Life with the Lin Family

I LOVE the age and stage that Carter is at right now! He is the funnest person in the world to be around. The funny faces, new sounds and words bring something new to everyday. Jimmy hates going to work because he feels like he misses something new each day. SO we still have no “Mama” but here is a list of his first words in the order he said them.

“Dada”
“Hi”
“Ball”
Balloon or rather “Ba-oon”
“Duck”
“Uh-oh”
“Eye”
Thank You which sounds like “Dang oooo” :0)

It seems the words that he signs with be the last he says, call him lazy :0). He is still signing these words…

Please
More
Eat
Bottle
All done
Grandma
Kiss

We started time out a few weeks ago and he has been doing great. He is understanding boundaries and knows that his consequence is time out. Last week I laughed the hardest at him yet. He was standing by the table eyeing a “no touch” item. He touched it and I told him “Carter look at Mommy. That is no touch for Carter. If you touch again you will get a timeout.” He looked at me and then the item and then his timeout spot. He touched the item, turned around and before I could say a word walked to his timeout spot and slid himself down the wall to his bottom and put his head down. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I could not hold it in, I burst out laughing and he laughed back at me. I guess to him it was worth the punishment that time.   

Life has been busy in our house. Jimmy is studying like crazy as always. I have been trying to get a business started out of the home making cakes. Here is my website if anyone wants to check it out… www.peaceofcake.9f.com Last week Jimmy got laringitis and Carter got croup while I was in the middle of 4 cakes that were due that week which was nuts. Thank God my parents and sister are here to help with Carter! I have been very nauseous with this pregnancy. Didn’t experience it like this with Carter so we are processing the idea that this could POSSIBLY be a girl. Everything has been going ok with the pregnancy otherwise though. As of now the due date is January 15th of next year.

Jimmy and I just celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary this weekend. We really enjoyed the alone time while Aunt Christine watched Carter for us. On our date Jimmy said to me, “I can’t believe we have only been married for five years! Doesn’t it seem like it’s been forever?” HAHAHAHA I guess it does considering we have been together for 12 years now. Twelve years, almost 2 kids, 2 states, 3 houses and countless blessings in between. I am so thankful to be married to this amazing man who is my soul mate and share this incredible life and family we have been blessed with together.