Christmas 2012

We had our own little Christmas this year. Carson did great with ripping his presents open. It was super cute! He loved getting some new toys. We played with his new stuff all day long. And he really likes the M&M's he found in his stocking!

And here we are on New Year's Eve, lounging away. A couple of Carson's favorite foods are cheese and deli meat. So he especially liked our cheese and crackers tray. Notice how he grabbed all the turkey at once.

Carson Turned One!

Carson had a great birthday. He is so sweet and we are so happy he is in our family. Here are some pictures of his day.

I had to hurry and stop him from touching the flame.

This is the most daring he got.

He's grown so much!

-Oh how he's been turning into a toddler. If we take away something he wants, he gets so pissed! He kicks and screams. 

-He has been drinking more milk! Even though he still barely drinks any in our pediatrician's eyes, we've made big progress! 

-He's walking everywhere! Sometimes he sneaks up on me and it really freaks me out. He really started walking a few days after his birthday. He still falls All. The. Time. He's got bruises everywhere! Poor thing.

 -His favorite food is beans & rice. Ashley's recipe. :) And he LOVES cheese!

-He recently started opening cupboards and pulling everything out! 

-He tries to say "duck." (He loves his rubber ducky) And he has kinda said, "Santa" a couple of times.  I love it when he says that! His favorite word though is, "DADA!" He only says, "Mama," if he needs something or is sad. 

-If Cory goes upstairs, Carson gets very concerned and waits at the bottom of the stairs and yells, "Dada!" until he comes back. He loves his Dada.  

-It is suddenly SO hard to get this kid to smile on demand. He won't do it. No matter what you do, he'll just stare at you.

We took these at JCP in November. I thought I would share a few.

After the blizzard, Cory took Carson outside to get the mail. We were too lazy to get him bundled up so we put him in my hoodie. It was hilarious watching him walk around in that!

When he's done, he throws his food everywhere!

He is precious.

He's really good at Facebook shots.

Carson's Christmas Ornament

 I love this idea that has been floating around Pinterest. I really wanted to do it last year with Carson's little newborn self, but we never got around to do it. I thought about just doing it now with his foot, but I wanted his littler footprint. Not the bigger one he has now. I thought about scanning in his newborn footprint they took in the hospital (used with black ink), but I didn't want the ornament to be black. And I have no clue if there is a way I can change the color.

Well, last Valentine's I made this for Cory.

This has been on our fridge since February. Cory will NOT let me take it down! ha ha. He loves it!

Carson was 2 months when I did that--good enough. So I scanned in his little foot and printed it on vellum.

I actually sorta screwed this little project up at first. The first problem was that I was using the matte finish and not the gloss finish of mod podge. And I put mod podge on both the back and front of the foot print. Bad idea! That made the paper crinkle really bad and it just looked awful with mod podge slathered over the top.

So, I printed a new one and looked up the best way to mod podge vellum to glass. Only apply mod podge to the back! It was as simple as that. Then I wiped around the edges with a wet paper towel to get rid of the excess mod podge. 

It turned out great!

I added his name and birthday to the back too. :)

Charlotte.

We had the opportunity to go to Charlotte to see some family and work with Cory's dad. Cory was able to get some great practice in and learn a few things. It was a great visit!

This picture is HILARIOUS! I love Carson so much.

Carson had fun playing with the Gammaw

Here's Cory's high school! He recounted the famous story of about how him and Cameron hit some black guy with their car. He even showed me where it took place.

Cory's elementary! It was so weird for him to go back there.

Here's the playground he used to play on. I guess it used to be in a different spot.

And of course, we had to get one of Carson playing there. He is so sweet.

Fall Ohio Visit

The end of October we went to Ohio and it was gorgeous! There were so many pretty trees to look it. We love seeing the Forsgrens and we loved seeing Alana. We are so glad Carson was able to meet his Aunt Alana! We always have so much fun.

 

We somehow managed to not get any pictures of Jimett or Cameron. We love you guys too!

Carson is 11 Months

-Carson has been quite the cuddle bug lately. We love it because he rarely holds still. And he gives hugs and kisses. He started giving us wet slobbery kisses (which are the best, of course!), rather than just a forehead.

-He took 3 steps yesterday! We were shocked! We didn't even know he could do that because we haven't really seen him do a full step. Then all of a sudden, there were 3! 

-He has learned a lot of words. He started saying ball, rawr, blub (that's what a fish says). And I got him to say ruff one time. He tries to say book, but he's not quite there. He knows SO many words! I'm always surprised at how much he understands. He knows paci, blankey, train, car, book, water, treat, bye-bye, airplane, owl, and more. I'm just too lazy to record them all.

-Carson also has his own language that sounds like German or Swedish. It's adorable to listen to.

-His favorite animal is a puppy dog. He gets soooo excited when he sees one. Even a picture.

-I have been weaning him from nursing the past couple of weeks. He has only wanted to nurse a couple of times. So it hasn't been that bad of a transition. (crossing my fingers that I'm not jinxing myself right now!) He won't take formula. So I've been trying so hard to get him to drink lots of milk during the day. We've been giving him crackers to make him thirsty. He would much rather have water and boy does he know the difference!

-2 more teeth popped through. He's got 8 now! Hence why I stopped nursing....

-Cory and I were talking and we agreed that we are both ready for him to start walking and understanding more. We think each baby stage is just long enough. By the end of one stage we are ready for the next!

Palmer Halloween Party

We had fun at the Palmer trick-or-treat--even though we LOST! BOO!

We were a bubble bath!

We lost to the baby dressed as a dragon--Palmer's mascot. So of course he had to win. We still had fun though!

He looked so cute crawling around.

Did you know there is such a thing as printing and ironing?? We did a little copy and paste if you know what I mean...

After we ripped his costume off, he went straight for his candy. We love this picture! Ha ha ha! So cute!