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Carter's first swim lesson

Carter's first movie - UP!

We've had a busy, busy week - yet again! Last week I got a major surprise with the arrival of Katie & Kara - thanks so much for coming girls, it was great to see you. I think I've been speechless surprised twice in my life now - once when my dad arrived in San Antonio in September of 2001 - we'd moved there in May and if I wasn't homesick enough 9/11 hit and made me want to move back into my parents basement & then waalaa - my dad arrived at Hills & Dales! Well K & K being here last Friday was about as shocking - as I turned to say hello to Sean and had friends too! We had a great weekend of doing mostly girl stuff & went out and stayed at Bricktown on Sat. night - such a nice treat for us to get out & leave the boys with their Mimi, and Sunday brought pedicures. Thanks, Mimi!

They were spoiled by Mimi - we went to Toys R Us (enough said, right?) we took Carter to his first movie - we saw UP! - he was a bit frightened and said a few times that he was scared and that we should leave but once he sat down on my lap he seemed a little better - I think the noise and the dogs in the movie were a bit much for him. He told Sean yesterday that he wants to go see Ice Age with him - so I think we will be sending them on that adventure soon. Carter also started swimming lessons last week - I'm not sure why his class isn't called something like "getting into the water" because that is most of what they do but I guess it is a start. He did wonderfully on Monday, horribly on Tuesday and better on Wednesday and Thursday - we will see what next week brings.

Linc of course would really like to be in swimming lessons as well - it is a bit of a challenge to keep him out of the water so I've been the mean mommy and put him in the stroller to keep him contained. He has recently figured out how to hide in our bathroom cabinets - he and Carter thought this was amazingly fun last week and spent a lot of time in and out of them - which is fine when my makeup isn't in there but is strictly prohibited when it is - because Mr. Helpful (Lincoln) has a tendency to make a mess with makeup - he's tried on mascara many times, loves to get his hands in lipstick and my personal fav - opens the mineral blush and spills it all over (we had a jammie fatality this week due to that little move). They boys were also helpful enough yesterday to turn on the lights in my car & now I have a dead battery so we are STUCK at home this morning! Really, stuck. They were also up at 5:30 so we are going to have a long morning.

Yesterday the boys painted alligators for daddy for Father's day - Linc got more paint on himself than the actual gator but Carter was meticulous in getting every inch (except the belly, which I had to convince him was supposed to be white) painted red. We then wrapped them up to give to daddy - when Sean got home, however, Carter opened the package and took his alligator back to play with so of course Linc did the same - guess they aren't yet schooled in the art of gift giving? That is about all from here, just your typical busy raising boys kind of week with some unexpected visitors & a Mimi!