible twos and we are attempting to deal with her tantrums. She is also exceptionally smart..which I think she learns from her sister. She knows her ABC's and all her numbers 1-10. She even wants to go potty on the big girl potty just like her sister. At times I think Alivia may be potty trained first! She LOVES shoes and is always wanting to put new ones on! She is also our little singer. She loves to sing along to almost any nursery rhyme and her favorite is Twinkle Twinkle little star!

As for Brian and I we think that it might be time to add the last addition to our family if that is what is meant to be. We know that we would like to have one more child and don't want to wait until the girls are too old and there is a big gap between them so we hope it happens soon! I am still in school to become a nurse practitioner and that is a lot of work right now but hope that it will all be worth it in the end. I graduate a year from this August so the count down is already on! I just finished my first clinical rotation and learned so much! We will be traveling this May to Utah and Chicago and couldn't be more excited!

Much needed update!

I took some pictures of the girls last month because I realized I didn't have any recent pictures!






Football in is full effect in the Carter house! The girls as well and mom and dad are sporting their Chicago Bears outfits every Sunday. Of course we are sporting our red every Saturday...we are just working on those pictures the girls have not been cooperating for pictures lately.


Emma started preschool this month. Her teachers name is Mrs. Peterson and Emma just adores her. She is loving every minute of it. She only goes on Friday's from 9-11:30. She picked out her Tinkerbell backpack all by herself. She is so proud of it!

July 4, 2009

We had a very fun 4th of July. We started off the night going over to Gram Gram and Papa Hiley's house to wish Papa a Happy Birthday. Then we went to Nana and Papa Carter's house for dinner. We shot off some parachutes and smoke balls while we were over there. Then we just went one street over to Jenda's house for the big fireworks. The girls did GREAT!! Emma was pretty scared at first and we were a little nervous but she perked up and had a good time.

Minnesota

We went to Minnesota a couple of weeks ago. We went to Mall of America so that the kids could ride the rides at Nickelodeon Universe. They loved every minute of it...Well almost everything! Emma was terrified of the characters walking around.
We ate at some great places. We also went to Underwater Adventures and Emma had so much fun looking at Sharky's and touching crabs and snails. Brian even got to drive a NASCAR simulator and I rode as a passenger...It was crazy!

Alivia's Birthday Pictures

We went and had Alivia's pictures taken on her actual birthday and had some family ones taken as well. I made a large collage for Alivia's room!










Ok...well I am really bad at this I am so behind. Alivia turned "1" on April 27th and we had a party for her. She was suffering from an ear infection but we didn't know it at the time. She was not her usual happy self at the party she wouldn't let me put her down and walk away and didn't really let too many people hold her. So it was not what I had expected. We were going to have a big backyard BB-Q and get an inflatable bouncy thing, but of course it rained all day and that plan was ruined. All in all it turned out to be a pretty fun party and it was nice to spend time with friends and family!