march comes in like a lion...

hanging around

enjoying the *cold* weather

after church

chad found carter reading to camden one morning

reading in our new bed

reading again on the floor

the baskets full of baby food i made

all my stored milk

happy tummy time

all three enjoying tummy time

and hopefully it will go out like a lamb. unfortunately it has been cold again so we have not been outside as much as the kids would like. it looks like this week will be a bit warmer so i am looking forward to that. the last week has been filled with lots of new and fun things. first off we welcomed two babies into this world. one is the kids new cousin mason born last monday to shawn and carrie and the other is our neighbors new baby ava. the kids, especially carter, are very excited about these new babies. carter also got his fill on birthday parties over the last week. both carter and camden got to go to a party twos saturdays ago and then carter went to a party on friday night and saturday morning. both of those parties were for preschool friends. carter had a great time and has been talking about his birthday a lot now. carter has been status quo. we often see him being more and more nurturing to camden and callan, and *talking* to them about how to behave. he also jumps at every chance to say that he is doing something that camden is not. such as "i ate all my dinner and ate with good manners, but camden didn't." we are trying to get him to focus on himself and worry about himself. the funny thing carter said this week was while going to the bathroom at church. chad was with him and he saw the pastor come in and go potty. he turned to chad and said "why is god going to the bathroom?" it was pretty funny to see how his brain perceives the pastor as god.
camden is becoming more clear with his speech and has really started using it to get a lot more things. he has also mastered the words to a lot of songs. just two weeks ago he was hit and miss on some of the lyrics but he knows almost all of them to all of the songs we sing. he also really enjoys singing and will have you sing with him until you can't sing anymore. he is also a willing participant in the dinner prayer. he reminds us to say it and knows all the words now. it is really cute.
i am going to post about callan in my next post since he turned 6 months on sunday. i also need to post that chad and i got a new bed from my parents a few weeks ago and it has changed our life. :) we got a king bed that we both have wanted for a long time. mainly because when i sleep i like to sprawl out and i don't like to touch anyone when i am sleeping. i felt like in our queen bed we were constantly waking each other any time we moved. we both got up several times a night and were tossing and turning a lot. little did we know that having a king bed with a memory foam topper would change our lives. we now have many nights that we don't get up to go to the bathroom because we are not aroused when the other one moves and we both have the freedom to stretch out while we are sleeping. i feel like a new woman, and i *love* my new bed.