Blog: December 2011

Playing "with" Carson has typically involved when we touch a toy Carson grabbing it and wanting to play with it.  But a couple times now he has shared his toys and rolled them back and forth!  This was his first present from daycare he got to open early.

I love collecting ornaments as souvenirs from places we've visited and writing the date and who gave me specific ornaments. I still remember and Ross has the same ornament he got for his first Christmas. We decided we need to carry the tradition on and get Carson his first ornament as well. Our Christmas tree isn't fancy and doesn't have a theme but looking at it brings back such great memories.

Carson had Cream of Wheat at daycare one day and loved it.  So we went and bought him some of it to try at home.  Lets put it this way, he is eating an adult sized portion all by himself at breakfast.  He even tried to feed himself the other day.  It mostly worked except when he put the wrong end of the spoon into his mouth or wasn't able to feed himself fast enough.

Carson's eczema has been doing a lot better with the perscription cream and aquaphor lotion.  We tried a soy based formula for about two weeks per our doctor with no real difference noted so back to regular formula (and appreciating its smell).  Just glad we can control it now and not have the open sores.

After a period of not sleeping through the night again we took our doctors advice and let Carson cry it out.  The first night I slept in the basement so I wouldn't have to hear him crying and after a couple nights of crying for periods he has been sleeping great.  He now takes two naps a day with one in the morning and one in the afternoon anywhere from 45 min to 1.5 hours.

Carson is on the move

• Crawling all over the place
• Pulling up to kneeling easily and occasionally up to standing
• When holding his hands he will take steps at times
• Have moved the plants, papers and a lot of the pretties out of the way but will still hear "no carson (occasionally the middle name too)"