Family Weekend

Ways in which you know you've become a parent:

1. You discover spit-up on your shirt and you aren't exactly sure when that happened.


2. You catch yourself licking your thumb and using it to wipe something off your kid's face after you swore you would never do that whenever your own mother did it.


3. Wearing any pair of pants that require buttoning and zippering feels like "dressing up".


4. You look forward to a shower like it was a visit to an expensive spa.


5. You prioritize tasks you can accomplish during naptimes.

Becca's sister, nephew, grandmother, and mother all can to visit last weekend. It was a miracle that this trip took place with travel costs, work schedules, and grandma's fear of flying. But it was totally worth it for everyone to meet Carter. Dalton (Becca's nephew) was really excited to tickle Carter and hold him in his lap. So cute! We painted some Christmas ornaments complete with Carter's footprint to commemorate his first holiday. Overall, a really great weekend!

Carter is unfortunately what we call "in between hairstyles" right now. He's starting to lose the hair he was born with and new hair is growing in, but the two events aren't happening in the same spots on his head. He looks like he's experiencing a grown man's balding, like George Kastanza from Seinfeld. Poor guy.

Mike's been doing some duck hunting on the weekends, but without much success. :-( He's a little more limited in the amount of time he can put into it and so he's been trying to hunt closer to home. Maybe next year he'll stock up our new freezer with lots of duck.