Our Bumbo Baby

I was going to get on and write about our family reunion...but I left my camera at a friend's house...so here is a post that I've been formulating for the last little while:

Last month, we made a really great purchase off of Craig's list-a Bumbo chair for Carter. If you have not seen these, they are so cool! I didn't know about them when Mason was this age, but I always wanted one for Carter. As long as a baby can hold up their head, this chair helps them to sit. Carter looks so cute just hanging out, and he really seems to enjoy it.

Most of the time, when I put Carter in this, Mason wants to sit in his red spiderman chair right next to him. Here they are reading together.

This moment was too cute not to record. Mason came up to Carter and put his arm around his shoulder (they are watching Curious George or something like that). A few moments later, Carter decided that he was done and started to cry. Instantly, without thinking, Mason moved over to hug him tighter with both arms. Notice that Mason doesn't miss a moment of the show, though. :)

We even put the Bumbo in the stroller and let Carter enjoy the view. :)

Memories...

I saw this on my friend, Stephanie's blog. I did something like this a while back on myspace, and it was pretty fun. I hope to hear from you all!

MEMORY LANE- This is just too fun to pass up. Here are the directions:1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember! I guess good or bad, but be nice!!!!!!!2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my comments.

Yes, that's a real giraffe!

A couple weeks ago, we took the opportunity to visit David's grandparents in Colorado Springs. Since Mason is obsessed with animals and especially zoos...we decided to take him to the zoo that is down there.

We waited until we were only about 10 minutes away before we told him and he got so excited when he realized what all of the driving was for. Here is a picture of him waiting for me to finish feeding Carter so we could get going!

It was a fun zoo...but I think I like the good ol' Denver zoo best overall. But there is one point that the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo has us beat hands down...the giraffes! There are crackers that they let you feed to the giraffes. The giraffes come right up to you and will eat out of your hand and you can pet them. Notice the cracker on the giraffes's tongue that Mason just put there in this picture.

Carter is getting so big! He loves to wave at the camera!

Mason was too young for the pony ride...but they let him pet the pony which was just as fun for him!

Once again...our attempt at a family picture resulted in not everyone looking at the camera, this is kind of getting ridiculous!

It was so nice to see Grandpa and Grandma Ishoy. The boys loved it and so did we. Mason especially took to Grandpa. They very generously took us out to eat. Mason was a little wild...but manageable.

More summer days

There is a really fun park that we've been to a few times this summer. The first time, we went with Diana and her ward's play group. It's fun 'cuz there's a petting zoo and a train ride that are both only a dollar.

But the real fun began when we let the kids loose in the creek. Diana was nice enough to get an extra bucket and shovel for Mason, he was in heaven!

Carter even slept the whole time that the kids were playing in the creek so I could turn my full attention to making sure that no one drowned. :)

The only damper on the day was that we kept hearing lightning. At first we tried to deny it...we didn't want to pull our kids out so soon. But eventually thoughts of someone getting electrocuted because we didn't get them out made us call it a day. We were just in time...on the way to the car rain came down in buckets and then it started to hail. Of course there was a big hill to climb with all of our stuff and strollers, but it was a fun day!

It's been so fun for Mason (and me) to be able to spend so many fun summer days with his cousins, thanks Diana!

This was the second time that we went...Mason is looking so sad because he didn't want to leave, poor kid! :)

Carter enjoyed the shade of the stroller.

We love the outdoors!

This was a fun day that we had at the park back in May. I showed Mason how to blow the fluff off of the dandylions. One of the funnest parts about being Mason's mom is that he gets so excited about things, and this was no exception!

He ran around searching for more saying "roars!, roars!" (his interpretation of dandylion). :)

Mason is always interested in everything, especially things outside. Here he is learning more about the pine trees.

This was one of the first times that I had gone to the park with both boys. I had hoped that Carter would sleep in the stroller the whole time, but no such luck. Here are my attempted pictures of him in the sling. As you can see, he wasn't too happy about it at first, but he then gave in and fell asleep.

I found a nice shaded area and let Carter enjoy the nature around him. I am so lucky to have such a smiley baby!

Carter is always moving, he has been scooting on his back for about a month and everytime I put him on his tummy, he wants to crawl so much! This is probably why I am able to get so many pictures of him that look like he is waving, he is constantly moving both his arms and his legs!

I hope this doesn't sound vain or proud, but I guess my blog is the place to do it...I just can't get over how stinkin' cute my kids are, and they have such amazing personalities to go with it!