Six

I tried to come up with a cute way to say “Carson is 6 months”, since, you know, my sweet little boy is 6 months old today, but I’m tired so this is the best I got.

Time seems to have gone so fast these past six months. (click here for Carson’s first blog post with a picture…)

Newborn-hell seems so long ago: when the crying never seemed to stop, when I could NEVER put him down EVER because he’d start crying, when it seemed all he wanted to do was nurse almost all the time and I was crying because I was in so much pain. And let’s not forget when I called my mom when Carson was four days old, and I was sobbing because I was afraid we’d made the hugest mistake by having another baby because Mallory was going to hate me forever and oh my GOSH it was going to be so hard having two kids and I was never going to survive my husband’s insane work schedule (since I barely survived it when I only had one child).

SURPRISE! I did survive, and I’m doing a million thousand times better than I thought I would be doing a month into the season.

And who wouldn’t be with this hunka-chunka handsome baby to call their own and kiss on whenever I want? Yes, there are times I go into his room and smooch him while he’s sleeping…

But seriously – I think there are two big factors. One being that Mallory is such a little person now, that I don’t feel so alone and isolated with Rick being gone so much. She & I have a blast just talking and I laugh at her all the time (her latest? “I need to hide under a tree” because the sun was in her eyes…).

The second reason I’m doing so well is that Carson has evolved into a wonderful little boy. The sleepless nights seem soooo long ago and even though he still wakes up once in the night to nurse, it works for me because we both fall back asleep. If we had to fight to get him to sleep again or if he was getting up numerous times, I’d have a problem.

He is happy and smiley so much of the time. He has started to make this little face where he purses up his lips – it looks like he is trying SOOOO hard to not smile. He can sit and play with toys for the longest time now, and he is *just* starting to reach forward from a sitting position so that he falls forward onto his tummy. The daycare ladies keep telling me they think he’s *this close* to getting his knees up underneath him so he can start crawling, and I think that new “fall forward” move is evidence that it’s about to start!

He LOVES taking a bath – he can be in the middle of a crying session and as soon as I put him on the floor of the bathroom and he hears the water running – it’s all giggles and smiles. He will splash and kick and play for a good amount of time…his baths usually last as long as it takes me to check some email and some blogs on my phone while I’m sitting next to the tub ;-).

Mallory has been doing so well too – her meltdowns & tantrums are still minimal and we can usually talk through whatever issue we have. She is still the doting big sister and Carson’s face lights up when he sees her.

I’m sure I’m forgetting stuff that I wanted to include in this post (when I was thinking about it in my head, I imagined it being way longer) but we’ll stop here. But check back for an updated post in case this post grows…

But – before I forget – happy half-birthday sweet baby boy. We love you!