Carson's birthday

Obviously I have a lot of blogging to catch up on. I can't believe that three months have gone by since I have done anything with my blog. My apologies go out to everyone for my lack of comments on your blogs also. That is going to change soon and I'm excited to read them.

I've decided to post the most recent happenings first and work my way back as to keep it less confusing.

First of all Carson turned 1 on January 3rd! I know everyone always says, "I can't believe my baby is one!" But really, I can't believe my baby is one! The year has gone by fast and at least I can say he isn't growing too fast. He seems to never change in my eyes until I look back at pictures and see how short his hair used to be. (It really is growing like a weed and I don't know what to do with it.) Carson is just starting to take some steps on his own but he still loves to crawl. Most people who have seen him crawl will agree when I say that he has invented about ten different styles of crawling. He uses each one at different times depending on how fast he wants to get somewhere. I really should record them all, its hilarious. Since he's been on his feet walking more the latest crawl has been on two hands and two feet. He knows he should be using those feet someway or another!

He's not much for words so we are working on baby signing right now. It's fun to see how much he knows what I am saying also. After we are done with dinner Jeff gives him a bath almost every night and so I tell him, "You wanna take a bath? Go take a bath." And he crawls upstairs and heads into his bathroom. When it's time for a nap and I have him up on the changing table (which is right under the window) and say, "Okay its time for a nap." He will stand up and close the shutters in his room. And one more thing I think is too cute is that he reaches for the garage door opener to close the garage while I am carrying him inside from being gone.

I know he is going to be a kid that I can't hide anything from because he notices everything. That saying out of sight, out of mind does not work with Carson. He remembers and will not stop until he finds what he is after.

Anyways back to the party... to keep it simple I decorated with 'C's that I cut out from cute pieces of paper. I made him a little cake and put a paper 'c' on top.

Here's all the pictures of him digging in.

All the in-town cousins came to celebrate with us. Here's grandpa Bundy holding Tessa, Kate and Carson.

Christmas

We were able to host the Christmas festivities at our house this year. We had Jeff's parents, my parents, and my sisters Stefanie and Cindy and their families. So it made for a big crowd of 8 kids opening presents on Christmas morning.

We used this little wooden rocker from Jeff's childhood to capture the first pictures of Carson in front of the Christmas tree. He definitely felt like the center of attention during this photo shoot!

On Christmas eve the grand kids acted out the nativity scene. Carson was the star, George and Anna were Joseph and Mary, Kate was baby Jesus, Jack was the cutest donkey I've ever seen, Daniel was the shepherd, and Francis was the wise man.Carson discovering a truck in his stocking.Carson was taking a nap during all the present opening chaos so he opened his later on by himself. Obviously he didn't know what was going on.Cindy made these really cute ornaments for my mom out of blocks and put pictures of all the grandchildren on each one. My mom loved them and what a great and thoughtful gift she gave her. She also made me a Christmas count-down (wish I had a picture) out of four bigger size blocks.The view of the mess (after some clean-up) from above.