Carter

Poor second child--I was so good about updating with Davis and I seem to loose track of time with Carter. I love being able to look back on Davis' posts so I need to get better about these updates. So what's up with Carter:

Carter wants to be in on whatever we are doing. My very favorite thing she does is pipe in "I go, I want to go!" whenever we are talking about doing something. Every.Single.Time. You can count on her saying that and it makes Jason and I laugh every time. It usually happens when we are all driving in the car together, Jason and I will be talking about some upcoming event or activity and we won't even realize she is listening until we hear from the backseat "I go!" 

Every time I drive her to school she points to Davis' school and says "there's Bubba's school" then she waits until we see her school to say "And there is Cater's school!" 

While she wants to be in the middle of whatever we are doing, if she feels like someone is hurting her brother she HATES IT. So, naturally, she hated the game Pie in the Face. She screamed the whole time and we had to quit the game. 

She is not a good napper. She can now push through a nap if we want her to-although, she is still known to fall asleep in the car when we are running around.

 She is still my shadow. Where I go she goes. But she will also follow Davis. She copies whatever he does and says and thinks she is hilarious.

 She loves bounce houses. If she could spend her day going in between the pool and the bounce house it would be a perfect day (which is why she had a blast at July 4th, pool, bounce house and her BFF Ryan).

 She doesn't cry as often when I drop her off for school. I can usually distract her by getting her to take her waffles to be microwaved.  She loved splash days at school and loved to tell Bubba that she had splash day. The first day it was scheduled when we walked up she immediately asked "where is splash day?" she did not like that it wasn't already set up for her.

 dressed to golf:

 This girl loves her food and loves her sweets. She will eat anything and everything. I've caught her with chocolate up in her room multiple times. She is much more independent than Davis. She will go to her room and play by herself for long periods of time. She is also a human tornado--where Davis plays and keeps things fairly neat, she destroys everything. It is actually comical to watch, everything in her path is subject to her touching, moving or destroying. When I go to her room to check on her, she has often pulled the sheets out of her drawers to use as blankets for her babies. There will be clothes off the hangers and her pink chair will be pulled up to her closet shelves so she can reach her shoes.  She is also my fearless one--Davis will often enlist her to go with him to his room because he is the one who is scared to go by himself. I heard her yell back to him one day last week "what do you want Bubba?"

She also is VERY independent. I hear "I do it" about a million times

 She will not sit still for her hair to be brushed but she will to have her nails painted

 And she still LOVES babies. All of her babies are named Jack or Mallory.

 She is pretty patient on the golf course. She loves to ride in the basket while we play. She doesn't show much interest in playing but she just doesn't want to be left behind.

As of this week she is now paci free! She has done pretty well--although she sobbed when we walked away from the store without her packs. She has only asked for them a couple of times and we have just reminded her that we left them at the store.