Wordless Wednesday

Ice Cream Man!

Caroline experienced another first the this week........buying ice cream from the ice cream man!! PaPa helped us flag him down and Caroline chose a Dora popsicle........(sigh) another milestone moments checked off the list!

Beach Pictures!!

Caroline was sick and has sores in her mouth at the beginning of the trip. She was miserable because it hurt to eat but she was hungry. Every adult tried to feed her but nothing. Then sweet little Mary Bibb picked up the spoon and said "Caroline, will you eat for your Bibby?" And Caroline ate for her....

The Jackson's came over from Fort Morgan to swim one day! Gray, Bibby, and Granny were "riding the horse."

All of these pictures are so out of order but there were too many and I was too lazy and tired to fix them. We had a good trip, a little hairy at times, but good nonetheless. Can't wait to go back!!

More Wet and Wild

So we definitely have a water baby. She has no fear. She will float around the pool in just her swimmies and go down any slide. I have a feeling that almost all of my summer posts will revolve around water. Dan and I were craving PF Changs last night so we went early and thought we might let Caroline play in the sprinkler things if she wanted to. SHE DID, and loved it. She would even wait until one went down and go and put her head over it so it would blast her in the face when it came back up!

Mud Munchkins

The following are some pictures from a very wet, very muddy, very fun day. We wanted to play in the sprinkler at Aunt Ginny's house but her dog had chewed off the end of the hose so it wouldn't hook up. I had to run home to get my hose and in the meantime, the girls were sliding down the slide into a mud pile. It was great. We eventually put the slide into the baby pool in an attempt to clean them off a little.....

A very "HAIRY" Ordeal

Anyone who knows me well at all, knows that I love to fix hair. I have a TON of hair so I have always naturally assumed that if I had a daughter then she would have a ton of hair too. I have always imagined putting many many bows, ribbons, braids, pigtails, and all sorts of things into my little girl's hair. Well, not so much. Caroline has been a little hair challenged her entire 18 months of life. Finally, I could not take it anymore and put that poor baby mullet into pigtails. I know that these are ugly and I would never take her out in public with them in until her hair grows some more, but I had to share.

HAHA! So after the pigtail miracle, I took her hair back down and she was playing in the bathroom with me while I was getting ready and putting on make-up for a party. My child has an obsession with brushing her teeth and I occasionally let her really have a blast and use my electric toothbrush. I turned it on for her and went back to getting ready. The next thing I knew she was screaming and had the electric toothbrush caught in her hair! I guess she decided that she could multi-task and use it to brush her teeth and her hair. Anyways, I panicked and jerked on it and a HUGE clump of her hair came out. She know has a shiny bald spot right in the crown of her head! Poor baby...Mommy promises to leave your hair alone until it gets a little longer.

Happy Easter 2009!

Easter was awesome in the Coulter family. The Easter Bunny visited Caroline and left her a basket full of goodies. (See below)

The bunny came!!

I am so pumped!
Caroline got a bunny that sang and danced to "Peter Cottontail"
Some lovely blue Dollar General crocs that she adores and calls her "coot shoooes"
A bunny cup and some other goodies.

We made it to early church almost on time and Caroline actually stayed in the nursery and did not cry too much! We sang all of the old traditional hymns that really make me thankful for what Easter is all about. After that we headed to Mammy and Papa's for lunch with all of my side of the family (about 45 people!). The kids hunted eggs until Mammy told us there was one egg with $100 in it and all of the children were pushed to the side by the adults trying to find it! Congrats to John Pylant this year, but watch out for the Coulter's next Easter!!
Caroline and Granny getting hydrated for the big hunt!
Caroline was perfectly content to just find one egg and eat the candy inside then hunt for more.

We have a tradition in my family to hit the hard boiled eggs with a baseball bat after we find them. They explode all over our nice Easter clothes but that is part of the fun. Everyone has to hit one, from the oldest to the youngest, and Caroline got in on the action this year.
Hit it on our very first try!

Opening her basket from Mammy and Papa.

After naps,we went to the Coulter's for an Easter dinner cookout. Caroline and Hannah hunted eggs and Caroline got her easter basket. We ate and had a great time. We even had a photo op in Me Me and Pappy's gorgeous back yard.