Not-a-Lotta

Hello blog readers.....
I don't think there are many of you left out there, but I felt like typing a little, so here's a small blog:

Yesterday I felt especially imprisioned in our 4X4 living room with the two kids all day long, so I said, 'that's it, we're going outside!" So I bundled both kids up, Audrey can do a lot of her own dressing now, so it wasn't too much work, and plopped them both in the wagon. On a side note, my wagon from Gran E (hi Gran!) has been everything I hoped it would be and more. It's the trash transportation system when the walk to the corral with 100lbs of garbage seems too daunting to carry and it's my method of getting several heavy boxes to the garage and back in one trip. Aside from saving my back and easing the load, it's also good for it's normal purpose, pulling kids around! They loved it! Carson sat like a champ and Audrey was excited to be riding with her brother. Afterwards they played in the snow a bit. Audrey and I got a good chuckle out of Carson's indifference to being in the snow :)

 

A few nights ago, I made tortilla roll-ups for Mops Spa Day, which was this morning (they have to sit in the fridge for 24 hrs). I'm realizing more and more that Audrey is capable of doing so many things! She helped me for a good 1/2 hour spreading the ingredients on the tortillas, she loved every second of it. Doesn't she look like such a big girl in this picture?

 

We're all so ready for spring, it's getting hard to find fun things to do in the house! Today Audrey put her leotard on and started 'doing gymnastics'. I caught her mid jump, off the paper towel package and over the ring :) Carson is entertaining himself by crawling all over the place and pulling himself up on anything he can reach. He can often be found under the table :)

 

 

 

I was just telling my mom about my woes over how I struggle endlessly with the art of making dinner. She took pity on me and said she owed me a dinner (since she didn't do one after Carson was born, so she says) and brought us supper tonight! It was so fun to not have to waste a thought on what to make! It was a Mexican-ish chicken cassarole, very very yummy! Corn bread muffins too! Audrey thought the muffins were great because they looked like cupcakes :) Thanks mom! Here is her masterpiece!

 

 

 

Today I was video taping Audrey on my phone, per her request, and she got quite the giggles watching her videos back, I love her sweet genuine smile here :) 

 

 

So there's a random little blog :) I suppose that's all I have to say for now, ta-ta!!!

7 & 8 Months Old!

Our little buddy is 8 months.....

Now that you're 8 months, you

• crawl all over the place (started during 1st week of you 7th month)
• pull yourself up on any surface you can reach and then shuffling along that surface to another one, like the coffee table to the couch.
• go up the steps!
• play "So Big!"
• play, "I'm gonna get you" with Mommy. I crawl after you and you squeal and try to get away, smiling the whole time.
•  are so glad when Daddy gets home from work, you crawl straight to him
• love any attention from your big sister
• wear 12mo. clothing
• drink 4 bottles/day along with baby food 3X/day
• only eating vegetables and bananas, you shudder at all other fruit
• hate car rides, most of the time
• love to be played with, playing alone isn't fun for you :/
• are being a stinker and standing up in your crib when you should be napping
• still have no teeth
• are getting more and more hair each day
• sleep about 12 hours through the night and take 2 good naps in the day
• have the biggest, sweetest smile and bright blue eyes
• still like to suck on Mama's chin
• starting to drool a lot
• bring so much joy to our familiy and are an amazing baby boy (who is growing too fast

We love you sweet Carson Adam!!!!
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Playing with Daddy

Standing at the play table

Sneaky boy!

I love this sweet baby face

My sweet boy and I

6 Months Old!

At 6 months you:

• Are too big for your 6mo clothes and we're moving onto 9mo and eve 12mo in some brands.
• Eat about 8oz bottles every four hours
• Do not like eating food. We tried rice & oatmeal cereal and a few variations of veggies/fruit and you shudder with disgust when you taste them, gag, and refuse to open your mouth!
• Are now waking up again at night, around 1am. Mommy doesn't know what else to do so she just feeds you and you usually go back to sleep.
• Have been sleeping in your crib in Audrey's room, but we might put you back in ours since you're waking up again now!
• Take 2 solid naps and maybe a little one in the evening.
• Are sitting up very very well!
• Very curious, looking at and touching everything you see. Your hands are very busy now!
• Love to grab faces
• Smile all the time. All someone has to do is look at you and say hi and you smile :)
• Say 'da da da da da da da da'
• Love and are amused by your sister
• Keep a good eye on Daddy whereever he goes, you love to watch him and big him big smiles
• Don't like your car seat
• Are only happy while shopping if I hold you in my baby carrier.
• Most like to play on a blanket on the floor with your toys, the exersaucer isn't quite as fun to you as it once was.
• You can stand at the coffee table, holding your own weight and balancing for a bit, then I catch you.
• Are not afraid of strangers and are happy for anyone to hold you (so far!)
• Are a good and sweet boy, so precious and loved!!!

We cannot believe you are 1/2 a year already Carson Adam!

5 Months Old!

Carson Adam is five months old today!

 

At 5 Months You:

• Are so precious :) You are adorable, sweet, quiet, and a rather easy baby if I do say so myself!
• Wearing 6mo clothes that are getting tight!
• Weigh 18lbs
• Are getting awfully heaving to tote around in that car seat
• Sitting if propped forward on your arms, but aren't an official sitter since you'd fall right backwards if we let you
• Enjoy playing in your excersaucer, lying on your tummy or back on blanket with toys, sitting in your bumbo seat, and being played with and talked to by your family.
• Take about 3 naps a day. Usually you are quite a good napper.
• Drink 4-5 bottles a day, aroudn 6-8oz each
• Have been switched to a differnent formula made to reduce spit up and it helps so much! All of us aren't soaked in spit up anymore!
• Still get a kick out of your sister
• Get glad when Daddy comes home, you love to watch him and keep eye contact with him as he moves around the room
• Give smiles out very easily, unlike your sister did at your age
• Are noticably not as much of a noise maker as your sister was at this age.
• Have no interest in rice cereal, we tried at 20 weeks and you make the most disgusted faces! We'll try again in a month or so!
• Had your baby dedication at church
• Are still sleeping in your pack n play in Mom and Dad's room because I don't feel quite right about you sharing with your sister yet
• Are for sure sleeping through the night with an occasional getting up one time to eat, but mostly sleeping through about 10-11 hours.
• Always turn over to your tummy for sleeping and usually such your (left) thumb.
• Flap your arms and kick your legs when you're excited and giggle when your tummy is tickled!
• As always, are an incredible little blessing to our family

At the Children's Museum

 

 Supporting yourself

 

With Mommy & Daddy at your dedication

 

 Special Grandma Jackie time



Happy 6th Anniversary!

I met Chris Lewis at Culver's in 2002, already 10 years ago! About 8 years ago we started dating, and as of tomorrow, we'll have been married 6 years! It goes soooo fast! I'll spare everyone the sappiness and just say that I love you so much Chris and happy anniversary!!!

4 Months Old!!!

At 4 Months You Are:

• Wearing 3/6 month clothing
• Still eating every 3-4 hours, mostly every three
• Going to bed around 10:30, wake up at 2a, eat, sleep until 5a, eat, sleep until 9a.
• Resisting a consistant schedule and keeping Mommy guessing as to how to get you to sleep through the night!
• 17.5lbs, which is at the 89th percentile
• 80th percentile for length and 94% for head
• Strong and healthy
• Grabbing at everything! It's fun to see you reach for toys and our faces.
• Interested in our food and love to grab out for cups and trays at restaurants
• Happy to hang out in your exersaucer or under any mobile you can bat at
• Giggling a lot more, when we are silly with you or tickle you
• Light up when you see a familiar faces and give lots of smiles to your sister first thing in the morning
• Grab your toes!
• Willing to be on your tummy longer now. You hold your head up so well and reach out for toys.
• Follow us around the room with your eyes, you love to watch Daddy walk around!
• Enjoying being in the bath tub, you love to kick and splash around :)
• Getting awfully close to turning over onto your tummy.
• Still sleeping in the pac n play in our room. We will move you to your sister's room when you stop waking up 2x/night!
• So wonderful and precious! We love your tiny face and your big blue eyes, don't grow up too fast little sweetheart!

3 Months Old!

Look at me grow!

At 3 months you:

• Eat every 3-4 hours, 6 oz each time
• Sleep from about 11p to 5a, eat, then sleep until 8:30 or even 9.
• Don't sleep through the night like your sister did at this time, but I don't mind getting up once with you :)
• Have outgrown your bassinette and we set up the pac n play instead, now you have room to stretch out
• Wear 3mo and 3/6mo clothing
• Have grown your top hair back, but are loosing side and back hair now!
• Rolled over 4 times from your tummy to your back!
• Will giggle on occasion when we play with you
• Adore your big sister and will stare and smile at her for a long time while she sings and talks to you
• Love sitting in your exersaucer!
• Really reach out for toys and faces now and grab on!
• Like patty-cake and other such games
• Don't drool much, but still spit up a ton!
• Are a sweaty boy, you must have some Erickson genes!
• Still have beautiful blue eyes
• Have the most kissable chubby cheeks
• Weighed 14lbs, 3 oz at your 2 mo check-up, your sister weighed 12lbs at that time!
• Like to ride on Mom and Dad in a baby holder. You like facing out and starting at the world
• Took a trip to the Mall of America and Quarry Hill. You did great at both.
• Light up and start cooing when people talk to you.
• Are an absolute joy and blessing. Such a beautiful baby boy who is growing much too quickly!

Some pictures as of late!

We love you sweet 3mo old!

My 10 Weeker

Hi guys, it's me, Carson Adam.....

 

A few updates at 2.5 months old:

• He found his left thumb on 8/25 (10weeks old) and has been sucking it quite a bit ever since!
• Has started to make little spit bubbles :)
• It filling out the 3mo. clothing quite well
• Has gotten an ear infection at week 9 and got his first antibiotics
• Is 13lb 11oz at 9 weeks
• Is now batting at his mobiles more and more
• Played patty cake with Mama and gave her three tiny giggles
• Is getting cuter and cuter and cuter!

Following in his sister's footsteps!

Playing dress up with Audrey.

Being cooperative for his 10 week picture

Hanging out with Daddy at his 1st Faribault tournament

2 Months Old

At 2 Months You:

• Have been giving us big beautiful smiles since 5 weeks old
• Are cooing up a storm
• Give strong eye contact to people and objects
• Your favorite items are you mobiles, you spend lots of time watching them move :)
• You are very intrigued by your sister, you look all around for her when you hear her voice
• Are wearing a lot of 3 mo. onesies, but are probably really a 0-3mo size.
• Still eat well every 3 hours
• Are unpredictable with naps. Sometimes you'll put yourself to sleep perfectly in your bassinette, will need to be rocked to sleep and then put on your tummy, or will cry and cry and cry and refuse to give into sleep!
• Your eating schedule on average: 7:30a, 10:30a, 1:30p, 4:30p, 7:30p, 10:30 (and then go to bed), and finally 3:30ish in the middle of the night!
• You take about 5 naps if all goes perfectly.
• You still have quite the hard time in the evening, you will fight sleep and will not be soothed!
• Just today you have been sucking on your left hand quite a bit when you are tired. You got your thumb in there on time. Do we have another thumb sucker in our midst? Maybe!
• LOVE TO BE HELD! It's very clear that you love to be in someone's arms :) (except for those rough evening hours when even our arms don't help!)
• Will sit in Mommy's lap and look at books while she reads them to you.
• Have much smoother skin. Your first month was plagued with baby acne, but it is no more!
• Had lost some hair on top, like a balding man, but are know growing it back
• Still have blue eyes and dark brown hair
• LOVE TO STAND! You get a eager, determined look on your face when we hold on to you and stand you up. You are so strong!
• Are the most precious little guy and Mommy doesn't want you to grow any faster!