Crawling

Today Carson knee crawled for the first time. He has been army crawling for a while, but has now learned how to get up on his knees and crawl. It's funny because he gets frustrated with it really easily since he can army crawl a lot faster. I will chase him around and tell him "I'm going to get you" and he'll get down off of his knees and army crawl a lot faster. He's so funny because while I am chasing him, he'll stop and turn over onto his side to see where I'm at with a big smile on his face. He is so cute! It makes me laugh every time because they don't quite get the concept that if they do that, someone will catch them for sure. I am so proud that he is crawling on him knees now. It's funny how babies will do things in all different patterns.

Mud Pie

I had to include this beautiful mud creation for everyone to see on my blog. The neighbor kids in Foxflower Court (my sister's nice culdesac) are very friendly...and very cute. Today they left this shoe box full of mud and beautifully arranged weeds on the front porch while Gina, Carson and I ran some errands. I thought it would be funny to make them that treat that you use chocolate pudding and blend up some oreo cookies without the cream and make it look like mud and dirt and put it in a flower pot. Then put some gummy worms and bugs in it and top it off with some fake flowers.

The top of the box says: For our neighbors across the street, Just to be nice, Sorry we haven't introduced ourselves, Sincerely your neighbors across the street, the kids at (something)

The papers say: Hello, Sorry if you're allergic, We are glad someone moved in

Picking Up

Today Carson learned how to pick things up off of the floor if he drops them. I may be a nerd for keeping track of these things, but it's going to be fun for him to know when he did what.

All The Way Around

Today Carson learned how to go all the way around the coffee table. I thought that I would start adding some of these shorter blogs so I can look back and see what he did on which dates! Way to go, buddy!

Considering...

Considering that Dave and I don't have the Internet, it has been an extreme challenge to blog. I am seriously having blogging with drawls! I just thought that I would do a quick update on the family with this post.

Dave is almost done with school! Woo hoo Dave! We are so excited for him. He graduates in a couple of weeks. May 2. He decided that he isn't going to walk, which makes me a little sad because he has worked so long and hard for this moment, but it will be nice not have to sit and listen to all the other names, I guess. He is still at Usana. He is kind of browsing right now for a marketing job so he can start getting some more experience in the field, but he has not turned in any applications. He really enjoys Usana, so I know that it will be hard for him to switch after he has worked there so long.

I am still working at the Utah Surgical Center and Jordan Valley. I have not gotten up the guts to quit the Surgery Center yet, but I hope I do it soon. It's been hard because I have some really good days there and some really bad days. At the hospital though, every day is a good day...or slightly bad, but never too bad. I got called off today (HOORRAYY) I mean, yeah I got called off and now I get to catch up on my wonderful blogging while Carson is asleep.

Carson is doing really well. He got a hold of my sister's plant yesterday and chewed up a leaf pretty good and ended up getting little spots all over his face. He is doing fine though. He hasn't gotten sick (knock on wood) since his croup and I hope and pray it stays that way. He is cruising! He lifts himself up onto furniture and walks around. His army crawling is getting faster and he's starting to pick up his knees, so he's getting there. He just got his 7th tooth, but who's counting, right? He's still saying "Uh-oh" to everything he drops. I'll be holding him and we'll walk down the hallway and if he sees one of his toys on the floor as we pass, he looks at it and says "Uh-oh". He is so interested in other people. I guess it runs in the family. Dave and I are huge people watchers. It's fun. He will watch someone some and pass and lean his whole body and head over to the side to keep on looking. Definitely not incognito. All babies do it, so I'm not worried.

We are still waiting for that apartment to open. We need to call a couple of people. Ann Whitney told us that a girl is getting married and should be moving out soon, so we're excited. I can't wait to have my own place again...even though it's been nice having some help around. Well, that's pretty much it. Nothing really new, but just thought I'd make an update for all of you who actually will read this novel. We are so lucky to have you guys as friends and family.

Dave's 30th Birthday

Dave just turned 30 years old today! It was a nice, relaxing day. We started off the day by making him breakfast. He really likes the cinnamon burst bread from Great Harvest, so we made french toast out of that. It was yummy! Then we watched conference. Before we went to my parent's house, we opened his gift from Carson. It was a Nunchuk. We sang happy birthday to him and we got to eat his favorite cake. German chocolate. Dave thought the nunchuk was for my parents Wii, but I (unfortunatley) bought him a Wii for his birthday/graduation because it was so expensive! No, it's really fun and we've really enjoyed it and it will be a lot of fun for Carson when he gets older...a lot older. By then they'll have something new and more exciting out probably. Then we went to family night and got to sing him and Randy happy birthday. I felt bad because his Wii doesn't come until this coming Friday, on the 11. I ordered it a couple of days before his birthday because I really debated on getting it for him or not. Dave is an awesome husband! He works so hard and we love him so much. We hope he had a great birthday!

Uh-oh, Pull up, and Army Crawl

It's definitely AMAZING how fast babies learn how to do things. These past 2 weeks have been so awesome for Carson. He has officially learned how to say "uh-oh" when things are dropped of the high chair, or when he gets into a situation that he can't get himself out of. He has learned how to pull himself all the way up, instead of pulling himself onto his knees and needing help the rest of the way. Then, yesterday was the first time he army crawled. It is so cute how hard he pushes off on those back legs of his and only scoots 2 inches!! He is getting there. We are already proud of him for all of his accomplishments this past week.
I would have to say the day before we went to Goblin Valley was the first he said uh-oh, but now he has conquered the task very well. Yesterday was the first time he army crawled and pulled himself up all of the way, so it's coming along very well for him. We are so proud of our baby boy!

Good Job Carson

Today Carson army crawled and pulled himself up all of the way without mommy or daddy's help! Way to go Carson!