Now on to my real point of this post. At 11 months Carter is 32 inches tall, 24lbs and handsome as ever! He has turned into even more of a lover and snuggler. Which I LOVE! Before naps and bed I hold him and we talk about our day or what we did, etc and he snuggles in and lays his head on my shoulder/into my neck and rests there. Sometimes with his eyes closed, sometimes open. He puts one hand up by his face to hold onto his blanket and he likes to stretch the other arm out straight against his side. Bonus points if he can stick that arm under my arm that is rubbing his back. I love love love our new little routine. I read somewhere about ending your day talking about the positive things of that day and I really like that. Ending on a positive no matter what happened. Although Carter has no idea what I'm talking about, me whispering to him totally gets him... relaxed? I'm not sure but the whispering totally makes him snuggle in and lets me love on him.
Speaking of all this loving, he still loves to give kisses and hugs too. He kisses his animals all the time and if Joe or I hug one of his animals he crawls over to us and hugs the animal too! One of my other most favorite things is when he is playing he'll look over at me and if the mood strikes him he crawls over to me super fast, with a smile on his face, and either kisses me or puts his head into my shoulder for a hug. LOVE!
Teeth. Carter now has 5 teeth. Bottom middle two, top middle two, and the top tooth next to the middle. Whatever that tooth is called! He is working on the left top tooth as well.
Carter also has his first ear infection. His eye had been worse the past week so I brought him into the doctor to discuss our next steps and to get some medicine for his eye. Turned out he had an ear infection too! Apparently an ear infection can also cause and eye infection and that was why his eye was so much worse. Poor guy! I had no clue he had an ear infection. Teething, eye infection and an ear infection. Yet he was still a mostly happy guy. Carter started some meds Monday and definitely seems to be back to his totally happy self. He's not a fan of the medicine though!
Regarding his clogged tear duct it looks like surgery is inevitable. We have a consult on March 30th - the soonest we could get in - and we'll go from there. We're also on the cancellation list in case something opens up. I'm hoping we get in for the consult before the 30th as everything I've read online says that the surgery has a greater success rate when it is done right at 12 months. We can't book the surgery before the consult so I'm hoping they aren't booked too far out.
To say I'm nervous about the surgery would be totally accurate and probably an understatement. They assure me it is an easy procedure.... but that's my dude we're talking about.
However the good news is that we don't have to go to Phoenix to have the surgery done. Our pediatrician's husband is an eye surgeon and has performed this surgery on kids hundreds of times. I'm very glad we can have this done close to home and not have to drive 2.5 hours before and after the surgery. Especially since there isn't much in between Phoenix and Flagstaff. I'm glad we'll be close to home and close to our pediatrician's, Dr McGarey's, watchful eye.
Speaking of Phoenix and turning one we have some fun stuff planned for Carter's first birthday. Joe has company meetings, in Phoenix, the morning of Carter's birthday so he's taking off the day before and we're heading to Phoenix. We plan to get Carter's hair cut (!), go to the zoo, play at the park, go out do dinner, etc. The possibilities are endless in Phoenix! Joe was researching the zoo and found out that the Phoenix zoo is rated in the top five for kid friendly zoos.
We're staying at the resort I used to work at - the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass. http://www.wildhorsepassresort.com Pretty excited to stay there as they have amazing landscaping and some great backdrops for pictures.
Some news regarding my other favorite dude... Joe got a promotion! Yeay! His hard work is paying off and being recognized. We're so proud of him! Plus it came at the most perfect time - after 3 days of complete anger and frustration with our house situation in MN. But I'm not even going to get into that as I decided I'm done wasting my time and energy on anger. I have much more important things to focus my energy on every day.
Since a post is worthless without pictures here is one of my favorites of me and my other favorite dude. And one of my favorites of my dude.
Oh and one quick funny story. While we were at the doctor's office Carter was crawling around on the floor while Dr McGarey and I talked. Carter crawled over to Dr McGarey's feet, touched her shoe, then got into a push up position and went down to taste her shoe. It was beyond funny! He left a nice wet mart on her leather shoe. Dr McGarey, being as great as she always is, laughs and goes "You know, kids that grow up on farms and playing outside have a lot less asthma, allergies, sicknesses etc because they are always putting things in their mouths and become resistant to a lot of junk." Carter looked up at her for a brief second and then went back down to taste her shoe again! Goofy dude! He was also standing and pulling on Dr McGarey's pant leg for her to pick him up. She obliged and he flirted like mad with her. We're definitely going to miss her when we move!
Ok this post is really scattered and rambly. Adios! One more picture - I was picking random pages from my flickr account and posting my fave from that page of results. Look what I found! Carter when he was a tiny tiny babe.
Ok this post is really scattered and rambly. Adios! One more picture - I was picking random pages from my flickr account and posting my fave from that page of results. Look what I found! Carter when he was a tiny tiny babe.
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