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Rocking with his new dino from Nana & Papa - that has since been put away for his birthday.

Chatting, snuggling, hugging and kissing, with his newest favorite bear - Gus - from his Great Grandma. Carter ADORES this bear. Almost every morning and every nap he talks to Gus and snuggles him before falling asleep. And he always has Gus in his hands when I come in and get him in the am and from naps. Gus is a hit!

Carter's newest game - the head shake game. We came about this totally on accident. He was snuggling in my arms trying to get comfy and shook his head a bit, I shook my head back and he thought it was so funny. Back and forth we went and now it is a game we play and he often initiates.

Here's Carter doing one of his favorite things.... throwing his books off his shelf and/or throwing toys out of the baskets. Basically he likes to empty things/throw things :)

More videos coming tomorrow!

My Baby Love

Carter got an early birthday card in the mail the other day. The card sings "My Baby Love" and Carter adores it. He smiles every time it starts to play and even does some dance moves. We got his butt dance moves on video. He did his very first standing dance moves today while his card was playing! Joe and I both saw his little butt bopping up and down and were like OMG-did-you-see-that?!

Disregard the totally mismatched clothes... Carter just grew out of a ton of his pants and it was laundry day.

Littlest Valentine

My littlest valentine got his first Valentine's gift in the mail the other day. Thanks Grandma & Grandpa! We named the bear Valentino.

Kisses. With his eyes closed and everything! Oh boy, we're in trouble!

The many mouth expressions of Carter

This book was also part of his first Valentine's present. The cord is an ipod plug in cord that he loves to drag around.


He is constantly doing this goofy mouth. We say "Carter?! Where'd your lips go?!"

This baby is a climber! If I lay on the floor he is climbing all over me. Some views from below.

Still holding the cell phone. Always still holding the cell phone!










Hey, Mom, what are you doing down there?

On the go!

Mass destruction. One of his favorite things is to fling all his books off the shelf. Or throw diapers out of the drawer, etc.

dino!

Carter got his first first birthday present in the mail today! Little early....which means I have to find enough self control not to give it to him early. So stinking cute! Thanks Nana & Papa!

holy hell

I made Carter's one year well baby check up appointment today. Hu? One year well baby check up? I cannot wrap my head around this AT ALL.

Cartboo is FINALLY better! Talk about the never ending cold. 2+ weeks. Poor dude. We have gotten into a nasty little habit.... bottle before naps. I think at this point is is going to be harder for me to kick this habit than it will be for Carter. Now that he is go go go I don't get as much snuggle time. And snuggling before naps is some of the best snuggles ever. Just today he looked at me and shook his head. So I shook my head. He smiled, then shook his and had an apprehensive smile waiting for me to shake mine. Back and forth we went and I had a tear rolling down my cheek it was so stinking cute and funny. I could not stop laughing. So much for settling down before his nap. Ehh, who cares?! I cannot. stop. thinking. that in a few short months he won't be drinking bottles anymore and we won't have that excuse to snuggle in the rocking chair. He is growing up entirely too fast. This fast growing up is leading to some "bad" habits. But seriously, I have to cherish each and every single moment like this because before long I won't be able to get him to sit still at all. Ey, ey, ey.

Last night he cried a bit at 2am and normally we'd let him put himself back to sleep (which he does very well) but before I knew it I was half asleep and on my way to his room. My subconscious must be on the same page. The page reads like this "Must. Enjoy. Serious. Baby. Snuggles. As. Much. As. Possible."

I'm just slightly torn up that my tiny little newborn baby is about to turn one next month. When we're at Target and a little kid says "look at the baby!" I smile. He is a baby and I love that all kids point out babies. It is cute and funny and always makes me smile. But after he turns one he'll be a toddler. And I don't think little kids go "hey look at the toddler" Arg. I know one is only a number but my god where did the time go?

Arg, I suppose I have to let him grow up, hu? However, my dude is a lover. He snuggles his bears and blankets and loves to give the best open mouth sloppy baby kisses ever. Sometimes he'll be exploring and look over and see me watching him and he'll smile and crawl over to me and snuggle me or give me a kiss. For real, talk about melt your heart with a blow torch good.

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Remember when I told you that if Carter hears the dogs barking he goes to the gate and looks down? I got it on video. And remember how I said he puts his mouth towards the gate so he can give/get a kiss? Yep he did that at the very end. Oh and he's starting to cruise. You can see that too. Warning, you might get a little motion sick with this shaky video!

brrrrr baby it's cold outside!

Brrrrrr! Chilly! I needed a little visual warming up so here is the view from our villa in Cabo. I'm there in my mind right now warming up! (I promise all of our vacation pictures won't come one by one... I'm working on it)

A cute new thing in Carter's word...If he is playing in his room and hears the dogs barking he crawls to the top of the stairs and kneels up to the gate and looks down to see if he can see them. Usually Kody will run up the stairs and kiss his hands (that are holding on to the gate) then Carter will move his mouth towards one of the openings in the gate so that Kody can kiss him. Then he giggles and pulls back and looks at her, then moves forwards so she can give him more kisses. Super cute!