Happy Birthday Sweet Buddy

My precious Carson turns one today, at 11:04 to be exact. He was 6 days last, but when he was ready, he was ready! A contraction woke me out of sleep at 6am. I quick took a shower and started packing a few last things because I knew he was coming. I had to get Audrey up quickly and gave her a pop tart. As I was rushing around, she said, "This is kinda a silly morning, isn't it Mama?" She knew something was up!

A few hours later, baby boy was born and I've been in love with him ever since! Both Chris and I love how he has blue eyes, because the rest of us have brown, it's a color we never even imagined one of our children could have! He has the sweetest smile in the world and he's always given it out easily, it's extra cute now that it has 6 teeth poking out. His chubby cheeks are the best!

Chris and I always say that Carson just loves being a baby. He's been crawling since five months and he's very very good at it. He's been able to stand up in the middle of the room for at least 1.5 months now and about a month ago, he took his first steps. He currently stands up all the time, maybe takes about 4 steps and then goes back to crawling. He also doesn't like change, he likes his formula nice and warm. We tried luke-warmish whole milk for the first time and he wanted nothing to do with it. We were not surprised. We love his babyness and plan to hang onto it as long as possible. It was fun when Audrey walked at 9 months and adapted to all changes like it was nothin', but it's fun now to see Carson take it nice and slow.

I love his sweet personality, he's not super easy going, but I think he's more laid back than Audrey was. His current favorite thing to do is play with balls and put things in their place. Like putting the balls in the toy car, the toy coins in the toy piggybank, and the cd's in the toy cd player. He will also look up at a light and say, "hot", so that's his first word! He loves to be outside, but isn't a big fan of letting his legs touch the grass, so he does a very effective bear walk that's pretty funny to see.

Buddy loves to be played with and is now actually starting to be very silly with his big sister, even initiating wrestling around with her. It's such a blast to see them together. There's just so much to say about this boy that I love, but I'll leave it at this now.

God has truly enriched our lives with this tiny boy. We simply adore him. Happy 1st Birthday to my tiny love, Carson Adam.....