life with a toddler.
>> April 14, 2011
Busy. That's the best way to describe us right now. Seems like Carter is doing something new everyday! It's amazing and fun and scary to see how quickly he is becoming a little person with a mind of his own. Sure, with that comes tantrums, melt downs and time-outs, but most of the time it's a fun adventure with lots of giggles, squeals and jibber-jabber talk. I'm loving this stage. One of Carter's favorite things to do is vacuum. He'll watch me and then take his toy vacuum and re-clean the entire house. And I mean every room, every corner and under every bed. It's so funny. Now, he thinks anything can be a vacuum....like the colander?
Lots of playing with Yoshi. Yoshi is so good with our crazy boy, always letting him hug and pull hair knowing he'll get some food a few hours later off the high chair!
Carter is becoming much more independent. Loves playing...I mean dumping blocks on the floor and "building" towers. 
We practice putting toys away each night before bedtime. For some reason, he thought he had to sit with his toys and be "put away" too! 
Swimming lessons started up again. He is the oldest and craziest kid in his class. Lucky us. 
Although he is definitely not afraid of the water, it's actually hard to keep him out of it! 
But every once in a while he gets distracted by the other moms waiting on the side and begins to flirt. This happened about every 2 minutes at his last lesson. 
Carter has figured out his high chair is too restraining and he wants to sit at the big boy table. Crossing my fingers the booster seat is shipped soon....he has a little too much freedom with just the chair. 
And one of his new favorite things is not wearing any pants. He loves it. And, apparently he wants to show the neighborhood too. 
No picture yet, but the biggest news of all. Carter peed in his potty for the first time this week and has continued to do so every night before bed! We are so proud of him and can't wait to continue this new journey into becoming a big boy! It's a good thing too...he's already in size 6 diapers at 16 months old and we're running out of options for what comes next! 
Going down to the water with Grandpa (luckily no one got wet!) 
Realizing it only takes 2.5 seconds to put every toy on the floor.
Sneaking into our bedroom to read magazines.
Enjoying Grandma Vance's St. Patricks Day Card. 
And, for the 3 people who read this blog...a little something extra! We just entered a contest to try to win $1000 in new flooring to redo our kitchen floor. As you can see it's hideous. Yucky, dirty, old, boring, blah. So, go to facebook and vote for us!
And, Carter helping himself to Claire's snack. Sorry Cate. I promise next time I see you my son will have better manners.
I love this picture! They are so cute together!!!
My little Valentine! 
I'm just now realizing that I didn't even take a picture of Matt and I. Oops. He really is the best husband and my most perfect Valentine!
