Friday, April 3, 2009

World's best baby, world's worst mom









The photos above depict a happy Carter playing with his favorite new tool: the pen, Carter's pre tantrum faces, and of course a stick out your photo of which I didn't have any before now.

I've been a slacker with a capital S for a month. I have had a broken computer and have not posted anything. I am going to try and get back on track.

This past month has been wonderful. Carter has changed so much! He is completely bored with the inside of our house. Now the only things that interest him are the off limits things such as the pantry, the toilet, the diaper pail, and anything electronic.

He loves being outside walking while picking up every twig in sight, squishing ants and rolling doodlebugs along the pavement. He waves at every car that drives by, but not always at people walking by. He loves airplanes and helicopters. He chases after the neighborhood cats saying "Khee". He loves the next door neighbors and their bicycles and trying to walk into any open garage.

He cries more often now, because he is always getting into something dangerous/or his agenda doesn't mesh with ours.

He eats a wide variety of foods. Right now his favorites are applesauce pancakes, avocados, bananas, green beans, lima beans, orzo with veggies, butternut squash risotto, pizza, life cereal, oateal, peas, apples and spaghetti with meatballs.

He has begun to talk more and more each day. He says "Khee" for kitty, "Uh oh," "no," "uh" for up, " "ah" for on and off, "moo,"and I have heard him say "nana," although not consistently for banana. He likes to make the roar sound when he sees a bear, tiger or a lion. This week he started making the monkey sound.

The cute things he does... well, there are too many, but my favorites are, his acting out the lyrics to "If You're Happy and You Know It," when he ducks down when you say, "down" and stands up when you say "up," when you do something he likes and he claps for you to repeat it, when smacks his lips and says, "ah" whenever he is thirsty or finishes sipping a drink, when he points to every light in every room he enters and remarks about it's status of being off or on, his fondness for the kitty, his toddling, his peeking out from behind walls, the way he turns and smiles at us before he shuts off the cable button on the cable box and I could go on and on. Truthfully, aside from fighting the diaper changing fight, and his throwing perfectly good food on floors, everything he does is marvelous.

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