March has been full of excitement and adventure for the whole family. We kicked off the month with beautiful spring weather, Carsten and I got out and enjoyed the park. He learned how to go UP the steps and DOWN the slide...concepts, love to watch his little brain tick! Now we just need to work on feet first.
He started to blow kisses, we have been working on this with Elmo! Which, we are happy to report that he is also finally warming up to inanimate objects that all of a sudden become animated and make noise. i.e. Elmo, laughing lion, puppy dog, rocking horse
Carsten is getting better at eating what is put on the table, when he has a good night he gets some kind of treat, usually it is applesauce or a graham cracker, but we had ice cream in the freezer. What a treat! He LOVED it!
YUM!
And then pointing for MORE, PLEASE!
Carsten got to spend St. Patty's Day weekend at home with Grandma and Grandpa Burkemper while daddy went to Rolla to celebrate. Mommy stayed in Austin, went out with a friend, her car was hit while parked in a parking lot, and she got sick. Wish my 5 days solo could have been written a bit differently, but everyone enjoyed their individual time.
It was blistery cold the third weekend in March, but the following weekend we had gorgeous weather so we headed out to the rodeo. Not much rodeo action going on, we just walked around, went to the petting zoo (which Carsten was not too fond of), saw some animals and then out to dinner. Carsten is SUCH a daddy's boy, it really is adorable.
Aside from a few outings we have been filling our time with spring cleaning and backyard landscaping/gardening. We had to pull a few plants because they were highly poisonous, we planted some herbs, tilled an area for a vegetable garden and pulled a bagillion weeds. We still have to pull some timbers and replace them with stone, get some rock, plant a few flowers, and plant the entire garden. A couple more busy weekends ahead of us, but when we are all finished it will be wonderful!
