All things sweet...

Carter's favorite breakfast foods tend to be on the sweet-side (surprise, surprise: a child liking sugar!): apple cinnamon oatmeal, pancakes, waffles. Today we thought we'd add yet another one: French toast! Delicious!

Machines

The builder is our neighborhood has finally sold the lots across the street from our house and have begun the building process. It's a messy (and often noisy) process, but with the mess come the machines, which brings all sorts of excitement to Carter's life! What is it with little boys and machines?? Carter had enough of gazing out the window at the machines, so today we decided to take a little closer look...

Mesmerized by the machines...

Pool and Pizza

Carter loves playing pool! He could literally spend hours rolling the balls around, getting them in the pockets, then taking them all back out and doing it again. It has actually been a pretty good educational tool, too, since we incorporate the colors and numbers into our own little games.

And what goes better with pool than pizza? How about Mickey Mouse pizza? Carter can be a picky eater at times and has rejected pizza in the past, so I decided to shape our homemade pizza to look like Mickey Mouse -- lo and behold, Carter loved it!

Pool anyone?Future pool shark

Everything tastes better when shaped like Mickey Mouse! :)
Pizza and fruit - YUM!

Spring?

The sun has been shining and the snow is starting to melt -- is spring coming? We certainly hope so, but I have lived in this state long enough to know Mother Nature probably has a snow storm or two yet to come this winter!! Nonetheless, we were thrilled to get outside today for a walk around the neighborhood -- who says 34 degrees isn't heatwave? :)

Thrilled to see the sunshine!

"I love the outdoors!!"

My boys :)

Carter and I

Tired...

Carter is on strike from naps at home, but he seems to do fine in the car -- we'll take what we can get I guess! :)

*Not to worry, these pictures were taken while we were stopped at a stoplight! :)

Bizarre Sleep Habits...

We have had the hardest time getting Carter to sleep the past couple of weeks. We have a great bedtime routine that has worked wonderfully for him, but lately he just won't stay in his bed. After we brush teeth, read books, and "camp", he usually crawls right into bed and zonks out on his own. But lately, shortly after we put him into bed we will hear his little foots steps running around, and then we'll find him with the lights on laying in the middle of his floor, or sitting in the rocking chair. It finally got the point where we decided to remove the rocking chair out of fear that he'd fall asleep in it and roll off in the middle of the night (reference picture below).

This is how we found Carter during naptime one day -- not super safe if he falls out!

Carter tends to be a fairly "active sleeper", meaning he rolls around a lot in his sleep. It seems like he is more comfortable on the floor, so we thought maybe he was just feeling too cramped on his little mattress -- so we decided it was time to move the full size guest bedroom mattress into his room to give him a little more room to move around at night (without having to sleep on the floor)!

While Kyle was traveling for work last week, Carter and I went shopping so he could pick out his new bedding. I tried to make a very big deal out of how exciting getting a "brand new big boy bed" was and making Carter feel extra special, in hopes that we would look forward to going to bed at night (and nap time). So far, it seems to be working! He still wants to sleep with his light on, but at least he is staying in his bed! It just looks so strange to see our little boy sleeping in such a big bed!

Carter's new sports-themed bedding that he picked out

Cute Cole

Our good friends, Julie, Scott and their little boy, Cole, came over for dinner and drinks last night. Cole will be 1 in May, so he and Carter don't really play together yet -- but we are so excited for the coming years when they will! Cole is such a good baby and we always have so much fun hanging out with them! We can't wait for our trip to Florida with them at the end of March! Here are some cute pics of the boys that I just had to post:

Carter and Cole enjoyed some time rolling the basketball back and forth -- it won't be long before they'll be out on the court shooting hoops!

Cole was so funny with his sock in his mouth!