Three Aunts

Shannon and Ashley were in town this weekend while our men were living it up at Stubbie's bachelor party in Chicago. In order that we might be able to live it up ourselves, Carter spent Saturday night with Patrick and Kirstin (my first non-business night away from him). When Patrick and Kirstin brought Carter back this morning, three of Carter's aunts/"aunts" were in one place!

Bachelor What?

I'm not sure why a man would choose to go on a man-only bachelor weekend when he could be happy at home with this hotness...

Boy in a box

Sure, birthday presents are cool, but do you know what's really awesome? The boxes they come in.
Cats, kids, it's all the same. Boxes are just a lot of fun.

Sick Boy

Carter had a few feverish days early this week (he seems fully recovered now). The one nice thing about having a sick baby is that he is so much more willing to snuggle on the couch!

Play Date

We had a play date with a family from Carter's old daycare this past weekend. They live in the neighborhood so we met up in Prospect Park. It was very cute to see the boys playing "together". They did actually interact some, mostly in the form of Carter head-butting and attempting to crawl on top of his new friend. After a while, Carter realized that there was a patch of dirt with a rock and a stick and a hole just a few feet away. After that, he wanted nothing more to do with any of us or his toys!

Shoes

We've had some requests for a picture of Carter in his new shoes, so here you go!

(He's still only made the occasional solo step, we'll keep you posted on the walking front!)

Missing Mandi

With Aarti in town and Joo over for the night, it was almost like our annual Girl Weekend. Except that we were sorely missing Mandi. Thomas did his part to fill it, but it wasn't quite the same...

Thomas at Work

For your reading pleasure, below is an article recently published in Lighting & Sound America magazine about a project I worked on (Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA) and am quoted in several times. The article is in PDF format, so you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it, but it is a free program for anyone out there that may not have it. Hooray for me...

http://www.elizabethandthomas.com/Signature-LSAsmall.pdf


This project was also published in Home & Design magazine (no article, just a photo), but here is that link as well as a link to more photos of the theater for those that are interested.

http://www.bfcollection.net/publ/h&d/homedesign2007_01.htm

See, I do work on occasion....

Puff

Mandi made Carter a dragon for his birthday. Carter is enjoying it very much. In fact, it went to his new daycare to be used as his comfort object for nap time. (And yes, she actually made that dragon - it is unbelievably good!)

Computer Fun

Thomas found a very cute free computer program that allows Carter to bang happily on the computer keyboard, causing fish to swim or flowers to bloom on the screen. Carter loves it!