Carter @ 33 Months

Funny Conversations We've Had Lately

Scene: Carter and Miles playing in playroom while we get ready to go somewhere.
Miles: starts crying
Me: Did you hit Miles?
Carter: Yes
Me: Where did you hit Miles?
Carter: Right in the face
Ha! At least he's honest...now we just need to work on kindness.

Scene: Hiking at the state park about to go play on playground.
Me: Do you want to go play on the see-saw?
Carter: No, I like see screwdriver
Boys and their tools...he didn't want to see a saw...he wanted to see a screwdriver. A man's gotta have his preferences...

Scene: Boys and daddy in playroom shooting basketball. I go do some videotaping. After a few minutes of videotaping, Carter walks toward the camera....
Carter: Mommy, go back and cook my supper.
HAHA! Kevin did NOT tell him to say this nor does he speak to me like that :) So glad we have this on video. We had just eaten dinner - this was Carter's way of saying to me that this was daddy time and girls weren't allowed...

Scene: Dying Easter Eggs, Carter peeled an egg and was eating it.
Me: Is that egg yummy?
Carter: Yes. I not like the cheese (yolk).

Background: I have a good friend named Erin.
Scene: Getting ready to go a few places.
Me: Carter, let's get dressed, we need to run some errands today.
Carter: Looks around for a few minutes...looking very puzzled. 
Carter: Where, Erin? I not see Erin.
The English language is tricky!

Scene: Getting ready to go to church.
Me: It's time to get in the car.
Carter: TUM on Miles. TUM on Miles. Doe-ing to church.
Miles: Sitting in playroom not moving.
Carter: TUM on Miles. RIGHT NOW.
Miles: still not going anywhere
Carter: Miles need a panking. Slaps Miles on the arm. 
Me: Picks Carter up and has a long conversation about how I am the only one allowed to spank Miles....

Scene: Driving to church.
Me: We are going to church.
Carter: Yes my am. Doe-ing church - eat pizza.
Me: Yes we will eat pizza at church (they serve pizza for kids on Wed nights).
Me: Do you learn about Jesus at church.
Carter: No. Just play toys and ride trucks.
Ha! I am told that they have lessons, but I guess they haven't started to sink in yet :)

Scene: Babysitter (Eden) arrives - we are still trying to get boys bathed and get dressed upstairs...Carter is bathed and dressed...
Kevin: Why don't you go downstairs and play with Miss Eden?
Carter: reluctantly walks downstairs...a few minutes later walks back upstairs
Carter (to Kevin): I not like Miss Eden.
Carter (to me): Mommy, I doe with you.
He totally knew we were about to leave him. It turned out that Miss Eden wasn't so bad afterall he had fun :)

Carter-isms:

He LOVES to give me and Miles our goodnight kiss. I am always nursing Miles while Kevin is putting Carter to bed. At different points (after bath, after brushing teeth, after reading his book, etc...) he will say "Doe give Mommy and Miles tiss." Then he will ruuuuuun in Miles's room and give us our kisses. This happens up to 3-4 times a night, but never less than once! They might be on the cheek, shoulder, lips, knee, foot.... I love all my kisses :) Kevin, however, is not comfortable with the mouth kisses...he will turn his head at the last second :)

Yes, my am / Yes, my do / Yes, my is / Yes my can = he pretty much always says "my" for "I"
Where our doe-ing? / Our doe-ing to church / Our doe-ing Greemama's house/Nana's house = he uses "our" for "we"
*Needless to say we are still working on our pronouns...

He LOVES going to church!!! He likes school too, but he LOVES church. He tells everyone and everything "See you tomorrow at church." Seeing as how we are at church 3 days a week - most of the time he's fairly accurate :)

When he gets hungry in the evening, he runs to the kitchen and starts raiding my pantry saying "Mommy, I hungry. Cook my dinner/supper."

He is very observant - especially in the car. He can spot a tractor/truck/fire truck from a mile away!

He loves bugs. He gets down close to them and checks them out. On our walk the other day he sprawled out on the sidewalk to look at a bug and said "Hey, lil' guy." H also plays with/tortures worms - he makes them swim, swings them around like a helicopter, rides them in his dump truck, etc... poor worms.

A Few Favorites

Favorite Food: Candy (if I'm honest), but Pizza is probably still his favorite supper - he will ALWAYS eat pizza - everything else has it's days. Fruit - he loves apples, Veggies - he likes broccoli.

Favorite Show: still Mickey Mouse Clubhouse - he calls it "Mickey Mouse Tah-house Tum Inside Tah-House." If you watch the show you'll know that he is adding part of the theme song to the title :) He also loves Monster Truck Adventures.

Favorite Book: Dear Polar Bear
*He has started really "reading" his books. This activity includes him taking one book flipping through every single page and setting it aside, getting another and doing the same, making a GIANT stack of all of his books. He will clean out a bookshelf doing this, but I am not allowed to help him read during this time.

Favorite Activity: Playing with Matchbox cars (or any cars for that matter) and going to the playground and on walks. He has started to ride his motorcycle some on our walks. It ends up in the stroller by the end of the walk though.

I love this boy more than words can say. I'm blessed to be his mama!