Hopefully not a black eye

So today was a semi-nice day, mild temps but windy. We've all had colds and have not been going to school, childwatch, working out so we went to the park after lunch. Today was the first day that Carden went down the slide, he loved it. He kept wanting to walk back up, well until he hit his eye. He didn't cry long but later this nice bump appeared, I'm sure it will not be the last. Jayden liked playing with the seated digger thing in the sandbox, she was really making it happen. We also took Jayden's bike and she rode well and got the hang of braking with the coaster brakes and not her feet. Sorry don't have photo of Jayden, forgot my camera, just had my phone.

1st Year Bday Party pics

Carden's Baptism

It really was a great day!
I was so worried Carden would be a hand full while being baptized in the minister's and elders hands but he was great. I think he was star struck from the choir behind us and the congregation, there was too much to take-in. He didn't make a peep and didn't try to wiggle to get down, he was just perfect, I would have never guessed that was my son.
Carden wore a little cotton blue and white shirt/knickers outfit from Fancy Pants, Jay had put his hand down that he didn't want his son in a gown, which was fine with me.
I want to thank all of our family who came, it was nice to be represented so well. After the service we went to Andrew Blairs for lunch, we had a very large private room for us to spread out and have a nice brunch. Also I had prepared a slide show presentation of over 350 pics that continuously played on the projector.
This celebration was also his 1st Birthday party since we had to cancel the previously planed one back in Dec., while Jayden had that stomach bug. Carden never knew any different.

Snow Day

This snow was bigger then our white Christmas but our snowman was smaller. This snow was too light and fluffy to pack, so we have a table top snowman. The snow was good for pulling the sled, doing laps in the backyard and great for making snow angels.

Jayden is wearing Lake Sarah's ski pants and a new coat my mom bought. She doesn't have true snow gloves so we use her fleece ones and then I hair tie plastic baggies on.

You can't see it but he hat says T. F. Farmer Company

Photo below is from Dec. 26th snow.

Monkey Joe's

Last Friday we had a playdate with Haley, Jack and Victoria at Monkey Joe's, a really large one opened at Park Rd. Shopping Center. It's a great place to play in these winter months, they have a good system with wrist band for separated kids and parents and lots of staff with whistles to help monitor big kids bouncing on littler ones. They also have a section for 3 and under which we all loved, even Carden.

Thanks to Jack's mom, Layla for providing these photos.

Carden got his DOC band off

Tuesday, Jan. 4th Carden got his DOC band off. He wore his band for about 2.5 months, 23 hours a day. Time flew and he hardly was bothered by it. With the digital imaging system they have now, it was easy to provided us with before and after, the ears line up now and he has the most width at the back of his head and not at the ear area. We are happy with his improvements.

July 4th Holiday

We went to the beach with mom and had a great time and great weather. N. Myrtle Beach is where my mom’s waterway condo is located, so we frequent the OD area of the beach and it was absolutely packed. Thank goodness Tommy and Amy would go over early and set up our canopy to mark our spot. There was traffic too but we just stay in our little area and get around just fine. Jayden really wore herself out on Saturday, she loves to dig in the sand and run back and forth to the water to get buckets and then pour them into digging sand, which is great with me because the sand is less likely to become airborne. This was Carden’s first trip to the beach, to be truthful he didn’t play much in the sand because it wasn’t too long before he had it all over his face and too close to his eyes, so he would sit in our laps until he fell asleep in “the bucket”. Also at OD area they have a mobile amusement park that features kiddy rides. We went there one night and Jayden rode the flying dragons, tea cups, race cars that slide out in corners, Berry Go Round, the carousel 2 times and to my hesitant approval the kiddy roller coaster, that ended up being too rough and had the operator stop it. We watched fireworks at Calabash, Carden loved them but Jayden is still not sure about the loud bang, but did get a few oooh and aaah’s our of her though.