Play Time

My old co-worker adopted a baby girl who was born just 12 days before Carson. We saw them a couple of times this month and Carson and Lola loved playing together. It was he first time that Carson really played with another baby.

Carson gave Lola a hug out of nowhere so we hurried to get it on the camera

This was right before or right after Carson bit Lola's toes

This was a couple weeks after at Lola's 1st birthday party.

My other co-worker had Brynn in July.

11 Months and WALKING

So the day after Carson turned 11 months, Carson and I were playing downstairs and Carson totally started walking. I got so excited and tried really hard to get it on camera for Chyler but Carson just wanted to play with the camera. So it has been almost two weeks and he is still really cautious about walking but we can go all the way across the house without falling, it's so cute. Anyway, here's the video I took about a week later and his 11 month pictures.

Hugs and Kisses

I just wanted to write a quick note, more so I can remember when it happened. But for about the past week Carson has been giving hugs and I LOVE IT! He has been giving kisses for a few months but they are very few and far between, sometimes he will just come up and give me a kiss and it is a huge surprise. But as far as hugging goes, he would just cuddle up to you before which was sweet but now he puts his arm around your neck and squeezes and pats your back. It is the sweetest thing. I am so grateful that I can be home with Carson all day long so I can experience all of these amazing milestones with him.

Baby's First Christmas

This Christmas was spent in St. George, UT with my sister, Trina's family. We went up on Christmas Eve day and came home the day after Christmas. Christmas morning, the kids (and I admit I wanted to as well) wanted to wake up at 7:00am which is earlier than Carson is up so we ended up waking him up. Then with the overwhelmingness that is six kids and a room full of presents, he was a little too distracted to really understand what was going on. So Chyler and Carson just hung out on the couch for a while to get their bearings, then we dove into the presents. Once he started playing with them all, he was enjoying himself. And we saved his big present for last which was his dump truck that makes fun noises, he loves it. So brace yourself because I took a ton of pictures.

The poor little boy couldn't stop yawning.

This is one of my favorite pictures, it's not very often that I get a real smile like this Me and Trina Me and Britney

Pre-Christmas

The weekend before Christmas we did some celebrating. On Friday night we had a Vegas-Hales family Christmas party at Jodi's house. We had a fantastic dinner and played the gift-exchange game afterwards. It was tons of fun.

We got some more fun pictures of Mannix and Carson together again, Carson opened up a little more since Thanksgiving.

One of the gifts was these antlers. This picture wasn't taken very quickly before he yanked them off his head.

Then on Sunday night, we had dinner over at Jason's because my parents were in town so we exchanged gifts from them.

Opening his first present ever. The blocks were from Aunt Jodi and he loves playing with them.

You can see his three teeth. This is his "give me what you have" look.

Up to No Good

These are some pictures of Carson from around the house. He is clearly doing things that he shouldn't be like playing with the remote and computer, standing on his walker, and taking all the socks out of my laundry basket. He is lucky he is so dang cute!!

10 Months

Every single month I take Carson's monthly picture and think about all the new things he has done that month but I never seem to get it on here. So this month I am actually going to do it and also show all the pictures I have been taking. Amazingly, Carson is now ten months and I can not believe he is that old but I can barely remember how it was before he arrived, except for the great sleep I used to get. But we love him so much and we always have so much fun with him. Most the time I just sit and watch him play because it cracks me up listening to him talk to himself and stare intently on items like he is trying to figure them out. Here are some things he is doing now or has been doing for a while:

• Crawling but he still sometimes prefers his army man crawl when he is in a hurry
• Climbing onto everything
• Falling down from everything and bumping various parts of his body
• Playing hide and seek in his walker
• Climbing the stairs and going down on his tummy, face first mind you
• Clapping all the time, especially when he hears clapping on TV
• Going through all the drawers he can reach and pulling everything out
• Still pushing anything he can with his walker, including the Tupperware lids and towels he pulls out of my drawers (I'm not loving this one)
• He has 3 teeth which really, really hurt when he bites your finger
• Still loves to eat and just stares at you until you share like he's a little puppy
• He was sleeping through most the night until he started teething and now I can't get him back to that
• Still not a fan of strangers or big groups, he just stares and gives no reactions
• He loves to talk and make noises with his tongue
• Dances when he hears music or at least stops and looks around to see where it is coming from
• Always tries to get to the computer and laser mouse with a red light and pushes your hand away when you are using it
• Loves to watch his daddy when he is working around the house and playing with his tools
• Turning on and off the TVs with the remote or the button on the big screen
• He drops his toys while shopping so you have to pick them up fifty times
• He growls all the time and squints his eyes when he is being funny
• And generally loves to be involved with anything and everything that we are doing

I am sure there are tons more things he does that I am not thinking about but all I can say is that I love this little guy!!

As you can see, I tried several times to get a good 10 month picture but he wasn't

really working with me.