pouty swing

He LOVED it at first....

updates and other stuff to come soon!

5 month stats

Bug is five months old!

His stats:
weight 18lb 12oz - 90%
height 28.25 inches - 95%

big kid :)

I have lots of pics to upload, 5 month pictures still to take, and some updates.

sorry no pics in this post! What good is a post without pictures? I am sitting here filling in Bug's baby book and Joe is on the good computer so no picture uploading tonight :( Lo siento. (sorry)

toys!

Thanks Nana for the new toy :)

butts

true!




such a big kid - those pants are size 12 months


Baby Butt



Little Butt


Big Butt


fuzzi bunz for my baby butt

Frogs and Rain

Tucker is really ready for monsoon season to be over! His new hiding place

Carter bounces himself in the bouncy chair and has a talk with Ribbits. Also on vimeo. Warning, I am not a professional video taker and you might end up veryyyy dizy! In the works is a four month video compilation...

What's new and better late than never!

First, a four month picture. Better late than never.... considering he's going to be 5, yes FIVE, months a week from Monday. Craziness.

Carter has hit some big milestones recently. Feet. He found them, he loves them, he talks to them, they keep him up when he is supposed to be napping. They are the greatest thing since squash in Carter's book.

Sitting up. Carter loves to sit up. He is always pulling forward and is doing really well sitting on his own. He also loves the red pillows we have on the cough. He lunges for them and tries to eat them.

Finding things and passing them from one hand to the other. Carter is now aware that when things fall to the side that he can turn his head and find them and then tell his hands to go get it! He is constantly pulling Radar, Ribbits, or the blanket bears to him. And if he flings it to the side, no biggie, he can find it again! Carter is also big on hugging his animals :) He loves to pull them to his face and squeeze them.

Radar getting some love

Eating solids. So far Carter's menu has included - squash, banana, avocado, peas, and peaches. So far his favorite is squash. Peas weren't a hit, and peaches he seems to like after he gets over the taste of the first few bites :) I have been making all of his food - the noncook makes baby food! We blend, bake, boil, mash, and put in ice cube trays and into the freezer they go. Making his food has been so easy and I like knowing exactly what he's getting.

Carter is still head over heals in love with his sippy! He sees it and his eyes light up and he reaches out for it :)

His other favorite thing to chew on is Sophie. I never understood the craze for this rubber giraffe, but I totally get it now and I'm on the Sophie bandwagon big time! This little lady comes with a rather hefty price tag considering she's a rubber giraffe, but she is worth every penny! Her neck and legs are the perfect size for little fingers to grasp onto, and her face with her bumpy ears, horns and mouth make for some great chewing!

We've also moved Carter into his big boy crib (as we call it) aka his own room. He did so great with the transition... I, on the other hand, had a tough time with it. The first night I walked into our bedroom and past the empty pack n play.... sad :( He is growing up so fast. What happened to the little baby that was swimming in the newborn sleeper?

And now he's a big kid sleeping in his big kid crib in his own room!

Although I have to admit it is fun to finally be using the room we prepared for him for months before he was born. I would go up and sit in his rocking chair and think "wow in a few months I'll have a baby in my arms that I'll be rocking to sleep" and now I actually have Carter in my arms to rock to sleep :) While pregnant I organized and sat in Carter's room quite a bit. I remember organizing his closet looking at the newborn size sleepers and thinking "wow do babies really come out that big?" Just last week I was organizing a tub full of clothes he's outgrown and saw a newborn sleeper and remembered when he was just a wee little thing that fit in there and slept on my chest for hours on end. Just yesterday I found a newborn size diaper and I had to take it outside to show Joe. "Look how small this is!" I said.

And if you're looking at the pictures above and wondering why Carter's diapers are blue and yellow it's because we've gone cloth full time. Yep, I make baby food and cloth diaper my kid. I know some people have been shocked that I would make all of Carter's baby food and especially cloth diaper, but we do and we like it! The food is easy. We're still working out some kinks with the diapers. Cloth isn't as absorbent as a disposable and we're still working on a nighttime combo that doesn't leak - hence why Carter is sleeping on the blue sheet saver in the crib pictures above. Changing a crib sheet and mattress pad is way harder than changing a pack n play mattress and mattress pad.

That about sums up what is new over here. We're all happy, healthy, and loved and enjoying the little things each day!

Mpls part tres

Finally part three of Mpls. Monday Carter and I went to visit some of my friends from college. Jamie and her son Brady, 8 months, Sarah and her daughter #2 Olivia, 2 months, and Becky. We sat around catching up and loving on babies! It was so fun to get together and it really made me want to move back ASAP. Brady has some wild hair and such a cute smile - he even looks at the camera and smiles. And somehow, as we were taking the picture below, he knew which camera to look at! So cute! We woke Olivia up for the picture but she wasn't too into these boys.. but watch out that girly is a cutie!

Carter, 4 months, Brady, 8 months and Olivia, 2 months. Aren't they cute?! Joe loves this picture and how they have their arms around each other. So cute!

We spent most of the week getting in some quality time with Nana and Papa. Swimming, going for walks, sitting in the back yard or on the swing, lazing in the hammock, etc. Carter was loved on like crazy :)

Carter says: "geesh, not that big black thing again"

he loves to show off his belly


chatting with Papa


relaxing - he loved the hammock


Nana, Papa, Max and Carter

Later in the week we headed out to Edina to meet up with Carter's first girlfriend, Pen. Aren't they cute?

We also went to hang out with Stephany and Luca. Luca is 2.5 and totally blew me away! He is talking. Talking, talking. Like conversation talking. I have never met a 2.5 year old who talks like that. It was crazy!

All in all we had an amazing time at home. It made me want to move back like crazy!!! We also need to send a big thank you and baby giggles out to Nana and Papa who made our trip soooo much easier. We really appreciate all the baby stuff you got in preparation for our arrival. It made is so much easier to pack knowing we had the essentials in MN already. We didn't have to "make do" at all :) And that is hereditary!