The Weekend

Our main project for the weekend was cleaning out our garage. It had been taken over by Carter's outdoor toys that we hadn't found a place for. We spent most of the day Saturday reorganizing and cleaning out spider webs. We still have a few more shelves to purchase and hang, but we now have a place for everything again. And I'm no longer banging my car door into toys every time I get out of my car!

On Saturday morning we took Carter to Lowe's for the Build and Grow workshop. This week's project was a school house. This has been Carter's favorite because the roof opens and he can put stuff in the school house.



They did the project outside again but this time we were right next to the outdoor playsets that are on display. Carter was way more interested in those than in building the school house.


We got a few swings of the hammer out of him, but we ended up doing most of the building.


We still got Carter a patch since he helped some.


We didn't do much today. We ran some errands and I finally went through all the stuff we didn't sell at the yard sale last weekend that I had just thrown in the Pathfinder.

Earlier in the year I bought Carter a Radio Flyer tricycle because it was 75% off at Target. It's recommended for ages 2-5, but Brian and I decided to put it together to see just how big it was. Whenever we go to parks, Carter always runs up to bikes that are on the ground and is really interested in them so we figured he might be ready to start figuring out a trike. The one we have is way too big (which we excepted), but Carter still had a lot of fun playing on it today. He likes to climb up the back two steps, put his hands on the handlebars, and sort of jump onto the seat. Then he'll swing a leg over the bar, slide off, and start all over again. When we push him around on it, Carter tries to reach the pedals that are moving around, but he just can't reach yet. Carter got on the trike once sitting behind the seat and was able to scoot around a little because he could reach the ground ...

I'm looking around for a smaller trike that Carter will be able to use this summer. We looked a little today but didn't find anything quite small enough for Carter yet.

Brian put Carter's goggles from the Lowe's workshop on him this evening with his construction hat - he just needs some steel toed boots and he'll be ready to walk around in a chemical plant with me!


For the last few months, Charlotte has been hanging out in a new spot downstairs ...


Charlotte really likes to hang out here when Brian is working at the desk. Carter likes to join her under the desk when he finds her there. Sometimes she looks like she's stuck!