I am doing a bang-up job in regularly posting entries - not! I don't know where the time goes and honestly cannot believe we are nearing the end of April! How is that possible?
We've been busy with life - I've been super busy with work (have a big tradeshow in Denver coming up May 6-9...not looking forward to being gone from my two guys for a week but I've done it before so I'm used to it. Jesse is busy with the business and is keeping busy. His ability to pick up things so quickly amazes me. He is a 'wired' handyman/Mr. Fix It. I think Carter is going to be a lot like him. Yay for me! :-)
Speaking of Carter...boy is he growing up. I still call him my baby and occasionally refer to him as my 'punk-a-doo' but he is turning into, as he calls it, 'big boy'. He said that after brushing his teeth SEVERAL times this pas week. He stands on his step-stool in front of the sink, and begrudgingly has me or Jesse brush his teeth - he isn't too fond of the process and frequently throws tempter tantrums. So, after we were done he reached his arms out wide and said "BIG BOY". So gosh darn adorable. Speaking of being a big boy, he is also doing SUPER good at sleeping in his own bed. I thought we had ruined him and he would be sleeping with us until he was a teenager but luckily, I am reminded that kids are more resilient and flexible to things that we sometimes think. I have been having to lay with him while he falls asleep but the past few nights I explained to him I would be in the bedroom right next to him and will come check on him and he seems to buy it and accept it. I check on him about 10 minutes later and he is sound asleep - poppy usually out (poppy is his pacifier....yes, that is our next bad habit to break!) - and sawing logs (he is a snorer). He is also loving book time before he goes to bed. We just gave him a new book "Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site" and he really likes it. Our ritual is to read a few books and let him watch a little bit of a DVD on his portable DVD player. He loves Cars, Cars2, Toy Story, Elmo teaching him about the potty. Speaking of the potty...making progress there too, but more at daycare than at home. He went #2 on the big toiler at daycare this past week and has before, probably a month ago, and #1 too. Tonia says he takes his own pants and diaper off, throws his diaper away all by himself too. Big boy! But at home, not the case. His ritual at home is to 'hide' under the kitchen table where he does his 'duty'. He can stink up the house in a very short period of time and can be such a stinker (no pun intended) about getting his pants changed. Why you'd want a pile like that in your pants and continue on like things are just fine and dandy is beyond me. Maybe he has a numb bottom? :-) Boys will be boys and are definitely more of a challenge/do things in their own time, compared to girls. He will be 3 in July so I'm hoping things 'click' this summer and he is wearing big-boy underwear on the hot, humid days vs. a diaper.
Carter is also becoming a JABBER BOX. And he is asking questions. He likes to say "Doing?" or "Doing Daddy?" Some words I love how he pronounces them, even though they are incorrect include: brewbriber for screwdriver and tat tart for pop tart. He can say his "p's" but I think having the word "tart" immediately following is messing him up. Papa Zens has a talking deer head in his man shed on the farm and Carter used to be petrified of it but now he says "dat deow in dare no scowed me" - translation "That deer in there no scared me". We were on the farm today and he spent a lot of time with Papa on the tractors. He is OBSESSED with tractors and his countless tractors. He loves 'loaders'. He also loves riding lawn mower at the farm and with dad at our house. We have a golf cart now too to cruise around the big town of Currie but he is a little gun shy of it for some reason. Strange. He has mastered his tricycle this past month - wahoo!. He pedals it all by himself. He has known for some time but I think he was just being lazy and wanting me to push him (there is a handle that I can push him with that come be taken off for when they graduate to pedaling on their own. I guess next up will be a bicycle with training wheels!).
Last weekend was Easter right? Or maybe it was the weekend prior. Anyway, Carter had a lot of fun doing the Easter egg hunt at Lake Shetek State Park but was TERRIFIED of the Easter Bunny. I have to say, they need to get a better costume or head - the bunny head was like Bugs bunny.
Well, I should wrap it up. Carter is demanding I draw a tractor for him and I am b ,trying to upload pictures (behind on those - shocker) and my computer is acting up!.
