Some Random Happenings...

Have I mentioned how humorous three-year-olds can be? Carter has been doing some amusing things lately and I wanted to share a couple of them.

Lately, he is learning which foods are "healthy", mostly because he has to have something healthy before he can have treats like fruit snacks or granola bars. We were at a restaurant last week, and Carter asked Jared, who was drinking pop, "Hey Leo (yeah, he's still on the Ninja Turtles kick...), is pop healthy?". Jared told him, "no, pop is just a special treat sometimes". Carter then proceeded to lecture Jared on his unhealthy choices - "You need to have healthy drinks, like Raph's (that's me...Raphael...) water, or Mikey's (Hayley=Michaelangelo) milk! We shouldn't drink pop! It's not healthy!". And then he gave a HUGE sigh, as if he's some exhausted parent, lecturing their kid. We had a good laugh.

Also last week, I came down the stairs and Carter is sitting on the couch, bobbing up and down singing, "hey, you, I could be your girlfriend..." and I figure out he's singing "Girlfriend" by Avril Lavigne. If any of you know that song, you'll know how hard I was laughing when I figured it out. It's now his new favorite song and he requests it all the time. His last favorite song was "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day. So, as you can see, he is clearly a product of his environment. I need to tell Jared to stop listening to Avril so much....

In Hayley news, she is learning how to wave. She first did it to some random people on Whyte Ave while we were shopping one day with Grandma. Now, she also tries to mimic the word "hi" when she tries to wave, which sounds alot like, "haaaaaa". It's so fun watching her learn new things. She turned 8 months old on Friday and I can't believe it went by so fast. We started working on the crawling thing. She has always been such a sedentary baby that I wouldn't be surprised if she never learns. She is very content to just sit and watch Carter do his thing during the days. Carter's little friend Ethan came over to play last week, and his mom, my friend Megan was shocked when I sat Hayley down on the couch and then just left her there! "Aren't you afraid she'll fall?", Megan asked. Hmmm...maybe I should be, but she hasn't even tried so far. Megan has a little girl Hayley's age and Ethan is Carter's age, so it makes for fun play dates.

I went to a bridal shower on Saturday for a girl who I went to school with. We had lost contact after high school, but when we moved here last year, I went in to Jared's new work and was so surprised to see her working there as well! So fun to reconnect! Anyways, at the shower was a few other girls from my school days and it was so fun to see all of them , as well as their mothers, too. Brought back some old memories....

We have been enjoying the long weekend, but we were hoping it would be nicer outside so we could get out and get some much needed sun rays, but, oh well. That's all folks...