10 months old already?

Now Carter is 10 months and growing so fast! This morning we woke up to Dad cooking french toast, and all got to eat breakfast together! I have such a good boyfriend though :) Carter ate one piece by himself!

He likes to climb up the high chair, the game chair, the entertainment center, the coffee table, the cabinets, everything! He usually just climbs up it and stands there for a minute with no hands and then he is on to the next thing to stand up on! It's really cute, but I have been going crazy thinking that he is going to fall and get hurt. But Daddy's there to make me calm down and tell me to let him be!

Today is my sister's baby shower! She is having a boy, Drake on Aug 13! It's really cool because they will be a year apart! My brother's gf Rusti will be having a little girl any day now! Phew, put the pressure off me to have more babies! My brother and sister decided to give Carter some play mates and cousins his age! Now it is Misty and Becky's turn.. Jk :)

Yesterday we went to my work picnic and Carter ate a slice of watermelon all by himself!  He didn't mind nawing on the rind a little bit either!


We are moving! At first they denied us, but then called back and said our current and previous landlord gave us such a good reference they reconsidered! It's pretty cool because there are so many good things about this duplex. It has a park very close, it has a bathtub, DISHWASHER :), a place for a small dining table, and they said we could still put a swingset out for Carter. It seemed like they were more strict of landlords but at least they fix their properties when they break! So Carter's first birthday we will be living in a new house :) A better one at least!

I am so excited about Carter's first birthday, we will probably have it at Forest Park! That way it's in the middle for both families.

Carter must have been worn out from breakfast and playing with dad and mom. He has been sleeping for 2 and a half hours! It gave me time to get stuff ready! Now I want him to wake up and play!! RJ put the swing in the tree for Carter so that's our new daily thing! We have an extra one and are taking it to Grandma's so all the grandbabies can swing there!

swimming

Yesterday was our first day at the baby pool in Lawrence! It's free and it's so cute to see Carter play! It took him a minute, but he was ready to crawl around and splash! He watched the other kids a lot too, and tried leaning over several times to drink the water! lol. Thank goodness for hot days, I'm tired of the rainy ones! We want to get a tan!!

Carter has been waving bye bye now every time :) He is such a big boy! He will be a year old in 2 months!

It is official!!!!!!!!!!!

Carter is crawling!! Not just a few steps, but across the room to get where he wants!!! Oh goodness, it's time to clean and organize.

We are so proud of him :)

spitting out his peas!

Last night when I was feeding Carter, he would start laughing and peas would come out of his mouth. When he realized how fun this is, he starting blowing his lips so it would spray out! It was so funny, but we were trying not to laugh because we were telling him not to spit his food out!!

RJ mowed the lawn and there was a baby mole that had gotten away from her family. It was such a cute little mole! But we didn't stick it back in a hole because we thought we'd just be burying it (and we dont want it to grow up and start it's own mole family) but we just left it outside for some natural selection to take its course! Someone told me today to buy some juicy fruit gum and stick them in the mole holes and they will die! Moles you are going down! (but not the baby ones)

We had a great weekend! On Friday, Carter stayed the night with Uncle Dennis & Aunt Stella and had a great time :) He slept all night for them, and was just a happy baby! They had a hard time setting up the play pen, but Kim went over to help. It really is a pickle because it seems like it will break when you pull it hard, but it won't. We ended up going to the Quenemo Cemetery for Danny Sundae's memorial celebration (fancy way of saying getting wasted remembering the good times with him) After that, we went to visit Carmen for awhile and then went bowling in Lawrence! I got some strikes!! :) It was really fun and a nice relaxing evening. First time I've been drunk in awhile!

On Saturday we went to Sam's Club to get food, and bought Carter his very first swimsuit! Well, he has one but it was given to us by a friend and it's for the lake! It's Mickey Mouse and really cute! He has been saying ba ba da da now, it pretty much melts dad's heart.

We went to buy a lawnmower yesterday, but they didn't have the one we looked up online. We are wanting to get the yard all nice so it will be ready for Carter to play! I even thought about planting some flowers..! Our $30 garage sale lawnmower from last year is about 50lbs too heavy because the self propel on it broke, so going through the mole kingdom in our yard isn't the easiest. If anyone has an extra weed eater, feel free to donate it :) Our yard is kind of out of control.

almost crawling!

Carter has been a busy man, trying to crawl and all. He has been waving bye bye to not only mom and dad now! It's so cute :) He has been getting up on all fours and rocking!!We are pretty sure he is going to crawl soon!

He is 8 months old today :) On Uncle Ricky's bday! Happy Birthday Brother!!

We went on his first trip on Tuesday to Springfield, Mo because our uncle passed away. He was a good baby the whole time, and didn't fuss during the car rides or anything! He got to swim for the first time with grandma, mom and kla, and also got into a bath tub for the first time! ( we dont have one, we still use the infant/toddler tub) He really seemed to like swimming after he got used to it not being all nice and warm like his baths are! I was nervous because we were the farthest we've been from home but it was so nice hanging out and spending quality time with the family.

On Saturday at ten, we are going to a KU Research facility where a researcher is going to give carter toys to play with and pictures to look at and he'll be in a motion sensor room :) I think he'll have fun and of course they will love my cute little child! It's cool that he can be a participant in research when I work in the research field :)

I can't wait for this summer to buy Carter a little swimming pool, infant swing, and all sorts of fun stuff! We went garage saling last Saturday but not for long since it was a little chilly. I'm pretty sure they gave us a deal because of Carter's smiles :)

He is pretty much eating at the table with everyone else now (when we go out to eat) haha! We need a dining room! but anyways, carter has been eating big people food and loving every minute of it! Grandma gave him hard cheerios this weekend and he has such a good little pincher grasp! It may be because I had been giving him soggy ones the whole time lol. I didn't want him to choke! So now he is a finger food champ!!

new pics

 

playing ball with mom 

     

                                                               on dad's shoulders