Saturday, April 09, 2011

Carter's (temporary) New Pet

While watching the AT&T guy (hopefully) fix our phone/TV/Internet, Carter found a new pet that has kept him entertained outside for almost a whole hour.

"Inchwormy"






Carter just decided to feed him a leaf and then lost him. He has now run inside to find his magnifying glass to hopefully find his buddy. I do not have high hopes, but I think it will all be okay.

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Thursday, April 07, 2011

What the....?!

So, this evening as Elizabeth has just pulled into the driveway, but before she gets to the front door, a moving truck drives down our street, catches a wire strung between the telephone pole and our house and rips the cable off our house and dangling in the street. Thankfully, it was not a power line, but it was our phone, cable, internet. The fire department came, moved the broken wire out of the street, tied the cable still attached to our house to a tree so cars could drive under it "safely" and then left. That's it. No report, or call to utility company, or anything. So after several attempts, AT&T agrees there is a problem and will be out to look at it "hopefully before 7pm on Sat."



Cable still dangling from the house.




That blue and orange wire used to be inside a cable attached to a telephone pole.




Oh, there's the other end that should be at my house but is across the street...




...in this giant pile of wire.

No phone, TV, or Internet until Sat night for us. What will we do?!

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Elizabeth & the Boys

It's official. Carter's getting a baby brother, so I'll continue to be the only female in this family! We've been neglegent in blogging about the new addition, so here are a few funnies that have happened along the way:
  • The day we told Carter about the baby, I asked if he wanted to call and share the news with his Mama Helen (who already knew). He agreed, so we called her and he very excitedly told her, "I won Chutes & Ladders!"
  • As he's shared the news with other people, it tends to go like this: "I'm going to be a big sister!"
  • One day, out of the blue, he said, "I'm number one! I'm number one! Wait. No... I'm infinity. That's the biggest number. The baby can be number one."
That's all for now!

Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Weekend in Arkansas

Carter and I got to spend last weekend in Arkansas, thanks to a work conference I had in Little Rock at the end of last week.
Box sliding at the riverfront park in Little Rock

Carter's first Jarritos

Exploring a cave at Garvan Gardens

Carter's new scooter

The bubble-bath - always a favorite at Mama Helen & Daddy Phil's house

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

More Turner Field Tour

The Turner Field tour was actually pretty cool, so I thought I would post a few more pix, just because I can! Original post here.
Carter's awesome outfit.


Inside the Braves locker room.




On the field. ("Do NOT touch the grass!")



Fun playing on another giant number (Jackie Robinson).

St. Patrick's Day

In lieu of making our own green food (ok, Eli making green food), we decided to catch a happy hour at the Irish pub down the street. Full but not too crowded, and a face painter to boot! Carter and his friend Maury got their faces painted, and they really enjoyed it. The final results were slightly unexpected, but the boys were the traditional St. Pat's Day Skeletons!

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Spring Training Trip

As has been alluded to, I took a trip to Orlando with Cart Cart and the other Fowlkes' to see the Braves spring training for an extra long weekend. It was filled with lots of baseball watching, lots of eating (steak, hibachi, ribs, etc.), and admittedly not that many pictures. But here are a few: Champion's Stadium is the Braves stadium at Disney where they play. It is a great sports complex with multiple baseball fields where all levels major and minor league practice, lacrosse, field house for cheerleading (mostly, as best I can tell), and others. And of course, it's all branded Disney!



Sammy had a great time hanging out with the guys for a couple of days, watching ball and wearing sunglasses. He did have a hard time getting that monkey off his back, though.



Sammy did like the lacrosse net on the back field.



We all also went to Sea World and had a great time, saw the Shamu show, and rode the carousel.


For more pictures, see them other Fowlkes' blog post!

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Turner Field

Thomas still owes you a post on spring training, but in the meantime, here's another baseball excursion...

Yesterday, we took a tour of Turner Field (where the Braves play) with Cart Cart and Park.

In the press box






In the visitors dugout



In front of the stadium



Carter dressed himself especially for the occasion: too small basketball shorts, a braves t-shirt, a cape and his cowboy boots.

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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Fastnacht Day

On Fat Tuesday, while Thomas was in Orlando, Carter and I spent the evening at friends Kirsten and Al's house celebrating Fastnacht Day. 

According to my good friend Wikipedia:

A Fasnacht, sometimes spelled Fastnacht or Faschnacht, is a fatty doughnut treat served traditionally on Fastnacht Day (Shrove Tuesday), the day before Lent starts. Fasnachts were made as a way to empty the pantry of lard, sugar, fat, and butter, which were traditionally fasted from during Lent....Basel, Switzerland conducts an annual fasnacht festival. The Pennsylvania Deutsch territory surrounding Lancaster, Pennsylvania, celebrates the custom as well.
Kirsten & Al are from PA, and it has always been a big tradition in her house. Kirsten's mom was even there to help with the Fastnacht making and eating!

Carter observes how to shake on the sugar coating. Moments later, he became the most vigorous sugar shaker that anyone has ever seen. We had to quadruple bag the sugar lest he shake the bottom out of it!

By the time Carter and I left, we had the record for most Fastnachts consumed!



Just a little rant...

Thomas has several recent-happenings posts that will be upcoming, but in the meantime, just a little rant...

If one more of Carter's teammates' parents uses the team connection to attempt to sell me something, I may have to boycott sports teams altogether. At least until he's old enough to be dropped off so I'm not a sitting duck for other parents/salesmen who know full well that I don't have anywhere else to be.

Does this really usually work? Oh, you coached my kids team, of course I'll be happy to recommend your totally unrelated business on Linked In. You're a very fair t-ball coach, I'd love to entrust my finances to you! You  know, I've just been sitting around soccer practice hoping that someone would offer to solve all my legal woes -- please do go to your car and get me a DVD about your services! (at least that one gets me a few minutes of peace...)

I've have successfully cultivated a "leave-me-alone" persona that works great on airplanes, but I've been trying to be somewhat more approachable in my parenting life. But I'm seriously considering earphones and perhaps a lengthy, urgent, phony call  for our next soccer practice...