Guess who?

Anyone have a guess who is on our pumpkin this year? I thought it was going to be easy, but this was harder then it looked and I totally messed up. But then again I'm a horrible pumpkin carver! When I sent this picture to my family my sister was the only one that got it right! I thought my brother's guess of Pooh was the funniest!

Meow!!

I HATE cats, but Carson thinks they are funny! Every once and a while our neighbors cat jumps on the wall and hangs out. It's like Carson senses that the "kiycat" is there or something because he always finds it! He laughs and laughs at it and meows... Then he gets angry when it jumps off! I'm glad the neighbors have a cat he can enjoy looking at because we will never ever ever own one! :)

Train Park!

Rob had a Saturday that wasn't totally full of studying, so we took full advantage and headed to the train park to have a picnic and ride the train! This seriously is such a fun park and Carson loves trains, so if you haven't noticed, whenever we have a free Saturday we often choose the train park! The weather was perfect and we had a great time! We even rode the train twice today!! After the park we took Carson to get his all time favorite treat--a smoothie from Jamba Juice! I didn't get any pictures of that but he loved it so much he didn't take his lips off the straw the whole time we were there! I love fun Saturdays with my two boys!

Cozy Truck

Carson loves Cozy Trucks and Cars. He spends a lot of time in his truck at home and loves to sit in them whenever he sees them, even if they aren't his! He recently has become a little more interested in watching movies. He doesn't make it through the whole thing, but will watch for a little, go play, and come back for some more. Today when we started a movie he got his cozy truck and made it a drive-in movie! He even got his favorites Mater and Lightning McQueen and put them in the cup holders to watch with him!

Cousins

Carson is so lucky to have LOTS of cousins, and even some right around his own age! However, he loves the older ones just as much too! They spoil on him, sing to him, and the older girls love to "babysit" him! They can always make him happy! Sometime I will facetime my sister just to have her kids talk and sing to Carson to make him happy! He sure does love all his cousins...if only we lived a little closer to them all! But it makes visiting that much more fun!

Almost all them still call him Baby Carson too... Allison (the one in the purple dress) from day one has called him Baby Carson and even names some of her dolls baby Carson too--it's super cute! Now that he is totally becoming a big boy, we will see how much longer the "baby" sticks, but I think Daddy and Mommy will keep calling you Baby till you can tell us NO! :)

Zoo Party

This year my Dad's work threw a work party for the family at the Zoo, so we were excited to go! Rob was swamped in the middle of a trillion (seriously!) exams and studying...boring!... so it was a great way for Carson and I to spend our Saturday and get out of his hair! Plus, we are always excited to see family! My sister and her husband were so sweet in letting C and I catch a ride with them! Thanks guys! It was a pretty cool party because A) Carson LOVES animals B) Everything that normally you have to pay for was FREE.. yes FREE!! even the food and giraffe feeding and C) we got to go in the evening, after hours, which helped make things a little cooler outside!! Carson and I hadn't seen the new Elephant exhibit that opened, so that was exciting. These elephants are so much better and way cute. Carson loved watching them. His favorite thing at the zoo this trip was the random peacocks that roam free. One was digging a hole and he was full on laughing his head off at it. I will agree it was pretty funny to see a bird digging a hole similarly to how our dog digs holes. Carson also liked the giraffes, until it's tongue touched his hand, then he wanted nothing to do with it. Carson even got to try out some of the giraffe's food himself. They handed us a couple carrots to feed the giraffe and before I knew it Carson was nibbling away at it... a little slobber can't kill a giraffe right! Carson would hold out the carrots until the giraffe was about 6 inches from his hand and then he would throw it to her. For the last carrot I held Carson hand and we let he giraffe's tongue touch our hands. Carson and I both did a little creepy wiggle and Carson was done with that!  We all had a great time and Carson even got to try his very first hotdog (I try to avoid giving him hotdogs at all cost, but whatever...) and got a fun prize on the way out the door! Thanks Pops for inviting us! We are so happy your work decided to have such a fun party!

Don't worry, that's not how much I weigh ;)!! We got everyone on this big scale that we could fit to try and see if we could weigh the same as an Elephant....almost!

laughing at the peacock

15 Months

Our Baby is already 15 months! Crazy! I am one of those crazy Mom's that wants to remember when my child started doing things and I was pretty good about writing stuff down every month for the first year, but I realized I hadn't written anything down for 3 month now...yikes! So here is what C is doing at 15 months! It's a long list, but seriously if I don't write down every little thing that I can think of right now (which I know I am forgetting a TON of stuff in this post alone) I will forget in a month what he was doing at 15 months. Seriously! I can't even remember when he smiled or laughed or did any of that fun stuff without looking it up. So here we go... long list and all!

15 months

• 31.75 inches
• 23.10 pounds
• Size 5 Shoe, Size 4 diaper
• Bedtime- between 7-7:30pm and sleeps till 7am or later
• Takes 2 naps still. Morning nap is about an hour. Afternoon nap about an hour and half on a normal day... not a long napper)
• Uses fork correctly
• Says= two, go, wow, uh-o, Mama, Dada, more, thank you, duck, water, Carson, bye, choo-choo, kick, stab (weird I know, but he says it when he stabs his food with a fork..Thanks to Daddy!), chicken
• Signs- More, dog, train, plane, bird, all done, thank you, and occasionally please
• Dances when he hears a good beat or while Yo Gaba Gaba is loading on Netflix
• Exaggerates his arm swinging when walking and running… cutest/funniest thing ever!
• He understands us SO MUCH now. I can’t believe it! When we tell him what we are doing, he runs to the right room and waits for us. Like when we tell him we need to wash his hands he runs to the sink and tries to climb up or when we tell him it’s time to take a bath he runs in the bathroom and turns the water on.
• Swimming or anything water is still one of his favorite activities
• Whole Milk Dinker—and finally loving it!
• He is growing more and more in love with his blanket and I often find him trying to pull it out of his crib threw the railings! (we only let him have his blanket and binkie in the crib)
• Eats all table food and tries new food all the time. We are still working on getting him to love more than his favorites. (His staple favorites are-Chicken nuggets, Mac & Cheese, Grilled Cheese, PBJ, Lunch Meat, any kind of cheese, any fruit, squash and peas… only in baby food form though, avocados, bread, goldfish, applesauce, veggie sticks, nutriagrain bars, cereal, pancakes, smoothies, yogurt, Spanish rice).
• Slides down the slides at the park all by himself sitting up… such a big boy moment.
• He folds his arms for prayer when we sit down at the table to eat and before bedtime, even when Rob and I are totally not ready for prayer. Such a good example and reminder for us!
• Loves to listen to sounds he hears outside from inside the house. He stops and listens so carefully.
• Looks up when he thinks you are looking at him and he doesn’t want you to.
• Has totally mastered how to ride his little bumper car and is so good at it. He also loves to giddy up on his rocking horse.
• LOVES playing outside and digging.
• Kicks the ball around saying “ick ick ick” and has started throwing balls and whatever else he can! 
• Loves animals and looks at his animal book ALL the time
• Totally knows how to work the I-pod and is one of his favorite things to do while riding in the shopping cart or following Mommy as she does housework
• Fake laughs when people say something funny or he thinks something should be funny
• Runs to the door and waits for Daddy when he hears the garage door opening
• Has 7 teeth (4 on top, 3 on bottom) and one more bottom one on the way
• Totally lights up when around other kids or his cousins.
• Waves Hi and Bye
• Excellent fit thrower ;)
• He is a super strong and independent/stubborn boy. He knows what he wants and he will try and wrestle you into it! :)
• Loves to explore and will run off and not look back (scary!)
• When you lay on the ground he will for sure come over and dog pile you
• Favorite book= “I See a Monster” “Peek-a-Who” “Animal Book”
• Favorite toys= Cars ramp, Radio Flyer Bumper Car, Cozy Truck, Tunnel, Drum Set, and loves to “Giddy Up” on his rocking horse
• Favorite Shows- Yo Gaba Gaba, Curious George, Sesame Street, and Thomas the Train
• Does actions to “itsy bitsy spider” and “Open shut them”
• Knows where his belly button is and “honks” our noses when we ask where his nose is
• Finds the moon and points to it
• Calls the dog using the sign and always tries to play tug-a-war with her
• When a hymn is sung at church he instantly starts leading the music
• Runs everywhere he goes
• Whenever I give him a smoothie he goes and hides in a corner, like he isn’t suppose to have it or something, and will drink the whole thing before taking the sippy cup out of his mouth for the first time!
• Blows bubbles, kicks, and splashes on command in the tub! His favorite!
• Does NOT like to get his diaper changed
• Loves playing tag and wrestling with Daddy
• Loves to climb on chairs and the couch to sit… and stand on and act like a crazy man, oh dear!
• He is really into things with lids (screw on or snap) and takes the lid off, on, off, on, off, on
• Can open doors that have a lever knob
• He just recently became interested in coloring
• When he wants something he will come get us, grab our hand, and lead us there
• He hasn’t gotten too old for his awesome belly laugh yet!
• Hates the vacuum. Not the sound of it, but the sight of it. 
• Fights getting snapped into his car seat, so our back seat is full of distractions, but is fine as soon as he is snapped in.
• Loves going on walks and pushes all the noise making buttons on his steering wheel the whole walk.  
• We fill our days with story time, swimming lessons, Music Class, play dates, 2 naps, errands, chores, and lots of play time. 

 And since I don't have any recent pictures on my computer right now [Insert Picture Here Later]!