I'll Pay

Carson and I actually left the house Saturday and did some shopping. We hit Walmart first then Target. Both times Carsyn wanted to pay. Swipe the card and sign with the super cool pen. Both times I encouraged her to get a job and then she could pay.

Sunday we ran to Target again. Pretty monumental for me. I needed to return something at customer service. The counter is lower there. Just as the clerk was telling me to sign, Carsyn sneaks her trigger happy hand up there and signs for me. The clerk praised her for her transaction. Carsyn was so proud of herself and I'm confident I witnessed the start of a new obsession. Thanks Target.

Punk!

Maybe it’s just me, but I think Carsyn is one jean jacket short of Punky Brewster.

Carsyn is using her pirate telescope. She says it makes things smaller. I guess when you’re out on the high seas, it’s ok if things look smaller.

Monitoring the Situation

Last night Carsyn’s monitor was outrageously loud. Annoying static permeated my dreams and IT.WOULD.NOT.STOP. Carsyn has been sleeping on her blow up princess bed in the floor of her room for several months. Perhaps we don’t even need a monitor on her, but none the less, it’s there.

I was already gone when Carsyn woke up and walked into our bedroom. Tony said he went to turn the monitor off and noticed a face staring back at him. Silly Tony. That’s just one of Carsyn’s baby dolls. Then the face moved. The whole body moved. Tony looked closer. That was NOT our baby. Who’s baby is that? Someone else has their baby monitor set to the same frequency as Carsyn’s and we’d been watching someone else's kid all night! Come to find out, Carsyn’s camera wasn’t even on.

Pirate Talk

Carsyn enjoys a little pirate talk. She’s been know to cover one eye and say “Arg, Maty” for a while now. Then Dora and Diego have jumped on the pirate bandwagon and her phrases have increased to:

“Aye, aye Captain.”

“Trim the Sails”

But my favorite was last night. After rattling of her repertoire she ends with a dramatic “All hands on neck” and while sweeping her arm out then back in to cover her neck.

She’s 3. She knows what a neck is.  A Deck??? nothing.

Rylee Lynn

Hooray she’s here!! My sister had her baby this week!

6lbs 15 oz

Sweet baby girl Rylee Lynn arrived in a whirlwind rush very early on Thursday morning. Watch out Momma and Daddy, when this girl sets her mind on something, nothing is going to stop her. Rylee educated us all on a precipitous birth. Misty labored for about 3 hours and Rylee was here. Misty was only at the hospital for 40 minutes before Rylee forced her way onto center stage.

  Here is Carsyn meeting Rylee for the first time. She was so very excited to see and hold her. She told Tony that she was going to teach her how to dance, jump and twirl. Carsyn was concerned about holding Rylee’s head. She did an EXCELLENT job and is now ready for baby brother to make his appearance.

Morning Happenings

Most weekday mornings I’m out the door before anyone else is out of bed. I try to get to work early and beat some traffic so I can leave early and beat some more traffic on my way home.  This morning I had a doctor’s appointment and didn’t have to leave too early and got to witness what goes on around this joint.

There is a really a sweet rhythm going on in our house when Tony and Carsyn get ready for their days. First there is snuggle time. This is where Carsyn gets in our bed and dulls out hugs and kisses. She wiggles her way next to you and sings silly songs.  Eventually she’ll ask for a pop tart and to watch Diego. This morning she consulted with Baby Brother on the TV show selection.

Leaning toward my belly, “Baby brother, what do you want to watch?” Pause. “What’s that? I didn’t hear you.” Pause. “Oh, ok.” Turning to me she says, “Baby Brother wants to watch Team Umizoomi.”

Can you feel it? They’re already working as a team to out maneuver us.

As Tony and I are getting ready in the bathroom, Tony turns the iPad on and selects some tunes to start the day. Carsyn walks in when she hears the music. Baby girl and Daddy share a love of music. I like music, but it doesn’t often make my radar of important things. Carsyn starts dancing around the bathroom and Tony is clapping and encouraging her. I’m enjoying the little scene. Carsyn stops and looks at me with her hands out and says “Momma, I need more space.” AKA…move it lady, you’re standing on my dance floor. I laugh and then get my happy self to the closet. Tony explains this is their morning routine.

I have to give Tony a lot of credit for having such great mornings. When it’s my turn to take Carsyn in the mornings, I’m more like a Drill Sergeant and less like Mary Poppins.

Look What the Cat Drug In

It should actually say, Look What Carsyn Drug In. She invited the neighborhood cat in while Tony was out getting the mail Saturday morning. Really? Didn’t realize I need to have NO CATS as a house rule. Or NO RANDOM ANIMALS.

This is Carsyn’s very sad face when I told her the cat needed to go home.

Baby girl loves animals. She was very sweet to the cat and wanted to play with him.

PS…please don’t fear. It’s not really a stray. It’s a very well cared for, loved by someone cat that walks around like he owns the place.

Gage Came to Town

Our family was excited on Friday because Gagers came to town and brought Granny and Papa T with him. He drove all the way down from Oklahoma in that little pink bug. With his Mardi Gras beads.

His appearance also brought Mamaw and Papaw from Mesquite over to Tarrant county too.

Gage is going to be a big brother soon and need a little vaca before his life gets turned upside down. Carsyn offered to help him learn to share and provided plenty of examples on how to boss around someone younger than yourself. She’s going to be a big sister soon and knows all about bossing someone around.

  There was also plenty of snuggle time on the couch to review the pictures Carsyn took.

Granny and Papa T got lots of quality babysitting training in while juggling two little ones. Not sure if they’ll be prepared to juggle 4 – at least not for 5 more years.

Tony and I also got to have a little date night. We…went…to…Dallas. I never go to Dallas. At the most, I drive through it. Tony is there all the time for work, but not me. It was nice. Something different.

Deep and Wide

Carsyn started singing Deep and Wide randomly. Tony and I had no idea she knew that song. How sweet is that to spontaneously start praising God for his great love. Nice to see that preschool choir paying off ;-)

Car and Driver

For the Massey Girl’s family Christmas we gathered at Aunty Katie and Phill’s house in Bethany this year. They have an amazing classic car collection that everyone enjoyed looking at.Carsyn is ready to drive off in the parade next year.

She’s even got her wave down.

Carsyn also go to drive her new Big Red truck at MawMaw and PawPaw’s house. She was very careful and stayed on the road the entire time.

Love you baby girl!