Carson's 2 month check up

Today Carson is 9 weeks old, or 2 months and 2 days.  Whichever you prefer.  In that time he has figured out how to support his head pretty well, stand up holding onto someone's hands, "swim", talk and smile!  He has also grown 4 and 7/8 inches and gained 5lb 1oz.  Talk about a healthy baby!

His stats:

Height - 25 1/8 inches (off the charts)

Weight - 14 pounfds (95th percentile)

Head - 16 1/8 inches (60th percentile) 

He got 3 shots and some yucky tasting stuff today and boy was he MAD!  There have been two times in his life that he has been so angry he turned red.  One was today, the other was obviously when he was circumsized.

Other news, I fixed the flash on the camera (with a watch spring pin, I find that funny).  So I can get more pictures!  Yay!

Happy early halloween! (if this is jibberish i apologise in advance)

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Playtime

Carson is really a buff little dude.  His neck is getting really strong and he doesn't flop around much at all.  We did some tummy time and he was trying really hard to roll over.  Not quite time for that yet (thank goodness he's growing up TOO fast).  Kayda and Dillon actually got down on the floor with us and played.  They don't really understand the idea that he can see better if they aren't RIGHT in his face but they're playing with him so that's ok. 

I know that it's a little early for this, considering he's not even 8 weeks yet but Carson LOVES to stand up.  You can actually just hold his little hands and he'll stand up.  So I decided that maybe I'd see what he thought of the exersaucer.  So Kayda, Dillon and I dug out all the pieces and got it all cleaned up.  They chose which pieces to put in and we waited for Carson to wake up from his nap.  When he finally did (Kayda and Dillon played with it the enitre 45 minutes until he woke up) I rolled up a blanket to wrap around him (he tends to flex his back suddenly and flop back so we were avoiding injury) and stuck him in.  Check it out!

 You can see his little feet touching the bottom in this one.  I can't believe how BIG he is!

Kayda and Dillon sat and played with him for the 5 minutes that he lasted in it... then continued to play with it after he got out.  I had some pictures with all three but none of them turned out, I'll have to try again next time!

On another note, Carson is SUCH a smiley baby now!  He'll just lay there and grin at me and he loves sing along songs where I move his hands for him, though "If you're happy and you know it" is his favorite.

Carson's Smile!!!

I got it!!! Kind of.  Considering I couldn't look through the camera because I was next to it smiling at Carson and talking to him I think I did pretty darn good!  Isn't he SO adorable!  I LOVE it!

Just to document

Carson is turning into such a smiley baby!  The last few days he has been smiling a LOT.  He was smiling at Daddy and we were trying desperately to catch it but he wasn't cooperating.  He's cute even when he's not smiling though so it's ok!

He likes to nap in the high chair.  If you look close he was on the tail end of a sleepy smile!  He still sleeps most of the day and he is starting to do well at night.  He'll go 5-6 hours between eating the first portion (though he only really sleeps about 4 of that), then he'll go another 3-4 between and then he'll sleep until I wake him up to start the day!  He is also getting really good at controlling his head, he can turn it when he's tracking something, he loves to stand up (with help of course) and he LOVES baths and showers.  He falls asleep whenever he is in the front carrier, more easily than when he's in the car even (Kayda and Dillon fell asleep very easily in the car so I thought that was interesting). 

Dillon has a tendency to wink at people when we ask him to smile so this time I just asked him to wink.  I think he should be a pirate for halloween.  Argh!

Kayda wasn't much in the mood to have her picture taken but I wanted to get a picture of her ringlets!  Any time her hair gets wet and isn't brushed afterward these beautiful curls form.  I don't know how long that will happen so I HAD to get it while I was thinking about it. 

From what I can tell the kids are enjoying preschool.  They come home and sing the songs they're learning and dance.  Kayda has also been reciting her September poem. 

"It's September for a while, after a while crocodile, down the chicken soupy nile, paddle once, paddle twice, paddle chicken soup with rice." 

No it doesn't make sense to me either, but apparently there is a "chicken soup" poem for each month that they will be learning.

Home sweet home!

Today is one of those "feeling grateful" kind of days.  After Kayda was born I went back to work after winterbreak, right about 6 weeks.  After Dillon was born I went back to work at 7 weeks.  Now, here I am, Carson is 6 weeks old today.  If I was still working I would've headed back to work today. 

I was fortunate, Grandma G was able and willing to watch Kayda and Dillon for me while I worked.  I knew they were with someone that loved them and would have the same rules for them that I have.  I had the summers off with them and the school year after Dillon was born I even got to be part time.  So I only missed a few hours a day with them. But I still missed them and  I missed a lot of their "firsts". 

Last school year I was finally able to be home with my babies!  I got to be with them ALL the time and I was very happy once we decided to have another baby that I wouldn't have to be pregnant, extrememly sick and dealing with a class full of high school kids.  With both Kayda and Dillon I often had to run to the bathroom in the middle of class because I was so sick. 

Now here I am, my second year as a stay at home mom with another sweet baby.  I get to be here for ALL of Carson's "firsts", I get to see them with my own eyes and not just hear about them.  I get to be with Kayda and Dillon for their first days of school, go help in their class, be there to pick them up and hear all about their days.  I get to be here loving my children the best I know how every day.  I'd love to be a "super mom" and have happy, healthy, well loved kids AND a shiny clean house but for now I'll have to settle for the "happy, healthy, well loved" part. 

It is impossible to express how grateful I am that my husband is able to support our family and how happy it makes me to be home. 

And just because I can, here are some more pictures of the three WONDERFUL children that I love SO much.  That I get to devote all my time and energy to.

Carson smiled!!!

Carson is 5 weeks 1 day old, and today he smiled at me on purpose!  I was talking with him and as usual had a huge stupid grin on my face.  He flashed a smile at me and of course I went nuts and then he really started wroking.  He got his left side into a smile, and held it there for a few seconds and then low and behold he got the right side up too!  I'm not expecting them to be a regular thing yet but...he SMILED at me on PURPOSE!  This is so exciting to me!  I LOVE their little baby smiles!