Out of the mouth of Carter

Carter is an easy kid to be around and always has been - until that is you give him a chore to do or ask him to do something he doesn't want to, then it gets ugly! He was always so quiet as a baby and toddler. Carter was slow to speak when he was little so I feel like we never got that fun phase around age three when the craziest things come out of his mouth, like it is with Mason right now. Well, he has been making up for it lately.

The other night we told Carter that we couldn't put up the Christmas tree until he and Mason had cleaned up the playroom. Carter hates cleaning up. He will complain and ask for help. He will tell us he doesn't know how. Every excuse in the book comes out when it's time to clean up. Benn was getting frustrated with his delays in cleaning and told Carter that he was to shut the playroom door and not come out until everything was cleaned up. Soon after Carter shut the door, we heard this muffled voice call out from the playroom, "Dad! If you don't come and help me, I'm gonna call the police!" How could we not laugh? That was so funny to us, but it did not get us to help him clean up!

The next thing happened at a neighbor's house without our knowledge until we got an email the next day explaining. Here is what our neighbor wrote:

"It was so funny last night when Carter was over. He asked me how old that girl on the couch was (that being my mom who is resting on the couch with no TV on, just laying there). I say, 'Well how old do you think she is?' He says, 'Ummm 150 years old.' We about died laughing. My mom needed that. Then off Carter ran to play. We love talking to him. he is sooooo cute. Glad you guys are our neighbors."

That is Carter for you. You never know what's going to come out of his mouth these days.