Riding the Giraffe at The Fickle Frog, formerly known as The Pickle Frog by Carter

Assisting Papa in taking down the blow up bed

Linc and Cael had lots of fun playing together - in the teepee and sharing whip cream too!

This is the 3 littles - Charlee, Cael & Lincoln having fun jumping off Grandma's fireplace

Much, much to catch up on since my last post was 2 weeks ago! We've been on another Iowa adventure since my last post - the boys just love being in Iowa around their family and of course being able to farm and take Kabota rides too.

My parents were here last weekend for Thanksgiving and gave the boys their Christmas presents early (this has become a tradition so they don't have to worry about the size of their gifts since we can't bring big things back with us easily and this year Carter asked - do I get Christmas gifts at Thanksgiving, Mimi? Yep, he's into Christmas this year). Anyway, they are the proud new owners of lawn tractors (or trackies as Lincoln calls them) and they have been busy farming our backyard. Carter is the ring leader, of course, and tells Lincoln what to do, I even heard him tell him the other day, "I'm gonna call you Dustin because you do Dustin's job" (they guy working with Grandpa and Uncle Michael). It took Linc a few days to figure out how to steer in which time he spent time going in circles and hitting the house.

We are back to school today - AMEN! Carter is so ready and so am I. He hasn't been in 2 weeks and it shows! He's busy singing his program songs for his school program - I can't wait to see how it goes. Lincoln is learning new words and phrases each day - it is cute to try to figure out what he's saying and what he means, short sentences but the words aren't always in the correct grammatical order but we won't correct him on that just yet!