April-June 2009

So these months are pretty vague for sure! I can't really remember what happened!
(April)Well Carter did learn how to crawl! He cut his 2 bottom teeth all the way through and didn't have anymore coming through at the moment. I can't remember but I pretty sure this is about the time when he started sayin dada, not mama, but dada...its just easier to say that.
This is also when I started to put him in his bouncy thing that you hang from the door frame and he loved that, we would sit and just swing back and forth on that and he thought it was the greatest thing in the world! We also got a puppy from one of my brothers friends, she couldn't keep her anymore, and I wanted a puppy really bad, Chris didn't, but I got one anyways...haha. Well she is a bordercollie mix and super sweet, she already loves Carter and he loves her too. They play outside all the time and she likes to nibble on his toes. His toes reminded me of little gummies and I think thats why she did it, we were always having to get on her about doing that but every time we turned around she was nibbling on his toes again. A funny sight to see.
(May)He was super cute when he learned how to crawl, he would sit on his hands and knees for the longest time and just rock back and forth and we thought for sure he would just take off, like he was revving up for something! He did that for a couple of weeks and then all of the sudden he just took off, and at first he was super wobbly and would fall over cuz his hands couldn't hold him up all the way. We never really put Carter on a schedule so he just stayed up with us and would go to sleep when we went to sleep and just did whatever (not the same now) but there was this one night that he just refused to go to sleep, so we let him stay up with us and we were watching a movie in bed and he was sitting up, he wouldn't lay down, and slowly but surely he started to fall asleep and I was holding him up with the blanket wrapped around him and he just slowly started to slump over to the side, and it was so funny because he was trying so hard to stay awake and would be all slumped over and pop his eyes open and they would close and he would relax a little more and then do it all over again, till finally I just layed him down beside me and and fell asleep for good, it was so cute!
(June) He had a favorite toy that we kept in the car, it was a little plush steering wheel with a little horn, blinkers that blinked and he always played with that, every time we got in the car, he would make sure he had it. And the funniest thing about the whole thing was there was this little red light at the top of the toy that didn't do anything, didn't light up, nothing, but that was his favorite part and he always tried to put that piece in his mouth and when he couldn't get it in there, he would pull the toy down and just look like, what are you doing, why won't you get in my mouth! It was so funny. He also got his top 2 teeth this month, and when he would nurse, he thought it was so great to bite me...so needless to say, I stopped nursing. Nothing I did stopped him from biting me, so I had to quit before I was seriously injured. ;) By this time, Carter had been pulling himself up onto eveything and since he could crawl, he was all over the place all the time! Every time I turned around, he was in some other part of the room! It was crazy how fast he got at crawling. Sometimes I miss him just being able to crawl around...