Carson at NINE months!!!

On October 21st Carson turned 9 months old! (again, I am a little late on the posting!) She is on the GO for sure! She is growing and learning new things everyday! It is absolutely amazing to see things somewhat through her eyes and watch as she figures things out.

At nine months-
-Carson is crawling, and crawling FAST! She goes everywhere and can actually start to climb the stairs!!! EEKKKK!
-She claps her hands when she gets excited! She has been clapping for about a month now, but now I really think she knows to clap when she is excited or happy.
-She continues to be a great sleeper, she sleeps from around 7pm until 7am. And usually will take two naps a day of about 1-2 hours each. It's great!
-She continues to LOVE to eat! She takes 4 bottles a day 4-6 ounces and loves finger foods! We started finger foods at around 8 months and she digs in at every mealtime. Her favorites are deli meats, fruit(pears/apples/bananas), gerber snack cheetos, and her absolute favorite is CHEESE! I think she could give up formula sooner rather than later if I let her. haha.
-She finally got her first tooth/teeth on her 9 month birthday! And because one tooth isn't enough she got about 4 in one weekend! All 4 on the top too! And still no bottom teeth! But she does also have her lower right incisor tooth popping through! (No pictures of these teeth yet!
-She had her first fever around 8 and 1/2 months and we had our first sick doctor's visit :( She ended up having a UTI and let me tell you-watching your baby have urine collected is NOT fun!!! We were all crying!
-She LOVES to creep along all of the furniture! And her newest trick is to walk around and push our kitchen table chairs around the kitchen and living room. It is the cutest thing!
-Another thing I love about this stage is that I walk into her room after nap times and find Carson standing in her crib babbling! I think we will be lowering the crib again very soon!
-As for her babbling-she loves to "talk", she mainly sticks to "dada" but will sometimes get going with mamamamama and she also sounds out the letter T and we aren't sure what she is trying to say. But we love to talk back to her and have "converstations" :)
-Carson has started to really dislike diaper changes and changing her clothes! She has gotten really good at trying to roll over!!
-At her nine month well check her stats were:
Weight: 21 pounds even and Length: 28 and 3/4 inches
We have a growing girl!!! They told us she was about the 85% for all categories.

I am sure that I am forgetting lots of things that have happened this month, but as I mentioned earlier-she continues to grow and develop and change all the time and is a complete joy in our lives! We LOVE our little girl to pieces and just can't get enough of her!


-----I know I said I would post pics on my last post a month ago, but I really am going to devote an entire post to pictures next time and very soon! ;)

Waaaay Overdue! Carson at 7/8 months!

SO we have obviously been BUSY, BUSY, BUSY!!!

At SEVEN months(8/21/11) Carson continued to be an awesome baby! She learned how to "crawl" in her own fashion(more on that later), she enjoyed LOTS of new foods, she went to the beach, remains toothless, and love to play!
-At seven months she slept from around 7pm to 6:30 am(we have to wake her up some mornings so that we can get to work! And takes 2 naps at daycare with a catnap on the ride home in the afternoon!
-She loves to paly with everything in sight that is not meant to be a toy---cardboard boxes are a favorite, as are water bottles, the wipes containers and wipes packages.
-GIGGLES oh so much! and we love it-she has become so ticklish-especially when daddy gets her belly with his unshaven face!!! :) Love it!
-She continues to love sophie the teething giraffe-but as I said earlier-no teeth!
-Weight is on the home scale 18 lbs and 9oz!
-She eats 4 5-6 oz bottles a day and has lunch, an afternoon snack and dinner with pureed foods. She has started to find some things she dislikes-prunes, zucchinni, broccoli-but she does like broccoli if you mix it with sweet potatoes! Really almost anything mixed with sweet potatoes. And she LOVES-carrots, peas, green beans, apples, bananas, mango, peaches and really any fruit!

AND since I am soooo far behind---
At EIGHT months(9/21/11) Carson continues to be a mommy's girl and is so much fun! Her hair has started growing some more and I can't wait to really be able to keep a bow in it. She continues to be on the move! She is pulling up on EVERYTHING!!!! and loves to "crawl" all around.
-She weighs at home about 19 pounds 6 ounces.
-We had to take her to the doctor for her first "sick" visit, for her first diaper rash with a bad case of diarrhea. :( But it healed up in about 24 hrs with her special cream!
-SHe still sleeps from about 7-6:30 and takes two naps, on a good day, at daycare. Some days she is hust having too much fun to take that second nap! :) But then she of course goes to bed much earlier or takes that nap on the way home!
-She still has 4 bottle a day 5-6 ounces-sometimes only taking around 4 ounces. And now eats a morning and afternoon snack and lunch and dinner. She loves her food-I honestly think if we would, she would switch to just real food and forget the bottle without thinking twice! She loves all flavors of Puffs and Yogurt melts. Daycare tells us they think she's ready for more finger foods too! She loves to eat!
-Still toothless! :) But I love her gum-filled smiles!
-We have caught her standing in her crib-makes me realize she is really growing fast!
-She is still a mommas girl and I love it!!!

She continues to bring us more joy every single day! Jaosn and I are so lucky to have her in our lives! We are so thankful for each and every day with her!


-----Pictures to come :)

Carson at SIX months!

WE love our baby girl!!!



My baby girl is HALF a year old! IT is crazy-the time is flying so fast! I really think the older they get, the faster time goes. Starting on Monday, she will be moving up into a new class at daycare-"The Waddler Room" :) At her 6 month checkup she weighed in at 17 lbs and 5 oz and 26.5 inches long(75th percentile for both) and she did great with the shots again!



What's new for Carson at 6 Months:
-Carson LOVES to sit up all by herself-for extended periods. It is so funny to me how great her posture is.
-She sleeps ALL night long-going to bed around 7, give or take, and sleeps until we wake her around 6:30-6:45am.
-She LOVES all of the foods she has tried-peas, green beans, sweet potatoes, prunes, bananas, avocados-I'm still enoying making her baby food-although I'm not brave enought to try green beans or peas on my own-i hear the skins/strings are tricky!


-Still not a great napper at daycare :( We average about 2-3, 30-35min naps. And then she naps on the way home too.
-Giggles so much more! We LOVE it-it is the cutest sound!

-Still loves bath time and playing at the pool!
-She is wearing 6-9 month clothes-9 month things still seem a little big and 6 bmonth stuff is a little snug-so we are loving dresses right now!
-Carson LOVES being outside! She could sit and stare at trees for so long when the wind is blowing!
-Eats 2 "snacks" of real food every day and 5 bottles 5-6 ounces each.
-Size 2 diapers.
-Still doesn't like rice cereal!




As for things that are going on in our house-we have lots of trips coming up and are going to be super busy for the next few months! We have lots o ffun times planned with friends too-weddings, showers and visits with friends from San Fran-Linds and Trey :) We also have lots of fun beach weekends and can't wait for Carson to play in the ocean!



As always, we love Carson so much and cannot believe how much our lies have been enriched since having her. She brings us so much laughter, joy and excitement! So much fun times are in teh future I am sure!

Shhhhh...

Carson is sleeping.... ALL night long!!! YAY! Carson has always been a good sleeper only waking once a night for a few months now, but for the past 2 weeks she has slept ALL night every night-and it is amazing! And I do love hearing her wake up in the morning with all of her babbling! Her most common sounds are "mamamamamama" and "babababababab" and "dddddddadadadddddd".

Also, we have a sitter! Carson has started sitting all by herself! Of course, when she sees a toy she wants or her toes she goes diving for it/them and topples over. I know I have said it before but, she really is growing too quickly! Jason and I were sitting together one night and holding her and just amazed at how much she has grown. She is so long and starting to look less like a baby. What am I going to do when she turns into a toddler???

As for things we are working on---still working on solids-I am not sure she has much interest-but she does open her mouth for sweet potatoes much easier than rice or oatmeal! :) Soon to try appleasauce and avocados!

Hope everyone had a wonder Fourth of July-we sure enjoyed spending the weekend in Charlotte with friends!

Carson at FIVE Months!

WOW-Carson is almost 6 months old! Time is flying and moving a bit too fast! Carson seems to do something new everyday and she has the best personality! I honestly can't get enough of her!!! I rush to get out of work everyday so I can see her BIG grin when I walk in at daycare-it's the best feeling to see her face light up when she sees me! :)


As for what's new-we started some solids-tried rice cereal a few times and she does NOT like it at all, no matter the texture. So, we also tried some oatmeal and she's not a big fan of that either. This week we are planning are starting sweet potatoes and bananas soon! I am so excited to start making her real food :)



Her sleep schedule is still going great-she usually wakes once a night around 4 AM for a quick feeding and then right back to bed. And, there are some nights off and on where she sleeps the whole way through! We love those nights! As for her napping-at daycare-not so much, but on the weekends she plays catch up and seems to nap much better. When at daycare she takes about 3, 45 minute naps and then she is practically ready to crash for bed around 6. We are trying to tweak this so she can stay up until around 7. Hopefully when she moves up to the next class at 6 mos she will nap better since they have scheduled naptimes!(fingers crossed!)


Things she LOVES at 5 months:
-Still loves her lamb swing!
-Loves all things that crinkle-and especially loves to put them in her mouth!
-Absolutely LOVES bath time and the swimming pool-she no longer like to take baths "laying" down-so she sit up in her bathtub with some support and just splashes water everywhere! It is very fun! ANd she splashes just as much in the pool!
-Carson's face always lights up when Jason is around-definitely gonna be a daddy's girl and I love that! :)
-Tummy time is just about the only way you will find her-she doesn't really enjoy laying on her back anymore unless she is sucking/chewing her feet! (which is really funny to watch)
-She also really likes to try and sit up on her own-until she sees a toy she wants and dives for it-literally! haha
-she is also surprisingly intrigued by the vacuum cleaner-it's the funniest thing to watch.
-and we can't forget her TOES! Much less anything goes straight to her mouth, but always her feet-even in the bathtub-I will certainly have to get a picture of it because it is hilarious.



Things she doesn't love so much:
-Rice cereal and oatmeal :( And to think I was so excited about trying foods with her.
-being held like a baby-I miss that part of her being a baby already!
....yet again I find the things she doesn't like hard! :)

As you will see in the picture below-a bow actually goes in her hair now and STAYS! :)


Carson is such a joy in our lives, she brings so much happiness to our lives each and every day. We love her SO much!!!

Carson at FOUR Months!

Carson is now four months(+ a few days) and she brings more and more joy and love to our lives everyday! She has grown so much in this past month. She has been doing so well at daycare and they continue to tell us that she is a great baby! This definitely makes it easier to drop her off everyday.




We took her for her four month check-up earlier this week and the doctor says she is doing great- and we are so thankful for that. She weighed 15 pounds and 2 ounces(around the 85%) and was 24 and 1/4 inches long(around the 93%)!!! Growing is sure not a problem-we know this because she is quickly outgrowing lots of her clothes. She now wears mostly 6 month clothes!


As for her sleeping, she does GREAT in my book. On MOST nights of the week she will sleep from 7:30ish until around 6:30 or we wake her at 7-and this has really been happening for almost a month. I really don't think we can ask for any better! But she still has the occasional night where she wakes for a feeding too :) And for naps she will usually take a 1-2 hr nap somehwere in her day and then about 2 other 30min-1 hr naps and then her evening power nap of 30 mins too!-great for mom and dad to have time for dinner :) As for eating, she is now down to 5 "meals" a day. And as I said, an added one comes every once in a while in the middle of the night.


What she loves at 4 months...
-still enjoys her lamb swing for an early evening nap, and sometimes a longer daytime nap on the weekends :)
-LOVES her first 2 fingers of her Left hand. She sucks them all the time!
-bathtime! She now giggles at her rubber ducky and really enjoys splashing water with her legs everywhere! We always feel bad not letting her stay in the water longer.
-snuggling with mom and dad after eating :)
-having her picture taken-she is all smiles for the camera.
-going for walks in the Baby Bjorn facing out! She loves to take in all of her surroundings.
-story time before bed :) (on nights that she isn't too sleepy for it!)
-playing with her feet-and trying to eat her socks!
-still really enjoys tummy time, and now that she can roll tummy to back and vice versa(she enjoyed keeping this a secret from us and only doing this at daycare for a week or two!)-we tend to find her on her tummy more and more!!
-Still loves to put anything and everything straight into her mouth-don't anticipate this changing anytime soon!


What she doesn't love...
-her paci, she never really liked the paci much before, but in the past month she has really come to dislike it-when she is fussy or fighting sleep and you try to give her the paci she gets even more upset. Just makes for one less thing to make sure you leave the house with-she always has her fingers!
-this may be TMI, but, she doesn't really love breastfeeding anymore-I think she loves the instant gratification with bottles! But we aren't giving up yet :)
-naps in the crip on the weekend--about 50% of her naps go well there, otherwise we are usually out running errands or in the lamb swing :) We hope once naps are a little more scheduled the crib will be easier.

We cannot wait to take her for another trip to the beach! Hopefully she will have time to enjoy the pool this summer too :) As I have said before, we are absolutely loving being parents and fall more and more in love with Carson everyday! We don't want her to grow up toooo fast, but we know the future holds lots of fun and learning too!

Carson at 3 Months! ---A little, scratch that, LOT late :)

So, as the title says, I am ALOT late on Carson's 3 month update! But, we have had a lot of things going on at the start of this month. One major thing, I am now back to work full time! Needless to say, when I am at home all I want to do is play and cuddle with our sweet little girl! Second, Easter has come and gone and we took a nice long trip to the beach- Carson did great!



At three months Carson....

LOVES-
-playtime on her mat! She scoots around in circles and loves to roll from side to side!
-HER HANDS!!! It is truly hard to find her without her fingers in her mouth---she sometimes gags herself by shoving her fingers so far back!
-She is always full of smiles and daycare brags that she is the happiest baby! : )Daycare also brags to us on how laidback she is!
-She still naps well and is sleeping GREAT! Naps range from 30 mins to 3 hours!!! This is at daycare and in her crib at daycare! But total to be around 4-5 hours per day.
-She also LOVES to roll over from her tummy to her back!
-At night we range from 6-10 hour stretches which seems awesome to me! She now has a bedtime routine of bathtime(most nights), books and then night night! Her bedtime is between 7:30-8:30 depending on her afternoon/evening nap. Most recently- she sleeps from 8-5 pretty consistently and then goes back down until we wake her at 7am. I certainly can't complain!!!
-She still loves her toy -"Mr. Cow" we call it-and smiles all the time at him. There is also a clock hung in our living room and Carson smiles at it EVERYDAY when we get home!!! It is so funny.
-She also LOVES bathtime! She has really started splashing and kicking around!



What she DOESN't LOVE-
-Getting in her carseat if hse is in the middle of playing or kicking around! WE don;t like it either because then for about 10 mins in the car she is NO fun and makes me feel bad :(
-hmmmmm...sounds kinda funny, but I can't really think of much else she doesn't like....

Overall, she continues to be a great baby! We love her more and more everyday!!! We have also recently been getting really cute giggles out of her and I can't wait for them to be more frequent!!



As for the beach trip---we had an amazing time with family- and Carson showed off her new skill at rolling over front to back! She is a pro at this now! We can't wait for many more back trip in the future!!! The weather was great over Easter and we really had fun taking Carson onto the sand and by the ocean. I can envision the future with her crawling around and getting sand ALL over her-it's going to be sooo much fun!