Happy 5th Birthday Carter-O!

(Carter eating his birthday breakfast in bed holding up how old he is. I told him he could have anything he wanted, but he just wanted "ee-oo"cereal (Life) and juice. Easy enough).
Carter turned 5 on February 19th, but we didn't tell him he was five until that Saturday when he had his party a few days later. He had a race car party at the church. We were going to have it here at our house, but 13 boys in our townhouse didn't seem like the greatest idea. Especially since we (okay I) wanted to do relays and race cars and the like. I borrowed 13 old tires from a local auto place here and set them up to play musical "tires." They had to run around like race cars and when the music stopped, they needed to make a pit stop in one of the tires. It was lots of fun. We made candy race cars, did a race car scratch craft, played "vroom, vroom, go" (AKA duck, duck, goose) with them sitting in their tires, had a relay race and of course pinata. But just before that we ate race car cake. YUM! I had a lot of fun decorating it too. Carter invited his soccer coach who was sweet enough to come for the first hour, and he invited his primary teacher who also came for the first hour. It warms my heart to see all the people that influence my sons life make such an effort to show they care about him.
We ended up getting Carter geo trax grand central station which he shares with his brother- that was the stipulation since everything seems to be "his special toy" lately. We got Bryce his own train so they won't have to fight over the train it came with.
(all the guests around the table ready do a car craft wearing their 'race car helmet' masks).
(They had to go through a tunnel, step through the tires, jump over the 'river,' go around the cones, and throw a ball into a tire before running back and tagging the next person on their team. SO FUN!)
(pinata fun)
("Happy birthday to you..." Carter later told me he was "a little embarrassed with everyone singing to him").
(Fun race track cake I made... Carter put in most of the white lifesavers in the middle. What a great helper he is!)
(After the party which I thought was a huge success, I asked Carter what his favorite part was. He said, 'getting presents and the pinata).
Carter is really into making books now by drawing/coloring on printer paper, and/or writing random letters on the pages for a "letter page." He then staples them all together to be a "book" and gives them away as gifts or saves them for the library he wants to have someday.
Carter is a sensitive little boy who loves to run, bike, scooter, and play with friends. He loves the outdoors! He loves to talk and has a great imagination. He becomes fixated on things for a while (ex. making our house into a library, or our basement into geotrax city). He is very creative and asks a LOT of questions always wanting to know how and why. He's a great big brother and he and Bryce have really started playing together well. He loves preschool! He still loves trains, planes, boats and cars. Anything remote control is "cool." He likes playing soccer and loves eating candy/gum or anything sweet. He is into working to save money to buy things he wants. Yesterday he wanted to buy more geotrax tracks and today he wants to buy a four-wheeler that kids ride.
Here are some answers to questions I've asked him:
Favorite vacation: Disney Cruise
Favorite scripture story: When Nephi builds a boat
Favorite color: blue
Favorite toy: race car
Favorite friend: Braedon, I mean everyone. I mean Kyler, cause we played together yesterday.
Favorite treat: cake, candy and gum
Favorite family activity: hide and go seek
Favorite book: leaning about dinosaurs that used to be on the earth
Favorite movie: Geo trax All Aboard
Favorite thing to do: Go with daddy places and geotrax, geotrax, geotrax!
Favorite song: I'm a child of God
We are so grateful to have you in our family sweet boy! We love you!