carter playing in the waves

Saturday, March 15, 2008 We went to the beach as a family. It was a nice day 74 degrees but windy. He went on the boogie board for the first time. He had a blast! The waves were intense so he almost got swept away...scary. When Graham went out on the board by himself, Carter would yell. "Dad, come back...come back Dad". Carter now calls Graham dad instead of daddy.





Carter has such a huge vocabulary now. You can have full conversations with him now. He says things like, "I don't like that", "don't do that", "wait for me".

A few weeks ago he was playing with sister and started to count 1-11 and didn't miss a number in between. Of course when we ask him to do it again he will skip a number or two.

He now tells me what color everything is. I think he truly knows yellow, orange, white, purple & black.

His favorite book at the time is Down By the Station. It actually is a great teaching tool for teaching different animals and what the name of the babies are. He now tells us that the baby kangaroo is joey. each page he tells us where the daddy, mommy & baby is in the picture. Of course he also loves it because the story is all about a train picking up animals. Two of his favorite things (animals & trains)! Sometimes he sings the song to himself when he is playing...

Down by the station
Early in the morning
See the engine driver
Pull his little lever
Puff puff
Toot toot
Off we go!

It is very common for him to break out into song at the store. He will just start singing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, Jesus Loves Me or Itsy, Bitsy Spider. Most of the time the other customers think it is great.