Carson - 10 Months

It seems like it has been quite a busy month! 

Christmas, New Years, a trip to WI, and travels for Victor confirms that this month was a busy one!

What has Carson been up to??

Eating:

He is eating solids 3x a day now (most days).

I don't make him anything special.  If he can eat a mashed up version of what we are having I give him that.  If he can't I usually have some "ice cubes" of pureed fruits and vegetables in the freezer for him.  He doesn't seem too picky about his food although the variety has been fairly limited at this point. 

He is still nursing about 6 times every day - one of those sessions is at night.

Sleep:

Carson goes to bed around 7:30, gets up just once around 10:30 or 11:00, nurses, and goes back to bed until 6:00 or 6:30.  

He takes 2 naps a day (if we are home) usually around 9:00 AM and 2:00 PM for 1-2 hours.

Scavenging crumbs

Activity:

Carson is close to walking but not there yet.  He cruises along everything and pushes anything he can find in order to walk around the house.  When he crawls he sometimes does a bear crawl, sometimes keep on leg straight, and sometimes crawls normally.

He will let go of things and stand alone for a few seconds at a time.  If you try to have him walk to you he will take 1 step and then nosedives to the floor.  If you fail to catch him he lands on his face (not that I would have any reason to know this).  It seems as though he doesn't realize he needs to move his feet and leans forward expecting to be caught or maybe thinks that is how you walk (since he leans forwards when "walking" around the house pushing whatever toy he has found to use as a walker)?  

The nosediving cracks me up.  We do always attempt to catch him but it makes both Victor and I chuckle. 

Poor baby pulled over a lamp and got "stabbed" in the forehead. The lamp is in the basement now.

Personality:

Carson definitely communicates when he is upset about something.  He pouts out his lip, shakes his fist, growls, and a cries in protest.  Thankfully, he is laid back about most things so far.

Things he hates.... getting his diaper changed, getting put in the car seat, having things taken away from him 

Things he loves.... playing peek-a-boo (he initiates this now which is so cute), doing "so-big" on cue, being chased, smashing block towers, baths, eating things (toys, food off the floor, sticks, paper, etc) off of the floor (errr!), playing in the dishwasher, pulling things out of the cupboards

Carson is pretty independent.  He will crawl off into the playroom and play on his own for quite sometime.  (Frequent checks for choking hazards of course). 

He does love playing with Erik and Lainey as well.  He has a "call and response" game with them -- he shrieks "Ahhhh" and expects them to shriek back.  They often do so it goes back and forth for a while. 

Aside from the "Ahhhh!" game he is fairly quiet.  He does NOT babble with consonants yet (with the exception of 2 isolated times we heard him say mama).  Victor, the kids, and I are all walking around like idiots babbling at him.    He should be babbling by now and if he doesn't start in a month or so I will likely call birth to three to get him evaluated for speech.  He otherwise seems very normal developmentally so I am not too worried.

One other "funny" thing I want to remember is that Carson bites.  He only bites at people when he is tired and wants to go to bed.  As soon as he starts trying to bite at my clothes I take him directly to bed.  I usually get him there before he starts chomping but it is a very consistent way that he communicates to me that he needs to sleep.  

Carson got his first mini-haircut today.  He did great - no tears and sat still.  I haven't taken a photo yet though!  Poor third kid.  You can't really tell as all she did was trim around his ears and shape up the back.  His long fluffy hair on top of his head is still intact. :)  He has really light brown hair - lightest of our three.  It will be neat to see what he looks like once he has a full head of hair.

We love this little boy completely!