We were happy to babysit baby Brady for a few hours last weekend while Josh and Amber went to a wedding. He's such a sweet baby and we love to watch him whenever we get the chance. He's so alert now and full of smiles. Carson was a little uncertain about him at first as he's not used to sharing our undivided attention or our laps, but he warmed up after a bit. They'll be good buddies very soon. Doesn't Carson look like a giant next to him?!

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Earlier in the day Andrea and little Kyle invited us over for a Saturday afternoon play-date. The moms got in some long overdue catching up while the boys crawled through cool tunnels and played with some of Kyle's new Christmas presents from Santa. They are at a fun age now where they really have fun playing and sharing(except when they have to share the chair :) See below...

Andrea shared some very exciting news with us---Kyle is going to be a big brother at the end of summer! Congratulations Andrea and Chad. What wonderful news!

Taking turns crawling though the tunnel

The boys have so much fun together

Well....mostly fun :)

Me and my little sweetheart

Look at me! No hands!!!

These picture were actually from a few weeks ago.

Carson took 12 steps this weekend!!! And climbed to the top of the stairs.

Yikes.

So, we're pretty sure he tries to get as messy as possible at dinner so that he has to take a bath every night. It works.

Under the blankets and through the snow drifts to Grandmother's house we go...

This kid is obsessed with tags! I'm not sure how he knew that there was even a tag under the cushion, but he found it.

Carson loves the snow- good thing because daddy is on the lookout for some skis for next season :)

The windchill is no longer in the negatives, so we decided to enjoy a little bit of sunshine and fresh air today and take a stroll around the neighborhood.

King of the hill!

Neighborhood Watch

So many fun new toys to play with!!!

Carson loves his singing bear friend.His favorite song is "Itsy Bitsy" spider. Here he is trying to do the itsy bitsy spider.

Aunt Jenn's gift is a huge hit. Carson wiggles his cute little butt to the music and he's figured out how to throw the balls into the elephant's ears to make it shoot out the trunk and thinks it is soooo funny.