Carter loves any and all attention he gets from Dawson! He always has to know where big brother is and usually wants to be playing with the same thing Dawson has. "Monkey See, Monkey Do" is the name of the game this month more than ever! ANYTHING Dawson does, Carter tries to imitate it. Here are some examples we think are funny-
-Dawson jumps non-stop (he's always done this), he just stands and talks and jumps! :) Carter has learned to jump this month. It's funny to watch because he is so focused when he jumps, but sure enough both feet leave the floor at the same time!
-After two weeks of swim lessons, Dawson requested a whistle like the lifeguards. Obviously, we weren't too smart because we bought him a whistle (we may all be deaf by the time you read this post)! BUT Carter saw Dawson put the whistle around his neck, in his mouth, and blow so now Carter gets the whistle puts it over his head, in his mouth, and he doesn't understand that blowing makes the noise so instead while the whistle is in his mouth he makes a loud yelling noise to imitate the whistle! It's hilarious! (Yes, I realize it's dangerous they put it around their necks, but they only play with it when I'm in the room.)
-Dawson can sit on furniture by himself (obviously), Carter has learned that by slightly moving the sofa pillows he too can climb on the couch and sit. (This makes me so nervous because he's not very careful).
-He saw Dawson pretending to make a toy plane fly through the playroom, and now he loves to hold this plane up in the air and make it fly!
Monkey See, Monkey Do!
Even though these two have so much fun together, they are doing great sharing a room and actually sleeping in it! :) They both love their shared room, and I love seeing them run down the hallway and in their room together!
I'm so thrilled that Carter is enjoying books even more this month. Now when I ask him if he wants to read a book, he will come sit with me and wait for me to start reading. He still won't sit through 20 books at one time like Dawson would at this age, but who can blame him when he has a big 4 year old brother to keep up with!?
He talks NONSTOP! Two weeks ago when we picked him up from church nursery, the ladies in his room commented that they thought he was going to be a preacher because he didn't stop talking the entire time! haha! Carter knows a lot of new words, and it seems his vocabulary is growing every day in addition to the constant strings of gibberish. Some of our favorite additions to his vocabulary include, "happy!" "DD" (which he now calls Dawson DD part of the time and Buba the rest), Lolly (if you say it he will repeat), Nana (if you say it he will repeat). When we ask him what a doggie says, he responds, "Goggie? woo woo" which kind of sounds like a bark when he does it! When we see a dog in person, on tv, or in a book he says, "Goggie! woo woo!" Sometimes he also calls horses doggies too. :) When he sees a truck, especially a toy truck, he says "beep beep!" and when he plays with trains or hears one when we're outside he says "choo choo!"
Carter also continues to be VERY affectionate! I love how we will be playing and he will randomly stop what he's doing, walk across the room and hug me while saying "awwww." He's a cuddlier too! As much as he loves to be rowdy and roll around with Dawson on the floor, he loves to cuddle in my arms or on my lap. We took the boys the Splash Country (the water park) this week, and Carter and I spent A LOT of time floating through the Lazy River. He would randomly lean over, hug me, and pat my face as we were relaxing on our shared inner tube! I love how affectionate he is. He is just as affectionate with John and with Dawson too! Speaking of John, he's become really attached to John lately-so sweet!
He still only has two teeth-the two bottom middle ones. BUT he is working on cutting one on top, and it's so close that it may even have broken through the gums by tomorrow. To not have many teeth, he does fairly well eating. He's off his peas and green beans kick, but is doing much better eating meat-especially chicken!
As for sleep, Carter had stopped doing his morning nap several months ago much to my dismay, BUT it seems he needs this about 1 or 2 days a week (it's strange). IF he takes a morning nap he can go down no later than 9:30am and he only sleeps 30-45 minutes, but it's like this little time a day or two a week makes a big difference. He ALWAYS naps in the afternoon at 1pm when Dawson naps which is so nice because I get about an hour (sometimes a little longer) where they are both asleep to rest or catch up!
One more thing I want to record so I will remember about Carter at this age is that he loves music and dancing. In the van, he will point to the radio and whine until I turn on music. Then he happily dances the rest of the car ride. We have discovered several episodes on Hulu of Kid Songs (shows with kids singing from the 80's-actually John is convinced that one of the girls is me when I was little haha!). Dawson and Carter both love watching these short episodes. They both dance around the living room to the music! Originally Carter's moves consisted of just bending his knees and bouncing up and down, but now he has a variety of moves including spinning in a circle, jumping, bouncing, twisting the top half of his body, leaning his head side to side, and shaking his hips. It's so cute to watch!
On to the pictures...
(Ignore the white primed walls in the background-when we took these we were still in the process of painting Nora Kate's room!)
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