March/April

Here are some pictures of what we've been up to lately.

Carter loves to swing. And I love the increase of park days we can have because of the nice weather:)

Carter LOVES books...like a lot. He also loves to sit in the rocking chair, although he mostly likes to stand in it and rock back and forth.

He had to have all his books in his crib with him.

Carter's favorite reading spot is behind the rocking chair:) He gets his blanket and drags some books back and just flips through the pages. He is so cute.

I find Carter in his room like this several times a day. He sure loves his books. I hope he always loves to read.

Yay for temple date with my man! I loved nursing Carter, but I have to say it was so nice to have my mom babysit and I could leave whenever I wanted and come back whenever I wanted. We even got to go to lunch too because there was no rush to get home:)

I love this family of mine

This is how Carter sleeps. He is the cutest and he loves to snuggle his giraffe blanket from Aunt Caren.

Yay for free cone day at dairy queen! Carter enjoyed it very much!

Carter is a very good grocery shopping companion...most of the time. Sometimes there are days like this where he refuses to sit in his seat so I have to put him in the cart.

And then we come home and he likes to help unload the groceries (but mostly look in mom's purse for her wallet and pull out all her cards)

And sometimes he finds the bananas and decides to have a taste.

And sometimes he is so starving and gets so frustrated that he can't open the loaf of bread that he crawls down the hall dragging it behind him crying like the world is ending, all while mommy is just trying to go potty.(fyi-I don't starve my child, he ate lunch literally an hour before this...he is an animal)

Sometimes me and Carter like to take selfies and he is really cute

Sleepover at Grandma's! Kevin was out of town so we had a sleepover. Carter seriously HATES sleeping in the pack and play so we pushed the bed up against the wall and he slept all night! He likes to sleep sideways though...it's amazing how much room this little guy can take up in a bed so I didn't sleep all night but at least I wasn't up with a crying baby.

Carter's favorite toy at grandma's-a remote control car

A close second is this box of hotwheels and little garage. He will sit and play with this for 20 minutes. It is amazing, he never sits that still and focused on one thing for so long.

Grandma let Carter pull out all her tupperware:)

Playing piano with dad

We love to go to the beach! We had a blast. He loved digging in the sand and watching the waves. I think we will be doing this a lot this summer.

Reading with daddy after church.

This is how I found Carter after his nap one day...he is a monster. I have no idea how he got his arm out of the sleeve.

Helping mom make breadsticks.

That face...

Playing peek-a-boo. It's the cutest thing I have ever seen.

Easter

For Easter this year we decided to go stay at my parent's house starting on Saturday so that we could watch conference over there and then spend Easter. Conference is always enjoyable and something I look forward to. Although, I might not have gotten as much out of it as I used to. Sitting and listening to a tv for a 2 hour period is hard with a one year old. It was nice to be with my family though so we could take turns listening and chasing Carter up the stairs. But I am looking forward to going back and reading the talks.  Saturday night me and my mom got to have a girls night while all the boys watched priesthood session. We had pizza and ice cream and made cinnamon rolls to have for breakfast the next day and watched a movie:) It was a lot of fun. On Easter I was really excited to see what Carter would think. Last year he was really little so we didn't really do anything for him. This year he got an Easter basket with a stuffed dog and some cars which he loves. He also went around and gathered Easter eggs into a basket which was so, so cute to watch. We had a great day and a really yummy dinner. I'm so glad we live close to family so that we can spend lots of time together.

We also went on a few walks while we were there in attempt to get Carter to nap (which didn't work). I love walking down the trail especially on a nice sunny day.

Carter liked looking at the horses too.

Easter morning. Carter got some hotwheels and he is obsessed with them! He crawled around with at least one in his hand the entire day. He loves that dog too! I say "where's your dog" and he will go and snuggle with it. It is so cute. He can also point to its nose when I ask him where it is. He still doesn't know where his nose is though...

Finding the eggs

Putting them in the basket. He loves to gather things:)

Loving his dog