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Carter’s New Playground - Finished

I finished up Carter’s new playground just a few minutes before everyone showed up for his birthday party on Sunday. It could still use a few more bags of sand, but everyone had a great time playing on it.
Just last night, Carter was out playing on it and re-enacting the Sandman scene from Spider-Man [...]

Carter’s New Playground - part 2

Where does that slide go?
The instructions for the playground didn’t mention the slide. The big green, 8 ft. slide was nowhere to be found in the instructions. There was an opening for it, but no mention of attaching it.
It’s must be attached to the slide, I thought. No big deal.
I looked and sure enough, [...]

Happy Birthday Carter

Carter turned 4 yesterday and I can’t believe how time flies. It seems like yesterday that we were in the hospital, waiting for him to be born. I can’t even begin to explain how much he has changed my (our) life for the better. He’s a reflection of everything we are (as you can tell [...]

Carter and Emerson

This past weekend we finally made it down to Alabama to see my CiCi, Uncle Sock and Emerson. We had a great time and the trip was much too short. I really hope that when Scott is done with Law School, that they can move back this way. We have a great time hanging out [...]

Carter’s New Playground - part 1

Carter’s birthday is coming up and we decided it was time for a real playground. He loves being outside and the two Little-Tikes play sets we had were really too small for him. His feet would touch the ground on the slide almost before he started.
We looked at all the options. Building it myself looked [...]

Growing Up Geek

Over the weekend, I was in the garage, working on putting up some shelving. I had been outside for a while, so I decided to peek in and see what Carter was up too. Since our move about a month ago, he’s been extremely good about entertaining himself. We packed up a lot of his [...]