Beach Trip: Days 5 & 6

Wednesday was more of the same - playing in the pool, walking on the beach, and hanging out with relatives. One of the major past times for everyone was trying to teach Carter to crawl. He's got a sort of army crawl figured out where he mainly uses his upper body (and a little bit of pushing with his feet). Everyone was trying to teach him how to use his knees and raise his stomach up but they never succeeded (which is probably good because our house isn't quite ready for a true crawler yet!). However, he did get a lot better at not getting his arms stuck under him after pulling forward and then having to roll over some to get them out.


On Wednesday we noticed Carter chewing on his fingers more than normal and discovered that his top two front teeth are starting to come in. He started to get more fussy during the day after this. Before that everyone was asking us if he ever cries because he was so chill all the time just taking in all the new experiences and people.

Here's Carter with his Great Grandmother!


On Wednesday night we took Carter up to New Bern with us to have dinner with our friends Johnny and Anakah. Brian has known them since middle school and Johnny was Brian's best man at our wedding. Carter was a little fussy because he was tired and I think his teeth were hurting a little bit, but overall, he did well. We brought along his portable high chair and give him his first Cheerios to keep him entertained while we ate dinner. He only choked on the Cheerios a few times and was able to clear his throat quickly each time. Johnny and Anakah have two dogs and Carter loved them. He screamed at them the same way he does for Charlotte. They licked his face and Carter didn't mind at all. He just loves dogs!

Unfortunately I forgot to take any pictures when we were there. But thanks for a great dinner you guys! It was great catching up with you!

On Thursday we took Carter to the NC Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores. Brian's parents, his Aunt Linda, and cousin Amy came along with us. We got in free because we have a Knoxville Zoo membership. We've really enjoyed that membership since we've also already used it to go to the zoo 4 times this year!

The aquarium was remodeled recently and we were really impressed. It's not huge, but the exhibits are nice and there was a pretty good variety of fish to see. Carter really seemed to enjoy looking at the fish and trying to reach for them.






Carter fell asleep right before we got to the huge tank with the sharks!


But he woke up in time to get his picture taken as a hermit crab!