Owen's 6th Birthday!

Owen is SIX!!  I was going through some boxes of clothes the other day and found some "just born" size onesies.  He was so itty bitty.  He wore that size for a month.  Look how big he is now!

One of his birthday presents was a set of golf clubs.  Eric was bringing them out of the house and Owen noticed them.  Could his smile be any bigger???

Here is the "just born" onesie!  So tiny!!  I saved it! :)

Completely unrelated to Owen's birthday...This spider has been chilling by our deck for a week.  It's both creepy and kind of cool.  Cool only because it is Hawkeye colors!  Well, and the spider web looks like a zipper.

Fire Station Birthday Party

We went to a birthday party this weekend at the fire station. So much fun!!  They gave us a tour, let the kids   sit in the driver's seat, and showed us all the special tools they use.  Carson was SO into it.  As you can tell from the pictures below, he got right in the group with the big kids.  He REFUSED to put on a fire hat though! :(  I really wanted a picture of him wearing one. no such luck!  Wait, he did put it on at one point and as soon as I took the lens cap off he pulled the hat off. He totally did that on purpose!!  He knew I wanted to get a picture.

The fire man asked the kids to sit on a line and Carson even did that!

He wasn't scared at all!  The kids all gave the fire man a hug.  Carson didn't give him a hug, but he did go up to the back of him and hit his oxygen tank.  Not to be mean, he was just copying what the fire chief did when he was telling the kids about it.

The Story of My Life....

Messes 

We normally have a blanket covering Barkley's crate.  We have a few things sitting on top.  I ran some errands in the morning and came home to this....Barkley had some how gotten a hold of a black bag that had a few items in it.  Of course everything in the bag was destroyed.  I'm not really sure how he got a hold of the bag, because I can see the blanket in the picture.  Who knows!?

And this mess was courtesy of my little Carson baby.  Brand new pack of 300 count napkins on the floor and a bag of pasta.  Lovely!  The good thing is, if you read my older post, Carson likes to help clean-up! Woo hoo!

All About Carson

Carson hates Zhu Zhu Pets....with a passion!!  For some reason he is so scared of them.  The boys think it's funny to chase him with them.  Carson moves FAST.  He's not to the point of running, but if the boys keep chasing him with the little critters he might be soon!!  This one was getting a little too close for comfort.

Carson is such a little helper.  He finds objects on the floor and will go throw them away without us even asking.  He dripped some milk on the floor and I told him to go get a towel and clean it up and HE DID!!  I was shocked!  Hopefully he stays this way for awhile.  

Another one of his favorite things to do.....standing up in his high chair.  I took this picture because you can see his little black eye.  He hit it on a table at church.

Carson wearing Eric's Tough Mudder sweat band. :)

This cute little track suit was a gift.  LOVE IT!!!

This is one of his new little looks. Hmmm

The Lizard

I was outside blowing bubbles with the boys and our neighbor. I had to run inside to get something and before I made it back outside they decided to come inside and go upstairs. We went to the gym, came home and ate dinner. As we're cleaning up from dinner we hear Owen walking up the stairs and making a comment about how he has to go check on the lizard. I thought I heard him correctly, but ask if he is talking about a pretend lizard or a real lizard. Yep, you guessed it, he was talking about a real lizard. Our neighbor caught it and put it in the bug catcher. The boys brought it in and took it to their playroom. Thankfully the little critter was still in there. We had a discussion about not bringing any living animal into the house.

It's on the lid in this picture. It's kind of hard to see, but it's there.