Carter Loves to Climb

Carter has become quite the little climber lately. He figured out how to climb up the stairs at my mom's house last week, and he's been climbing anything he can ever since. His loves to get up into his little chair to watch tv, and is always so proud once he's climbed up there and settled in. He also loves to stand up in his chair. Not a great habit to form, but it sure is cute. At a playdate today, he enjoyed climbing up Caroline's little slide... or at least attempting to. He kept sliding backward and was getting a little frusterated Also, he just loves to sit up on the big couch with me, and he's now learned how to turn him self backward, and slowly ooch himself down off the couch. I'm glad, because I no longer have to worry about him accidentally falling off! What a big boy!!

On a side note.... my little boy had a milestone this week. This may seem like no big deal, or WAAAAY late (yes, it is), but Carter finally will hold his own bottle. Keep in mind, he was strictly a breastfed baby up until about 6 weeks ago, so he's never had the need or desire to hold a bottle on his own. Everytime we've tried to get him to in the past, he looks at us like we're crazy. But for some reason, this week, he decided he was ready! I had fixed his bottle, Carter got all ready and situated up in Daddy's lap, I held the bottle out to hand over to Eric, and Carter just grabbed it, turned it up, and put it in his mouth like he's been doing it forever. What a little toot. I think Eric got a slight taste of what I felt like several weeks back when I weaned Carter. He looked at me with this sad little puppy dog lip like, "Ugh... I guess he doesn't need me anymore." HA!

Proof:

Oh What Fun!

This little boy LOVES to play games. His favorite things to do are chase us around, or have us chase him, be thrown up in the air (the higher the better), and his new favorite is being tossed onto the couch, the bed, or a pile of pillows. He thinks it is just the funniest thing ever. I think this boy is going to like to rough-house with his Daddy, no doubt. Here is a cute video.

Get Away

I have been such a bad blogger lately, mostly due to the fact that Eric and I went on a 7-night cruise last week! We left the morning of the 8th, flew to Orlando, and then drove to Port Canaveral. Our hotel had an amazing pool that we spend a lot of time at, and we went to the port for a wonderful dinner Saturday night. Sunday we headed down to board the ship. We had three stops - Bahamas, St. Thomas, and St. Maarten. We spent time at the beach, did a little shopping, did a speed boat tour and snorkeled all while in port. On our days at sea we did a lot of laying by the pool. And eating. It was great to have a whole week for just Eric and me, but we definitely were missing our boy! We were so glad to see him on Sunday when we got home! Here are a few pictures of our trip.

Dumbest rental car ever.

We died laughing when we saw they gave us this.

Getting ready to leave port!

View of the beach as we are pulling away

There were two other ships that left about the same time as we did.

Eric on our balcony with the Disney ship in the background.

Me and the Carnival ship.... having a little fun.

Enjoying the beach in Cococay, Bahamas

Our ship - Freedom of the Seas

Exhausted from the day

Watching some surfers on the Flow Rider. This thing was awesome.

This guy was actually a "pro" that was on the ship for a couple of days.

Supposedly ranked #3 in the world. He was pretty amazing.

Pulling up to St. Thomas. Look at everyone hanging out of their balconies!

Just gorgeous

Eric and I having lunch in St. Thomas after our speed boat tour.

St. Thomas at dusk, as our ship was leaving

On our catamaran snorkel tour in St. Maarten. There were 3 ships in port this day.

These boats were actually racing. The wind was so strong this day that I'd look over at them and their sail would be almost in the water, everyone piled to the opposite side of the boat. Crazy.

Having lunch in St. Maarten

Poolside the last day on the boat

Belly flop competition... OUCH! We laughed SO hard.

These guys were CRAZY!

Silly Little Games

Lately, Carter loves to play games with us. The other day while we were being silly, I blew into his cheeks and it made a really loud noise. I guess because of the sound and the vibration he thought it was so funny, so he started to do it to me. We tried it again today to see if he remembered how, and he did! But he did seem to be a little distracted by the slideshow of pictures going on our computer screensaver.... He kept saying "baby!"

How Does A Dog Go?

Fun in the Water

We've really been enjoying the nice weather lately.

This past weekend Carter played in his blow up pool for the first time!

A little cold at first, but he quickly "warmed up" to it. HA!

Sticky Sucker

Carter had his first sucker at Uncle Andrew's birthday party last week. He absolitely LOVED it!! I sat right next to him and wiped his mouth with a wet wipe just about every 10 seconds... I figured if I cleaned along the way, it would be easier in the end. And, yes, it was. His hands were a sticky mess, but nothing a giant cup of warm water couldn't wash off! He looked like such a big boy eating his sucker!!

Too cute!

More Party Pics

Thank you to my wonderful Mother in Law for being my photographer for the day. Lord knows I wouldn't have had the presence of mind to take all these pictures!

Carter and his cousins

Carter and Gavin

Carter and Devin

Handsome little man!

Gorgeous Mia

Me & Ashley, Carter & Mia

Sweet little Olivia and my Mom

Olivia turned 1 the day after Carter!

Hayden is the funniest little boy! He HAD to be in the toy box

Devin thinks Uncle Eric is SOOOO funny

So happy to be playing with all of our cousins and friends

Pretty Presley (who will also be 1 this weekend)

BFFs Mia and Pres

Not so sure about the singing!

Giving it a little taste....

Hey, not too bad.

REALLY good!

Really starting to dig in

Oh my... what a mess.

Watch out for flying icing. This is why he needed a bath immediately after!

Sitting in his new chair for the first time

Thanks, Nana and Grandad, for my new chair. I LOVE IT!

Even Carter Loves GLEE!!