Mardi Gras!

We headed out to downtown Lafayette today to hit up some Mardi Gras parades. Carter slept through them last year:


So, I was really curious to see how he'd do this year.

It started off slowly, and Carter was SILENT when we got there and met up with the Dubois. Thanks to his Nonnie, we were able to take Carter in his little red wagon and he was SO excited about that. But once we got downtown, he just shut down completely and was quiet and taking it all in. We tried and tried to get him to talk to his beloved Boo Boo and the other kids there, but he wouldn't do it.

So the parade started with the usual police officers on motorcycles, and the first batch came through very loudly. Carter looked at them and didn't seem bothered, but then a second batch came through and it was so loud that it scared him completely! He just started to cry and cling to me.

Once they passed on, I gave Carter over to his dad and they stood on the front lines where Carter's cuteness earned them a ton of beads, stuffed animals, and other goodies :)

Ouch.

I got the quote from Nikon. $197. I'm not sure what to do now.

No blogging lately because.....

In case you were wondering where I've been, I am sad to report the untimely and tragic death of my beloved Nikon. It was so tragic that I couldn't even bear to talk about it before now. So here goes.

A few weeks ago, I was snapping pictures of Carter playing in the bathtub, and I put the camera on the counter. I took him out of the tub and into his room to get dressed, when he started acting silly. So I went back into the bathroom to grab my camera, and when I stepped away, the strap wrapped around a knob from the top drawer and it pulled my camera out of my hands. I watched in slow motion as it fell to the ground. Luckily I was able to break some of the fall with my foot (practically breaking my toe in the process, but that was a small price to pay), but since my external flash was attached, it put extra pressure on the flash mount and practically pulled the casing apart. The camera had a huge crack in the top and the flash was no longer working.

Tears ensued, and unfortunately, I couldn't even blame it on Ryan. :) So I called Nikon and talked to a lovely customer service representative who promptly sent me the return information. And here we are. I shipped it out last week and hope to get a quote asap...and then they'll ship it back to me.

As a result, there aren't many new pictures of Carter unless I decide to rock my point and shoot camera again. I guess I'll have to break it out and get creative.

Get Well Soon, Nikon D40.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Go Tajuns!

Carter loves those windpants Amie gave him :)


Geaux TAJUNS!!! from Tricia on Vimeo.

To explain the pizza bread pictures...

Carter's been obsessed with 'leeemons' lately, and I explained to him, after he made a face, that lemons are really sour. So he started saying, 'Leeemons! Sour!!' When he made the first face in the pizza bread pictures, he was actually doing his sour face. (The second picture was his typical toddler way of telling me that he wanted his bib off and he wanted it off NOW!)

Here's a live action copy of his lemon face ;)


Leeemon! Sour! from Tricia on Vimeo.

Slides and Ducks!

I'm not sure what it is, but the weather has really gotten me down lately. I guess it's just winter blues, but all I know is that I am so glad to report that FINALLY (!) some gorgeous weather came our way. 71 degrees and clear sunny blue skies...what else could we do but hit Girard Park? Carter is a slide fanatic, so even though he was feeling quite sleepy, he pushed through it and enjoyed the park. We had a lovely time and really enjoyed the sunshine and warm weather.

From February 2009

Mommy's cooking

I LOVE PIZZA BREAD!



I mean, I HATE PIZZA BREAD!

Terrible 2s Starting Early?

As we're driving to school/Meme's house this morning, Carter, as always asks, "Barney on?" and I told him no, Barney isn't on...listen NPR is on! :)

So he's daydreaming and looking out the window and I hear him saying, "seven...eight...nine....TEN!!" So I asked him if he wanted to count. And here's how our conversation went:

Mama: Carter, do you want to count?
Carter: No.
Mama: One.
Carter: No.
Mama: Two?
Carter: No.
Mama: Three?
Carter: No. (now shaking his head)
Mama: Four....
Carter: No.
Mama: Five!
Carter: No.
Mama: Six....
Carter: No.
Mama: Seven!
Carter: No.
Mama: Eight!!
Carter: No.
Mama: NINE?
Carter: No. (still shaking his head)
Mama: Ten! Yay!
Carter: Nope. No. Nooooo.

Oh joy. I am not looking forward to the teenage years.