This Post Will Remain Untitled...

...For the record, Brian really wanted me to name this post "Playing With His Balls." I told him that was not an appropriate title, I don't know who reads this... but seriously, what do you title a post about... well... Carter playing with balls?!

A few days ago, Brian and I were in Target and noticed a bag of plastic balls that was on clearance. We both thought Carter could have a whole lot of fun with them, but we didn't end up buying them. Days later, we figured out that we didn't buy them because of a miscommunication: We both wanted them, but a comment I made lead Brian to believe that I wouldn't let Carter have them because of the type of plastic they are made of. I do try to limit the "bad" plastics that Carter is exposed to, especially now while he's in the put-everything-and-anything-into-my-mouth phase. However, these balls just looked like so much fun that I didn't care.

(Okay, I do care a little bit.)

I felt a little guilty today as I dumped the Made-in-China, who-knows-what-type-of-plastic balls into Carter's PVC baby pool. I kept thinking "Wow, Cool... you've really lowered your standards." But, then I watched Carter have a blast in there, squealing and squirming and kicking for quite some time:

Trying to climb out after a ball he threw... this "I want to climb" phase has been fun so far... I'm afraid one of these days we'll be too slow and he'll faceplant.

He fell over a few times after going spastic with excitement. It was funny while he was lying down... every way he turned his head there was another ball, and since all he wanted to do was eat them, he eventually just kept his mouth open and his tongue out and moved his head from side to side. Crazy boy :)

Yay!! This is fun