Miscellaneous Carter

(This post is a lost and found one. It should have published back in November but apparently Blogger ate it...so here it is now, better late than never.)

Carter is VERY obsessed with gardening, and watering plants, and taking care of anything green. When we dug up our flower beds this fall to plant bulbs for the spring we pulled out some small paintbrush flowers that never really thrived and threw them in the trash pile. Horrified, Carter pulled them out of the trash and found some extra dirt and replanted them. Then every day he watered them and talked to them and moved them around so they were in the best sunny spot. He cracked us up with the attention he paid to them. This is the end result after he carefully cared for these decrepit plants. He even found some moss growing around the park area and transplanted it to his pots to make them look prettier.

And this picture is for Carter's Grandma Cathy. Carter is happily playing cars on the living room floor...with Daddy's truck stop collection from his childhood (bet this looks like Joshua did when he was little) and then since he needed extra room to play, Carter added the car rug that Grandma Cathy sewed years ago for Trevor. Pure boy fun!!!
Carter has all of a sudden blossomed with his fine motor skills and the other day he spent A LOT of time and drew this very busy picture. Here's his description, clockwise from noon.

Carter's name, Dad's office window in blue and Dad standing in his office window, flowers growing along the bottom in black, Carter and Karen standing in the bottom middle in black with Bunny in the middle, it's Bunny's birthday (thus the balloons attached to the top of her), Reese is in red, the fireplace is in blue, water balloons for the party are hanging from the black line, and the chimney is in black in the middle with lots of smoke coming out the smokestack.
It's that time of year...the leaves are falling and that means Moms and Dads rake them up so little monkeys can jump in the piles. Happy Fall Y'all!!!