Brock and Bonnie Riley: February

On February 5 our little Carter Bug turned 2! He is getting so big. He's talking a lot- mostly in his own language but new words and sentences are starting to pop up everyday. Some of his favorite things to say are:

Jew - Sounds just like "Jew" but means Juice which could mean apple juice, chocolate milk or water

Bock- Most of the time he calls Brock "Da Da" but every once in a while he is on a first name basis

Ah Ah A Car - This means "Can I watch Cars?"

Guck - This could mean Duck, Stuck or Truck. Based on the moment you can figure which it is pretty fast. Although he refers to our Ipad as Guck- we don't know which meaning it is.

A Ta Ta Tau- If you hear him say this to you, it means your in big trouble. We're pretty sure he is cursing when he says this.

Mow Mow - Lawn mower (refer to last post for pictures - he is still obsessed)

Hank You - Thank you (it's about the cutest thing in the world to hear)

Those are the favorites but he is also forming sentences like "Where go Da Da?" and "Here go Ma Ma". He loves animals and hearing him make animal noises is so cute in his little high pitched voice! Even though he is getting so big, he's still just our little baby that sleeps in really weird positions.

This picture was taken a couple days before Carter's birthday -on Grandma Melba's birthday. They had a surprise party for her at the nursing home that's named after her husband. It was fun to see her so surprised and the staff was so nice and gave Carter a huge bunch of balloons. I think this may have been the happiest moment of his life.

We had a birthday party with the Riley's the day before his birthday. We went to Chick-fil-a and then to Grandma Pam's house after. Grandma and Grandpa gave him cars from the movie Cars. He loves them!

We made Carter a birthday cake out of Oreos since he doesn't really like cake or ice cream

We went swimming at the aquatic center with my family. He had so much fun. I don't know how many times he went down the big slide. Each time he would come down he'd say "Gain" which means again so we all took turns taking him down.

Grandma and Grandpa Barlow gave him a Cars scooter. He hasn't figured out that he can move it on his own so we push him...... really he probably knows he can do it himself but is smarter than us and prefers us to do the work.

Jenn gave him Car's ping pong paddles, Car's stickers and a few of the cars from the movie. He was in heaven.

We gave him a train track and Liza's family gave him Thomas trains.

Another Oreo birthday cake

Carter's mustache and goatee after eating his "cake"

Disneyland

We had a couple flight vouchers that were going to expire so we planned a trip to California over President's Day weekend. The picture above was Carter hanging out while I was packing.

We went to Disneyland two days while we were there and Carter LOVED it. He really liked all the rides except Pirates of the Caribbean, at the start he sat on my lap and put his head in Brock's lap and didn't look up until it was over. The picture above is just after we went on the Jungle Cruise. He loved the elephants.

We ran him ragged so around lunch time we would go back to our hotel and sit by the pool while Carter napped on a beach chair.

Carter is a big fan of Mickey. He loves Mickey Mouse Clubhouse but we weren't sure how he'd do seeing a life size version. He was a little reluctant at first but he went as long as I was with him.

On the second day we saw Mickey again but there was a long line so we didn't stop. As we were walking by, Carter started pulling on my neck and when I put him down he grabbed my leg and was trying to move me towards him. So we stayed for a bit and waved at him and when he left he said over and over "hot dog hot dog hot dog" which means The hot dog dance from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. You had to be there but it was so cute.