Child Care

I'm quoted in this week's Time Out New York Kids magazine, which centers on child care in NYC this week. The feature article was written by our friend Sarah Robbins who interviewed me about finding child care here in the city. I can't say that Atlanta is that much easier as far as child care is concerned, but we've been lucky enough (thanks to Carter the elder's assistance) to find what seems like a great nanny share situation. Once we get to Atlanta, we'll be sharing a nanny with another family in our new town. The other family has a boy (also blond haired and blue eyed) who is just a few months older than Carter. The two boys will spend two days a week at our house and three days a week at the other family's house. Since we've been using daycare for over a year now, it will be quite a change, but we're looking forward to it. Thomas met the other family and the nanny when he was in Atlanta training earlier in the month, and they all seem great.

Carter the Wild

We went over to Patrick & Kirstin's place for a delicious (garlicious) dinner on Sunday night. Carter immensely enjoyed himself, to the point of refusing to sleep and breaking at least one thing. But I know he just couldn't help himself. Being at Patrick & Kirstin's place would be fun in and of itself, but their cats just make it unbearably exciting. He chased their kitten Fidel Catstro all over the place, even through an open bookshelf.

(Below, Carter is pouncing on his stuffed panda, Theodore, not the cat. But if he'd been able to catch the cat, Carter would have tackled him too.)

Strollin'

August 2006 and August 2007
What a difference a year makes!

Catch

A pic from Joo's visit last weekend:

Laundry Day

Carter highly enjoyed himself when we did laundry recently.

(Yes, that is my underwear).

Fashion Experiments

I got pretty experimental in high school with some of my fashion choices. I was known to alter or make my own clothes to get exactly the look I was going for. Since my parents are moving, my mom has been cleaning out and recently sent me some of my experiments. I don't feel a need to keep these anymore, so they are being purged in preparation for our own move, but I thought you'd enjoy seeing some of my high school handiwork.

I know these aren't fashionable now, and I have a sinking feeling that they weren't back then either...

Sadly, my car wash skirt seems to have disappeared.

Today

Joo came over and spent most of the day with us. Here's a great pic she snapped!

Sorry

Sorry that we haven't posted in a week. We've been under the weather, very busy at work and planning the move...

We'll try to be better this weekend!

How much is that baby in the window?

A cute picture from yesterday:

Picnic

Carter's daycare had a picnic yesterday afternoon, complete with a pony! You'll notice that there are no pony pictures here, and that is because Carter refused to either sit on or pet the pony. He was, however, very upset if anyone else rode the pony. He wanted it to stand right next to him - but he didn't want to touch it. That was, in part, because he just wanted to hold on to me. Until a certain 5-year-old girl came over, at which point he got down, grabbed her hand, and off they went.