Carson's Latest

I thought I would update on what Carson is up to these days. I still have to post his birthday pics, but I got a new computer and can't get my pictures off of the old one. I thought I had copied all my photos onto an external hard drive, but I actually just copied the shortcut from the desktop. Major bummer. Now we need to buy a part just to get the pictures off b/c Darrin took the old monitor to work and we don't want to hook everything back up anyway. Such a pain. I am loving my new computer though. I don't need much from a home computer. We got an HP All in One so there's no tower or anything. Everything is in the monitor. It was so easy to set up and it's very compact. The one thing I upgraded was the monitor is touch screen. I wasn't sure how useful that would be, but I thought it would be good for Miles as he will start to use it more and more for school. I've used an ergonomic keyboard at home and work for years. I'm giving this one a try since it's new, clean, and much quieter than my old keyboard. So far, so good.

So anyway, while I wait to get Carson's party pics off the old computer, here are a few things that he is doing lately. He's eating everything in sight. He still drinks a 6oz. bottle of warm almond milk in the morning and one at night. Most days he will eat until you stop feeding him. At times, it seems that his stomach might pop. Sometimes when he's had enough, he will swat the spoon or fork away. He also does that when he's finished with that particular food. He also will randomly start throwing all the food on his highchair onto the floor. It doesn't mean he's finished, it just means that he wants to be fed. I think he gets frustrated with the effort it takes to pick the food up or he can't get big enough bites at one time.

It is near impossible to change his diaper or get him dressed. We try to give him his morning bottle while we get him ready for daycare and his evening bottle after his bath so we can get him ready for bed. I know all kids go through a stage where they are wiggle worms on the changing table, but Carson takes it to a whole new level. It is maddening. He gets irate when his bottle in empty too. We have to replace with a pacifier as soon as possible to try to ease his displeasure. Otherwise, he screams his head off.

He loves bath time. He loves to put his toys on the side of the tub. He puts them up there and then stands up to take them off. He sits down with them and then repeats over and over. Just like getting him dressed or changing his diaper, it is equally hard to take his clothes and diaper off and put his ear plugs in for a bath. As soon as he hears the water running, he just wants to dive in.

This is his new surprised face. He makes it all the time. I tried to get a better shot, but this was as good as I could get.

In the afternoon when I pick him up from daycare, he usually gets really mad when I put him in his car seat. Sometimes he will calm down and drink water in his sippy cup the whole way home. Other times, he screams and screams. The only thing I can do to get him to stop screaming is sing the ABCs on repeat the entire way home. It instantly calms him. If I stop, he starts screaming again. No other song will do....not Jesus Loves Me, Not Jesus Loves the Little Children, definitely not the radio....only the ABCs. If he's really upset, I go straight from Z right back to A without singing "now I know my ABCs, next time won't you sing with me" b/c he gets made when he thinks it's over :)

He is close to walking, I think. He takes 5-6 steps, but he's still pretty unsteady. I think he will be happier when he can walk. He seems frustrated a lot when we walk by and he can't go where we are going as quickly. It's like he gets overwhelmed with the thought of having to crawl all the way to where we are. I also think he will be happier when he can talk. He said Da Da this morning and I believe it was in the right context. He turned around to look at Darrin and said Da Da. That's all he's saying. When I say "Momma" he always babbles Da Da back to me.

The kid is a sleeper! He goes to bed between 6:30-7:30pm every night and sleeps until around 6:30am in the morning. Most nights, he doesn't make a sound. This morning he slept until almost 8am. He loves his crib. After his bottle at night, I like to hold him for a minute before I lay him down, but he leans for the crib. I think he would dive in if he could. We lay him on his back and he immediately rolls to his belly and snuggles in. Most nights he is really tired and goes right to sleep. If he is not that sleepy, he just rolls around and plays without making a peep. One night this week, he rolled around and played for 45 minutes before falling asleep. I think his crib is very cozy for him. He still loves his giraffe and sound machine/projector.

They say he's perfect at daycare. He's a happy baby at home too, but he is very passionate at the same time. He wants what he wants, and he want's it five minutes ago. I think most days he just tired at night. I'm hopeful that he will be a little less fussy and demanding when he learns to walk and talk. He's still very happy and everyone comments on that. What can I say, I just have passionate children. I have no idea where they get that from???