Carters favorite foods!

Feeding Carter has been a little bit of a challenge for a couple reasons, first because of his milk allergy, second because he doesn't let me spoon feed him so he only eat things that he can eat with his hands and last of all because he is picky! Luckily the last week we have been resolving those problems. If I let him get hungry enough he will try more things and if he is in a good mood he will let me spoon feed him. Especially if I am feeding him oatmeal, he loves instant oatmeal. The best news of all is that his milk allergy is slowly disappearing!!!!!! The doctor told me to slowly introduce little amounts of dairy and see how he reacts. So far it has been working out great. He can now eat yogurt, chocolate,sour cream, butter, and any baked goods that have milk in them. I am going to try cheese today. With all these new discoveries it is so much easier to keep my little man fed. One more funny thing about Carter and food is that he thinks that he should always have one food item in each hand. If a give him a cracker he begs me for another so that he can have one for the other hand and then he nibbles on both of them. Below are some pictures of Carter with two of his favorite foods.


Carter loves bananas! I usually give him half of a banana split in half again and he is so funny because he will stuff the banana's in his mouth until his cheeks are bulging! He really is our little monkey.


Carter loves Sunday nights because we make popcorn and smoothies. He loves, love, loves popcorn. He thinks that the big bowl is his and we should get the small bowls.

Carters Favorite Things To Do!

Carter is a very busy boy! I can hardly keep up with him. Kids are funny, just when you think you figured out what they like to do and what they like to eat, they change! Carter used to love baths now he hates them! He used to hate reading books now he loves reading books. One day he likes watermelon the next he doesn't and then a few days later he likes it again. He always keeps me guessing! So as of this week here are some of Carters favorite things to do....Carter still loves to watch out the window and wave and point at everything that moves that is one thing that has never changed he has always loved watching out the window. Carter loves being outside when he is outside he loves to run, throw rocks, pick strawberries, look at animals and transport dirt. He still doesn't say mom or dad much but he says cow, bird, cat, dog, and moos! It's obvious that he is completely intrigued with animals. Carter also loves taking things apart and putting them back together again. I thought kids weren't suppose to be able to twist lids off until they were almost two until about a month ago when I found Carter with my eyeliner all over his face. Sure enough he figured out how to unscrew my eye liner and with in days he could unscrew everything! His new favorite things to take apart and put back together are the vacuum hoses and pens! It is amazing to watch how fast he can take apart a pen and then to see him figure out how to put it back together again! Another funny thing about this whole fascination is his little temper! He gets so mad if he can't figure something out. He'll work on it and work on it and then scream at it and throw it! Then he'll pick it up again and continue trying to figure it out. If that doesn't work he'll bring it to me and scream at me. I used to think he wanted me to do it for him until yesterday it dawned on me that he wanted me to slowly show him how to do it. Carter also likes to vacuum, sweep, push things around and help me with laundry. Below are a couple pictures of him in action.



Food and mess seem to go together


Carter loves helping his dad outside. In this picture they are working on our patio garden.






Carter's little farm car


Carter with his vacuum