Happy Unbirthday!

I seriously can't believe that Carden is 6 months old. Holy crap, he'll be one before I know it! After his check-up from the doctor, it's official that I still have a fat baby. 18 lbs, 10 oz. It's no wonder that I have back aches all day long. Especially since he loves to scream as soon as I put him down and don't even think about leaving him alone in a room!

Um, hi fat rolls!

Carden's favorite things to do include screaming as soon as I put him in the car seat and then screaming the entire car ride-2 minutes or 20-it doesn't make any difference. He'll scream until I take him out and then yay! I'm so happy! I love life!!

He also loves wiping his nose all over my shoulder. All of the sleeves on my shirts are now ruined, since he spits up still and it's now very colorful. When I'm carrying him on my hip, he'll shoves his face in my shoulder and then rub his nose back and forth about every 30 seconds. Seriously, don't get it.

He also loves to be thrown in the air (not more than a couple of inches Sharon! Calm down!), held upside down, kissed all over, and tickled. He is so ticklish and I love to hear him laugh. Oh and he'll play peek-a-boo with himself for MINUTES! He just laughs and laughs when he uncovers his face. It's pretty funny. I need to be better about getting it recorded. And he now officially loves food. He's only had vegetables and rice cereal so far but he loves them all (no comments Heath!). He may like diet coke as well. That's still up for debate, but you'll have to talk to Josh about that one.

First food

Carden got his first taste of food yesterday. Cereals don't make a colorful enough mess for picture purposes, so I started with avacado instead :)

I love food! I've been waiting my whole life for this!

Give me more!

Just saving some for later

Apparently he was tired of wearing his church clothes...

And yes, that is MY side of of the bed! Sicknast!

What exactly is the point of toys anyway?

My friend's baby is the queen of crazy faces. I was feeling really jealous because the second Carden sees the camera he gets serious like this:


Although once in awhile he will give me a big smile like this:


But today, he made this face. And I had to laugh.

I totally understand if you're jealous...

I already thought I had the most perfect baby in the world, but now it's official. Carden is Awe.Some. This morning I discovered that Carden cut his two bottom teeth. When this happened, I have no idea because he never let me know. No complaints at all from him. No fever or fussiness or keeping me up all night or anything at all. Seriously. I am so lucky!

Carden is finally big enough for his Jumparoo. Wahoo, another thing to entertain him.

I promise he really does like it. He just gets so serious whenever he sees the camera flash.

New church clothes. So big and so cute!

Miniature Josh? Ha ha!


Don't spit up on mom's crazy hair, please!

Carden's latest trick...

Josh is so happy about it, because now he can feed Carden AND play on his computer at the same time.

So long, farewell

We rented out our house last week! Yay! Josh put up an ad on Craigslist (have I ever mentioned how much we love Craigslist? Because we do. About half of all of our possessions have come from Craigslist. We love it.) and within about an hour we had already gotten a phone call. We showed 3 people the next day and then signed the papers that night. It's kind of sad for me-we spent SO SO SO much time on that house, cleaning it and painting it. I was still deciding on nursery colors so thank goodness I didn't ever decide and finish it! We've basically decided that we're not planning on moving back-a house always gets trashed with renters and we'd like to just keep it as a rental now. We were happy with the house, but Josh always regretted not getting a pool and is determined that our next house will have one. And now that I've been pregnant in the middle of the summer in Arizona, I'm starting to agree with him.

4 month update

Carden and I survived our first plane trip a couple weeks ago. We went to Utah to go to a wedding and he was an angel on the way there. Other than the blow out all the way up the back and the projectile spitting up all over himself, me, and the seat back in front of us. Yeah, let me tell you just how fun it is to change clothes and diapers in an airplane bathroom. Luckily we had an entire row to ourselves. So funny though, when I was getting on the plane I had him in his carseat, with the base attached, as well as my purse, diaper bag and a carry on. So it was a little difficult getting to a seat and I unknowingly hit every single person in the isle with the car seat. Oops.

On the the way back however, the flight was completely full and he screamed and screamed for about 30 minutes. I was crammed next to two 20-something year old guys, just back from a weekend snowboarding and let me tell you how fun it was to nurse next to them when Carden was screaming and arching his back and throwing himself everywhere. I'm pretty sure that they will never have children now.

Wow, time goes by fast! I can't believe Carden is already four months (plus a week now)! And he's still growing strong, though he's started to slow down a little. At his four month appointment he was 15 lbs, 15 oz and 26 inches long, the 75th percentile for both. He can roll from tummy to back, but he HATES being on his stomach so much I'm pretty sure he'll be in high school before he learns how to go from back to tummy. He knows how to scream so loud to make me run in the room and think he's dieing, just to start laughing the second I pick him up. Little stinker.