Happy Birthday Carson!!!

My baby is 3 years old today. He may be growing up, but he's STILL my BABY. He'll be my baby when he's 27...whether he likes it or not. It seems like yesterday we brought our little peanut home from the hospital. He wasn't even as big as the head support in his baby seat. At 5 pounds, he literally swam in his preemie sized hat and sleeper.

A happy baby at 5 Months

Then at a year old...

Almost 2


And now he's getting all grown up. I can't bear to watch...




So what's the Birthday boy doing today, you ask?





He's NOT partying by any stretch of the imagination.

Poor little guy is stuck at home with a fever, chills, coughs, etc, etc. It near breaks my heart in two just to look at him. He's quite pitiful.

Bummer. What a way to spend your birthday.

Day 25

My 25th Day post is a bit late, but what's a few days anyway? We had a wonderful Christmas at my folks place with the family. This is my brother's little girl, Breanna. She is the sweetest little thing and we got to be great buddies. So I got my "little girl" fix for a little while anyway.

Day 24

Happy Christmas Eve!!

We let the guys open their gifts last night since we'll be out of town for the rest of the week. We went to our favorite Mexican restaraunt for supper, and then came home for presents. Carson is thrilled with his trains. It seems that they have lots of engines and very few freight cars, which can cause lots of scraps because they both want to carry lots of freight cars. So I found a lot of 19 cars on ebay cheap and they are so happy to have enough freight cars to share. At last, peace has come to the Fogleman house.

Jackson's been wanting a real police uniform forever. It's pretty hilarious.

Now we're off to Granna's to enjoy Christmas with the family!

Day 23

I'm posting our Christmas card just in case you didn't get one. Now you can't say I didn't think about you!

Day 22

Here's a Merry Christmas to you, Jackson and Carson style.

Day 21

The boys received these carved wood guns for Christmas from a great friend, and they were just so cute that I had to share them. On one side they have their "cowboy" names, Slim and Shorty.

On the other side is carved their real names and the year. They absolutely love them! Thanks so much, Peggy! You've made two little cowpokes very happy.

Woo-Hoo!! I'm officially caught up on my posts! At least until tomorrow....

Day 20

The boys are already enjoying some Christmas gifts. Here they're listening to a new Thomas story on their Leap Pad. Thomas has an amazing calming effect on these guys. Honestly I don't dress my children to coordinate with their bedroom decor - it was just a weird little coincidence. It looks like one of those find the objects in the picture. It should have a caption that says, "Can you count how many fire trucks are in this picture?"

Day 19

Well Happy 19th Day of Christmas. I don't have any Christmasy pictures to post, but I'll at least ramble out an update. Carson's getting a bit better, he slept all night last night without much coughing. Mr. Fixit came through once again and has saved our bathroom from destruction. The kitchen is slowly coming together and is getting finished. The only Mavis the Train in Alabama has been found and promptly bought. (whew, big sigh of relief) But I can't give a good report on the Christmas tree. If it doesn't shape up, it will find itself disowned from the family as soon as Christmas is over. But we did have a great time the other night with our friends, the Overalls. We had a fun time playing Dutch Blitz, a horrible time playing Trivial Pursuit, and we toned it all down with a slow and easy game of dominoes.

I gave Jackson the camera and let him take some pictures. He does pretty good sometimes.

David O and Faith.

Jackson informed us that he was giving Faith a ring for Christmas. I'm not real sure what he meant by that, but there was an element of concern amongst the big people.

I have no idea what this picture has to do with anything. Give a 5 year old a camera, and you never know what you'll find on it. Boy, he really should brush his teeth...

Those boys will make cowpokes out of the girls yet.

I'm slowly getting caught up on my posts. I think I'll reward myself with some hershey's candy cane kisses. Can't seem to get enough of those things...