He's growing up too quickly!

I can't believe how fast time flies. I have a 18 month old!!

He's learning so much And he understands almost everything we say. I can ask him to look for things for me now and he does it. I couldn't find the remote earlier so I asked him and he ran around until he found it. It was cute.

And he can tell us if he's hurt now and where he's hurt. If he bumps his head or stubs his toe he'll show me where it hurts.

And he's cutting his incisors right now. These have been the worse teeth so far. He's never really been a bad teether though. He's just not sleeping that well, he's drooling a lot, sticking everything in his mouth, and whines while holding the side of his face to tell us it hurts. Poor guy.

That's about it for now. His 18 month appt is in a couple weeks so I'll update after that, if not sooner.

Have a merry Christmas everyone!!




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Hello? It's me again!

Hey everyone! It's been awhile so I thought it'd be time for an update.

Everyone here is doing great. Grant is working ALL THE TIME but he still finds time to be a great father and husband. And he's been doing a lot of studying for certification tests at work. He has another test to past tomorrow then it's on to the next cert. These certificates wood definitely look great on his resume.

I'm doing great also. I got a promotion at work so I'm doing a totally different job now. It's more difficult but this job suits me better. Plus I like a challenge. Overall work is going great. It's nice to have a job that you enjoy doing. And in my spare time I'm playing with Carter.

As for Carter he's doing great as well. He's learning so much it's so surprising. He's able to tell me when/where something huts, which is great, he's able to understand what I'm saying and even communicate back to me when he wants something. He's just so much fun.

Today Carter is 17 months and 13 days old.

Halloween

What a fun Halloween we had. There's a church here in town that we've gone to a couple of times recently and today we worked at their Trunk or Treat festival. Carter had a lot of fun running around and eating way more candy than he should have. It rare that he gets candy so tonight was a big treat for him. Then we came home and went to a few houses in our neighborhood.  Sorry these pictures are blurry, it was dark and I took them with my phone.

 

Here's a picture from Halloween last year for comparison.

Today Carter is 1 year and 4 months old

OMG I suck at blogging so here's an update

So ya, are you seeing a pattern in my absence in this blog? It seems like I'm always apologizing for not posting more often. Here's a brief rundown of our schedule so you can get an idea why;

5:00 am I wake up (unless it's Friday, then it's 4:30) go to work and work from 6:30-3:00 (6:00-2:30 on Fridays). Meanwhile Grant gets up (about an hour after me), gets ready, wakes up Carter, gets Carter ready and takes him to daycare to get to work by 8:00. We both have a half hour commute to and from work. After work I pick Carter up from daycare and we go home and get some mommy-son time for about 2-3 hours everyday. On a good day Grant gets home at 6:00 pm, sometimes later. I usually have Carter fed and mostly worn out by the time Grant gets home but we make it a point to all play together as a family. Around 7-7:30 we start Carter's bedtime routine which includes a shower, PJ's, brushing his teeth and a bedtime story. He's usually in bed around 7:30-8:00. After I pick up the tornado of toys that Carter left behind and clean up the dishes that's when Grant and I get to spend time together, talk about our days and pay attention to Coco. We usually try to get to bed around 9:30 or so. Then lather, rinse and repeat. That's our day in a nutshell so you can see why I'm always running short on time. As busy as we are I wouldn't change a thing, I love our schedule and I think it works great for us.

Okay now for the real reason you read this blog...Carter. Carter is doing great and he's changing so much every day. To make it easier (easier for me, I'm not gonna lie) I'm going to use bullets to update you;

• He's walking (obviously) and getting really good at it. It's weird not carrying him anymore. He walks to his bedroom for bedtime now.
• It seems like every other day he learns a new word. Currently he says; Mama, Dada, what's that, right there, ya, down, duck, bird, moooooo, rawr, dog, more, tree. There's probably more, that's all I can think of.
• He understands a lot of what I say. It's just so weird that I can ask him to do something and he knows what I'm saying, that doesn't mean he does it though. =)
• He is such a ham!! When we're in public he totally flirts with all the ladies. He even blows them kisses, it's so cute!
• He's starting to throw little tantrums. When we come in the house from being outside he'll jump up and down and cry. One thing that will ALWAYS cheer him up? Coco. If Carter is mad, hurt, grumpy or tired it doesn't matter if we call Coco over to him he's all better. 

Carter had his 15 month check up last week and it went well. The pediatrician was very happy with his language development. She said she only expects a 15 month old to say about 3 simple words. She couldn't believe that Carter was saying two word phrases. She said his large motor skills are right on track so next she wants us to work on fine motor skills such as scribbling with a crayon/marker on a piece of paper.

Overall we're all doing great! Another post to come shortly about my favorite memories of Carter and for that one you'll be hearing from both Grant and I.

**UPDATE**
I see now (almost 2 years later) that I never posted Carter's stats. So here they are, although unfortunately I don't remember what percentile he was in:

Height: 29"
Weight: 20 lbs and 7 oz.

Camping

We went camping this last weekend with some friends and had a fabulous time. We stayed at our friend's cabin which was SO nice. It was more like a house than a cabin and it was only about 1/4 mile from the lake. Carter LOVED it too. He's such an outdoor baby. Sunday morning he laid in the hammock for about an hour and hardly moved. It was funny because he was listening to the birds chirp/sing and he was talking back to them. Here's what he looked like;

We had so much fun and I can't wait to go back. We're going camping again Labor Day weekend but with a much larger group. Not sure where we're going yet, there's so many options. Here's the rest of the pictures;

In other news, Carter is cutting a molar. Part of it has already broken through. I didn't even know that he was teething again until I saw it had already started coming in. He currently has his two bottom middle teeth and his four top teeth. I guess he's going to skip a few and go straight to the molars.

Not much else to say. Carter is doing great and staying healthy.

He's almost walking

Carter is SO close to walking. His auntie Jess, uncle Ryan and cousin Cole gave him a lion toy for his birthday that he can either walk behind or sit on and ride. Well until today we've always had it in the position so he could ride on it. Tonight though, I wanted to see if he could walk behind it. Well he caught on very quickly and in no time he was running around the house behind it. Here's a couple of videos that I got.





I know that he could walk without assistance if he'd just let go.That's okay though because I have a hard enough chasing him when he's crawling, I can't imagine how quick he'll be when he's walking.

More

That's the word Carter said for the first time tonight..."more". I've been working on teaching him that word for a few days now and he said clear as day on his first try.

We're all doing great. Carter is so close to walking but he's just not ready to let go yet. He's been ear infection free now for a couple of weeks too and I'm hoping he stays that way.

I still have some blog posts I want to do, I just need time to do it. And I have some very exciting updates about the wedding planning business Alexis and I started.

For now though I will leave you with some photos:







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