There is no possible way to write every word he says at this point. He is using sentences and can and will say just about anything!
Carter is extremely coordinated! I think we have Dawson to thank for this! Dawson cannot stand without jumping in place...constantly! Carter can jump pretty high off the ground with BOTH feet leaving the ground and land on his feet without falling! I think this is pretty impressive and Carter obviously does too because he LOVES doing it and asks us to "look" a lot of times when he's doing it!
In less exciting news, Carter tried orange juice for the first time at the beginning of this month and let's just say that it didn't go so well. We're not sure if it was because he also had milk in his tummy or not, but he threw up THREE times until he got the OJ out of his system. Dawson has only thrown up once in 4.5 years, so we were shocked!! Needless to say, Carter will not be getting orange juice again any time soon!
Potty training has been going really well with Carter, and he's even been telling us when he needs to potty when we're out and about! I'm really impressed by this. But in the last week he's had a few more accidents so we have had him in diapers more than underwear, but I'm hoping we can get back on the potty training this week!
Carter still loves to sing and learns songs VERY quickly! He can sing a lot of different songs too! One of favorites right now is STILL Jingle Bells! We have been singing the ABCs to him, and he has the tune down! Of course, he doesn't know all of the correct letters in order so his ABC's consist of a lot of t's and e's. Near the end of the ABC song the other day, John and I heard him say a new letter, "double me"! We are pretty sure he changed W (double you) to double me! So funny! If he wants to do something more than once he has started saying, "two more times" so almost everything fun we do he requests, "two more times!" Recently we took the kids to an indoor inflatable play place, and every time he came down the giant slide he would say, "two more times! two more times!" Carter keeps us laughing!
He LOVES reading, and his favorite book (today) is The Very Hungry Caterpillar. He loves to give high fives. Any time he does anything good and we don't praise him or don't praise him as quickly as he would like he says, "Yay, Carter! Horray!! Yay, Carter!" So funny! Dawson has been on a game kick for the past few months, and Carter has joined right in. Carter loves playing High Ho, Cheerio! (and I love to hear him say it!) and the Silly Squirrel Game! He also is really enjoying the bowling set he got for Christmas..thankfully it's all plastic or our hallway wouldn't be looking so hot! :)
Carter is still sleeping in his crib which has surprised us because at this point we had converted Dawson's to a toddler bed after he climbed out at 21 months. So far, so good with Carter though! I think part of it is because he has Dawson in the room with him, so he's not just bored in there when he wakes up. I'll keep him in the crib as long as possible though, so I'm not complaining!!
Carter's favorite meat to eat is currently steak! I am recording this just because Dawson has always been a chicken kid, so we are always still surprised when Carter requests steak! When we have steak, Carter eats A LOT of it too!!
Even though I want to keep Carter little forever :) I can really tell even in his stature that he's almost a two year old! He's getting taller and his "baby roundness" in his legs, arms and tummy are getting thinner as he grows taller. He's starting too look like such a big boy! Speaking of big boy, his foot his growing like crazy!!! He's now in a 7.5 wide (from Stride Rite because you can't find wide shoes just anywhere!). In clothes Carter is wearing size 24 month.
Carter's best friend is Dawson! When we have playdates with friends, Carter still always wants to play with Dawson and Dawson's friends...even if there are kids there Carter's age too! He thinks he's 4.5! BUT Carter has started playing a little with a little girl at church, and after church he will usually talk about her which is so sweet! I keep wondering how long it will be before Carter plays with his friends and leaves Dawson to his big friends at our playdates, but so far Carter thinks he's a big kid!
Carter takes one afternoon nap around 1pm, goes to bed at 8, and usually gets up at 7am-although a few times here lately he's slept until 7:30!!!
Carter keeps us all laughing and smiling! He's such a sweet boy that really wants to please! We love him so very much!
Carter at 22 months!
Isn't he looking like such a big boy all the sudden?!
It is SO hard to get a picture of these three!
Someone is always being silly! Here they were all being so silly!
More silliness caught on camera!
Nora Kate grabbed both brothers...Dawson wasn't too sure about her grabbing his sleeve, meanwhile Carter thought it was hilarious!
There we go!
Carter 22 months.
Nora Kate 6 months.
Dawson 4.5 years.
(John had to help get them all to look. So they're all looking at their Daddy standing behind me, but at least they're all looking the same direction!)
Love these precious kids!
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