A Day at the Dairy Farm

Jeff took Carter to the Dairy Farm on Saturday. Here are some pictures from their day.

One Busy Week!

Now that the Summer is here, things have really seemed to pick up in terms up activities for Carter and I to do together. This week, we went to a kids group fun day at a blow up jump place called Pump it Up with my friend Judy's boys in Chicago. Tuesday, Carter and I met some other families from my mother's group at the zoo. Then, Wednesday Carter went to the library. I have enrolled him in a Summer reading program where for every 20 books we read with him, he wins prizes. They also have weekly story times that Carter loves going to. Well this week, Carter won several prizes for having 28 books read to him. He was able to pick out of a treasure chest a bug themed toy, he won a free book, and a pizza from Papa Murphy's. We were very proud. I think all of the reading is really paying off though, because other mother's tell me he has great vocabulary for his age. Today we went grocery shopping and Friday, we are participating in our neighborhood garage sale. Carter is going to help me, or so we'll see how much help he really will be. I have a feeling our garage may only be open for a few hours. Saturday, I will stay home and run our garage sale again and Jeff is planning on taking Carter to breakfast at a local farm. They are having clowns, a petting zoo, face painting, and blueberry pancakes. I am pretty sure Carter and Jeff will have a great day together! Below are a few pictures from the Milwaukee zoo and Pump it up.

Father's Day

For Father's Day, Carter and I took Jeff to the local dirt race track to watch some racing. Even though we didn't stay very long, as Carter could only sit still so long, Jeff said he had a great time. That's a success in my book :) I made Nanna's spagetti for dinner which I think turned out as good as can be considering it didn't have Nanna's actual touch. Then, we spent the afternoon enjoying the nice weather outside by running through the sprinkler with Carter. What an enjoyable day!

On another note, my car is back in the shop. Let's just pray that it doesn't rain while it's there. I don't want to lose my car to flooding.

Flooding in Saukville

The town that we live in is flooded. The Milwaukee river flows through downtown and it has risen above its banks. We have had horrible storms for the past week and have spent a good amount of time taking shelter in the basement due to tornado warnings. Luckily, our neighborhood is at the top of a hill so, we are safe from the flooding. Thank goodness. Wednesday, Carter and I tried to head out and run some errands since the news was saying it was the only break in weather we would have all week. Wouldn't you know it, my truck wouldn't start. So, we had it towed to a local mechanic. The next day, when the mechanic went to work on it, the truck started up fine. He thinks the fuel pump is going out which is causing an intermittent failure. But point of the story is that the mechanic allowed me to pick up my car last night since it was starting fine and just told me to call him if it happened again. Well thank God because today, that mechanic shop is completely under water. Someone was on our side, that's for sure! Poor Carter is feeling cooped up. We were supposed to go to the Petting Zoo today. Looks like the petting zoo will have to wait until things dry out.

Look Mom, Moon!

Last night our neighbors came over to visit with their 4 year old son. We all just visited in the back yard while the boys played. All of a sudden Carter came running over to me and said help. He grabbed my hand and took me over to the side of the house where he pointed to the sky and said, "Look Mom, moon. Up mom. Me reach." We have been taking weekly trips to the local library to check out board books and he has taken quite an interest in the moon. So when he noticed the real thing outside, he just couldn't contain himself I suppose. I tried to explain to him that even though it looks like he can reach the moon, he can't because it is very high in the sky. I explained that it is higher in the sky then airplanes fly. He just looked at me and said, "me high mom, me high mom!" While at the same time gestering for me to lift him higher. It was just so cute.

The picture below is just a random picture I thought was cute of him playing.