Happy New Year!!!

These are a few of my favorite things.

2010 edition.

Hearing a healthy heartbeat.

Feeling baby kicks inside me.

Planning. Preparing. Praying.

Buying blue.

Walking. Talking.

Watermelon. Peanut butter.

Family. Friends. Church.

Anticipation.

Childbirth.

Baby snuggles.

Breast feeding.

Seeing my dear husband become an amazing daddy.

Baby bath time.

Chunky baby legs.

Kissing my baby.

Footie pajamas.

Baby smiles.

Baby laughter.

Carson Robert Clark!!!!

What a BLESSING 2010 has been for our family.

We anxiously wait to see what 2011 brings.

Merry Christmas!!!

We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas with your family and friends. Carson's first Christmas made ours especially wonderful this year!! We were thankful that Pops, Granny, and Aunt Misty were able to visit us and that we were able to spend the week of Christmas with them!! See facebook for lots more pictures if you're interested:) Blessing to you and yours in 2011!!!

four months

december 2, 2010

15 pounds

25 ½ inches

Carson Robert,

You continue to grow and learn everyday! You are very interested in what is going on around you. You’re always looking around and seem to be taking it all in! You nurse seven or eight times per day. You get up once in the night to eat, and you’re still sleeping in your woombie. After you eat, and before you nap, we have lots of fun playing. You like to be held, but you have become quite the wiggle worm! You love to play with your hands! You look at them, hold them together, and chew on them a lot. You have lots of slobber! We talk, read books, and sing songs. You’ve had lots of fun in your floor gym this month. You’ve gotten really good at grabbing and pulling the toys that hang down. Your favorite toy seems to be the blue bird. You have fun playing by yourself for longer periods of time. You’ve stayed in your gym for as long as 30 minutes several times. It is lots of fun for us to watch you having fun! You actually enjoy tummy time now! You even prefer it to lying on your back sometimes. You’ve started to scoot and move your arms and legs while you’re on your tummy. We think you really want to crawl, because it kind of looks like you’re crawling in place. You’ve started sitting in your highchair or bumbo when we’re eating sometimes, and you’re usually happy, interested, and patient. When you are tired or upset, the best way to calm you down is to let you suck on one of our fingers. You love to suck our finger, but you will not suck on a pacifier. We’ve tried several different kinds, but you aren’t interested. You’ve just started grabbing our hair, ouch! You also grab Daddy’s glasses sometimes. On November 16, you laughed out loud for the first time, and it was music to our ears! You’ve only laughed a couple of times since then, but you make other sweet sounds and coos quite often. We love to hear you! You still wear size two diapers and 3-6 month clothing.

This has been a month full of grandparent love! Pops and Granny came to visit and got to stay for a week and half! Then, we traveled to St. Louis to visit Bobel and Reenie for the week of Thanksgiving. All four of your grandparents had lots of fun playing with and loving on you! You are blessed to have such loving grandparents. While we were in St. Louis, you had both your first Thanksgiving and your first snow!

It’s been another joyful month with you, Baby Boy. Being your mama and daddy is absolutely wonderful! You are a blessing to us and to everyone who meets you. We love you!

three months

november 2, 2010

about 13.5-14 pounds

25 1/2 inches

Sweet Carson,

You are growing and changing so quickly! This month you are maintaining eye contact for longer periods of time, smiling more and more in response to our talking and smiles, and “talking” and cooing lots more. You are such a joy! You still nurse eight times per day. You’ve slept through the night a couple of times, but you’ve also had several nights of waking up twice to eat. You are still a hungry boy and love to eat. Your swaddle me blanket got too small, so we got you a woombie. It was a nice next step, because it fits closely around you, but it’s stretchy, so you can move your arms and legs some without waking yourself up. You’re getting better and better at falling asleep on your own without much crying. After you eat, and before you nap, we have lots of fun playing. You love to chew on your hands! We talk, read books, and sing songs. You really enjoy your bouncy chair and floor gym, and you’re beginning to enjoy your swing, too. Your bouncy chair has an orange mushroom that plays “If You’re Happy and You Know It.” When you sit there, you focus, staring at the mushroom, and wanting to pull it so badly. We love to watch you learn and discover. At ten weeks old, you began hitting the toys on your floor gym and car seat. It’s cute to see you having so much fun! You’re getting better at tummy time, but it’s still not your favorite thing to do. In fact, we think that’s why you learned to roll over this month! You rolled from your tummy to your back on October 18, your eleven week birthday. Daddy and I both happened to be watching you and got to see it! We were so excited. You didn’t seem to understand why we got so excited. Since then, you’ve rolled over lots more times. You move around on your own a lot more, you even scooted over the boppy all by yourself one day. You’re getting stronger and are doing really well holding your head up. You don’t “head bang” as much as you used to. You like to be held on the shoulder or facing forward so that you can see what is going on. You really like the person holding you to stand up and bounce, sway, or walk. You don’t mind being passed around and letting lots of different people hold you. Your lungs work very well; we have been surprised that you can scream so loudly to be so little! Sometimes your cry sounds like a kitty cat. At eleven weeks old, you moved up to size two diapers and 3-6 month clothing. This month, you’ve gone out to eat a couple of times, gone to a middle school basketball game, gone to Hobby Lobby, and ridden in your stroller a few times. We are surprised how quickly you’re growing! Carson, you are a perfect gift from God! It is an honor to be your mama and daddy. We love you more than you know.

happy halloween

We had a fun trunk or treat celebration with our church family. Carson's sweet granny made his first Halloween costume!!! He was a precious little lamb! Thanks, Granny!!! The costume was perfect!! He looked so sweet, and I know we'll have fun looking back at these pictures for years to come!

aunts

In addition to four wonderful grandparents, Carson also has two fabulous aunts!!! Aunt Misty and Aunt Laura both love Carson so much!! We are thankful for two sweet, thoughtful, loving aunts!!! We know Carson will have lots and lots of fun with both of them through the years!!! Thanks, Misty and Laura for loving our boy!!!! We love you both!

grandparents

Carson is so very blessed to have four wonderful grandparents. Pops, Granny, Bobel, and Reenie love Carson so much! They are loving, gentle, thoughtful, generous, kind, considerate, caring, interested, wise, helpful, playful, fun, cozy, snuggly, and encouraging! We are so thankful that our parents love us and our baby boy so much!