30 weeks 5 days

It's official! CWH is crawling. He's quite proud of himself. A new era begins....

30 weeks 4 days

CWH sat up by himself today :)

Discovery Green Park - 7 months old today!

Long time no blog. It's been a busy rotation for me this month. I am enjoying my Endocrine fellowship, but it's hard to get home late right before he goes to bed. I miss spending time with my dude! Next month will be better.

Today, we went to Discovery Green park, the new park that opened in downtown Houston this past spring. It's beautiful and very zen, and CWH is going to have a blast playing in the fountains this time next year. I just noticed while posting the pics that he's wearing the same rockstar outfit as the last post. Oh well, it's my favorite right now anyway while his hair is so spikey.

As far as what's new with CWH, his "daa daa" sounds are becoming more distinct. About 10 days ago, he learned to say doi, doi doi. He clearly has two bottom teeth when he smiles. His favorite toy is an obnoxiously loud piano that sings about farm animals. He and our cat Sally are becoming fast buddies. We moved the crib to the bottom level, just in case. He is mobile, in that he can get where he wants, but it's not a traditional crawl yet. He does get on all fours and sway back and forth, as if he's getting revved up to go. He loves for us to help him walk. He can pull up on you to standing with minimal assistance. He doesn't like his diaper or clothes changed, so it takes all out "wrastling" to get it done. In fact, I usually put him on a blanket on a floor to put his clothes on, so I can have a greater advantage. He's not a big fan of sitting in his high chair or eating peas. He can stay in his bathtub indefinitely until YOU get tired of watching him and pull him out. Bathtime is no longer him sitting and playing with toys; it's him trying to stand up, climb out, reach the water spout, etc. so it takes a bit more energy on our part. He took a second swim in the pool last week, and was much more animated and seemed to enjoy the doggy paddling.

He continues to steal my heart - my favorite time of day is feeding him his nighttime bottle and watching him fall asleep in my arms as he pats my hand with his little hand. He's such a sweet angel. We have been so amazingly blessed with his good health, and pray that it stays that way.

28 weeks 3 days

I have not been a good blogger this week. I started the inpatient service this month, which is a lot busier that the typical endocrine fellowship months. A lot has happened in Carter's world since last post. His aunt Lindsay got married last Saturday and now Carter has an uncle Scotty and a cousin Jenna! Carter looked dashing in his outfit, but was a little fussy during the ceremony. It required a PopPop intervention.

Carter has been making a sound similar to Ma Ma for about 10 days now. I know it's not the real thing, but it's awfully close, and other people have heard it as well. A couple times I've heard a Da Da sound, and I clearly hear a Na Na sound, which is what I called my grandmother. He has bottom left tooth that has broken though the gum. He's eaten all sorts of baby foods - carrots, sweet potatoes, apples, pears. Today was a very successful try of an apricot/apples mix. He likes to pull himself to sit or stand with your help. He also occasionally sucks in his cheeks and makes a fish face. He's very close to crawling. He is mobile, and gets to where he wants to go by some combination of log rolling, belly crawling, and caterpillaring. He can get up on "all fours" and rock back and forth. I have noticed a few times now that when watching Baby Einstein, he can be just fine, then starts bawling when they show an elephant, then is fine when it is over. No clue.

Yesterday, Carter had a nice time playing with Granny, who came for a visit since Steve and I both had to work on Saturday.

Today Steve is working so I am home with Carter and we are having a little mommy and me time. The big accomplishment today was that he rode in the Target buggy like a big boy. It was kind of like those game shows where you run around the store throwing things in the buggy as fast as you can before the time runs out. I figured I had about 30 minutes to get it done. I was so rushed I even accidently bought a pink sippy cup. I wonder if Steve is going to make me return it. Carter was just wide-eyed the whole shopping trip, taking it all in. Later, he had "pedicure", but wouldn't be still for the manicure part. I posted a few pics of our play day today, since I know that's why anyone checks the blog anyway! The one in the jumperoo shows how his hair stands straight up.