Splashpad!

I found the greatest Splashpad (that's free!) for Carter to play at only a mile from my house. Carter had a great time just walking around as the water spouted from the ground. It is perfect for him, plus it's not crowded. We did leave with an injury....he fell and hit his nose on the ground. It was bleeding, but he didn't even want to stop for me to look at it- tough guy! I am envisioning us spending a lot of time there this summer!






Carter's hurt nose. He scraped his head too. He wouldn't look right at me so this is the best shot of it I could get. It actually looks worse this morning.

Pointing

Last week Carter started something that I have been meaning to take picts of and blog about, but I haven't had a second, so I am going to type a short blurb and add more later. Last week when Carter and I were reading he began pointing to things. After a while I began to ask him to point to certain things and he did is consistantly. He would point to a ball, duck, bear, dog, and fish on different pages. This was one of those color books with lots of things on different pages. I told my mom about this and she got out her preschool flashcards and gave him 2 choices and most of the time he grabbed the right card. Way to go Carter!

Bottle?

Okay, I have something to admit......Carter is still getting a bottle. Just 2 or 3 a day........I am planning on taking 2 away when school gets out, then phase the last one out after that. I was feeling really guilty, but then when I was reading my People, I saw Suri Cruise with a bottle and she's 2! Oh well, he will be done by then!

No!

Carter has just started shaking his head no when he doesn't want something. He does it when he is finished eating and today at the pool he did it when we got back into the big pool- too cute!

Swimming!

I have been anxiouly awaiting the chance to take Carter swimming. Last summer it was a streatch trying to teach him anything..........he was kinda young, but he did go under water a few times. This summer will be SO different. Anyway, for the past 3 days we have visited the new Frisco Rec Center. It has an AWESOME new swim area! Carter loves it. He was a little aprehensive at fist, but quickly adjusted to the water. He would walk around, fall down, go under water, and then get back up. After playing a while on the play structure, we moved to the warm water pool. Each day I have done a little swim lesson with him. He goes underwater like a champ, monkey crawls, jumps off the side and floats. He even worked on blowing bubbles. Today Stacy came with us a we did a few pases. What fun! I predict that Carter will be a full blown fish by the end of the summer! I don't have any picts from the pool because I am afraid to leave my camera alone while we are swimming, so I only have some pictures from before we went swimming. He is crying in the picture, becasue he doesn't like his flip flops!

Crocs!

The Stewart family got Carter his first pair of Crocs for his first birthday. He can walk really good in them, plus they look super cute. Everywhere I can, I get compliments!

Obsession!

Carter's latest OBSESSION os going up and down the fron steps. He will do it until you finally stop him. Also, notice in the first picture that he is starting to walk like a "big boy" with out his hands in the air!