Football Saturdays

Two weekends ago, on Saturday, September 11th, we enjoyed an anomaly in our fall schedule - a weekend "off" to watch football. The contenders that day were Northwestern versus Illinois State (the Wildcats celebrated the "W"), Florida State versus Oklahoma (sadly, FSU was not the victor) and The Ohio State University versus
Miami (since both sides of Carter's family tree were rooting for opposing teams in this matchup, I'll let Carter's outfit speak to who the Family White cheered for... One hint - the winners' mascot is a poisonous nut.)

Carter's Uncle Harrison was rooming with us during said weekend, before officially moving into his Southside apartment and starting classes at U of Chicago, so he got in on the football cheering action and even posed for a few pictures with his nephew.

Proud Daddy covered all the basics with Carter, from the Heisman to tackles. And we even got a family shot in our college football finest.

This past weekend, Nana was in attendance for more football and very sweetly agreed to babysit her grandson while Kathleen and Dax ran around town doing errands.

Carter's First Yawn

So now that we know how to post video, we are going back to the beginning. Here is the first video taken of our little guy back on April 7, 2010 (his Birth Day!). We were fortunate enough to capture his first adorable yawn. Enjoy!

Carter's First Belly Laugh

Eureka. After months, literally months, of attempting to upload videos of Carter, all it took was a visit from Carter's Uncle Harrison to finally figure out how to extract video of Carter. Here is the first of many videos set to come. It is a video from about a month ago when we put Carter in his bouncy seat for the very first time. As you will see, he LOVED it! Enjoy.

Hello, World, I'm Five Months Old Today!

In his second (nearly destroyed) oufit of the day, Carter poses in his carseat in his hometown's Midway airport. The family White returned today from a weekend trip to Lake Tahoe to witness friends Adam and Alicia Ginsburgh (!) become husband and wife. Two days at the Hyatt in Incline Village have left us wondering why in the world every sane person doesn't call Lake Tahoe home - it's GORGEOUS there.

Taking Carter along on the cross country jaunt was possible because a very kind Mimi offered to spend the vast majority of her Labor Day weekend in hotel rooms, continuing the sleep training that Carter's mommy and daddy began two weeks ago. Early bedtimes for Carter, and a lot of room service meals for Mimi! Luckily, we let our babysitter out in the daylight hours for some fresh air to hike with us and exercise her amazing photography skills... we dare you to guess which two of these pictures are her work.

We are very happy to report that our little guy behaved himself fabulously on both four hour plane trips between Chicago and Reno, NV. He slept the entire way there, and napped and played happily, with no screaming on the return. Hallelujah! (The little stinker did subject his mommy to a rather foul diaper change in the much-too-tiny lavatory on the way home, and earned himself a costume change with his efforts. But a perfect baby with no bowel movements would just be boring, right?)