6 months!

 Tomorrow this little man will be 6 months old! How is he half way to a year already? He is such a silly, happy baby! He smiles at ANYTHING, laughs at ANYTHING, and is fairly content to hang out and watch his brother play.

 He is sitting like crazy now! If he is interested in what's going on, he will sit unassisted for a half hour or so. But when he is sick of it he just tips himself over! So we still have to keep an eye on him. As for rolling... still nothing! He sleeps on his side, and will roll/ twist himself onto his side all the time to play. But that's about it! He is a chunk though, maybe its tough for him... :) I dunno!

 His Dr appointment is next week, and I already know he is a chubbers, ready for FOOD!! Maybe it will help him sleep? Who knows.
His favorite toys right now are rattles, and rings (the ones you use to hang toys from), and of course his fingers/feet.

 He has also found his VOICE! The kid can scream! Then he just looks at you and laughs about it. No teeth yet, but he drools like crazy. I swear sometimes he forgets to swallow! Plus those fingers he chews on constantly are always sick and slobbery! His favorite thing to do is attack faces with those nasty fingers and give big ol' slobber kisses! I kinda love it! ;)

Christmas is just around the corner and we can't wait! Jaxon asks EVERY DAY when Santa is coming to put a camera in his stocking so he can take pictures.
Carson of course has nooo idea, but is loving the Christmas tree!
Our Christmas cards will be going out early next week, so watch for them! Send my your address just in case if you want one! We are loving the Holiday season with our little fam! :)

Skipped!

I realized today I TOTALLY skipped a post about Carson at 5 months! We are now about 3 days away from his 6 month mark! Crazy! I will save the novel and picture overload for that post. But I can't help but post this! My little non-sleeper at night gets so tired during the day he can't even play.

 But don't let him fool you, those cat naps don't last long! Little Stinker! Good think he is sooooo dang cute! Cuz he drives me crazy lately! We gotta get this sleeping down!

Not my Brudder.....

Jaxon refuses to call Carson his brother. He is Carson. Period. Not baby brother or anything other then Carson. So funny!
They are definitely brothers though... so similar is so many ways! 

Early morning games on my phone! Taking over my pillow!

Little buddies

 We carved pumpkins tonight. Ok, Joel and Jaxon did.... Ok, mostly Joel! But it was the tradition that counts right?

He HATED cleaning them out, so we took a break and painted one.

So much for fun for my little guy! He is obsessed with painting everything right now.

Then back to the Jack-O-Lantern!

Then it was time for a tiger break. Newest obession... Tigers.

Time to light it and take it out!

Best picture we got of him with his pumpkin. We need to work on the actual act of smiling into the camera!

Turned out good for free hand! Jaxon loves his spooky Jack-O-Lantern. Amazing picture right? Not only does Joel carve well, his pic-skills are awesome!

His version of decorating... slobber!

Littlest man with the littlest pumpkin!

 Our weekend was very full of fun, fall-ish, Halloween-ish activities. More to come! ;)

4 Months

Well technically last week! I can't believe it's been 4 months! Carson grows and changes so much every day. He smiles and babbles constantly and loves to laugh at everything.... even the lights!

At the Luau! Something was pretty funny!

He has also quit sleeping through the night! WHAT?!? Such a little stinker! He sometimes does better then others, but for the most part, he is waking up 1-2 times a night! I am sooooo ready for this stage to be over. Sometimes he is a little hungry, other times he is just awake and fussy. Even his naps during the day have changed. He is restless and can't get himself to sleep very good. And then it doesn't last long if he does. I really shouldn't complain.... cuz he is not THAT bad.... but different then I am used to I guess.

He loves to sit up! Literally spends most of the day in the bumbo, or being held in the sit up position. He loves watching everyone and everything that is going on around here. He is also really into toys! He sits there and holds them, eats them, or hits them on something!

No rolling yet.... well once or twice, but I think they were kind of flukes. He HATES tummy time, he lasts about 1-2 minutes (if that) before a full on melt down starts! Silly boy! Jaxon tries to help entertain him while he is on his tummy and it sometimes helps. It's so cute to watch them interact!
We finally gave him his first hair cut!! He had some crazy, hair going on! And 90% of it was falling out anyway... so the long stuff that was left looked nasty!! I was so sad! But I gotta admit it looks wayyyy better now!!

Before!

After

After. So much better!

Here are a few more random pictures of my little 4 month old Bud!

Getting so big!

Seriously a goof ball! He will laugh at anything!

Waiting at the Dr.

Waiting for the Dr. It was a navy striped kinda day! Twinners!

CHUBBBBBS!

 Official Stats at 4 months old

14.8 lbs - 41th percentile

24" long - 15th percentile

Head - 78th percentile

Short, chunky, and with a big head! I think he is just perfect! ;)

Swimming

Our clubhouse has a pool... and it is literally a 30 second walk to it. We literally spent almost every evening at the pool this summer. Jaxon is a fish! He asked every single day when Dad was going to be home so we could go swimming. They closed the pool after Labor Day, and Jaxon is sooooo sad. He still asks every day to go. So today we went through some pictures of his fun this summer in the pool! They sure made him happy.

Trying to swim without floaties!

"Throw me REALLY high dad! The highest and biggest into the clouds!"

Finally conquered his fear of jumping off the side!

Carson's first swim! 2.5 months old!

He was NOT happy to be in that water!

But it only took a few minutes and Joel calmed him right down. He slept in our arms in the water for most of the time.

Finally enjoying the water a little!

Hopefully he will love swimming as much as his brother next summer!

These 2 hung out in the pool pretty much all summer. Such buddies!

If we went over later in the evening, this silly little guy and I would just hang out and watch the big boys swim. Carson didn't seem to mind.

A few times we were there till it was almost dark! This picture made it look WAY darker then it really was.

He loved swimming when it was almost dark!

We sure are going to miss summer! That pool was our sanity with a new baby! Can't wait for it to reopen next year! Guess we will need to find some new things to do! But with this beautiful fall weather, that shouldn't be too hard.