Check it out...

... A monkey butt!

While we were waiting for dinner to finish cooking tonight, Livie asked to play Thomas. Shawn dug out her train bin and Livie called me to the living room to play.

"Mom! Hurry up! I want to play Thomas with our WHOLE family". Then, she stopped and thought for a minute. "But we can't play with our whole family. Carter isn't here."

She sat there quite perplexed. What was she supposed to do now? Shawn reminded her that Carter is always in our hearts, and that was good enough for Liv. She talked to the monkey butt in her heart the entire time that we played Thomas.

What I wouldn't give for them to have had the chance to actually play together...