Treasures

I love this time with Carter. He is at such a fun age (pretty sure I've said that about every age). I love watching how he considers things and contemplates the world, how he conjugates verbs in the most logical but not always correct way ("who buyed this dinner?"), how he reacts to unexpected events. I am constantly amazed and amused by what comes out of that kid's mouth. Here are a few treasures recently:

• His favorite color is orange. We thought this was a fluke, since orange seemed like such a random color, but he's told us that repeatedly. 

• Nothing gets past those little ears. Grandma accidentally slipped a certain word into conversation and we've been hearing all about how Gramma said stupid and that it's a mean word for the last two days.

• After Seth changed a stinky diaper last weekend, Carter commented, "the trash man needs to come pick up my poop." He's very matter of fact.

• When he was boycotting his nap and running around his room, Seth went in to settle him down and get him to sleep. When Seth asked what he was doing, Carter's response was "I'm just picking out clothes for God."

• He never names anything. His most creative moment was mixing it up and naming his smaller monkey "little monkey" and the larger one "big monkey." However, he recently named his two rubber ducks Joseph and Hallelujah. Apparently he was getting into the Christmas story early.