Helping with the Housework....Maybe

My little helper! Here is how we do the house work.

First, I sort the laundry into piles on the floor in the laundry room.

Carter in an effort to help, realizes the clothes are on the floor. He has realized that when there are clothes on the floor in his room, I pick them up and put them into his laundry basket. Wanting to help mommy, he picked up two piles together at the same time, and reloaded them back into the laundry basket. For a split second I thought in my head, "Why did I bother getting up early this morning. Now I am going to have to resort all the laundry." But then I saw how proud he was to be helping, so I just let him continue mixing the piles as I quickly loaded the first untouched load of whites into the washing machine. When he was done, we dumped out the laundry basket again and I helped him sort them back into piles. Lesson learned. Don't bother waking up early and trying to plan how you are going to get the housework done because doing the chores with Carter is way more entertaining. I reserve the right to change my mind though If I happen to open the washing machine and find my light colored clothes all died pink....:)

Happy Days!

Today Carter went back to the doctor's office to have the second administration of the flu vaccine. As most of you already know, I really worry about Carter getting the flu shot with the research that the mercury in it could be linked to autism. I wouldn't have him get it if his pediatrician didn't absolutely feel it was necessary. But, man oh man, I swear that as bad as Carter screamed, it was just as hard on me to put him through it. This is defintely not one of the joys of parenthood. Anyway, here are a few recent pictures of Carter much happier than he was at 10:45 this morning.

Dump Truck

Now all we need to do is get a snow plow on the front of his truck and we will be in business.

Indoor Fun

I realized today it has been a while since my last blog, so I thought I should at least post a few pictures. Here in Wisconsin according to the news, this year we have had more snow than they have had in the last 10 years. I believe at this moment, we have about 3 feet of snow on the ground. I think about 2 feet actually fell and the rest has drifted in from the farm fields around our neighborhood. As cold as it is, 35 below with the wind chill, we get a lot of people asking us if we regret the move. But, even though we are really sick of digging out our driveway and can't wait for spring, we are still glad we made the move. Already we feel much more connected to our friends and family from the region. Carter has developed quite the relationship with Grandma and Aunt Heather. A couple of weeks ago we were able to go out to our friend Christine's birthday party for the evening and have Grandma and Aunt Heather babysit. We were a little nervous because the last time we tried to go out without him, Carter cried the entire time we were gone. We were pleased when we got back to my mom's house and he was sound asleep. He had so much fun playing with all the toys Grandma had for him, I don't even think he realized we had left. Since that worked out so great, Grandma has offered to babysit again for us in a couple of weeks so that Jeff and I can attend my high school reunion. I'm really excited to see my old friends. Already I have been talking to many of my old high school buddies. With the cold though, we have been getting creative with activities for Carter to do indoors. He likes to go out on outings so much that at least once a day he grabs his shoes and says go bye, bye Momma go bye, bye. We have been limiting our trips outside since it is just so cold. For Christmas Grandma got him a trike. So when he asks to go outside now, I just put him on his trike and push him in circles around the house. This seems to keep him content. Here are some pictures of Jeff putting the trike together and Carter trying it out for the first time. It has a little bell on it that he likes to ring.