The only way to eat Oreos

Apparently Carter was born with the knowledge of how to eat Oreos. He pulls apart the cookie and scrapes out the white stuff and then gives the cookie part to me. What a sweetheart, right?

Handsome boys

My mom bought this adorable suit for Carter's first birthday and it finally fits him (well it's a little big but it still works). It was perfect for Easter and a wedding we went to. Of course I figured a photo shoot was in order.

We couldn't get him to put down his old school puzzle

By the end he was really tired of my photo shoot

Dodgers Win!

For my birthday, my parents took us to a Dodgers game against the Giants. It was good fun and the Dodgers actually won, which is saying something this year. Carter loved it. The best part of the whole night, though, was when this couple sat next to us and the woman was wearing a Giants jersey. She tried to talk to Carter, tell him he was so cute, etc., but he just shied away. I straight up told her we've taught him not to talk to Giants fans. I was so proud of him for not betraying Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, and Tommy Lasorda that I gave him the prize from my Cracker Jack's.

His first Dodger Dog -- he didn't finish it all

Three generations of fans

Good times were had by all!!!

San Diego Zoo

My mother-in-law Shari recently went back to school to get her masters in social work at San Diego State. So during her spring break Carter and I met her down there to go to the zoo. As you can hopefully tell from Carter's expression he absolutely loved it. His favorite animals right now seem to be elephants and giraffes (at least those are the animals he gets excited about when we read Goodnight Gorilla, oh and the armadillos) we saw all those animals but for some reason I don't have any pictures.

Checking out the flamingos

The monkeys were jumping all over the place and banging on the glass. I thought Carter would get scared but he was just fascinated.

More flamingos

Petting the goats

After a long day of fun he was ready to curl up with his stuffed monkey and blanket.

Gymnastics

I signed Carter up for a gymnastics class at the reccomendation of my good friend Lindsey. He loved the class. At first he just wanted to run around and do whatever he wanted, but he got better and better at listening to his coach and doing the designated activities. He had tons of fun and I'm glad we did it. The only problem is that now I have to avoid driving by the gymnastics place or he gets really excited and then sad when we don't end up going there.

Despite him being rather calm in this video, the foam pit was his absolute favorite part. He would usually go nuts jumping all over the place and would always cry when I had to take him out.

Grandma and Grandpa Diether come for a visit

Back in February (once again) Grandma and Grandpa Diether came for a weekend visit. It rained all day Saturday but we still managed to have fun -- minus Mom and Dad's car getting towed from our complex. Yep, it was horrible and horrifically expensive to get it back.

But luckily Carter was around to cheer us all up

And at the end of a rainy day what better treat than Grandma's scones?

Aquarium trip

Back in February we went with some friends to the aquarium in Long Beach. Carter absolutely loved it.

Checking out the sea lions with his friends

Trying to get the lorikeets to come closer.

Lounging with some sharks

Just cooling off

In his red high heels

Carter loves my shoes. For a while there, that was his favorite activity. He would run to my closet and find a pair of shoes to try on and then come out and show me. He tried a lot of different types but he seemed to always come back to the red high heels. We know he has one thing in common with his cousin Sterling -- his love of shoes!

Mr. Clean Carter

As of right now Carter really likes to "help" me clean. I know it won't last forever, and sometimes when I'm short on patience and time I have to remind myself that it's a good thing that he wants to help me.

For Christmas his Grandma and Grandpa Crall bought him a play Dyson vacuum cleaner. He loves it:

Fell off the wagon

I know. I completely fell of the blogging wagon. But with the encouragement of Chris and other family I'm working on getting back on.