Mother of the Year

After last week, I think I'm out of the running for "Mother of the Year" award. Let me just tell you that Carter is one tough booger & I hope we don't experience another episode like that EVER or at least for a little while.

Here is the day-by-day of his week:

Monday- Carter fell down the last 2 steps at our house and busted his lip. BLOOD.WAS.EVERYWHERE!

Tuesday- I sent him to my parents house while I worked (huge busted lip and all) and when I came to pick him up my mom informed me that Maci Rose gave him a huge bald spot in the back of his head. I was so sad b/c it's taken him 2 years to get hair that I wonder how long it's going to take to grow back. But, needless to say, it could have been worse! Maci Rose could have poked her eyes out or chopped off a finger with my mom's sewing scisors. Yikes!

Wednesday- Carter fell off the trampoline and hit his head really hard. About an hour later his nose started bleeding and bled from 3-5:30 straight so I called the nurse. We didn't have to bring him in but were told to watch him for other signs of concusion. This is really hard to do with a 22 month old because they already don't talk much or walk too well so how was I supposed to know if he was slurring his speech or stumbling?? I had to wake him every 2 hours for 2 nights straight and make him walk, per the nurses instructions. It was not fun for him or me!

Thursday- As I was on the phone explaining all of this to my mom, Maci Rose comes in to get me and tell me that Carter is playing with something he's not supposed to. So as I approach him I realize he is sucking on a glade plug-in air freshner!! Ugh! Poison Control was called.

Friday- Jeremy took off work because we had out of town company in. I was cleaning the bathrooms really well and the floors were wet and Jeremy was chasing Carter around & he ran to me and slipped and hit his head again!!! on our tile bathroom floors. I was too embarrassed to have to call the nurse again. Would she turn me in?!?

Luckily, we never saw any side effects of anything and THANK GOD because if he had started acting funny and different we wouldn't have known if he was high, or with head injury or both??

Thank you Lord for looking out after my baby boy. Geez!! With Carter, it always seems like when it rains, it pours! Maybe that's all little boys?

18 months

Well Carter you were 20 months old on Wednesday but we just had your 18 month appointment last week. Whoops! You turned 18 months at the begining of December and with Christmas, New Years and NOLA we've just now gotten around to it.

 You are finally slowing down a little in the growth department. You have been in 75-90% since you were a month old. Now you weigh 26 pounds (50%) and are 32"(50%), but your head is still in the 90-95th%. You've had a huge head since birth. We're still waiting for you to grow into it!

I know I say this about every age it seems like, but I honestly would love to keep you this age forever. I love how you think you are so grown up, but you are still a baby when I need you to be and when I want to rock you and hold you.

You are saying so much these days and people have stopped to comment on how clear you are with your words. You have a vocabulary of over 50 words. I'm not sure I can list them all out off the top of my head, but I will try to list as many as I can.

Mama
Dada
Ro-Rose
Car 'r (carter)
Bi-bite
Bye
Hey
Bonnie
Jeremy
whaaat? (what?)
Fen fi (french fry)
Bi-men (vitamin)
duice (juice)
drink
baba
kitty
ere kitty (here kitty)
ball
sa (sock)
boots
sthoes (shoes)
choo-choo
night
pa (popsickle)
peas (please)
tan-too (thank you)
more
me mouse (micky mouse)
baabee (baby)
nonnie
pawpaw
nana
papa
maaa-maaa (Uncle Matt Matt)
Five (high five)
yes
no
fish
cheese(when taking a picture)
kenzie (our next door neighbor that I keep twice a week)
DON'T ( this is so funny!! if I start singing a song in the car and you don't want to sing along with me you will yell out "mama, mama" & when I say what? You yell "DON'T!")

You can also sing the alphabet partially (a, b, d, d, e, f, d, and then you start over at a & keep repeating yourself). You can sing "rain, rain go away" (rain rain rain rain rain over and over again to the tune of it). You can make the sounds of a cat, dog, cow, pig, rooster, duck, & horse when asked.

You LOVE the TV these days. It used to never exist to you before now but now you insist on turning it on first thing every morning and night and will yell DORA or ME MOUSE. And if neither one of those shows are on you will go and get the remote and bring it to me whining.

 You copy EVERYTHING your sister does and you have absolutely no fear.

 You LOVE your sister and your sister LOVES you. Ya'll literally are inseperable right now. If you ask MR who her best friend is she says Brooklyn & Carter. Ya'll walk around the house holding hands all the time. Sometimes ya'll will hold hands in your carseats while we are driving somewhere. I'm so proud of the way ya'll play together. Your dad and I are constantly talking about how cute ya'll are after when you're playing after your bath.

 We've officially cut the bottle! You haven't had a bottle in 2 weeks and we have limited your passie to your bed and Church only. So, pretty much nap time and bedtime (and sometimes time outs). You know you can't get out of your bed if you have your passie in your mouth so sometimes you will wake up and just lay in your bed to suck.

You are HILARIOUS!! We are constantly laughing when you're around. You LOVE your sisters shoes and you will go into her closet and get different pairs & wear them around the house all day long. You will also put on any pair of glasses/sunglasses/hats/boots.  You love to dress yourself in whatever you can find.

 This is your new camera face. You deepen your voice, put your chin down and yell out CHEESE.

And here's another "CHEESE" picture!

 You love to *love* on kitty (as you body slam her) you will soften your voice and say *awww kitty* over and over again. Pretty sure she tries as hard as possible to avoid you at all times.

You've got Auburn hair and blueish/greenish eyes with the longest, darkest and prettiest eyelashes. You are extremely fair complected. You are in a size 5.5 - 6 shoe. You think you are so old and wonder why you get treated like a baby sometimes.

You are STILL a hit or miss when it comes to sleeping through the night. Sometimes you will sleep 7 to 7 and sometimes you will sleep 10 to 6 with 2-3 wakeups in between. We never know! It seems like you have good and bad weeks. One week you sleep awesome and the next you are up every night. If you want a baby brother or sister you are going to HAVE TO start sleeping through the night buddy!

I'm sure I'm leaving off some things but this is pretty much YOU these days! I love you sooooo much and you are such a blessing to us! I couldn't imagine how boring life would be without you in it. You bring so much laughter and joy.

A Doctor & Cowboy

Ok so I know I'm behind on my promise of 7 consecutive posts but while I'm slowly working on those I thought I'd show you the 2 cuties occupying my time.

While cleaning up dinner these 2 headed upstairs to the playroom & this is what I found. Maci Rose was wearing her doctor gear checking her baby's heartbeat and Carter was wearing a cowboy hat driving this noisy fire truck thing. It was a sight for sure! Hopefully they're getting some good practice for the future! Well the doctor at least! We'll see! Either way it gave me a good laugh after a long day at work!

I-Phone Recap

As I said in my previous post, I have been "camera-less" for the past few weeks & have only had my I-phone to capture pictures. So here is what we've been up to:

Jeremy wearing the Auburn championship ring

 My sweet buddy on our way to drop him off before the beach

 Showing off her new Sea 'N Suds t-shirt from the beach

 Lots of playing in the backyard

 Trying to have some quiet fun while waiting on Maci Rose to wake up from her "rare" afternoon nap

 He's even whiter than the driveway!!

 Making sure I don't go far!

 Eating lots of popsickles in this heat

 We took our next door neighbors out for their birthdays & they gave him a shot on fire! I've never seen something done like that before at a Mexican Restaurant. Pretty cool!!

I went to a Pampered Chef party and was making some peach salsa and almost cut the end of my pinky off with a peeler. I guess I don't need expensive stuff!! My dull knives work just fine.

 And this little guy is into all kinds of girly things lately, make-up, baby dolls, pushing strollers, etc.

 Caught him with my mascara all over his face!! He was trying to put it on like lipstick!

 And here we go..........The TEMPER TANTRUM PHASE has begun!

 I can't help but laugh every time he does it. It's just so funny how upset he gets and how he wants to "stay" upset even when you try to fix it. Almost like he's having fun throwing the fit!

 He has to sit up and look around and make sure someone is watching, because if not he will stop.

 hahahaha.....he's so pitiful isn't he??

 Ok fine I'm all better now that I found something cool to play with!

We also went to the McWane Center last week with my cousin Katie and friend Carrie and their little ones. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures to show, but it was lots of fun and we can't wait to go back!

And that folks is what we've been up to lately!