Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Three Year Old Stuff

 

Its been a long while (too long) since I’ve updated on what my three year old boy has been up to and is accomplishing these days!  There have been so many funny things said, laughs shared, and milestones met, that I am really mad at myself for not remembering to blog right then and there as things have happened. But, that's just how life goes sometimes, we get busy, its only normal.  I just have to try my best to update… so here it goes!

First on my list of updates is potty training. I think I can almost officially say that Carter is potty trained now!!! He wears underwear everyday all day and even to bed, only having accidents here and there, so he is doing really good! He has been doing wonderful throughout the night, only wetting the bed once so far! He has mastered peeing on the potty and outdoors ;) Pooping is the area where we still have accidents on occasion, but they are becoming less frequent and he is really trying so I am very proud of him! He even asks me sometimes after he’s pooped on the potty “Mommy are you still proud of me?” and of course it melts my heart and I say “Yes baby, I'm very proud of you!”

Here is the “censored” version of my boy doing one of the many fun things boys can do outside, PEE!! :)

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I crack up because he will pull his pants down all the way to his ankles before he goes! Good thing we don’t have neighbors ;)

Okay now onto other fun things going on in Carter’s world. He is doing great in the Pre-School classroom. The other day was my first time picking him up from the new class and it does look way different than the toddler room! The kids are so much bigger and he even has his own BIGGER cubby that his back pack hangs in! He tells me when he gets home about his day…who he played with and that he “learned alot of new fings!” as he’s said before! I know he is learning because one day a few weeks ago we were in his room cleaning up and he (out of no where) says “S -T -O- P spells STOP Mommy!”  So I said, "Wow buddy, good job! Where did you learn that?" And he said "From my teacher at school!" I thought that was pretty awesome! Pretty soon I’ll have him spelling his name, I just know it ;)

Hmmm, what else is new?! Oh,  he loves to sing along to his favorite show Caillou and knows almost all the words. He loves Rock n Roll music (especially CJ's Guns n Rose's CD) and makes us turn the radio up super loud so he can fist pump and do the air guitar Lol! “Paradise City” and “Welcome to the Jungle” are his favorite’s so far! Also,  every night we read a couple books for bed. I always let Carter go to his bookshelf and pick the ones he wants. Well, we have the “Hickory, Dickory Dock book and near the end of it, it says “The clock struck seven, his prayers went to Heaven”. Well tonight after I read that part, Carter said the cutest thing!  He said “Mommy guess what…God lives in Heaven. Its up in da sky, we have to take a plane to get there! Yea, dats a good idea!!” I just laughed and said “ Yes buddy, you’re right, God is in Heaven and its high in the sky!”

I just love the sweet, innocent things kids say at this age! I wish he could stay this little forever. He is growing so fast. He seems very excited that his little sister will be here next week and says he’ll be a good boy while I’m at the hospital :) And,  I know he’ll be fine! This weekend we’re going to try and take him somewhere fun before the big arrival next weekend. We haven’t made up our mind on what to do yet, but hopefully we can think of something good!

I think that’s it for this post. I can’t think of anything else at the moment…. but I do have some fun pool pictures to share!

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I know I also haven’t updated on my doctor’s appointment from last week. And tomorrow is my 38 week appointment!!!! I will definitely update on tomorrow’s visit and have a belly pic also. Tonight though, this momma’s gotta get some rest :)

Q&A

Since I am getting very close to the end of this pregnancy, I've been thinking a lot about how life is going to be once Callie is here with us. I am more than excited about becoming a family of four and meeting my baby girl, but I am also curious as to how other mom's did with the transition from one child to two! How well has/did the family adjust to the new baby? How did YOU as the mommy do handling it all? How has the big brother or sister handled the new sibling? And just any new mommy (to #2) advice would be really appreciated :)

I know life with two children will be amazing! I guess I would just love some feedback from fellow momma's out there in blog land! After all, that's what blogging is for, right?! ;)


PS. I have a TON to update on and will do so tonight, pinky promise!

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Family Photo’s!!

It was such a pretty day yesterday that I decided it was time to take some family pictures! I’ve been wanting to get some photo’s of us (CJ, Carter, and myself) together before Callie gets here and our family goes from three to four :) Well, yesterday was beautiful out and our sunflowers are in full bloom now, so we had to take advantage of it! Its nice having such pretty scenery right in our own backyard to take photo’s and the sun flowers were a perfect backdrop for summer portraits! 

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My favorite

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This one is also my favorite, he just looks so handsome and BIG in this one :)

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I can’t wait until Callie gets here and we can get some new family portraits of the FOUR of us :) 18 more days!!!!!

Friday, July 15, 2011

Ordinary Days

I love ordinary days at home relaxing. Especially when the weather is nice and we can actually enjoy being outside.

Last night Carter and I played on the front porch, coloring with chalk and watching the humming birds fly around!

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They were so cute! I love watching them because they will fight over the food! Its so cute to hear them chirping and buzzing by!

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 Ohh and I can’t forget to include pictures of my boy cutting the grass, his specialty ;) tractordays tractordays2 tractordays3

Ahh, this is the life!

Carter’s First Field Trip!

Yesterday Carter went on his first field trip ever! His preschool class at the CDC went bowling on the Indian Head Base (which is right down the street). I couldn’t be there to take pictures, as bad as I wanted to be, I had to stay at work and save my leave! Luckily, Hannah’s mommy (she is one of Carter’s classmates) works in the same building as the bowling alley and got some cell phone pictures for me!

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He just looks so grown up to me in these pictures! When he got home, he told me all about his day. He said he had alot of fun, but he didn’t really like the bowling shoes, go figure, ha! ;)

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

A change in plans

After much thought on my part and persuasion by CJ and Denise, I finally caved and decided that we should switch bedroom’s around. Since Carter usually sleeps through things pretty well and since he is bigger and needs more space, I decided that we would give the bigger room a try! So, this past weekend, we made the switch.

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So far its been pretty good. He did whine about wanting to switch back the first night and a little bit on Monday, but seemed to do better last night. I figure we will try things this way for a while and if it gets too hard once Callie is here, then we can always switch back!

Now onto Callie’s new room!

 

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Sunday, July 10, 2011

Just Can’t get enough!

Yesterday evening we made another trip over to the Marsh house hold :) It was a last minute thing, but it was nice to hang out and see Maisy again! She slept practically the whole time we were there, Brandy had to wake her up to feed her and she wasn't too happy about it, lol! This girl loves her sleep!

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The boys had fun together too! They were cracking me and Brandy up ;)

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Ready to go back to sleep!

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