catch up.

I hate that I have gone almost a whole week without posting. I have quite a lot stored in my head to tell. Some funny quotes and of course some movies and pictures from last week's snow.

Here is some footage I promised of getting Hannah to walk. Unfortunately, she hasn't performed as well as she did at church last Wednesday night. Notice: my horrible taping due to me trying to coax Hannah to walk, Lizzie lending a big sister helping hand, and Hannah not wanting to walk again.

Here is another bit of fun. The kids playing out in the snow on Thursday. Take note of: Lizzie trying to repeatedly go the wrong way on the slide, Jackson not being able to get up, Lizzie again lending a sisterly helping hand, and Hannah "talking " in the background.

We have had a great week. Another trip to the doctor on our "date night" thrown into the mix makes for a fun Friday night. Jackson had bad belly pains all week and was throwing up as we were getting ready to leave on Friday. We decided to call the doctor because the pain seemed to worsen. They gave us an 8:40 pm appointment only to tell me it is a virus and will probably be around a few more days. Great...here's another $10 for you. I feel like I have done nothing but meet all of the 20,000 doctors at this practice and visit both their offices this last month. I hope this is it. Unfortunately, I think Hannah may be getting another ear infection. She has not been sleeping really well and has been crying a lot at night. We'll see.
Oh...and I have lost 7.5 pounds so far, which doesn't seem like a lot, but I am seeing numbers on the scale I haven't seen in a long time. So far, I have cooked quite a lot and enjoyed most the meals I've gotten from Weight Watchers Online.
I guess that is it. I will leave you with some pictures from the week and a few quotes.

Feel the Love

Meanwhile, back in her crib...

Rub a dub dub...
three Carters in the tub.

Quotes of the days: "Hannah, stop sticking your throat down your fingers." -Jackson said at dinner the other night as Hannah was gagging herself.

"E-F-G, no!" -Jackson would say and Lizzie would quickly correct him, "N-O, no Jackson!"

"Mommy, you look like a boy with that little bit of fur on your lip." -Lizzie said to me as we played Memory tonight.

updates.

Today is update day!! I will update you on the kids and I updated my iPod Touch, I was so excited. First the kids. We had a dress-up party the other evening and Joe snapped some cute ones of the kids together. Jackson was wearing his costume from 2 years ago (funny it still fits) and Lizzie of course wearing Belle, this year's costume.

Hannah was napping at the time, poor Hannah, never in pictures. I will definitely grab some pictures, if not video, of her tomorrow. She officially took her first set of steps at church tonight. She walked about 4 steps to Joe and about 3 to me, but then was very tired. She is so cute because she gets so proud of herself and she squats and smiles and stands back up again!! I will try to grab some footage tomorrow.

I was so excited to see the new updates for the iPod Touch. I was kinda bummed when I started playing with it that it didn't have more apps and was set and I couldn't changed the dock. Today, all that changed. I was able to get the upgrades, to my surprise pretty inexpensively, and now have a customized Touch. I watched the tutorial, and was having fun trying out the new additions!! I also was drooling over the new laptop the "Air" that they brought out. It is so awesome. It is really, really thin (it fits in a manila envelope) and it is so slick! Fun stuff!!

Quote of the day: "Daddy, I Love You!"-It is simple, but how do you not tear up as you listen to your guys in the next room getting ready for bed and Jackson pauses to let Daddy know he loves him--ahhh!!

kop.

Tonight I had off so we spent last night and this morning trying to decide what to do. We went out to breakfast with the Carters to the Fractured Prune. It is a doughnut shop that makes your doughnuts to order. They are hot when you get them and delicious.

We got home and there was a message from Jenn and Eric about meeting somewhere to visit. We haven't seen them in a while. It is hard because whenever we go down to NJ we feel we need to catch up with all the family. Anyway, we decided to meet them at King of Prussia Mall to walk around and eat a meal together. It was so fun and their son Brayden was so cute with Lizzie and Jackson. It always amazes me how great kids are at remembering their friends and picking up like no time has passed. It was great catching up with them and we had a fun night off.

Quote of the day: "Ho, Ho, Ho...Little girl what do you want for Kissmas?"-Jackson and Lizzie somehow got talking about what they wanted for next Christmas and were taking turns being Santa Claus. He even had his hand to his chin as a beard!!