Fun times in the country

We have had quite a week here at Papaw & Grammaw's out in the country. Today Papaw took me out on his new lawnmower and then we rode the John Deere. Grammaw has read me stories every night and I enjoy getting into her cabinets. Mommy and me are going home on Friday.

Oh....Papaw found one of mommy's old toys! I am trying it out right now. Mommy will put a picture on tomorrow. It's a really loud plastic lawn mower! It makes lots of noise - especially on the wood floor :) I can't wait to play with it at Christmas when we come back to visit.

Pictures from our trip

Uncle Pete and Aunt Jenni set up a Picasa Album on Google. You can view all the pictures from our trip to Florida there. Click http://picasaweb.google.com/carter.albums to go to the Carter albums.

In other news....Mommy and I are flying to Louisiana to be with Papaw & Grandma. Mommy's grandpa is very sick and is not getting better. We are going to stay for a week we think.

What a great trip!

Ben and Jacob playing at the "party" house

Jacob LOVES the pool!
(Guess what he's saying in this picture? "Oh!")

Jacob and Aunt Jeni

Jacob and Grammy take a ride in the boat

Exploring the trash can

Dancing at Umpah's Birthday Bash

Here are a few pictures from our trip to Florida. There are tons more pictures and some cute videos. We are working on them so check back in a few days.

To the beach!

Here's some pictures from our trip to the beach this morning. It was cloudy so it was quite nice. We stayed for an hour or so and then Jacob fell asleep on the way home. Then he came home and slept for 3 hours. Guess he had a good time :) We sure did!

A Morning in Venice

We made it to Grandma and Grandpa's! :)
We drove down yesterday, with a pit stop in Gainesville to buy some new National Championship Gator gear!

When we woke up this morning, Grandpa told us that the alligator trappers had set a trap yesterday in their yard, and this morning it looked like there was a gator in the trap! The alligator had managed to get the trap line tangled with the ropes holding the rowboat to the dock. Jacob and I saw the alligator floating next to the boat. Meanwhile, Grandpa called the trapper and asked him to come retrieve the gator.

Apparently the alligtor decided to go underwater and try to get loose. In the process, he got caught up in the ropes, and he drowned before the trapper could get there. Here's some video of the trapper pulling the gator up out of the water:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5915638902953319401

I helped drag the gator up to the driveway, where they measured him. Then the trapper and I lifted the gator up into the back of his pickup. He was still "salvagable," since he hadn't been dead long. They had to drain the blood (no need to describe that process here, unless you want to see your lunch again), then off they went to Dade City.

So, it's been an interesting day!

Meanwhile, it's sooooo hot down here. (How hot is it?) It's so hot that Grandma and Grandpa actually have the a/c running! (Thank goodness!)

Can't wait to see everyone in a few days!

Poor Jacob

While we were on our trip last week, Jacob had fever most of the time. Once we got home, he seemed back to normal. Yesterday, however, he woke up with a nasty ear. Yep, we have our first ear infection. Yipee :/ Went to the Dr. today and he said it was so bad he couldn't tell if the eardrum was ruptured or not so we got drops and oral anitbiotics. Yay for crappy insurane and the tirp to Walgreens. Who knew the drops were made of gold? hmm.. go figure.... just about every kid in America gets at least 3-4 ear infections and probably use these same drops so I guess the Rx-makers make a ton of money off us poor sucker parents. Sorry -just venting a little-

Anyway, the funny thing is that since the ear is leaking now - it reallly doesn't seem to bother Jacob. He seems like his old self. Hopefully we can clear it up before the trip to Florida. We go back to the dr. after we get back to make sure it's all cleared up.

That's it from here. We're looking forward to the Florida trip. See you all soon!

Our trip continues

Hi everyone. We're in Jacksonville now visiting more friends. Jacob has had some sort of virus since we hit the road on Friday. He's had fever off and on and has been sleeping alot. We're hoping he'll be back to normal by tomorrow so we can at least have one day of "happy Jacob". Grumpy Jacob isn't much fun - especially in the car :( Oh well. We're having fun and Jacob's been a trouper through it all. We haven't taken any pictures. Sorry. We're looking forward to our trip to Umpah's in a few weeks!

Road Trip

Hi everyone. We are out of town for a week. Yesterday we drove to Savannah to visit some friends and Monday we are heading to Jacksonville to hang out with more friends and blow stuff up (that's what daddy keeps saying). Guess I'll find out what all that means. Anyway, no pictures of anything yet. Today daddy is golfing with his buddies (I don't thik he knows how - so that should be fun to watch) and mommy is hanging out with her friends and my friend Alex who is 3. I can't wait to play with all his toys! Stay tuned for more updates.

I can stand up ALL BY MYSELF!

That's right, and here's proof:

After a few seconds (sometimes about a minute), this happens:

Daddy says I'm his "Little Explorer" because I like to find new things to look at. I especially like things like cookbooks, computers, mail, the trash can, or anything else that I'm not supposed to get into. :) Just wait 'til I figure out how to walk -- then I'll really be "exploring!"

New Movie - UH OH!

Click the link below to see our latest video. I call it, "Fun With Jacob (The Great Adventure) ."

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-521467684850176435

Today's Adventures

Today we went to the Thronateeska Heritage Center in Albany where they had a model train exhibit and train museum. It was really cool! It was pretty dark inside so the first 2 pics are not so good. Then you go outside and could see actual train cars. The museum had other exhibits other than trains so it was a pretty good trip and it was free too :) We found out that you can rent out the caboose and have birthday parties. It was set up for a party today so one day that would be a fun place to have Jacob party.

Inside looking at the model trains

We tried to get him to stand up but he wanted to crawl away - oh well

In other news..... Jacob is trying to stand alone without holding on or leaning on anything/one. We have tried and tried to get a picture and video - but once he sees cameras - he drops to crawl and comes after us. We'll keep trying. Oh - and last night we went out for Mexican food. Jacob really eats just about anything - and he enjoyed the chips, rice and beans - and anything else with cheese on it!

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there! Daddy looked and looked and looked for "father & son" t-shirts, but we couldn't find any we liked, so mommy made daddy and me these cool t-shirts on the computer. Mommy said we had to get some pictures in them because the gators might swim away in the wash :) Daddy & I like to make towers and knock them over

A day at the bandroom

Yesterday we went to help daddy at his office - well mommy helped and I played. Daddy made me my very own fort!
I immediately learned how to crawl out of it. Soon after my escape, daddy added reinforcements.

After a few hours of working, all 3 of us had a picnic in my new "cage". We are going to go back a few more times this summer. That will give me more opportunity to figure out a way to escape again :)

Our New Car

Here's a few pics of our new ride. WE LOVE IT!!! Thanks mom and dad for towing it to us and finding us the best deal ever! PS - Jacob likes it too :) - since this is his blog, he has a say, too :)

Trip to Flint Riverquarium & Ice Cream too!

Yesterday we all went to the Flint Riverquarium. The Flint River is here in town and they have a fun aquarium and theater. We had fun looking at all the fishys and turtles. We even saw alligators! Daddy thought that was the best part for some reason?? Then, we went across the street to Two Scoops ice cream shop and we all had different flavors. I liked them all!

Look Grammy! they have turtles to sit on

Yummy Ice Cream!

Papaw and Grandma left this morning to go back home. I am sure going to miss them :( We had a great time. (Thanks mom and dad for everything! --TC)

What we've been up to..

Here's my new dragon towel from Miss Mary Ann. I really like it. Grandma & Me on the porch
I'm eating cajun rice-n-gravy and butter peas and some roast too!

Papaw & me

Papaw took me for a wagon ride

Grandma came too..

Papaw was putting curlers in Grandma's hair cause - since their accident, Grandma can't use her arm good to fix her hair - so when I saw the curlers I took one and Grandma put some in my hair. Daddy said we had to explain this picture. I don't know why, I'm still cute as ever - even with curlers :)

Grandma and Papaw are here!

Grandma and Papaw are here! Mommy and Daddy and I drove all the way to Dothan on Saturday so we could drop off the car carrier. Then we went to a couple of flea markets. Finally, it was time to go home. Mommy and Grandma and I got to ride in the new car!

(Note from Daddy: Jim and Sheri were able to get a better price on the car in Lousiana than we were able to get here, so we did the paperwork via DHL and they towed it to Dothan for us. Now back to Jacob.)

On Sunday we all went to church. Today everyone else is "being a bum" while I run around and get into stuff! It's fun. I can reach the stuff on the computer desk now - including the computer! Tomorrow the boys are going to the Barber Shop.

Mommy and Daddy have only taken ONE PICTURE the whole time Grandma and Papaw have been here. Something must be wrong with them, but anyway, here it is. Grandma read my story to me before bedtime last night. I'll see what I can do about getting them to take more pictures.

Meanwhile, it's REALLY hot outside. Daddy says it is almost 100 degrees!

Visit from My Friend Matthew

Hi everyone!
My friend Matthew came today for a visit with his Mommy and Daddy, Miss MaryAnn and Mr. Charles. We had lots of fun playing together. I climbed on the couch; Matthew climbed on me!















Later, I showed him my Fridge Farm (thanks Uncle Pete and Aunt Jenni and Cousin Ben!).

In other news....Mommy and Daddy got me some MegaBloks (they're like Legos) for my birthday. I like playing with them, but Daddy REALLY likes playing with them! He always makes really tall towers. But he forgets that they're MY blocks! So I remind him by KNOCKING HIS TOWER DOWN!

(Daddy's pouty lip is because I'm about to open up a can of MASS DESTRUCTION on his tower!)





Grandma and Papaw are coming Saturday! YAAAAY!!!!!!

Lake Party

Saturday we went to a friend's lake house on Lake Eufala (border between Georgia and Alabama). We've had a drought for about 6 weeks now and don't you know the one day we have an outdoor activity planned, it rains and is 60 degrees! Oh well - we got Jacob on the boat for a ride and he seemed to enjoy it (despite the picture). After the ride it started to really come down so we had to stay indoors the rest of the time. Oh well - we sure need the rain around here. The smoke smell has finally gone away.

Gramma and Papaw are coming this week so we are excited. Dad (Papaw) is also towing our new car so I can't wait for that. We have been looking for about a month and he found the best deal in Louisiana, so we bought it and they are bringing it to us on Thursday. We are getting a 2006 Ford Escape. We'll put a pic on later in the week.

We are enjoying the summer as Hank is home and we are just relaxing every day - it's awsome!

Better late than never...?

So, it's over three weeks old, but I finally got Jacob's birthday video online! Enjoy!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7223949912908251840