Carter Turns One

Our goofy little guy turned ONE!  Again, how in the world does time go by so fast.  Carter is such a cutie and we are enjoying him so much.  He's getting to be so much fun as he is starting to do more and more.  Mostly he just wants to do anything Landon is doing which frustrates his big brother.  This past month has been a big one for him.  Besides the fact that he turned one, he got his first haircut and celebrated his first Easter.  Carter is signing quite a bit (more, all done, please, milk, water, food, outside, light, fan, dog, bird, ball, and a few others), talking a little (mama, dada, doggy, ball, no-no-no, milk, please, Landon-although doesn't sound like that), creeping along things but not close to walking (we are happy for this), sleeping well at night (so different than his big brother), and starting to play well by himself.  He weighed in at 20 lbs 4 oz at one year putting him the 15% for weight and 31.75 in putting him at 96% for length.  He definitely is our skinny little guy. 

This was all done right after Carter's 1st birthday but then our computer died on us.  So we are just now finally getting it up.  We have some great pictures from the past month that we'll hopefully add soon!

Pre 1st haircut

Sitting very still

Doing well with Mike's help

Handsome little guy!

Carter's first tractor

Happy cousins ready for ice cream sundaes!

1st birthday celebration at Leatherby's

 

Carter's Birthday Party

 

Visiting Great-Grandpa Chuck

Landon's special evening with Mommy and Daddy

first time mini-golfing

Loving the go-carts!

Happy Easter!

Camping in Bodega Bay

Shani and the boys went camping with her parents in Bodega Bay over the weekend.  John was in Michigan visiting best friends of ours who have been out there for the past few years.  Thankfully they are moving back to California in a couple months!  We miss them terribly and wish we could have all gotten to go out and see them.  Although we'd love to share the abundant pictures that John took on his trip (all of beer or breweries) we (Shani) thought you might get a little bored.  Of course here are a couple as he had an absolute blast spending time with Kevin, Elaine, and their boys.  

Shani described their camping trip as interesting but fun.  No, it's not because the boys are bad campers.  A little before they left Landon accidently scratched his "peepee" which got infected and caused him tons of pain when he urinated.  This made for a very difficult trip of trying to get him to go to the bathroom so he wouldn't cause more serious issues by withholding.  Every time he had to go to the bathroom it was a battle, every time he wouldn't go to the bathroom was a battle, every time he bathed it was a battle.  So in that sense it was very frustrating.  Other than those times, it was really fun!  The weather was a bit windy but beautiful.  Camping will be much easier though once Carter is walking... and not putting everything into his mouth!

This month Carter also turned 11 months!!  He's such a sweet boy.  Although he's going through quite the "mommy" stage making it a little difficult for Shani to get a break.  He still continues to be all about Landon, something that drives Landon crazy.  He continues to sign well and eats a ton.  He's crawling all over the place and creeping along things.  It's difficult to get pictures of him without his thumb in his mouth, although we think those are cute too! So crazy for us to wrap our head around the fact that he's going to be one next month!