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.

Great Visit

Okay, so this post is a little out of order…oh well. My roommate from college, Lily is pregnant and due in April. I went to her baby shower in Santa Rosa Sunday 2/20. It was so great to see her!! She and her husband just recently moved back to California, so I’m hoping maybe we’ll see eachother a little more often than every 6 years!! Here is a picture of Lily looking very cute…and Carson not being very cooperative. And of course he had Sophie the Giraffe with him…one of his favorite things to chew on is Sophie’s nose.

Cousins

We met Grandma Prudhel and Cousin Shawn for dinner last night. Then we headed over to visit Auntie Carol, Uncle Jim, and Cousin Samantha. Here’s a picture of the cousins.

First Trip to the Park

We have a park just a couple of blocks from our house. Saturday we took Carson down to the park for the first time. Wasn’t the best day to be down there. Although it looked like a beautiful day it was COLD! We didn’t stay too long.

Carson loved the swing!

           

He didn’t quite know what to think about the slides.

            

Rolling Over Again

Last Saturday (2/19) Carson started rolling over from his back to his tummy. He is now a pro and is doing it all the time!

Here’s a video of him. You’ll have to excuse my horrible videography skills!