Thanksgiving

This year for Thanksgiving we were able to do both families again. My mom's side of the family did a lunch out at my parents house , and then we had dinner up at Justin's parents with his family. Such good food at both!!! It always fun to spend time with family that you don't get to see as often as your own. I'm so thankful that both our families live so close.

My Favorites

These are just a few of my favorite things Carter is doing/saying right now...

-Every morning when he wakes up, he just sits & says "ma, ma" over & over until I go & get him out of his crib & we have to get his three "blankies", his "ba ba", and his "bear" before he'll get out.

-He says "yes" whenever you ask him something- if its something he wants.

-When we wake up, we turn on cartoons & have to eat "cereal" out of his little cup.

-How he says "sees ya" & "buh bye" while waving & walking away

-Gives "kisses"

-When he says "ut uh" & shakes his head

-When he tells me he's going potty & says "aw mom, bum, bum"

-He says "shoot" & he knows when to say it.

-Everytime he says "dad" or "daddy" he points to himself, cause before when he called everyone mom Justin would point to himself & say dad.

-He loves "ice" cream cones-eats the whole thing everytime

-When your reading a book & you lick your finger to turn the page-so does he

-He knows his "shoes" , "socks", "shirt" & "jacket"

-How its all about "daddy" once he gets home from work.

-When you say Carter-he yells back "what"

He is turning into such a jabber jaws-he can & will say anything you tell him to say.

"Moneys"

Carter knows where the "moneys" are in the drawer, so he gets his giraffe piggy bank out, goes into the kitchen & brings back two pennies ...every time. Its the cutest thing to watch him get all concentrated, put the pennie in his fingers just right, & push it in...This is the first time he did it all by himself-- he was so proud!!!
He's already got it down though, so it doesn't entertain him very long now...

Furnace

The other morning Carter & I woke up & the house was at 63 degrees-freezing. So I tried turning the furnace up cause I usually keep it at 68 at nights so I was confused...The air & furnace would kick on but no heat-great! So I call my dad, tell him what was happening- maybe check the filter or a few other things-I didn't know how to do any of that of course so we just put the portable heater in the front room for the day & waited for Justin to get home. Once he gets home he went straight downstairs & started checking it out- checked all sorts of things for probably about an hour...nothing...Our neighbor Kyle came over & they checked things out for about a half hour -finally the last thing they figured out was that the three red blinks on the furnace meant to check the pressure switch...So, they go outside & sure enough Carter had stuffed a golf ball in the pressure tube so the air wasn't able to get through:) So glad we hadn't called someone to come look at it, that sure would have been embarrassing! What a kid!!!

Happy Halloween!

We had such a fun Halloween this year... We made the trek out to my parents house & then made the rounds to a few other family members & friends! Carter was such a 'monkey' at every single house we went to-he was so friendly & loved all the attention! He would put his hands in his armpits & make the "ooo,ooo" sounds & say trick-or-treat as well...
When Nicole was trying to get a picture of them together-Carter kept running off & Shae said "it's okay Carter, i'm just a kitty-meow" She is too funny!
At last we made it back into town & did a little trick-or-treating with cousin kitty Shae & pirate Janson-Carter thought that was pretty cool to run house to house & see the "scary" decorations, say "trick or treat" & grab a handful of treats... & the bad news of the night, Justin got a speeding ticket, bummer! Hope everyone had a fun filled Halloween!!!

Carving Pumpkins

This was Carter's first time carving pumpkins...He didn't have a long enough attention span to sit & watch us carve them-he just kept saying "eyes" & "pumpkin"... I made the mistake of scary "ewww scary" to one of the pumkpins faces & then he didn't even want to be by them! He had no idea why we were carving them-but he liked to throw the pumpkin seeds...it was a fun family night!!!