Mess

Putting clothes on the doggies


Daddy put some dry ice in the tub that was left over from school


Putting on random clothing items


Enjoying a warm day in March at the park


Playing in his tent


Playing on the potty


Some of Carter's favorite things include:

TV Shows: Super Why, Clifford, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Handy Manny, Family Feud :)
He watches about 3-5 minutes at a time. He requests to watch these shows on the computer but of course wants to watch 1 minute and then go onto the next for a minute.

Toys: Basketball Goal! I think he pretends he's shooting around at the RBC Center because he chats "WOLF" "PACK" while shooting. He is learning how to dribble. Right now his dribble is with 2 hands and the ball is barely off the ground. He's recently tried with 1 hand and he can bounce with 1 hand 1 time.
Puzzles!! & Reading!!
His favorite books are: I love you through and through and a Nursery Rhyme book.
Its cute that he's already memorizing the pages.

Song: The wheels on the bus. We've added a few more verses: Carter's says Milk, Milk, Snack, Kelly's say ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ (she likes to sleep), Dada's say school, school, school, Nana's say Who loves you, Papa's say 'this random noise my dad makes'

Putting on other people's shoes

Coloring and Writing--He's learned to say circle while drawing one and he's still a lefty

His vocabulary is great! He is making sentences...small ones, but they're sentences! :)

Words/Phrases: "Mommy hold you" (aka Mommy hold me)
Man trash (aka Trash Man), He says slide and fries when we ride by McDonald's.
"Girl shoot" Our new neighbors (boo) put a goal in the cul-de-sac so Carter watches the kids play from his window. He likes to encourage the girls to shoot! :)
Touch Horsey Our fence backs up to a farm so recently Carter and I went to touch the horsey but he was scared. When we got in the house, he kept requesting to touch horsey
"Call _____"
Mess & Clean Up At the gym nursery, he is known by the girls for being a big helper cleaning up. :) One EARLY morning, Carter and I were in bed watching Mickey Mouse and he spilled his dry cereal bowl. He went into the kitchen and brought me the broom. :)

Other stuff:
He had his 3rd haircut last Friday, March 5th. One of our friends, Laura, did it as our normal lady is retired and hanging out in Hawaii.

He likes to take clothes out of his drawers and closet. Sometimes he'll make a nice neat stack on the floor, sometimes on the back of the chair, and sometimes its just a big mess. When he had his old dresser, he would pull all his PJ's out of the bottom drawer and just throw them on the floor. After moving the dresser to Cameron's room, he went into her room and put a pair of his dirty pj's in his old pj drawer.

On this day, I was resting on the couch while Carter would walk into the living room and show me random items on hangers. He would say "cool or "cute". This was the fun mess I found.

2nd big thing...a BIG BOY BED! :)

We've been looking at bed for about 6 weeks,knowing that Carter was going to have to give up his furniture to his sister soon. :) During our 2nd trip to Rooms to Go Kids, we learned that they were having a floor sample sale and we were there for the last day of it. I was really disappointed to be shopping on the last day but we were able to score the dresser that I wanted! So after looking at a couple different places and talking with Aaron, we decided on a bed and it was just delivered today! The delivery was scheduled between 2-6pm. I kept wondering if they would come during naptime...so we skipped naptime today. Typically, I lay Carter down around 1pm and he cries for 2-5 minutes and then falls asleep. Well this week, I noticed that he was trying to climb out before I left the room. So this bed could not have come soon enough. Our lovely delivery guys arrived at 6:40pm...but it gave us time for uninterrupted dinner and time for my mom and Aaron to take apart the crib and move it to Cameron's room. :) We then spent the next 2 hours watching Carter play on his bed, moving around furniture, making Carter's bed, cleaning up his room, and putting together the bed rails. My mom left around 9pm. Aaron and I then prayed with Carter but he refused to lay down. He was really upset after my mom left...and then with the combo of no nap...I was dreading how night #1 was going to go. Aaron laid on the floor beside the bed and Carter laid on top of him and fell asleep. Aaron tried to lay him in the bed, but he woke up. I held him for about 5 minutes since Aaron had to get back to tutoring Chemistry online. So total time, he was in his bed within 20 minutes...even though he didn't fall asleep on his own. Aaron is taking tomorrow off,I guess that mean's he's willing to help when Carter wake up really early or refuses to take a nap tomorrow. I put the door handle lock on the inside of his door so when he gets up, he can't open the door. I just have a fear of Carter wandering...this way, I'll know when he's up and can hear what he's doing.



Trying the new bed out!


Snugglin with the bed rails






The room is still a work in progress :)

Big things are happening in March

First...
Last Monday, I spent all day tackling potty training. Prior to Monday, Carter was comfortable on the potty, he would let us know when he went "shu" and would ask to "pee-pee potty" during every diaper change. So Monday, I asked him every 15 minutes and he willing would go and at least sit on the potty. I created a potty chart and he got Thomas the train stickers for peeing and Dora/Diego stickers for trying. He also got 1 M&M for trying and 2 for peeing. During the 2nd potty trip of the first day, not even thinking, I just pulled down his pull up...and out flew a few balls. It just made me laugh since the day before I was talking with some friends and they were sharing the tip to check before you pull. :) That time, I said "Oh golly" and that has become a new phrase used by Carter after a bowel movement. Day #2, Carter wasn't his normal self and wouldn't go to the potty when I asked. I didn't pressure. By the end of the week, Carter was now asking and asking frequently to go to the potty. So that day of asking every 15 minutes made him more conscience of his need to use the bathroom. This week he even pooped on the potty! So our sticker chart is filling up quickly. I'll have to post a picture. I'm proud of Carter. If I could just get him over the fear of large toilets in public places. I'm scared he's gonna pee on me or himself and he's scared he's gonna fall in! :P

Febuary 2010

We have busy weeks...In January & February, Aaron taught swim lessons at our pool on Tuesday and Thursday nights. On Mondays, he teaches Chemistry to 3 sisters from our youth group and then Wednesdays are church. Wouldn't you know, he signed up to help with Upward Basketball at church and his team practices on Friday nights. So yes, it's always something to do.
The first Saturday of the month, Aaron has Saturday school to make up a snow day. It wasn't that big a deal since he has already been off 2 full days that week.
February 12-13, our church hosted a youth talent competition so we were busy with that! We even had snow that weekend. Carter was with Nana & Papa for the weekend. We enjoyed a dinner out together by ourselves for Valentine's Day on Saturday night and then went out on Valentine's Day with Carter! :) We all enjoyed several hours of nap time and just hanging around the house.
We went to State games in February. One was a Wednesday night after church and another on a Saturday. We took Carter to the Saturday game and he LOVED it. He screamed, pointed, cheering, and put up his wolves. He was the loudest person in our section! And we won! :) We have some new friends at church that gave us tickets to a few games and we've enjoyed it!

Merry Christmas in January!

For Christmas, Aaron's parents got us tickets to the State/Carolina game! So we got to use our present 1 month later. Though the outcome wasn't what we wanted, it was still fun to be in the atmosphere of the RBC Center for that big game! :)

End of January

2010 has proved to be a busy year so far. Even though I still owe some stories and pictures from 2009, I'll take advantage of this "down" time to update a little. Not sure if I've mentioned before, but I help homeschool a Senior girl in our youth group. Her name is Kelly. Kelly is here M-Thursday so on the morning of my "free" day, I'm going to update!
Since the ultrasound, my mom and I have been on a search for great deals on pink! On Jan. 21st, I tackled both the girls and boys sections of the Kids Exchange consignment sale in Raleigh. Carter's sizes generally do not offer the best stuff, but I did find some stuff to play in. After looking and his stuff for about 2 hours, I headed to the girls section and was overwhelmed. There's probably 10 girls clothing items for every boy item. I couldn't even slide the clothes on the rack to look at them. After looking for about an hour, my arms were starting to hurt so I headed to look at a couple other sections. After 5 hours, I was in and out with some decent deals. My mom and I have done some different shopping to find some fall/winter deals and we're hoping we're getting the right sizes.
At the end of January, we had another snow. Luckily for Aaron, the snow started over the weekend so there were less days to make up for school. We enjoyed 4 straight days of hanging out at home!! It was nice!



We went outside while it was still sleeting on the first day...not fun! And we didn't last long!





Carter had fun trying to climb into my boots

At the end of Jan, Carter starting to act strange (not sleeping and eating well) and was running a fever. After 3 days of fever, we took him to the dr and he had his first ear infection. That day was our first sick visit to the doctor for Carter. We've been so blessed to have such a healthy little boy! So the antibiotics knocked it out quickly and he was eating and sleeping normal within 48 hours.

It's a...

girl! :D



19 weeks

Last night was the first time I've had a dream about the sex of the baby, and it was a girl in my dream. I went into the ultrasound expecting it to be a girl, and it was. My mom met us there and even had a present for Cameron Blake. She said she knew it was a girl. Aaron's great-grandma's name is Blake and she just turned 100 in October 2009 so we're naming Cameron after her. :) Cameron was our girl name from the last go around. :)

We enjoyed lunch outside at North Hills but then headed home so Aaron could get ready to teach Chemistry on his day off since he has a meeting at church later tonight too. Carter, mom and I are planning to head out to check out all the pink stuff. :P


Welcome Home Pinkkkkkkkkkkk!