Nice Weather

We had some beautiful weather a couple of weeks ago, so Carson hung out on the front lawn while Steve and I got a little yard work done.

                                        

New Artwork

After remodeling our family room, we decided we needed some art above our fireplace. We had looked at a few pieces in our favorite furniture store (which has now closed ) but didn’t find the right color combination. We found out the artist was actually a store employee and she agreed to do a custom piece for us. She just finished it about a week ago…at 38 weeks pregnant!!! They brought it over and we absolutely LOVE it!! It is perfect for the colors and feel of the room. Here it is…what do you think??

What you can’t see in these pictures is our carpet in the room. It has a wavy pattern similar to that in the artwork.

6 Months

Today was Carson’s 6 month appointment. He is doing great! Ears are all clear now which was good news!

He’s in the 50th percentile across the board.

Head: 44 cm

Weight: 17 lb 3 oz

Height: 26.25 in

He’s sitting by himself (and has for a few weeks). He’s getting closer to crawling, but it will probably be a few weeks yet. He’s squawking like crazy. We call him the little pterodactyl.

He LOVES his food. He eats absolutely everything! This was the first week he ate food at daycare and the first two days I didn’t take enough food for him! Since I’m making all his food it’s frozen in ice cube trays. All total he’s eating between 12 and 15 “ice cubes” of food every day…probably about 12-20 oz of food. He’s had beef, chicken, turkey, cauliflower, green beans, peas, sweet potato, butternut squash, carrots, rice, oatmeal, apple, blueberries, banana, peas…I’m sure I’m forgetting some. I’m going to have to mass produce his food on the weekends to keep up with him…so tomorrow we’re off to Costco to buy a Vita Mix. I burned up the motor in our blender last night Can’t wait to see if it’s as good as people claim it is…if it’s not it’ll go back. I’m not going to pay that kind of money for an “okay” product!!

He also LOVES his baths. He splashed all over the places and tries to drink the yucky bath water out of the little cups he has.

He is so much fun these days. Steve and I feel so blessed to have such a happy easy going little guy.

“Raspberries”

On March 25th Carson started with his “raspberries”. What a mess…luckily he hasn’t tried it with a mouthful of food!!

Today we had his 6 month pictures taken. He was a little cranky part way through, but I think all in all it went well. We should get the website so we can view the pictures in a couple of weeks. Here are a couple of pictures Steve took of him tonight.

         

We are all still not feeling great. Steve’s cough is still lingering as is Carson’s and I’m just starting to get it. Carson and I both have ear infections as well and have both had eye infections in the last week!! We are so tired of being sick!! I can’t wait for us all to be healthy again! Fortunately Carson is not a very cranky sick baby. He’s still pretty mellow, easy, going, and happy even when he’s not feeling well.

Catching Up On All Our Recent Visits

Nana and Papa came to visit the weekend of March 5th. Carson got to show them all the new tricks he’s learned since Christmas. He also went on his first wine tasting trip! We had never done any wine tasting in Lodi, so we hit a couple of wineries. If you ever happen to be in the area, we really liked Klinker Brick! They do zins and only have 3. All 3 were really good! We also hit d’Art. We weren’t so keen on their reds, but they had a pretty good Pinot Grigio and a pretty good Port. Here are a couple of pictures of Nana and Papa with Carson.

         

         

The following weekend (March 12th), we were going to meet Amber and Alicia in San Francisco to go to the aquarium at Pier 39, but Alicia had the flu…yuck!! So we are rescheduling that trip hopefully sometime in April. We did meet up with Amber for brunch in Pleasanton at the Rising Loafer…yummy! It was a nice day so we took a quick stroll through Farmer’s Market too. They have a nice Farmer’s Market in Pleasanton!! We didn’t buy anything because we were headed to a camera shop in Walnut Creek, but we’ll have to go back sometime this spring or summer to check it out again.

We were going to go to dinner at Texas Roadhouse with Carrie and their friends to celebrate Carrie’s birthday, but Carson was not feeling well…and unfortunately this was the start of a cold (and nasty cough) that he STILL has! So we still need to meet up with Carrie and see their new addition once Carson (and now Steve) are both healthy again!

This weekend (March 19th) Kaci and Barb came down from the Chico area to see Carson. He still wasn’t feeling 100%, but was pretty good considering how nasty his cough sounds. It was great to see them both. I think we decided it had been around 5 years since we had seen eachother!! Way too long! It’s crazy how fast time goes. So we are definitely going to try to get together again before another 5 years go by!

So this past Tuesday Carson took the marathon nap…5 hours!!! Daycare told me he slept from 7am till noon! I’m glad they didn’t tell me that till the next morning, or I would have been afraid he wasn’t going to sleep Tuesday night, but he DID sleep though the night. And has been for the most part. This weekend he’s been waking up at 4:30ish for whatever reason, but he went back to sleep for a couple of hours.

He’s sitting up fairly well by himself now…occasionally he tips one direction or the other and can’t catch his balance. A lot of this has to do with whether or not he really “wants” to be sitting.

Steve got this shirt for him…it doesn’t make sense to most people because it’s partly computer humor, but it says “I TCP/IP but mostly IP”. 

I think that get’s us mostly caught up. Here’s a picture of him in his “jump jump”. He’s really into all the toys on it now and he stares at them so intently trying to figure out how they work as he’s playing with them.

Bath Time

Carson has finally outgrown his Puj Tub. We absolutely loved this bathtub that fit in our kitchen sink. It saved both of our backs I think! But he has reached the 17lb limit (or close to it) So it was time to graduate him to a “big boy” bathtub.

We have little rubber ducks that squirt water and every time Steve squirted water out of the duck, Carson would start cracking up. I’m not sure if it was the water or the sound it made that was funny to him, but funny it was! Here’s a video of him in the bath.

First Solid Food

I’m way behind…yet again!!! So March 1st we gave Carson his first solid food. We started him on oatmeal. I am trying to make all of his food. So far he has had oatmeal, brown basmati rice, butternut squash, chicken, carrots, avocado, and green beans. The only thing he really refused to eat was green beans and I think that was more of a texture thing than anything. They don’t puree up quite as nice as other foods. We figured we’d get him to like things that aren’t necessarily sweet before starting him on the fruits in hopes that he will continue to like the foods that aren’t as sweet…that and all the good fruits will be in season here pretty soon so there will be more to choose from.

Here is a (kind of long) video of Carson trying oatmeal for the first time.