Carson's FIRST Birthday!!!

You have GOT to be kidding me!!! My sweet little baby is ONE?!?!  I can hardly believe it, this year has gone far too fast.  Carson is quite the little character, he LOVES people, doesn't matter who, he wants to be around you.  He wants to explore EVERYTHING, climb, crawl through, dig in... he'll do anything.  He loves big people food and he works the crowd.  He can walk, crawl, climb (out of his crib even), he understands things like "go outside" and "want to go night night?" he actually follows the directions.  He is not a big fan of the car if he has to be in it for very long, he claps, plays peek-a-boo and plays chase.  He doesn't really talk yet, he makes a lot of sounds "ba", "ma", "da", "ya" but he hasn't said his first words.  He waves hello, points and does the "come here" motion when he wants something.  He also goes up AND down the stairs.  That's all I can think of at the moment but he is quite the little boy!

For his birthday I decided to have a little lunch BBQ.  This seems to be the week everybody is travelling, they're either going somewhere or someone is in town visiting so we got to hang out with Kathleen and her kiddos: Isaac, Charlotte, Nicole, Ila and Thomas.  A little later in the day Aunt Sarah was able to make it over with Aileena, Ella and Chase. 

 Here is 2.5 year old Ila teaching Carson how to play basketball.  Check out the size difference...  That is a BIG boy!

 Don't ask me what this face is about but check out THAT outfit.

 The kids had a great time with the squirt guns, here's Kayda and Isaac.

What did he find? oh grapes!  That makes me a little nervous, he didn't get to keep those for very long.

 Carson was pretty unhappy whenever someone was in his way.  In this case he wanted in the sled with Nicole.

 Boys club!  No girls allowed!  If you try we'll squirt you!

 I scream you scream we all scream for ice cream!

 Here's the crew, Carson was down for a nap at this point.  Isaac, Aileena and Ella are in the back, then Dillon, Nicole, Kayda and Chase and in front Thomas, Charlotte and Ila.

 We ended up at Red Robin.  We didn't get done with our "lunch" until 5 so I did NOT want to cook.   Pictures courtesy of Kayda. 

 Picture courtesy of Dillon.

 They love him SOOOO much that they almost pulled him off the table trying to hug him.

 Carson did NOT like how Dillon was holding on to him.  After Red Robin we grabbed a cake from Dairy Queen because I ran out of time to make cupcakes and you HAVE to have a cake... oh and he loves ice cream.  Then we headed to Grandma and Papa H's with Baba.

 What's this?  It looks interesting...  Soon there after I had to pull him off the counter because he got his fingers in it a bit.

 Yes Carson, there is something INSIDE the blue stuff.

 Carson looked kind of terrified the whole time the candle was near him.  We think it's because we spent the whole camping trip all of 4 days ago going "Hot. NO NO" and it looked awfully similar.

 First bite.  It took him a little while to get the initiative to feed himself but he got there slowly.

 He did this and actually made a "Yay!" sound.  So I repeated it and he did it again...

 Some of the new clothes Grandma and Papa H gave him.  Isn't he a little stud!

 He was enamored with Baba tonight, he wanted to show her his toys and talk about them with her.

I don't have his one year stats yet because his pediatrician is currently out of town so I won't get those until the 20th.  Boo.  Oh well, our pediatrician is totally worth the inconvenience of NOT get immediate one year stats.  At least that means he gets to have his shots a little late too!  WE LOVE THIS BABY.  (Our other two also but this post is for THIS guy)