Get it OUT!!!!

The heat this summer has been so hard on Carter's neck where his trach ties are. With how sweaty he gets it has really irritated his super sensitive skin and he does not leave it alone. He literally have scratched it raw. It's tricky to try and let it heal with us only being able to put certain medicine on is with his trach hole. If things get in his hole it can so easily get infected. 

One way that Carter deals with it is to rip it all out. If he turns his head sideways or looks up or down he can not breathe. During the day it doesn't really worry me because I am right there. Come night time when he is in his bed sleeping and he does it.....well that's a completely different story. Have I ever told you how much I hate the color purple? Well I do especially when my baby turns that color. 

November 19th can't come soon enough!

Wrestle

These boys are ALWAYS happy wrestling. Boston does not play lightly and Carter absolutely loves it.  It's a good thing he has such a great big brother to break him in. When we are at appointments and the Doctors see Boston tease him they always comment how great it is to see him being roughed around. They say too many times trach patients are too protected from things such as this. If only they knew the half of it. Carter has no choice so lucky for all of us Boston keeps him on track.

Preschool

The day Boston had been waiting all summer for finally came! He absolutely loves school and asked every week when school was going to start. I guess he didn't think our summer was as fun as I did. Truth be told I was just as excited as he was. This boy thrives off of structure and being dragged to Carter's therapy appointments isn't the structure that he likes. When he is in school he is such a better behaved little boy all around and I love that too. 

 He was so excited to pick out his first day of school outfit which of course included his favorite basketball shorts from Grandma Wilson and his speedy orange shoes from Grandma D. Side not about the shoes. When we went shopping for them the ones we wanted they didn't have his size in so they brought our these ones to try for size. Your crazy if you thought we would actually be able to leave without those bright things. 

 He posed like this all himself and O my gosh I died. This picture is just too much! So cute!

 I can't believe how fast summer came and went. Get ready Little Harts Boston is back. 

He was SO excited that Daddy went in to work late so he could take him to school. He was happy to show us his stomping grounds. Carter was a tad jealous of all the fun things to do. 

I decided to come home and make myself sad by looking at his first day pic last year. How did he grow up so much in just one quick year. 

He came home one happy camper. I died when I got the learning card e-mail from his teacher and read all the fun games they played, the books they read, and that they got to ride the ponies and he told me his favorite part of the day was "when we learned to not show our friends out poop in the potty and playing with Kaitlyn and Addison at recess" If that is any indication of how the year is going to go it should be a great year! 

We love Date Nights

As part of our anniversary (or just a good excuse) we bought ticket to the cowboys preseason game. Since tickets are ridiculous to regular season games we figured this would be a fun game to go to. We had killer seats and despite half the starters being out we had such a fun time. Jerry's World really is such an amazing place.

 We decided to go all out and get the full "experience" and eat dinner and dessert at the game. Surprisingly the prices weren't all that bad. Parking however was another story. With how far away we parked we kept joking that we should have just walked the whole way. We didn't mind though it was fun to chat and people watch all to avoid $40 parking.

 It's very safe to say that this is his happy place.

and this is mine ha!

Since preseason games are only entertaining for about the first half we enjoyed watching the people the second. Including all the old men recording the cheerleaders on their phones. Nasty!

Goodbye Summer!

Even though it is still blazen hot out there Summer has come to an end. Schools back in and our schedules seem to just keep getting busier. Farewell Summer 2012 you were good to us!

Sa-Loan

Sloan or as Boston says Sa-Loan came tow town to spend two weeks with Kyle. We had so much fun spending time with her. Boston sure loved having a little sidekick and asked the second eh woke up when he was going to see her. 

 Cruisin' the neighborhood

 Of course we had to go to the beach. We had friends join us which made it all the more fun. 

 We fed the ducks which the kids loved. This pic by the way kills me. She is a peanut which is so not what I am used to at all. Everything about her is tiny.

 We spent lots of time at the pool.

 I think they look so much alike in this picture.

 Rode the carousel at the mall. Despite Carter's face he absolutely loved it!

 Attempted the splash park only to find out Sloan is terrified of them.

 Grandma D thought it would be fun to buy then harmonicas. I am still trying to figure out pay back since she wasn't the one driving them around everywhere while they "made music" for us. 

 Spent lots of time at mall play places. Obviously didn't get any good pictures. 

 Went to the farm and fed some VERY hungry and VERY feisty goats that scared the tar out of the two older kids. Carter on the other had thought it was great and enjoyed feeding all the animals since Boston and Sloan we now too scared. 

 I love this little girl SO much and wish I could keep her. 

Two peas in a pod!

Too Cute!

This picture is just too cute not to post. I put the helmet on as a joke and because I love seeing them on my boys and their huge noggins. Good thing I did, because his brother zoomed by on his bike seconds after and knocked him off.