Happy Birthday party for Carson!

We had a little birthday party for Carson in July (much closer to her actual birthday than this blog post is being written, ha!)! It was fun to have family and friends at our house to celebrate our sweet girl. She had a great time at her birthday party!

 

 

 

Her and Reed were both so excited that she blew out her own candles.

Carson's 1st Day of Preschool

Carson started preschool last week at the same preschool Reed attended. She is in the 2's class with Miss Doolin and Miss Heather as her teachers. Miss Heather happens to be the mom of one of Reed's preschool classmates. She seems to really enjoy school, although she is super excited to see me when I pick her up. She has had no tears thus far at dropoff after 3 days, although she did tell me this morning "I not got to my class today". Haha! This is a far cry from Reed, who I think cried everyday for weeks and weeks. I think dropping her brother off at preschool the last two years has certainly helped this process.

 

She was a little apprehensive to go in, but she was curious enough about the puzzles to walk in with too much encouragement. Way to go, Carson!

The below pictures are from the meet and greet with her teachers the Friday before school started. 

 

Just reading to the class.

 

And running through the halls like a big girl, carrying her school bag.

 

We had to make a stop in the restroom to wash her hands, ha!

Carson - 2 Years Old

Height: 35 3/4 inches (75th percentile)
Weight: 25 lbs. 6 oz (25th percentile)

At 2 Years:

• She has started declaring "I not know" when in fact she does know. Where are you? I not know. What color is this? I not know.

• I often hear her yelling from her crib when she wakes up in the morning and from her nap. It usually starts with "Mommy, Mommy, Mommy" and then changes over to "Momma, Momma, Momma" and then to "You hear me Mommy?" Almost every time I get to her room to get her out of her bed she says "you scare me, Mommy". Silly girl.

• She can spit with the best ones. Not a good trait. She learned it from her brother.

• She climbed out of her crib for the first time on 6/22. Thankfully, she hasn't continued to do it often. While we were outside chatting with family one night, I did hear her monitor going off and her walking around downstairs saying "where are you, Mommy, where are you?"

• She absolutely loves bandaids or should we call them stickers.

• She bites her nails. Dear.

• She has started calling Chris "Mr. Daddy". Haha!

• "Plean up, plean up, everybody, everywhere!"

• I am still having to rock her to sleep. Goodness. If she would just go to sleep, it really wouldn't be that big of a deal, but lately she wakes up the moment I lay her down crying and screaming "Mommy!!!!!" What to do? What to do?

• She absolutely loves swimming. It took her a bit to warm up to it at the beginning of summer. She couldn't really figure out her puddle jumper, so she was a little uncomfortable. Now, she is running to the side of the pool and jumping in and going under. She absolutely loves it! She has even ridden on the tube behind the boat and wasn't scared at all.

• Speaking of not being scared, she will literally do anything that Reed does. She has no fear. No bueno! She makes me nervous. She'll jump off the couch, climb really tall rock walls, go down huge slides at Catch Air, etc...

• Pretty much every meal we eat together, which is pretty much every meal, she wants to sit with me. "Sit in you lap, Mommy."

• The other day Reed hit her in the face with a pool noodle. She said "listen, listen, never, ever hit me in the face again". Imagine her pointing her finger while saying this.

• "Yet me read it." Said after every book we read before bed.

• I just started telling her who wrote the books we read. The first one was If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff. If we say the name of the book, she says "by Yara Muneroff". She also writes every other book we read, per Carson.

• She has three 2 year molars.

• She loves to "read". I usually get a page into a book before she says "I read it".

• She is super polite, always saying thank you after one of her many requests are fulfilled. ; )

Showing us her sad face. Ha!

"You want me to sit like this? Make myself look as uncomfortable with this photo shoot as possible? Okay, I got it."

Practicing her royal wave. ; )

I put Simba on my head to try to get her to look at me. She just wanted something on her head too, lol!

Reed's 1st Day of Kindergarten!

 

The after-school picture. It doesn't quite do his excitement about his day justice. He loved it!