Mirror Mirror...

Mirror Mirror on the wall, who's that handsome boy I found?

Love this cutie pie!

To crawl or not to crawl?!?

Right before Carson turned 6 months, he figured out how to get up on all 4's and rock back and forth. He thought that it was so fun that he even decided that he should do it in his crib instead of sleep (not so fun for the Mama). Right off the bat, he was excellent at moving backwards and pivoting around in a circle, but he didn't seem to have any idea how to make his arms and legs work together to get movin' forward. Since Christmas, he has been dang close to crawling forward. He can get to what he wants but I would call it more of a scoot/flop/hop than a crawl. We will see if he masters the art of the forward crawl before he turns 7 months... he has 8 days! (...but then I really will have a mobile baby...not sure if I am ready for that).

Ignore me in the background. I was on Facetime with my Mom and didn't realize that Rob had started recording already. Oh well! Oh and that is my apron not some ugly shirt! :) Just saying!

Little Wildcat

We are starting him young! So our little Wildcat got this hat for Christmas! Wildcat for life! (although with the way tuition is going up our wallet might push him to be a Cougar..we will see!)

Don't mind his left over dinner all over his face!

Zoo trip number two!

Between Christmas and New Years we went to the zoo with Rob's brothers and their families! It was a lot of fun and the weather was perfect. Baby C loves watching the animals and being outside! We love the Tucson Zoo because it's small enough we can see all the animals and enjoy ourselves before our little guy gets burned out!

Try 1

Try2

Try 3 (We are missing Miss Aubs from the picture)

:)

December 26, 2011

How do I get water out of this darn cup?

Baby C recently started using a sippy cup. He loves when we give it to him, but he has not totally figured out how to use it.

Baby C trying to figure out how to get the water out!

Maybe I turn it upside down!

Nope...didn't work!!

This cup is SILLY!

Finally!!! Now if only he would learn how to do it himself!

Happy New Year!

We had a lot of fun ringing in the New Year while dancing it up to Just Dance with my parents, sisters, and brother-in-laws! We would play it all night long if we could! Carson didn't last much past 7... he didn't even manage to stay awake long enough to ring in the "fake" New Year with his cousins. Oh well! We did manage to get a picture before he headed to bed though!

It was a little sad to see 2011 go, it has probably been our BEST year yet!! Here are a few of our favorite/best/biggest moments of 2011 (not in any order)!

1. Baby C was born!!
2. We held our baby for the first time
3. Rob applied and interviewed for Optometry School... and we waited and waited and waited!
4. Rob graduated from the UA
5. I finished my first year of teaching... I loved my little first graders! 
6. Rob got into Optometry School!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (we could finally take a deep breath)
7. We moved to Glendale
8. Career change for me... Full time Mama and loving it!
9. We all survived Rob's first semester of school! 
10. Survived 6 months of Parenthood... We can't imagine how we lived without this cute little guy before!
11. And our favorite memory to bid farewell to 2011 (just a few days early) was the news that my dad was official cancer free after being diagnosed only 2 months prior

We are incredibly grateful for the year we had. We are grateful for the lessons that we learned and the faith that we gained as we often turned to our Heavenly Father during this year of happiness, stress, excitement, and unknown. We are grateful for the new kind of love our son has brought into our lives and the better perspective of our purpose on this Earth. We can't wait to see what 2012 has in store for us. We are already so excited to welcome Elder J home this summer, meet our new nephew (via Mandi), and enjoy having Daddy around more often during his summer off! 2012 We Can't Wait!!!

1st Christmas

We had such a wonderful Christmas and it was so fun to have a little guy in the house! Rob and I had fun playing Santa's elves...even though Baby C has no idea who or what Santa is! Carson's favorite part of Christmas was all of the wrapping paper. He did better than I thought with getting his presents unwrapped but then all he wanted to do was eat the paper! Once we showed him the toy inside he would get distracted and go for the toy instead. On Christmas morning he opened presents for about 15 minutes and then was ready for a nap!

Fun cars from cousin Ty!

I'm so sleepy, is Santa here yet?

Christmas PJs

Santa found us at Grandma and Grandpa Cooks!

He loved what Santa brought!

Especially the bow

Looking in his stocking

Playing with a new toy while Mommy and Daddy talked to Elder J on the phone!

Christmas Dinner is so yummy!

Baby C with his Great Grandma and Grandpa