My Darlin'

Kentucky must be rubbing off on me because I call Cassidy "My Darlin' " if I put Cassidy down somewhere and go into another room, Lacey will pick her up and bring her to me and say , "You forgot your darlin' ".

Cassidy LOVES hair. If you have met her, you already know that. She yanks and pulls and grabs but when she is trying to fall asleep she just holds onto it or plays with it. When I hold her she plays with my hair when she is falling asleep but if I lay her down she plays with her own hair. If it is in a ponytail sometimes I will take it out just so she can get some good hair playin' goin' on. She is adorable. Here some pics of the girl falling asleep.

First Try

We went out on the boat last night. I decided to try once again to waterski. Our skiis seemed kind of heavy for me so it had been hard for me to get up. Well, first try, I popped right up. I didn't even fall. I just stopped when I was too tired. That is a big deal for me. I haven't skiied for a couple of years. So now I can say I have skiied the Ohio.

This is obviously something I am proud of our I wouldn't be willing to show pictures of me in a bathing suit.

Privates

The other day Aidan had a friend over and they were pretending to be in the army. Aidan told his friend to call him Private. So the kids kept calling each other private.

Well in our family we call a boy's private parts, privates, and girl's private parts neenee nahnees. Don't ask why, there really is no understandable explanation. So when Lacey was in the room with the two boys and heard Aidan say we are privates. She quickly said, " I will call you privates and you can call me neenee nahnee."

I don't know how it happened, but it did.

When it comes to sports, I just follow the lead of my husband. He loves NASCAR and Tony Stewart so I love NASCAR and Tony Stewart. He hates Kyle Busch so I hate Kyle Busch. He loves College football so I do too. And being a Seattle-lite, he loves the University of Washington Huskies. I grew up a BYU fan but cheer for the Huskies just the same. I have never pressed BYU patronage in our family.
Aidan from birth has had Husky gear. It has been ingrained from the womb that he would be a Husky football fan. Just recently we needed to update Aidan's Husky gear so when we were in Seattle he got a Husky Jersey of #10 Jake Locker. He loves it. He loves that he gets to wear the quarterbacks jersey.
Well, recently BYU played the Huskies. Aidan was asking questions trying to figure out what team was which. Ryan explained that the purple team with the "W" was the Huskies and the blue team with the "Y" was BYU. After a few minutes of contemplation Aidan asked, "Well dad, then why do I have a purple jersey?" I laughed my head off while Ryan was on the verge of tears. What happened here? All this time he was molding a Husky fan and out of no where a BYU fan pops up. I guess there is some Carter deep in him somewhere.
After Grandpa Carter heard that one, Aidan soon had his own BYU t-shirt that he wore for 2 days straight. Thanks Grandpa for continuing on the BYU fan heritage.

New Firsts

We all have been doing some new things in our family.


Ryan:

He completed his first mini-triathlon today. He has been training for a couple of months now. Unfortunately he has been fighting off a cold for the last week so doing the triathlon was a little harder than it would have been had he been at full strength. A mini triathlon entails 400 meter swim, 8 mile bike, and a 3 K run. We were all there to cheer him on. He did so great. His goal was to just actually finish, and that he did in an hour and 10 minutes. Isn't that awesome? The whole time I watched him I was just so proud that he had a goal and was doing it. He has been so dedicated.




Aidan:

He tried water skiing for the first time. At first he said no way I'm not trying. Once we got to the lake he decided he wanted to try. He tried twice but didn't get all the way up. I'm just happy that he is brave enough to try. I was sure proud of him. He will get it soon enough.



Lacey:
She started a little ballet class at the YMCA. I had her enrolled in the 3-4 class but as we were walking in and I saw the other little girls coming to the class I soon realized Lacey was a little too old for these girls. They looked and acted like they just had turned 3. They were all over the place and didn't really follow the teacher except for Lacey and maybe 2 other girls. I decided to stay around for the 5-6 class. She had a friend in that class and the girls just seemed to be paying better attention. So I officially moved her to the older class. She had a great time being all dressed up and twirling around. I think the best part for her though was that her teacher's name was Ariel.




Just as a side note. Aidan felt he had to be dressed up in a costume to go to the Y also so this is him going to watch Lacey in ballet class. Nothing more manly to make sure we all know that you think ballet is foo foo and you are a manly MAN!


Tiffany:
I signed up to be the room mother for Aidan's class. Yikes. Never done that before.


Cassidy:
She hasn't done anything new yet, but she still is just dang cute.