Monday, October 8, 2012
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Fending for Ourselves
This is a test of blogging from my phone, so if anything is wonky, I'll try to fix it...
Brian's teaching out of town this week so Carter's my copilot. This is a quick on just to let you know that carter said his first three word sentence the other day: "more eat cake."
Then, last night he was in the bath and pouring water on a mosquito bite on his leg. He clearly said, "agua on my booboo." Then he got all confused and started babbling and put all the syllables in a different order. Hopefully his language skills are going to start coming on strong now.
Brian's teaching out of town this week so Carter's my copilot. This is a quick on just to let you know that carter said his first three word sentence the other day: "more eat cake."
Then, last night he was in the bath and pouring water on a mosquito bite on his leg. He clearly said, "agua on my booboo." Then he got all confused and started babbling and put all the syllables in a different order. Hopefully his language skills are going to start coming on strong now.
Monday, August 27, 2012
El Rio
Summer Vacay at the River! We got to go for 9 days this year - long enough to start really feeling relaxed, and then WHAMMO - back to reality. Carter had so much fun running up and down the dock (once he got used to the life jacket):
We played EVERYWHERE: digging in the shallows, chasing frogs, swimming using Brian as a float, in boats, up on the hill, in the forest. The highlight for me was that he LOVED kayaking!
He first got in the kayak while it was on top of the dock, and since he loved it and wanted to stay in it, I pulled it into the water next to the beach. He wasn't so excited about that at first, but then he got into it, so then I sat down in the kayak first and pulled him into my lap. He became quite upset and squirmy, but I asked him to trust me for a few minutes that it would be fun and that we could get out if he really didn't like it. So I pushed out into the water and he immediately calmed down and couldn't get enough. My arms were tired by the time we got back from paddling around Aunt Jane's Bay and saying hi to the neighbors and he STILL didn't want to get out. He went two more times with me, and then once with Brian and once again with Laura - I guess we have a little paddler on our hands!
Other events included a LOT of fishing with Ed - even a chartered trip where we caught enough bass for several meals, visiting and playing with Aunt Jenn and her boyfriend Steve (who amused Carter to no end), and really great sleeping. He probably slept 13 hours overnight and 2-3 hours each day during nap - I think the River is magic...
We had an awesome trip - thanks to Grammy and Grandpa for providing the place and the people!
From a development perspective, Carter is starting to mimic many more words than in the past and this trip really made an impact. New words include: two, three, rio, pretzel (per Gram), egg, toast, eight, nine, hi, on, off, up, down, please, Curt ("Dirk") and dog. Big vocabulary jump for our little delayed expressive language fella.
Sadly, there were no pictures AT ALL of Carter with Grammy, Gram, or Grandpa. We'll work on that next time.
We did get one family photo (sans Gray-C - she doesn't like boats much):
And then we had to say goodbye - Carter got a little more comfortable during that last boat ride than he had all week.
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| Come on guys! |
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| Let's go! |
We played EVERYWHERE: digging in the shallows, chasing frogs, swimming using Brian as a float, in boats, up on the hill, in the forest. The highlight for me was that he LOVED kayaking!
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| Happy in the kayak. |
He first got in the kayak while it was on top of the dock, and since he loved it and wanted to stay in it, I pulled it into the water next to the beach. He wasn't so excited about that at first, but then he got into it, so then I sat down in the kayak first and pulled him into my lap. He became quite upset and squirmy, but I asked him to trust me for a few minutes that it would be fun and that we could get out if he really didn't like it. So I pushed out into the water and he immediately calmed down and couldn't get enough. My arms were tired by the time we got back from paddling around Aunt Jane's Bay and saying hi to the neighbors and he STILL didn't want to get out. He went two more times with me, and then once with Brian and once again with Laura - I guess we have a little paddler on our hands!
Other events included a LOT of fishing with Ed - even a chartered trip where we caught enough bass for several meals, visiting and playing with Aunt Jenn and her boyfriend Steve (who amused Carter to no end), and really great sleeping. He probably slept 13 hours overnight and 2-3 hours each day during nap - I think the River is magic...
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| Hanging around with Aunt Jenn |
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| Running up and down the side of the boathouse |
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| Daytime moon! |
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| Loving up Mama (Shaylie got in on the action, too) |
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| Hikes on Mama's back |
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| Playing in the house that the *NEW* washing machine provided (YAY!) |
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| Morning lap time with Granddad |
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| Fingerpainting with Sarah while all the responsible adults got to go play... (I hope he picks up a thing or two from her!) |
We had an awesome trip - thanks to Grammy and Grandpa for providing the place and the people!
From a development perspective, Carter is starting to mimic many more words than in the past and this trip really made an impact. New words include: two, three, rio, pretzel (per Gram), egg, toast, eight, nine, hi, on, off, up, down, please, Curt ("Dirk") and dog. Big vocabulary jump for our little delayed expressive language fella.
Sadly, there were no pictures AT ALL of Carter with Grammy, Gram, or Grandpa. We'll work on that next time.
We did get one family photo (sans Gray-C - she doesn't like boats much):
And then we had to say goodbye - Carter got a little more comfortable during that last boat ride than he had all week.
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| Bye River! |
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