Handcart Days

We had a lot of fun during Handcart Days here in bountiful. 

 We met a real life Indian! and although it was pretty hot in there it was really amazing how big the tent is. Toshi's popsicle is melting as we took the picture.

Toshi Carter and I made it through the obstacle course.... barely. There was an obstacle that you had to get over and when you climb up on it it collapsed. Carter landed on me so he was fine. Hardest part was the wall you had to climb to get to the top of the slide. Toshi even had to help a few kids who were stuck halfway up the wall. Carter as usual has something better to look at than the camera. 

3 Teeth

You can't see the teeth, but the bottom two and top one are making their grand entry into Carter's smile. We've had a few early wake-up calls, but other than that, he's teething pretty well. I think it's because he chews on things so much. As you can see below. 

He's rolling around a lot and I'm pretty sure will be crawling soon!

Technology vs Nature

My apologies to the very few loyal Mau 2.0 readers, but I had carpal tunnel surgery about 2 weeks ago and it's been tough to get things done. But we did have an active 4th of July. I decided that we should go on a hike near our house to Elephant Rock. As you can see, Carter looks less than excited, despite being in a pretty sweet carrier that we got for $5 at a yard sale.

The 2.5 miles (1.5 hours) to Elephant Rock went well and Carter took a little nap. Unfortunately, just as we got to the top and were basking in the beautiful view, he lost it. Started really crying hard. We thought he had been bitten by a horse fly, there were about 2.4 million along the trail, but he was just tired of hiking. So we pretty much ran all the way back down the mountain and got down in about 40 minutes.

Casey kept taking pictures of the back of me while hiking (see one of the many below) not sure what that was about. But by the time we got home, we were pretty much done for the day. Carter went to sleep at 8 pm, so no fireworks for us. 

 Is Carter the next Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg? We shall see, but he truly is just like daddy-loves the computer. He even has the face down. One thing that Casey would really like him to do is crawl. I'm still not on board because once he is mobile; it's over. Despite using the computer and Haagendazs Mango sorbet, to lure him into crawling, he is still not moving.

 This picture shows that he finally found a use for the pacifier. He would never take it as a baby and has finally found joy in using it as a chew toy. Sometimes he tries to put the entire thing in his mouth, which is hilarious and he usually chokes himself.

But he's a fun little noise machine. He's getting big, about 27.5 in long and 18 pounds. I'm hoping for a future tight end.

Carter is learning so quickly. We are starting to see a trend of him sleeping more, which means everyone gets to sleep more (especially Lori).

 He is jumping now in the jumper, it is actually quite entertaining. A black kid from Detroit was selling cleaner door to door and Lori gave in to his good sales skills and charm (it might have to do with the fact that after finding out she was from Michigan he yelled, "Go Big Blue!") So now we have this "amazing" cleaner.

I also thought we should add another of carter. This one was while eating peas, not his messiest encounter with solids.

My Everyday Routines

This isn't a very exciting post, but it's been a while. We have been busy having family visit. At the end of May, Grandma Rettew visited and now Grandma Sugiyama is here. Carter is being very spoiled.

 This is one of his newest, used toy that makes tons of fun sounds and lights up. He hasn't learned to jump yet, but we hope he will figure it out soon.

 We often go outside now that it's nice. Carter loves the grass and picks up anything he can find and sticks it straight in his mouth. You can't tell by this picture, but he is finally growing more hair.

The last thing we love to do is read books. Thanks to his Grandmas we have plenty of books to read!!

Did somebody say food?

As you can see, Carter is still a baldy, but this kid loves to eat. Sometimes it's a chore to get him to drink his bottle but could eat 5 lbs of rice cereal if we would let him. He's starting to realize what happens when he sits in this chair and so he's always happy.

Hey guys, do you think that my mouth is big enough? Casey is always tempted to give him random food that we are eating but stops because he doesn't want to be up all night with Carter if he has a tummy ache.

We haven't found a food that he won't eat, but we haven't tried peas yet. He usually just has a funny face on the first bite or two. This is the funniest video of him eating that we have so far.

My body is so fun!!!

 About 3 weeks ago, Carter really started to realize that his tongue is a fun toy. He loves to stick it out in all shapes and sizes. He also loves when you stick your tongue out and make noises with it. He's a pretty silly monkey.

His new favorite toy is his feet. He tries to pull his socks off and also eat his sock. I'm happy with this new, inexpensive entertainment!