Happy Birthday my sweet baby!

It’s hard to believe that it was two years ago today that the your dad was able to announce, “It’s a boy” and we welcomed you into our family. 

Carter Michael DeJong.  You were named after your strong, intelligent, soft spoken, whole hearted, amazing father.  And ever since you came into this world you have shown much of the same characteristics.  You are as sweet as a summer watermelon, as cuddly as a teddy bear, and as fun as, well your big brother. 

Your father and I just adore the way you understand things and although you can’t talk you lead us to what you want, or point, OR big brother translates for you (smile).  We are looking forward to you learning and growing more each and everyday, though we wouldn’t mind you staying just the way you are for a bit longer (too sweet)! 

Just like your big brother, Dad and I hope to show you the world and God’s plan for you.  We promise to do everything we can to raise you both to be respectful Godly gentlemen.  Lucky for me you have a perfect example at home, your father. 

I know that you are only two, but I can’t tell you how much joy you bring to my life.  You truly make my heart sing.  Your amazing dimpled smile that just makes your eyes beam, how you love to hold my hand, and how you love to snuggle in on my shoulder.  I hope you never grow out of those things.  I wish I could just bottle it all up.

Some of your favorite things to do are:

Playing with Trains:  You not only just love to play with trains, you climb and sit in the middle of the table.

Trucks:  Your favorite truck is, of course, Dad’s.  You get super excited when you see him pull up, or just see his truck parked in front of the house.  Your favorite truck to play with is a garbage truck.  You love to race back and forth around the house giggling the whole time. 

Playing with Josh: 

Best buds!  I realize that this may not always be, so I treasure how much you two get along and love to play with each other.  You two are quite the silly pair. 

and playing outside:

I just love this picture of you playing with your Uncle Lucas that we took tonight.  Though I don’t understand, especially with the amount of time you play outside, why we don’t have any pictures of you doing so.  Sorry, sweetie!

Thank you, Carter for blessing your father and I with you tremendous heart, gorgeous smile, and sweet personality.  We love you so much!

 

 

Trains and other things

I love how much Carter loves to play with “Choo choos”.  He carries them around with them everywhere he goes. And he says, “choo choos” so adorably, as he sticks his lower lip out and puckers. 

The cutest part of it all is just how into his “choo choos” he gets.  See…

 

Josh on the other hand has been loving the game of baseball.  That is the game of dice baseball.  It’s a game that Michael made up when he was a kid and he’s been teaching Josh. 

As I worked on few painting projects the boys did some of their own.

For Christmas Josh was given a Dino Dig; a clay brick with dinosaur bones in it.  He has been super excited to start digging and we finally had weather that provided us with an opportunity to do it. 

Here is Josh digging for his T-Rex dinosaur bones.

 

 

Ohh those brown eyes…