Over the weekend, the boys each accomplished their own mini-milestone....Sam learned to ride his bike without training wheels and Carter is taking lots of steps on his own!
As usual, Sam was a quick study. Brian took the training wheels off this afternoon and practiced with him for about 10 minutes before we went to do some shopping. When we got back, I practiced with him for another 5 minutes or so and he had it! (Thank goodness, because that was the most exercise Mom has had in a long time...my legs were burning!) Looks like I better dust off my bike and get ready for some family bike rides! :)
Carter's walking video won't upload, so I'll try again later. Poor guy woke up Sat. morning with a nasty case of pink eye. Thankfully, he looks much better today after 24 hours of medicated drops. Okay, now I got the videos to upload, so here's some footage of Carter stumblin' and bumblin'...
Also, on Friday afternoon, Sam's preschool had a Spring Tea. The kids performed a little play and sang songs, followed by tea and cookies. Sam was one of the 3 ducks, but let's just say he doesn't appear to be following in his father's footsteps...He doesn't dig performing in front of people and gets rather shy and red cheeked. This week Wednesday is his last day of preschool and that evening he graduates! (more pics to come!)
Sorry, the lighting in the church sancutary is very dim,so the pics didn't turn out great, but he looked very handsome and grown up. Here's a few more cute pictures of the boys enjoying the swingset out back. It was Carter's first time in the swing and he LOVED it!
Okay, so Carter is actually 10 1/2 months already! I'm a little behind on his monthly update, but not a ton has changed...he's still cute as a button and always happy. He fought off a nasty case of pink eye to start the month and currently has a cold, but nothing seems to keep him down for long. He wakes up happy and keeps us laughing throughout the day with his "man growls". Seriously...he growls, especially around other babies and he's quite the bully! This past weekend we went to Silver Lake with some friends who have a 9 month old that outweighs him by a good 6 pounds and Carter would growl at him and try to attack! It was pretty funny, but we really had to keep an eye on him. Daddy thinks this is a sign that he's going to be a football player. ?? Other than that, here's what's "new"... 
He's got 6 teeth total...2 news ones appeared this past week and really gave him some sleepless nights (of course this happened while we were at Silver Lake which meant mommy and daddy were up most of the night too!) 
He waves "bye-bye"! He's so proud of himself and does it pretty much on command when we say "bu-bye", "hi" or "da da". I think he associates "dada" and "bye bye" together because I always say "Wave bye bye to daddy". So cute. He also says "dada" all the time and I think he's starting to associate it with Brian, but it's hard to tell. And of course, the walking thing is old news to him now and he's getting brave and gaining speed. Mama is getting tired from chasing ANOTHER fearless child!
