My little guy at one....crazy quirks and all.

I wanted to do a list of things Carter does, and personality traits now that he is one. I have done the same thing a few other times since he was born for my scrapbook. This time I thought I would blog it on here before I scrap it. :)

He loves to point to noses...doesn't matter if it's his, mine, or somebody else....ask him where your nose is, and he'll show you. He will also point to eyes, belly button, mouth, and feet. He especially likes to point to eyes and noses on other babies (yikes!)

For some reason, he loves when I put his binky in my mouth (the opposite side, not the side he sucks on) and then poke his nose with it, or tickle his collar bone. He will giggle uncontrollably. Weird, I know...but funny. :) He will grab my face with both hands and try to pull me closer to him so he can grab the binky with his mouth. Usually when he is cranky and doesn't want to go to sleep, a couple minutes of this game, and he snuggles right down and goes to bed. He always gets the stinkiest little feet, probably from his footed pjs. Anyways though, he still thinks its the funnies thing when I sniff by his feet and tell him he has "stinky piggies." He will laugh, laugh, laugh!!!! You all probably think i'm a weirdo, but I keep doing it because its just so funny to me. I get the best reaction out of him every time, and he's been doing it for a few months now. I did these scrapbook pages a while back....but this gives you the idea. :)




His favorite bath toy is a red disposable plastic cup. He will sit there and fill it up with bath water and drink from it the entire time he is in the bath. Sometimes we try to leave the water on a trickle so he will fill it up from there and not the dirty bath water, but most of the time he is not interested in doing that. Then he gets out of the bath and lets out HUGE burps. When you drain the bath water, he will flip flow from sitting on his butt, turn around in a circle, and sit back down on his butt. It's almost like he is trying to keep you from getting him out, he thinks if he does that, the water will stay in or something. He is weird, but its funny to watch.

He absolutely loves all fruits and veggies. Lately, broccoli is his favorite, however he also enjoys carrots, peas, and green beans. He loves black beans! We started giving him oranges last week, and he will eat them up so fast. He also loves steamed apples, pears, peaches, watermelon, bananas, pretty much any fruit. We gave him a grilled cheese for the first time a couple weeks ago, and he LOVES them. He gets all excited when he sees you making it. :)

He loves to take every stuffed animal, blanket, binky, anything that is in his crib, and throw it out when he wakes up. He thinks its the most fun game ever, and I can usually hear him screaching with excitement on the monitor. If he hasn't already thrown everything out by the time I go in to get him, he loves to pick everything up and hand it to me. He also enjoys sitting in his toy basket, taking them ALL out, and then when I ask, he will SOMETIMES put them back it. He is slowly getting the hang of that one. :)

When i'm trying to sneak in a few minutes on the computer, he usually will occupy himself crawling in and out of the dog beds, and trying to play peek-a-boo with me. He will play in there by himself for a while, but if I play "peek" with him every few minutes, I get a little bit longer to play on the computer and he stays entertained, lol. He leaves random toys in their beds, thank God I found the sharpee he put in there the other day before they went to bed. Although Roxy did sleep with a few toys in there the other night, no harm done.

I can't keep him away from the kitchen trash, looking out the kitchen windows, crawling out the doggie door (thank goodness it locks) opening my closet doors, and opening his dresser drawers and pulling everything out. He is always trying to climb on the furniture, doesn't matter what. He will push his toys over to the couch and use them as a boost. The other day, he was standing on his push train, holding onto the back of the couch, and he looked like he was surfing down the couch...disaster waiting to happen!!! He also learned how to turn my computer off this week, apparently its a fun button to push....which is annoying because my computer is slow as heck to reboot. lol

He loves learning new baby signs, his favorites are...
- Dog
- Lights
- Fan
- More
- Tree
- All done
- Hi/Bye
- Claps
- Milk
I'm sure there are more, but I can't think of any more. :)

I love to hear his talking voice. Alot of times he just sits there are makes cute little sounds over and over again, its fun to mimic him because he will do it more, and gets this huge cheesy grin on his face. The best sound of all is "mama" of course. He says "dada" alot more but I still get my "mama" a few times a day.

When we sit down to eat, he will immediately put his hands together, and begin moving them back and forth. That is how we say our "tick tock" prayer. Sometimes I forget at breakfast, and as soon as I sit at the table, he reminds me. How awesome is that?



I think I could sit here and go on forever, but i'll stop for now. I love him more than I ever imagined I could. He brings me so much joy, and never fails to make me smile or laugh. Although i'm sad he's not my little baby anymore, I am so excited to watch him continue to grow. I know God has great things planned for him!