Family Snow Day

We told Carter a few months ago that if it didn't snow down at our house we would take him up to the mountains to play in the snow. We marked February 13th as the day to go so we took the kiddos up to a sledding park just east of Snoqualmie Pass on Saturday. We had a blast! Click here to see all the pictures of our fun.

He Made It!

Last night Max decided to show us that he really knows how to climb stairs. I was vaccuming and when I turned around Max was going up our big set of stairs. Of course we had to run and grab the camera! Here are some shots:
He made it!!

Little Birdie Secrets Blog Party

I went to a blog party for Little Birdie Secrets with a few friends last night. What is a blog party you ask...? We'll there are some amazing blogs that always have crafty ideas or tutorials and some of them have started having actual parties so you can meet and the people that create the blogs in person. It was a fun time. I totally forgot to bring my camera so if you click here you can see some super cute pictures and the craft we did. (Thanks for letting me use your pictures Brianne!)

Puzzle Pro

We gave Carter a big USA map puzzle and a big World Map puzzle for Christmas. Yesterday night he put together the USA puzzle entirely by himself and was naming off a majority of the states as he put them in! He knows Uncle Cory and his family lives in South Carolina and he knows he lives in Washington... except when he's putting together the puzzle he says he and daddy live in Ohio..... there is a picture of a football on the Ohio piece and he likes to play football with Brandon (I guess footballs are more exciting than apples).

Way to go buddy! You're growing up so fast!

Update to last post

... Max can climb stairs now too!.... I think.....
I just left Carter and Max up in the play room while I ran down stairs to make a bottle. When I came back upstairs (like 3 minutes later) Max was in Carter's room! Our play room is sunken by two steps, so to get to Carter's room he somehow made it up those steps. I asked Carter if he picked up Max and he said no. Sometimes I would ask him again to make sure but he was quietly building towers with his blocks and I assume I would've heard screaming if this had actually happened.... so my friends.... Max can now climb stairs. I don't know if this is a trick that he'll only do while I'm not looking.... I'm going to investigate more tomorrow.... not sure if I want him climbing steps yet.... YIKES! He's grown up fast in the last month!

Max is 9 months!

Max turned 9 months last Friday (1/8/10) and he's made a few developmental landmarks as well... He started crawling on new years day, he can go from crawling to sitting up by himself as of last week, on Sunday morning (yesterday) when I came into his room to get him out of his crib he was standing holding onto the rails!! Today he climbed up onto the treadmill by himself!!! Watch out world here he comes!

What's Cookin?

A few days ago Carter got a Highlights magazine in the mail. We don't know who signed him up for this magazine but if it was you..... thank you! He absolutely loves it! On Friday he carried it around the mall with him and today he insisted on taking it to church!!
In this issue there was a recipe for Mac and Cheese Muffins and he kept asking me if we could make them. So, since I had no plans for dinner tonight, I let Carter be the chef and we made them together. He had such a good time and even wore his own apron (thanks Stephanie). I wouldn't suggest making these if you're having company coming over because they were really bland tasting but... if you have a kiddo that likes to help in the kitchen it was a simple recipe that had lots of opportunities for little hands to participate.