Food for thought

I realized that more than half my pictures of Carter are pictures of him eating! He's a pretty cute little eater! Here is a collection of my favorite food pictures!

This was taken about a month ago when Carter first started spoon feeding himself oatmeal!

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

Busy Busy Carter!

Carter has been doing a lot of new things! At the moment I don't have time to list them all so see what you can gather from these fun pictures of a typical day in Carter's life.




My little angel fast asleep after a long day of getting into trouble.


Carter learned how to climb on to the couch and up the back of the couch to the counter then into the sink to get the dish soap. Can you see the pride in his eyes?



MMMmmm graham crackers and frosting.

My Kitchen is Carter's workshop!

Yeah for bath time!

Carters first hair cut. First of all it is really hard to cut the hair of a toddler that never STOPS moving, I actually have a scissor scar on my knuckle to prove it. Second he now looks like a little boy instead of a baby...cute but sad.

I was trying to crawl over the luggage and it caved in on him.

Carter doing his daily ritual of emptying all my cupboards and drawers!

Carter emptying the laundry basket

Carter emptying the shelves of the changing table

Time With Family

These past two months we have had a lot of oppertunities to be with family. Here is a small sample of our great family moments.





Family Karioke Night!


Carter partying all night with grandma and some ginger beer (no worries it is non alcoholic)



We met up with Ben, Jana, Matt, and Gretchen at apple bees! It was a good time!

Ben and Jana

Matt and Gretchen

We went to church with Bonnie for mothers day! It was fun to be all together before devin and Heidi moved to Ohio.

Carter Sitting in his Grandpa's airplane with his favorite uncle!

My Dad, Ben, and Chris went steel head fishing two months ago and had a great time! They enjoyed a little taste of success.

This is the boys getting ready for thier fishing trip. They were fun to watch! They were as excited as three little boys waiting for Christmas morning.

Carter Katelyn and grandma!

Our Family

I realized that almost everything I have written has been about Carter. He is pretty much the center of our life! So to make things fair this post will be a quick update on all of us.
Chris has been so busy with school, work, church, and other work! We hardly see him. He tries so hard to do all that is expected of him and still give his family qaulity time. We finally decided that Carter and I get him for dinner (we usually have to wait until 9 or ten to eat it with him) and Sundays and the rest of the time is dedicated to everything else. It has worked pretty well. This week is Chris's last week of this semester and we are so excited for him to be done. both of us are almost completely burnt out! Chris will only have two more semesters after this one, he is still working at the plasma center and for the fire department. He is the second councelor in the elders qourum and a wonder father. He works so hard and both Carter and I love every second we get to spend with him.
As for me I'm staying busy myself. I just got called as the second councelor in the Young Womens and I love it! I also have a lot of fun planning and participating in play group and Girls Night Out. On top of all that I have a very busy little guy who likes to get into everything! He definetely keeps me on my toes. It's been really nice to have a variety of things to do these past few months while Chris has been gone so much.
Carter continues to change everyday! I used to keep track of how much he grew by the clothes he went through. Now it's so obvious when has grown because he can reach greater hieghts and that means a have to go through my whole house and try to re-baby proof it. Carter loves to figure out how things work and he loves to open and shut things. He can open almost anything unless it is screwed shut. The funny thing is he opens almost everything with his teeth. He gets so mad if he can't figure out how to get into something. He will try and try and then he screams at it throws it at me as if to tell me "you figure it out" after I open it he takes it back and continues to try and figure out how I did it. Like any normal child his favorite room is the bathroom :( So I try my best to keep the door closed. What's funny is that no matter what part of the house he is in he KNOWS if I open the bathroom door and as soon as I do he cruises to it! If he is quite for a long time I always know that means that I have left the bathroom door open and he has snuck in. He is so fun! I just love being his mom. I am so thankful for everyday that I get to watch him grow.
Over all we are doing great. We love our little family! We have had so many wonderful blessings and love every adventure each day brings.

Random Pictures Of The Last Week

Carter trying to figure out what to do with that green egg

The two easter egg hunters

Carter loves brushing his teeth! So everytime I brush my teeth he brushes his!

Carter and I went bowling with the Young men and Young women

This is just an example of the messes that Carter makes all day long

There is no doubt about it....he is a cutie!

This was a cool picture, I was just trying to get a picture of Carter standing up but just as I shot it it started to try and step towards me. So this is a picture of Carter trying to take his first steps!




Carter trying to break into the easter egg

I found one!