Our Big Three Year Old

Again, another year has rolled away.   God is growing Carter into a young man full of life!  This week I spent so much time thinking about his birth-mom and what a blessing she is to our lives for having carried this precious boy and chosen to give him a forever family.  How did we get to be the ones to have this privilege?  

 We have a tradition of decorating, 

which includes lots of streamer and balloons,

 bedrooms for birthdays.   

I'm not sure he spent much time noticing these decorations though, he was anxious to get downstairs.  Throughout the morning, Carter kept having mini break downs.  I think we had talked about his birthday a lot this last week and he had some uncertainties about what this day would bring or maybe what turning three would mean to him.  By noon, he was doing much better.  

 He LOVES wearing Parker's jersey and insisted on sleeping in it this night.  He would spend his day with a lacrosse stick in his had if we would let him.  If we did thought, there wouldn't be much left of our house that isn't damaged.  

Tentative entry into the decorated kitchen.

A little of what I put in the letter to Carter's birth-mom:

Little Carter is three!  He loves telling us “I fwee!!” and so excitedly!  What a joy he is in our lives!  It’s really hard to believe that he’s been with us for three years and have just grown and changed and have started to show us how smart he is.  One thing I’ve really noticed since he started talking so much is that he really knows what he wants and will make sure we are aware.  It’s nice that we never have to guess how he feels about things. 

Music has always been a love for Carter but recently he shows favorites in songs.  He loves to sing “Roaring like a lion” and gets so excited about the song “Jump Rope” on kids place live.  He sings, “dump (up), down, dump down.”  Parker has declared it Carter’s song so now he repeats that.  As I thought about it, it fits his personality because his life is like a jump rope –up, up happy as can be or down, throwing a tantrum on the floor over not getting his way.  In the last three weeks, we have seen those tantrums infrequently though.  We have high hopes that he is outgrowing them a little.  

Someone loves cookies, cake, icing, ice-cream - pretty much anything sweet.  :)  Happy Birthday Carter man!  

We love you so much!