Happy Halloween

 Carter (the Triceratops) would like to wish everyone a very happy Halloween.

From One Year to the Next

We thought it would be fun to give a few pictures to compare and contrast Carter at 0, 1 and 2.  

Carter would like to give a shout out to his (our) friend Sue for the awesome card!

On the development front, Carter is making almost daily strides with his words.  He routinely puts two words together now to get his point across like: "No yuck" (referring to his diaper), "Bo peep dirty" (uh?), "More eat" and on and on.  He is about 35 inches tall and somewhere we've read that if you double your height at two, it is a good predictor of adult height.  So it looks like he'll be around 5'-10" (an inch taller than I).  At mealtimes he's getting a little more picky, but he still likes fish and just tonight we were able to get him to eat (and maybe enjoy?) his broccoli.  Although if you ask him what he wants to eat, you'll get one of these three: Egg, Oats, or Cake.  Thank goodness he hasn't learned to say "ice cream" yet.  He's a cautious little guy and we're thankful that he mostly stays out of trouble.  It has been a good year and we can't wait to see who he is at 3!

Another River Birthday

We headed back to the river for a beautiful fall weekend to celebrate Carter's big 2. 

 Luckily, this time Marni came too.

There were some good walks around the island.

More of Carter's favorite aquatic hobby

Horsing around with Grandad

And of course there was lots of playing down at the dock

(The little guy has gotten to like his life jacket - thankfully)

Of course there were some presents like a great book from Aunt Jenn

and some cool trucks from Gram and Grandad

Overall I think he was pretty satisfied

Oh, and did I mention the cake?  He was a little daunted by the number of candles. 

(If they keep doubling like this we'll be in trouble...)

It took some help to get them all blown out

But after that, Carter knew just where to put things

Once he got his piece, it was gone.

Fork - Schmork!

Thanks to everyone for making this another great birthday!

Gone To The River

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