Merry Christmas!

There was this very nice Santa in Wal-mart, so we got our picture taken with him for FREE. Thanks Coca-Cola! Carter was extremely nervous about the whole situation. We have read books about Santa, have Santa dolls set up, and talk about Santa. Carter will readily say his name at home, but when it came to the real guy, there was no way. He was clinching on to me for dear life. The closer we got, the harder his grip with one hand and the other hand was stuffed in his mouth. The poor kid just has a look of terror in the picture and Santa never even touched him. I was trying not to laugh, but his reaction was so comical and novel, since he usually loves people.


Our Christmas tree only got ribbons and lights this year. All our decorations are the balls that shatter, but the key word is balls. Carter throws most things especially balls, so we erred on the side of caution and hence no decorations. The ribbons, which I taped to the top with just Scotch tape, have withstood Carter yanking on them.

New Bathtub Favorite + 8 Months Preggers

Carter is maturing so much which is mighty encouraging knowing baby Kylie will be joining us this month. Today he just spontaneously told me "Love you!" Awww! His favorite color word for the past 2 weeks has been "yellow" and then "green". He loves the colors of the traffic lights and we talk about what they mean. If you ask him about yellow, he'll tell you "fast" and red and green are just the obvious stop and go. I'm sure I'll be regretting that yellow light thing one day. He just keeps getting more and more fun!

He loves all the baby equipment. At Thanksgiving, he was eager to help swing Krista's baby and bounce another baby in a bouncer. I was worried the little girl was going to launch out of her bouncy chair. His intentions are good! (The blurr in the picture is a small fingerprint.)


We now do most of our painting in the bathtub since that is where we end up anyways. He tells me things off of the drawing portion of Yo Gabba Gabba that he is painting. The blue one to the right of his hand is a fish and one of the other pictures was a happy face that he did.

Here's Carter's happy face!

He loves to help clean off the paint probably as much or more than painting.


Carter always asks for a chair whenever I do any cooking. He is my little kitchen hand which is usually fun, but sometimes raises my blood pressure.


The final stretch...Less than a month to go!


We got our tree last night and the whole way home, Carter kept telling us "tree". He is pretty excited about it. We'll see how good of an idea it is to have a tree with a 1 year old. I have used the super glue multiple times in the last month with our Christmas decorations. They go back together pretty well. We have lights around an archway. Carter grabs onto the end and swings it saying "weee."