I found out a few months ago that our wedding photographer would sell me a CD of our wedding pictures. I was SO excited. Before Carter was born, I had been working on putting together a scrapbook of our wedding, different than our typical wedding album we got from the photographer. I wanted it to include alot of the planning, details, memories etc, so I have things other than just pictures.
Anyways, I had a really hard time finding pictures I liked, that I could use in the scrapbook because I didn't have that many candid shots of the wedding itself, or the reception. I had a ton of us girls getting ready, and all that jazz....but none of Jordan and I together. After the wedding, I cried about it for a few days because I am SUCH the picture person, I was bummed that I didn't have more pictures I could actually use. Our photographer was great, I loved her...but she cost a fortune, and at the time, didn't give a disc with the rights to the photos.
SO anyways, fast forward almost 4 years, and I called her to see if she would now sell me a disc since its been a long time since the wedding, and she pretty much is done making money off the event. She told me she would, for $299. I have been trying to figure out how to come up with that much extra money since then, and still hadn't really found a way.
On Christmas, I opened up the CD of our pictures from Jordan. I was so happy, I cried. He is the BEST at awesome presents, he has NEVER disappointed me. He always comes up with something amazing, and this year he really outdid himself. The best part is, when he called her to arrange picking it up, she told him she was offering a special this month, and sold it to him for $100!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was even more thrilled that he didn't have to pay a fortune. :) :) :) Did I mention what an awesome husband I have?!?!?! :)
So now, i'm 9 months behind on Carter's scrapbook, and now I want to finish our wedding album.
Tonight Carter was eating some raspberries. It seemed like he was losing interest in eating them, he was having more fun squishing them with his finger into mush. So I grabbed a couple off his tray and ate them. He turned his head toward me SUPER quickly, pointed at me and used his baby sign for ALL DONE. hahaha. Apparently he didn't want me eating any of his raspberries!
Just a little bit of our day today. We worked hard trying to finish our "ABC" pictures, and I took these inbetween props. :) The first pic just looks so...holister or abercrombie to me, lol.
I am so excited i'm finally making progress in the weight loss department! I have been so down on myself for the past year because I just couldn't make any headway, and now I am finally getting somewhere!!!! I have offically lost 17 pounds in the last 7 weeks. My wedding ring is getting looser, and my promise ring Jordan got me for our one year dating anniversary almost fits again! I'm really excited about that, because I have missed wearing it! I still have 30+ pounds to go till where I was pre-Carter....but I really don't know if that weight is attainable for me at this point in my life. I think I will be happy with 20-25 more pounds. Who knows, we'll see what happens. :)
We went out to the field where Paige (Dreamland Photography) took Carter's one year pictures at this weekend. I am still trying to quickly finish up his ABC scrapbook. We took 2 pictures, U is for Umbrella, and W is for Wagon. Carter was not all that cooperative, but we got some cute shots, considering we were there probably less than 10 minutes.
I haven't scrapbooked in a month. I get more behind with each day that goes by. I have SO much to do, but for some reason I just can't get motivated to start working again. I go through these phases, I wish I knew why. I'm hoping I get some time to work on scrapping this weekend since Jordan has a 4 day weekend...WOO HOO!
I'm not even looking forward to Thanksgiving this year....i'm more excited about Jordan having a few days off. I can't stuff myself with food because I don't want to gain anything back I have worked so hard to lose. That combined with the fact that we will be gone all day going to 2 different family functions leaves me less than excited. I know I should just be thankful for the family I have to celebrate with, and I am....i'm just not excited. Carter will probably be a cranky mess because i'm sure he won't take a nap except for in the car, and that always stresses me out. So anyways, Happy thanksgiving to everyone. I guess i'm the thanksgiving grinch. :)
I wanted to do a list of things Carter does, and personality traits now that he is one. I have done the same thing a few other times since he was born for my scrapbook. This time I thought I would blog it on here before I scrap it. :)
He loves to point to noses...doesn't matter if it's his, mine, or somebody else....ask him where your nose is, and he'll show you. He will also point to eyes, belly button, mouth, and feet. He especially likes to point to eyes and noses on other babies (yikes!)
For some reason, he loves when I put his binky in my mouth (the opposite side, not the side he sucks on) and then poke his nose with it, or tickle his collar bone. He will giggle uncontrollably. Weird, I know...but funny. :) He will grab my face with both hands and try to pull me closer to him so he can grab the binky with his mouth. Usually when he is cranky and doesn't want to go to sleep, a couple minutes of this game, and he snuggles right down and goes to bed. He always gets the stinkiest little feet, probably from his footed pjs. Anyways though, he still thinks its the funnies thing when I sniff by his feet and tell him he has "stinky piggies." He will laugh, laugh, laugh!!!! You all probably think i'm a weirdo, but I keep doing it because its just so funny to me. I get the best reaction out of him every time, and he's been doing it for a few months now. I did these scrapbook pages a while back....but this gives you the idea. :)
His favorite bath toy is a red disposable plastic cup. He will sit there and fill it up with bath water and drink from it the entire time he is in the bath. Sometimes we try to leave the water on a trickle so he will fill it up from there and not the dirty bath water, but most of the time he is not interested in doing that. Then he gets out of the bath and lets out HUGE burps. When you drain the bath water, he will flip flow from sitting on his butt, turn around in a circle, and sit back down on his butt. It's almost like he is trying to keep you from getting him out, he thinks if he does that, the water will stay in or something. He is weird, but its funny to watch.
He absolutely loves all fruits and veggies. Lately, broccoli is his favorite, however he also enjoys carrots, peas, and green beans. He loves black beans! We started giving him oranges last week, and he will eat them up so fast. He also loves steamed apples, pears, peaches, watermelon, bananas, pretty much any fruit. We gave him a grilled cheese for the first time a couple weeks ago, and he LOVES them. He gets all excited when he sees you making it. :)
He loves to take every stuffed animal, blanket, binky, anything that is in his crib, and throw it out when he wakes up. He thinks its the most fun game ever, and I can usually hear him screaching with excitement on the monitor. If he hasn't already thrown everything out by the time I go in to get him, he loves to pick everything up and hand it to me. He also enjoys sitting in his toy basket, taking them ALL out, and then when I ask, he will SOMETIMES put them back it. He is slowly getting the hang of that one. :)
When i'm trying to sneak in a few minutes on the computer, he usually will occupy himself crawling in and out of the dog beds, and trying to play peek-a-boo with me. He will play in there by himself for a while, but if I play "peek" with him every few minutes, I get a little bit longer to play on the computer and he stays entertained, lol. He leaves random toys in their beds, thank God I found the sharpee he put in there the other day before they went to bed. Although Roxy did sleep with a few toys in there the other night, no harm done.
I can't keep him away from the kitchen trash, looking out the kitchen windows, crawling out the doggie door (thank goodness it locks) opening my closet doors, and opening his dresser drawers and pulling everything out. He is always trying to climb on the furniture, doesn't matter what. He will push his toys over to the couch and use them as a boost. The other day, he was standing on his push train, holding onto the back of the couch, and he looked like he was surfing down the couch...disaster waiting to happen!!! He also learned how to turn my computer off this week, apparently its a fun button to push....which is annoying because my computer is slow as heck to reboot. lol
He loves learning new baby signs, his favorites are... - Dog - Lights - Fan - More - Tree - All done - Hi/Bye - Claps - Milk I'm sure there are more, but I can't think of any more. :)
I love to hear his talking voice. Alot of times he just sits there are makes cute little sounds over and over again, its fun to mimic him because he will do it more, and gets this huge cheesy grin on his face. The best sound of all is "mama" of course. He says "dada" alot more but I still get my "mama" a few times a day.
When we sit down to eat, he will immediately put his hands together, and begin moving them back and forth. That is how we say our "tick tock" prayer. Sometimes I forget at breakfast, and as soon as I sit at the table, he reminds me. How awesome is that?
I think I could sit here and go on forever, but i'll stop for now. I love him more than I ever imagined I could. He brings me so much joy, and never fails to make me smile or laugh. Although i'm sad he's not my little baby anymore, I am so excited to watch him continue to grow. I know God has great things planned for him!
My baby turned one. It was a happy and sad day at the same time, but mostly happy. :) I still feel like it was just yesterday that we brought him home. I still remember so vividly sitting on the couch, timing contractions, waiting until it was time to go to the hospital. It absolutely amazes me how fast it goes by. I truly hope that as we keep making fabulous memories as a family, I will still be able to keep all these memories so fresh in my head. I feel like alot of times I have the worst memory ever, and this past year has been one I never want to forget.
Anyways, we had a fun day yesterday. We played around the house with his new toys. Then after he got bored of that, we took his new little train and pushed it to the park in our neighboorhood. I was impressed at how far he walked all by himself. I just keep thinking, "this is awesome, the farther he goes, the longer he is going to nap!" lol, how awful is that!?!?!
I also took a few more pictures for his "abc" scrapbook. My goal was to have it finished by his first birthday, but that didn't quite happen. So now i'm busting my butt to try and finish it. I took "T" and "X" yesterday. That leaves me with G, U, V, W, Y and Z. I might have one more letter in there somewhere I wanted to redo, but i'll probably just end up leaving it. I could never come up with a good G, and now when I do take it, the pictures are going to look out of order because he will be so much older in that one, but oh well.
Here are a few that I took yesterday. "X" is for x-ray, and "T" is for toilet paper. He has this new "cheese" smile, that kinda looks like he is crying. He is becoming a goof ball, (definitely gets that from his Dad, not me!) lol, wishful thinking anyways. :)
My friend Paige took these! She is amazing, we are SOOOOO excited about how they turned out. I want to frame them all!!!! You KNOW i'm going to be scrapbooking them all. Whenever I get that caught up anyways, haha. Anyways, here are just a few. :)
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