Fall 2011

This has been such a great fall! In fact I think this weekend is really the first “cold” weather we’ve had.

Mid October we went to Apple Hill with Steve’s mom. Apple Hill is just east of Placerville. It was a gorgeous day…actually quite warm! Carson went on his first pony ride.. which he loved!! His pony’s name was Blackie. He walked around in the pumpkins (and blended in) and ran around in the field a bit. We also got some delicious apples and apple-y baked goods…apple fritters, apple doughnuts, and apple strudel. We made some apple sauce that weekend too.

                      

 

    

Carson picked out a little pumpkin and the night before Halloween we carved it. We kept it simple since the attention span was quite short. He wanted to play with the lid and bang the spoon around inside.

                           

And finally on Halloween we went trick or treating with his little friend Sofia and her parents. The kids had a good time. They wanted to walk into everyone’s house. It was pretty cute!

                                 

Carson is 1!!

So actually he turned one 8 days ago on October 3rd…but as usual, I’m behind!

I can’t believe a year is already gone. It seems like we blinked and it was over. It is amazing to think of everything he has accomplished in a single year!

• He is now a master walker (most of the time moving at a speed closer to a run!!)
• He has a small arsenal of words…hi, mama, dada, daddy, nom nom (this is our word for his pacifier), bye bye, nigh nigh
• He loves to read books!
• He loves his kitties…especially Coco Bean since she doesn’t generally run from him. He’s actually pretty gentle with her too!
• He loves to be outside although he’s still not so sure about grass.
• He loves swings!
• He has the sweetest little giggle and is always smiling.
• He has 6 teeth…the 6th one popped through a few days after his birthday.
• He always has to have something in at least one hand if not both.
• He likes to “sing” and/or “dance” to music.
• He does NOT like bubbles (or bubble baths)
• He loves to go for bike rides…although we haven’t managed to go in a while.
• He generally sleeps from 8pm to 6:15am.
• He loves his little buddy Sofia from daycare (which is good because we switching from daycare to a nanny share with Sofia’s family).

He’s generally a happy, easy going little boy who is absolutely everything to me and Steve!

Since I’ve been awful at posting, here are a few pictures

       

Carson ate the entire carrot cake cupcake after eating a huge lunch! He methodically ate all the frosting off the cupcake first then ate the cupcake.

      

Sofia got Carson a cell phone for his birthday. They were both walking around during the party with the phones to their ears saying “hi”

When we did Carson’s 1 year pictures, the photographer let Steve use their lenses and their Canon 1D Mark 3 to take pictures at the same time. She also gave him some pointers for taking pictures of him in the future. We haven’t gotten the pictures back from the photographer yet, but here are some pictures that Steve took. I haven’t had a chance to do any color correction or editing yet.

                                                                                          

The last picture is Carson in all his biking gear!! He loves riding on the back of the bike!

Don Pedro Lake

We went up to Don Pedro with our neighbors the last weekend in July. Carson did really well on the patio boat. It took a little to get him to take a nap, but he finally did. He loved being in the water and had fun crawling around on the boat. Maybe next year we’ll take him out on the jet ski.

We’ve Got A Walker In The Making

Well, I know I am way behind on posting, so I’ll try to catch up here soon. We’ve been busy this summer…we’ve been to the Oakland Zoo, Don Pedro Lake, and met up with lots of friends. It’s been a great summer!

Back to last night…

Carson officially turned 11 months last night. We were at our friend’s house for dinner and… Carson decided to start taking his first steps!! He started taking 2-3 steps between their cabinets. Today he started to get a little more adventurous.  I’m sure it will just be a matter of time before he’s off and running.

We caught him on video tonight.

Walking

4th of July Camping Trip

I’m slowly trying to catch up on everything. Carson’s first camping trip was a success!! We went camping at Standish Hickey Camp Ground near Leggett with my parents and my uncle. He did really well on the car ride up there. We had perfect weather! It was in the mid 80’s during the day and the high 40’s/low 50’s at night. We had to bundle him up a bit so he didn’t get cold, but he did really well. He loved walking his wagon up and down the road and liked riding in his wagon up and down the road even better! He also loved splashing around in his little “pool” (which was actually his bath tub when he was littler).

Here are some pictures from our trip…hopefully I an get my act together and get a couple of videos up soon too!

                      

Splashing in the “pool”. He LOVES the water!

                          

What…you don’t like pictures Uncle David??

                   

Camp

                      

                       

      Playing with Nana through the “Kiddie Corral”    

Riding in his wagon…we couldn’t push him fast enough!

Pushing his wagon up and down the road.

Carson thought Papa’s hat was pretty cool! 

Scary “End of the Camping Trip” picture