Stats

I have been so excited to post stats on little small baby Beckett.

He was born at 9 lbs 1 oz - putting him in the 78% 

He was 83% for height and 78% for his head size.

At his 2 month check, he weighted in at 14 lbs 8 oz - putting him in the 86%.

He was 90% for length and 100% for head size.

I am AMAZED at how much this boy has grown! I looked back to see that Carter was only 9 lbs 10 oz at 2 months. 

As expected, because of the difference in birthdays, and in weight, Beckett will wear Carter's clothes at the appropriate times. 

(Carter at week 23, the above picture was Beckett at week 10)

Carter does not care to have his picture taken any more, so this is what I get. 

I had to get a picture for Valentine's Day. He chose to wear this picture for his Valentine's Day party at school. They were learning about S, and he pointed out that this shirt has 2 S on it, and it is red - good enough for him. Good enough for me too.

Comparisons

 I have put together some pictures of the boys. I wanted to put them together in age order, however Carter was so much older and wore the clothes at different ages. Here are a few that I was able to gather. Beckett is on the top, Carter on the bottom.

Daddy's Little Speedster:

Black and White funny pose:

Number 12 stripes:

Newborn in the Bumbo:

Happy Baby on the mat:

Newborn Striped Outfit: 

Church Outfit:

Visiting with Vortex:

Brown Stripes in the Bumbo:

More Matching Clothes

I bought these outfits for Carter, not expecting that I would have two that fit them both at the same time.

Feeding

Carter really wants to "Feed Baby", which really means he wants to use my pump - or my "Air Compressor" as he terms it. It always starts out with him lifting his shirt and trying to feed baby before he tells me baby is finished and he grabs my pump and turns it on. We have started to really try to involve Carter in feeding Beckett. Beckett does not take a bottle well, but we're working on it.

Carter was telling someone about his new baby brother. He randomly said "He squeaks, and then he spits." For a long time Carter wouldn't go near baby, and he would warn people because of his spitting.

Matching Vests

I found these vests at separate times (4 years apart). I thought it would be cute to get pictures.

EWWWWEEE. Kisses!!

Hey Baby! 

I could not do pictures like this without David. It is really difficult getting pictures of one 3 year old boy, let alone a newborn. They are on different schedules with their attitude.

This was my attempt: 

Looks like fun huh?

I'm Lovin It

Today, Carter and I had this conversation: 

 Me: Carter, we're going to play at a new place today with fun things to climb on. 

 Carter: What's it called? Me: It is called McDonalds. 

 Carter: McDonalds? 

Me: Yes, it is a fun new playground inside. 

 Carter: Okay. 

 Me: They also sell food, but we are not going to eat any food, we just go there to play. 

 Carter: Okay. 

 It occurred to me that Carter is almost 3 1/2 and the only restaurant he knows is Applebees (Because it has an apple on the front). He considers restaurants a place to go to watch football on a big screen!!

Spelling

Carter has been very interested in letters recently (probably has something to do with preschool). He has been asking what letter various words begin with. He has been doing it for a couple weeks now. He asks the same words over and over again, and every once it a while he will ask a new word. We are so excited that he has this love for learning. Part of me wants to say "Don't you know that one by now?" or "You just asked me that." But, I don't. We really want him to love learning and do not want to discourage him in any way. 

I won't actually tell him the letter either (Unless it is a difficult one, like K/C/S, PH/F, SH, or anything that doesn't sound like it should start - you know, all the English quirks.), I just sound it out and let him answer his own question.

He is having a tough time with W and Y right now. He asks what a W word starts with, and it sounds like you would say the letter Y. Yesterday, we were going over words that start with Y so he could hear the difference. He said "Like Yup!" I said "Yes, just like Yep." I asked if he knew what that meant. He said "When your Mommy or Daddy says you can do something." Well, yeah. I guess that is when I give him an affirmative "Yep". When David got home I asked Carter to tell him about "yep" - thinking he would give the same response he gave me. NOPE. 

"Y-U-P, Yup"

Both David and I just started at him. He spelled a word! Not the way I would have spelled it, but it is a Webster's recognized variant.

He has been spelling his name for a few days, but I have been working with him on that. I have been having him spell it out for me, as I wright it. I have never spelled any other words for him.

This morning he started spelling Car and Cat in addition to his own name.

Also, for about 2 weeks now he can tell you my phone number. I am not sure where he got it. Maybe he has really been paying attention when I leave it on other people's voicemail. I am happy about that because it is something he should know, I just didn't think he was ready to learn it.

This is his monkey family. He took this picture with David's camera. he wanted to get a family portrait. I am the pink one, Daddy is the one in back with the red beard, Beckett is the naked one in front, and the Carter monkey is the one with the blue stripes. 

Pictures

I have a TON of clothes from Carter when he was small. We are rapidly passing the time that they will be useful. I am lacking in time to take pictures of all of them on Beckett before he grows out of them.

I wanted to take pictures of these cute little vest outfits, as he will never wear them to church. It will be another month before we will take him to church, and even then I don't think too many people will see him until flu season is OVER. It is really scary out there for a newborn right now.

(This outfit cost me $0.81 after tax.)

(A second vest that I could switch out for the fist - an additional $0.27.)

Just hanging out with dad - looks so grown up with his arm resting on David's arm. 

Thinking about what, I'm not sure.

Probably thinking about food. 

At a play date on Monday, Carter - OUT OF NOWHERE - turns to his friend's mom and says "Beckett is a boob man." I don't know where he got that, we certainly don't talk like that at home. It was so hard not to laugh. You should have seen my friend's face as she was trying not to laugh!!

Improper Dress

Carter has always been sensitive to immodesty. Last summer we were driving with the windows down and he saw a lady wearing a tube-top walking down the sidewalk. At the time, I thought the window was just blocking his view of the rest of her shirt. He yelled out that the lady didn't have any clothes on, and she needed to get dressed. He was quite upset that she would be walking out in public naked.

He doesn't like it if I come into his room in my bathrobe. He knows that I am not dressed yet, and it bothers him.

I was flipping through the coupons that came in the mail when Carter started yelling at me. "Don't look at that!" I wasn't sure what he was talking about. He saw this picture:

I asked him what and why: "That man isn't wearing any shirt or underwear!" He meant undershirt. "I don't want you to see that." 

He grabbed it and turned it upside down so I couldn't see it.

I have NO CLUE where this comes from. We haven't even had the modesty discussion in our house.  

Christmas...Continued

I forgot to post about the food. I love the food around Christmas time. It is all so yummy. I feel bad that Carter cannot partake in a lot of the yumminess. He doesn't seem to mind - maybe it is the picky toddler/preschooler stage that all kids go through.

For example, just yesterday he was saying how much he liked avocado and how he wanted some on his lunch. So, we got some avocado out and went to put it on his lunch and he FREAKED OUT. He didn't want it anywhere near him because Avocados are yucky!! It is the age he's at.

Anyways, the food. 

My mother sent some super yummy peanut butter cookies that were gluten-free for Carter (I probably ate more than he did while he wasn't looking). It was his favorite cookie she has made so far. However, he was asking for some with candy corn on them after he ate them all.

For Christmas lunch, David's mother made Carter his very own gluten-free dairy-free version of the quiche that she made for all of us. I think he ate more olives than any other part, even though he could not put them on his fingers. She also put some Gluten-free cookies in his stocking that he is just now remembering he has. Yum Yum.