Carson, video

He’s crawling!!

October 13, 2009

The pediatrician said yesterday that it wouldn’t be long before Carson started actually crawling…

For as much as Mallory is laughing about Carson crawling, I have a feeling that when he starts moving to grab her toys, she’s not going to think it’s very funny.

Carson, Mallory

A quick lunchtime entry

October 13, 2009

I realized that while I’ve been sharing tons of pictures lately, I haven’t done much “this is what we’re up to” posts. And really, while you may like my pictures more than my words, this blog isn’t really about you – it’s about me, or rather my kids, and I need to do some writing to remember.
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Carson had his 6-mo well-child visit yesterday. He weighs almost 19lbs and is 27.5”. Both are good numbers and the nurse commented “I don’t think we have to worry about him hitting 20lbs by the time he’s one!”. Um, I could …

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Carson, Football, Mallory, stb

Show Us Your Life – Tailgates and Favorite Teams

October 9, 2009

WARNING – THIS IS A VERY LONG BLOG POST!!!
One of the blogs I follow (Kelly’s Korner) has a regular “Show us your life” blog carnival, where she invites her readers to, well, show our life. Kelly is from the south and is a big Arkansas fan and it’s been fun to read how they do tailgating and football, etc, so when she had this theme, I just had to do a post about how “we” do it up here at Michigan! Plus, I don’t have my pre-baby life displayed on this blog anywhere, you know the stuff from when I …

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Carson, Mallory

“Hi Snuggly Boy”

October 6, 2009

That’s what Mallory calls Carson.
I mean, really. What almost three year old calls her little brother “Snuggly Boy”? Especially when I’ve NEVER called anyone that.
She is such a mama bear when it comes to her little brother. Just now, Cooper came tearing through the living room and made Carson cry. Mallory started yelling at Cooper to leave her brother alone. And then she went to Carson and told him it was OK.
Oh, and when they take a bath together, she sings “Ring Around the Rosie” with him and holds his hands and is silly. He just laughs …

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Carson, Mallory

Just Because

October 5, 2009

Because I left you hanging with no posts all weekend, I give you this picture of my babies.
Mallory was giggling because she was putting grass on Carson’s head.
And Carson was laughing because Mallory was laughing.

ETA: Damn – I just realized that I used this picture in my new header that I debuted late last week. So this isn’t anything new and great for you. Oh well.

Carson, Mallory

Six

October 2, 2009

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 …

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Carson, Mallory, Pictures

Hay

September 29, 2009

Sunday morning was a great morning to go take pictures at the pumpkin farm. It wasn’t too sunny, it wasn’t too hot, it wasn’t too cold, and my kids were in good moods. Mallory looks pretty serious in these pictures because she was busy watching all the other kids play.
I took about 180 photos and ended up with about 20 that are decent. I’m still learning my new lens and need to practice with the shallow depth of focus. I’m also supposed to practicing with exposure but I’ve been sort of busy.

     
This …

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Carson, Football, Mallory

4-0

September 28, 2009

So far so good, eh? We are on our way to {hopefully} a nice Christmas vacation!
Quote of the day from Saturday: I was trying to get Mallory ready & out the door so I asked her if she was ready to go watch football.
MCB got all sad and said “but I want to go to the TAILGATE!!”

Grandpa & Carson

Mallory, RB & Carson (Mallory always says that Rick is just Carson’s daddy, not hers. But I assure you Rick is bof of my baby daddy.)
This past weekend was threatening rain and I was so torn about whether to take any or …

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Carson, video

Sweet Baby Carson

September 27, 2009

My whole family, except Carson, slept in today so Carson & I had some fun playing time by the early light of day. Watch as he tries to copy what I’m doing.
I have decided that I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE this age of almost 6 months. Carson is able to sit up, roll all over the place and semi-scoot his way around – which means he is able to entertain himself for a good amount of time. Yesterday at the tailgate, he hung out on the blanket alone for at least 15 minutes, just watching people walk by and playing …

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