10 months old

Carter is getting to be more and more fun everyday!  He can climb stairs, he laughs the most when he is sleepy, he loves books and can turn the pages now, he crawls to his room several times a day to read his books, he likes trucks and stuffed animals and balls, he is crawling a lot more and loves to eat. His favorite foods are bread, cheerios, bananas, pancakes and peaches but he does pretty well eating his vegetables too.  He is lots of fun and makes us laugh everyday.

In his room reading his books

For awhile every time Carter heard music he would tilt his head like this and then start bouncing to dance. It was the cutest thing! He still loves music and loves to dance but he doesn't always tilt his head anymore

9 months old

Even though Carter is almost 11 months old I am playing catch up so here is a glimpse of him at 9 months...
He pulled himself up, he can crawl but still mostly army crawls everywhere, his favorite things to play with are shoes, Kevin's work bag, zippers, drawstrings, books and cords.  He also likes to find crumbs on the kitchen floor. He likes to eat just about anything and likes to feed himself. He likes to bounce and is very ticklish. We love our smiley kiddo!

Reading with daddy:) These two are my favorite

Fall

I was trying to get a cute fall picture of Carter but all he wanted to do was get all the leaves and eat them

Kevin had to go to Spokane for a week for work which was not very fun, but while he was gone I stayed with my parents which was fun. I'm sure glad they live close so I didn't have to be lonely all week and Carter sure has fun there.  We played, went on walks, canned applesauce, made mashed carrots for Carter and I sewed his dinosaur costume.

Carter crawling around

Playing with Grandma. Silly boy climbed over her shoulder then just flopped over and smiled and gave her a little head rub with his feet.

Snuggling with Grandpa

Unfortunately Carter didn't sleep too well when we were there. I think being in a different place is hard for him so he took quite a few naps in my arms which I really didn't mind until it came to night time and then he still didn't want to sleep in his bed.

A couple weeks ago Kevin got off early from work so we took Carter to the park and he sat in the swing by himself for the first time. Then we went to Olive Garden to celebrate Kevin officially being a CPA! Carter loved being at the restaurant, he wanted to watch everybody and look at all of the lights. 

Carter being cute after his bath

 Ready for some dinner.

peek-a-boo

Carter playing peek-a-boo

Halloween

This year for Halloween we decided to have a little party.  We invited a few friends from our ward and had some treats and played games. It was a lot of fun.  On Halloween we went to our ward trunk-or-treat. Here are some pictures

Carter's pumpkin. It is supposed to be a spider made from his handprints but someone was a little wiggly

spider web cupcakes

my little dino

we made vampire teeth and spiders for our party. I forgot to take a picture of the food before everyone came but luckily there was one of each left at the end

It was a little rainy at the trunk or treat but we had fun!

A few of Carter's favorite things

Now that Carter can get around pretty easily he has a few favorite places to explore.

He likes to go down the hall and try to see what's in the closets

He loves to climb in the bookshelf

He likes to get our shoes

And play under tables

He loves to try and get the camera or our phones

He likes to pull his diapers out and play with them

He loves to play under blankets

He likes to eat drawstrings

He loves to be outside and go for walks

He loves playing with measuring spoons, cups and tupperware

And he loves to look out the window

8 months old!

Carter is 8 months old! He has 2 teeth, he is getting really good at army crawling. This morning I was at one end of the hall and he was at the other and I started crawling toward him and he got his little arms going and was pulling himself as fast as he could. It was so sweet. He likes to get into everything and play with anything that isn't a toy like the t.v. remote, shoes and our phones. He has started feeding himself a little bit. He has had cheerios, toast and pees.  He loves to feed himself.  He also loves splashing during his bath, playing outside and listening to music. He is very ticklish and loves to laugh. He especially likes to play on our bed and loves when daddy gets home. We love our sweet, silly boy!