Carter:
Carter continues his transformation from my baby to my little man. He constantly amazes me. Potty training is going great, he has graduated to wearing his big boy undies in public and only uses diapers when sleeping. We do “learning time” everyday, mainly to teach him how to focus his energy and attention (harder some days than others). He now can identify all uppercase letters (and all lowercase on good days), their sounds, and can put the alphabet in order. He can count to 39 without help (higher if you tell him the 10s place), and we are now working on sounding out 3 letter words and learning new sounds like “sh”, “ch”, “th”. It’s a very slow process though. He is the best big brother and likes to help take care of Hailey. When she cries he goes running to her room yelling, “I’m coming Hailey”. He loves to hold her hands and touch her feet, it’s very cute.

Hailey:
Hailey has proven to be a more difficult baby than Carter ever was, but she gets better every day, and I couldn’t love her more. On the up side, she’s a better sleeper than Carter was at her age. She now smiles at people and I can get her to laugh (sounds more like grunting), when I tickle her neck in just the right place at just the right moment (meaning when she’s in her best of moods). Tummy time is getting better, instead of crying after 1 minute on her stomach she waits 3-5 minutes, Carter helps keep her distracted. You can tell she is going to adore her big brother. She stares at him and smiles all the time. Now that we’re done having babies, I wouldn’t mind if she took her time growing up, so I can savor it as long as possible : )

Oh, and we missed you Jered & Bev. Can’t wait for baby Cartmill to arrive!