The Saturday before Carter's birthday we had a little party for him and invited the family. Both grandparents were able to come as well as Lance's younger sis with her family and they brought some more of the cousins with them. It was a fun day!
We had a little BBQ in the backyard and the older kids had fun playing with the dogs and with some bubbles. Carter really liked watching them blow the bubbles.
Here's Carter with his birthday cake. I made this cake and then cupcakes for everyone. Lance and I had to help blow his candle out.
Carter mostly just enjoyed pulling his cupcake apart. He did seem to like the peach ice cream though. He made a cold brain freeze face but kept opening his mouth for more. That's the only soft thing we've been able to get him to eat because he usually refuses to eat anything mashed up or liquidy like.
Here is Carter with his cousin that were able to come.
Here he is with the other two closest in age to him (7 1/2 weeks apart, with Carter the youngest and Dawson the oldest). Look back
here for the similar picture of the three of them about 11 months before this. They acted about the same. Dawson was pretty chill just sitting there. Carter was busy grabbing Bryn and encroaching on her space. Bryn after a short while was done with it and not to happy about these boys squeezing in on her. I love her face in this picture!
Carter loves seeing balloons in the store but this was the first time he's really been up close with them. He seemed to like them at first but then was terrified of them and cried when they came to close and watched them with great concern. However the next morning he was back to liking them and had fun pulling on the strings to make them move.
Carter got some fun presents. Once I started opening them he did pretty good helping pull off the wrapping paper. He had no problem with the gift sacks and knew just how to pull the paper out and was excited when there was something in the bottom of the sack for him to pull out (I think that was almost more fun then the present itself). Lance and I had decided to get him a riding/pushing toy because he's played with them at other houses and loves them. I was glad I had waited to open this one last because he was so excited when he saw it and wanted to start playing with it. You can kind of see in this picture, he started trying to climb on the seat while it was still in the box.
The other kids were excited about it to, especially Dawson who kept trying to play with it to. Carter wasn't to happy about it until we put Dawson on the seat so he could still push it but they both could play with it. He pushes the little boy at our friend's house who watches Carter for us, so he knew just what to do.
Here he is with all his fun loot. Lance and I also got him the puzzle, which he enjoys taking the pieces out of and the ball popper which he has fun with and has even figured out how to turn the on/off switch in back, although he hasn't quite figured out which way is which.
I wanted to get a closer up picture of the stuff on the chair. Lance's parents got him those fun cars he's playing with. He loves putting those in and out of things and rolling them on the floor. One of my SILs made those adorable onesies for him! And Lance's other sister made those cute ties. How cute are they, right?! My parents gave him the great clothes, some to grow into, and shoes.
We had such a fun day and were so glad that those who were able to make it came! It meant a lot to have family there to celebrate Carter's big day!
The Saturday before Carter's birthday we had a little party for him and invited the family. Both grandparents were able to come as well as Lance's younger sis with her family and they brought some more of the cousins with them. It was a fun day!
We had a little BBQ in the backyard and the older kids had fun playing with the dogs and with some bubbles. Carter really liked watching them blow the bubbles.
Here's Carter with his birthday cake. I made this cake and then cupcakes for everyone. Lance and I had to help blow his candle out.
Carter mostly just enjoyed pulling his cupcake apart. He did seem to like the peach ice cream though. He made a cold brain freeze face but kept opening his mouth for more. That's the only soft thing we've been able to get him to eat because he usually refuses to eat anything mashed up or liquidy like.
Here is Carter with his cousin that were able to come.
Here he is with the other two closest in age to him (7 1/2 weeks apart, with Carter the youngest and Dawson the oldest). Look back here for the similar picture of the three of them about 11 months before this. They acted about the same. Dawson was pretty chill just sitting there. Carter was busy grabbing Bryn and encroaching on her space. Bryn after a short while was done with it and not to happy about these boys squeezing in on her. I love her face in this picture!
Carter loves seeing balloons in the store but this was the first time he's really been up close with them. He seemed to like them at first but then was terrified of them and cried when they came to close and watched them with great concern. However the next morning he was back to liking them and had fun pulling on the strings to make them move.
Carter got some fun presents. Once I started opening them he did pretty good helping pull off the wrapping paper. He had no problem with the gift sacks and knew just how to pull the paper out and was excited when there was something in the bottom of the sack for him to pull out (I think that was almost more fun then the present itself). Lance and I had decided to get him a riding/pushing toy because he's played with them at other houses and loves them. I was glad I had waited to open this one last because he was so excited when he saw it and wanted to start playing with it. You can kind of see in this picture, he started trying to climb on the seat while it was still in the box.
The other kids were excited about it to, especially Dawson who kept trying to play with it to. Carter wasn't to happy about it until we put Dawson on the seat so he could still push it but they both could play with it. He pushes the little boy at our friend's house who watches Carter for us, so he knew just what to do.
Here he is with all his fun loot. Lance and I also got him the puzzle, which he enjoys taking the pieces out of and the ball popper which he has fun with and has even figured out how to turn the on/off switch in back, although he hasn't quite figured out which way is which.
I wanted to get a closer up picture of the stuff on the chair. Lance's parents got him those fun cars he's playing with. He loves putting those in and out of things and rolling them on the floor. One of my SILs made those adorable onesies for him! And Lance's other sister made those cute ties. How cute are they, right?! My parents gave him the great clothes, some to grow into, and shoes.
We had such a fun day and were so glad that those who were able to make it came! It meant a lot to have family there to celebrate Carter's big day!
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Looks like Carter had a great B-day!
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