July Fun

The month of July was very busy for us. We first started out with a family trip to Yellowstone. We stopped the last day at a river "The Fire Hole" and did some impromptu swimming. It was fairly warm water and Carter loved it. Although he had a hard time keeping his shorts up!

Carter enjoyed the water more than I did....It took me awhile to fully get in.
Carter spent the majority of the trip in his backpack. Carrying 28 pounds of baby gets tiring after awhile and so everyone was happy to take a turn. Even though he's old, Grandpa took his turn!
Aunt Catherine was more than willing to pack him for awhile.
Although Neil did most of the packing. By the way, consider this your Christmas card for this year, just in case I don't get one out like most years.

When it was my turn to pack Carter I preferred to do it the old fashioned way. The backpack killed my back.....but hey, I carried him for 9 months, right on my sciatic nerve. I deserve a break.
After Yellowstone it was back to Grandma's for a week to hang out with Cousins. Here are Mitchell and Carter (8 months apart). My sister and I, without each others knowledge have a lot of the same clothes for our boys. So we decided to dress them a like a few days. Neil thought this was a little weird; I thought it was adorable!

There were lots of baths with 3 active kids. Mitchell loved pouring water on Carter and you can see how much Carter loved that......he kept trying to climb out of the tub!

We spent a lot of time at the kiddie pool in Burley. You've got to love FREE pools. Carter loved splashing and crawling around.

Carter's sign language has really taken off as of a few weeks ago. Here he is getting ready to sign "more" at breakfast. This is his favorite sign and he usually shoves one piece of food in his mouth and is already signing "more" before the bites been swallowed. He now can sign(without any prompting or help):
More, Please, Done, Thank You, drink, cracker and Shoes. He will occasionally combine two signs and ask for "more please!" I love watching him do this-all my hard work is finally paying off.
This last picture is one of my favorites. I was trying to blow dry my hair one day and Carter kept getting into things. So I plopped him in his rocking chair and turned on some random cartoon with hopes of it entertaining him. I love the zoned look on his face and the remote in his hand......Like Father Like Son! Sadly this only lasted about 2 minutes and then he wanted nothing to do with the TV. That is not taking after his parents there!