West Palm Zoo and Playdoh

No one can compete with Grandpa Joe's playdoh skills!

He doesn't stop eating

Loves the animals

Karter SMILE...

This is what Karter does when you ask him to smile.. not sure where he learned it from??

The Beach

Tuscany Bay

Karter very favorite thing to do in FL was watch the birds in the lake behind the house and feed them and of course himself bread. He enjoyed the pool too even though it was chilly.

Animals of the wetlands

The Wetlands

About 2 miles from my parents place in Boynton Beach are wetlands with a mile boardwalk and Karter's favorite place! He abosultely loved running down the boardwalk and stopping to watch all the birds and animals.

Freedom in FL

The plan was to escape the winter snow and cold for alittle over 2 weeks in FL like we did last year. All our plans were perfect - the first week my parents were coming then Barb, Joe and Stace were to arrive the following week... giving us a couple of days together as a family. Well when you don't reserve an actual seat on your airtran flight and they overbook the flight there is a good chance that you will not get on your flight even though you have a ticket. After getting to the airport we got sent home. They were kind enough to re book our flight for 6 days later cutting our vacation down by a week. But once we got there life was good! Everyone but my dad was able to make it... it was a little cold for FL but we weren't in NY freezing and we got a few nice days to run around in shorts and t shirts - or completely NAKED.

The Spins

Karter and Jake - Through the YEAR

Lake George in Feb

CT Aquarium in Jan

Hanging on the couch Nov 09'

Karter and Jake cont..

At Kristin's beach house summer 09'

Driving up to LG

Best Buds napping together

Like I mentioned Karter decided to boycott his naps. Until one day when I tried a new tactic. I was desperate for him to start napping again and for me to get some well needed alone time. This was right around the time when we all caught the stomach bug and we were trapped in the house for a week because Karter had the worse diarrhea and diaper rash ever. I pulled out the sofa bed in the living room so we could lay down and relax all day. He was so relaxed that he was falling asleep while watching tv. This was a great time despite the terrible week of being so sick. Since then he is back to napping (in our bed) and sleeping for 1 - 2 hours.

Diarrhea and Diaper Rash

Karter and I caught the nasty stomach bug that was going around while we were up in Lake George. I got it and thought sending Karter and Craig to my parents for the night they would avoid catching it. Well that backfired because Karter, Craig and my mom ended up getting it. Karter had such bad diarrhea he had the worst diaper rash I have ever seen. It was so pitiful to see him in so much pain. It got so bad that he was bleeding. We tried 3 differnt rx cream (even spent $300 on vusion cream to get him better because our insurance didn't cover it) and nothing helped. Dr Montague finally looked at him and said it was a burn and not a typical yeast infection that diaper rash is... so she prescribed silverdine burn cream and it started to clear up. It was so bad he has battle scars on his butt. This was the first time I heard painful cries from Karter. One night I was crying with him and felt so helpless. As a mom I wanted nothing more than to alleviate his pain and discomfort even if it meant I would take it on myself.

20 week sonogram

We could have found out the sex but we decided not to. It was so exciting not knowing with Karter we wanted to keep guessing again until the very last minute. The tech referred to the baby as "his"... was it a slip up??? We will so find out...

If I had to guess right now I would say... A GIRL

This pregnancy is different than with Karter. 1. It's not all about me this time around and I'm not consumed with it because I am busy Karter and my new life. 2. I'm not stressed with work 3. I have not been working out regularly or doing yoga and I definitely feel the difference. - more aches and pains. 4. Craving vegetables and more vegetables and 5. My heartburn isn't nearly as bad

What hasn't changed - I DO NOT SLEEP. I am up on average for 1-2 hours at night - usually between 2 and 4. I don't have any problem falling asleep but once I wake to go to the bathroom - that's it I'm done and can't fall back asleep.

I have an appointment with Dr Dicker to talk about vbac. I am hoping I can deliver vaginally because if I have a c section I won't be able to pick up Karter for a while and will have to depend on help around the clock. Only time will tell.

1st Haircut

It was about that time that Karter got a haircut. I definitely wasn't trained to cut hair as I proved trying to cut his hair so he can see. While waiting to get his hair cut one of the women told her son that the "little girl was next in line to get her hair cut". So we weren't at the right place at the right time!

Before his hair cut

Right after his the cut

He kept his curls!!

Look how much hair was on the floor!

NYE 2010

We spent new years eve with the Donlan's this year. Becca, Chris, J and Burton took the train to Suffern. We stayed up to watch the ball drop - pretty impressive!

Karter and Charlie hanging NYE

Even Lionel had a friend over