Wow, Carter's first Christmas is over! It has been fun. It's hard to believe I was pregnant a year ago, and now, he isn't even a little baby. For some reason, he has been developing at a rapid pace. It seems he just started crawling, and now, he wants to pull up on everything. We have had to lower his mattress to the lowest setting. He is all over the place and doesn't want to sleep. I may be able to get rid of my trainer and just chase Carter around the house. At the same time, he is SO much fun. He giggles all the time and is very affectionate.

He got some nice toys from everyone. I woke up to him playing with this little telephone and enjoying his gifts from Santa. This is just small amount. Gammy and Poppa really spoiled him rotten.

Maybe I'm a bad mom, but I didn't see a point in buying too much this year. I figured we would wait until he knows the difference. He was more interested in the wrapping paper than his gifts, but he seemed to have a blast. He wore himself out by 10:00 am.

Carter enjoyed lunch with us and ate much of my sweet potato, some of my roll, and two little bites of steak. This evening, he really enjoyed cranberry bread. He likes everything he tries. I am careful because I don't want him to choke on anything.

I think we may drive up to Clemson tomorrow for no reason at all. My parents haven't been in a long time, and I figure it's better than trying to go shopping.

I've added a bunch of pictures on flickr. You can check them out to the right.

Merry Christmas!!!

The holiday break has finally arrived! It is so nice to enjoy a Sunday night without the dread of having to go to work tomorrow. Kevin is off all week with me too!

I started taking thyroid medicine on Thursday. I am actually relieved to know something was wrong. I was just absolutely exhausted.

Carter has been doing well. He pulled up on our cedar chest today. He is getting to be a little cranky. I suspect he is teething again considering he has started drooling.

Here are some pictures of my award winning momma skills:

We were really getting a picture of his crazy hair, but we had one MAD baby.

What to do when Carter spits up all over his clothes......a diaper and a bib are great!

After falling over when he pulled up, he is going back for more. He did manage to get the lotion.

We have had a good weekend. Carter woke us up around 7:00 yesterday morning, and we went to Chik-fil-A for breakfast. I gave him a few pieces of my biscuit. He enjoyed it so much that Kevin bought Carter his own! After, we did some Christmas shopping, came home, finished decorating, and made all of our Christmas goodies. We are running late today. Carter did wake us up around 7:00 again, but we got sidetracked. He is now taking a nap. We haven't been to the grocery store yet. I totally forgot about Kevin's Christmas party this afternoon. I guess I don't have as much time to get stuff done as I thought. I wanted to go to work and work out. I don't think either will happen. Last was so busy that it is a total blur. I feel like I'm going 100 mph in 10 different directions. We did manage to get our Christmas cards mailed. I feel very impersonal. We had the greeting on them already, and we used labels for addresses and return addresses. I'm just happy I did them this year.

Carter seems to be feeling better. He finished his antibiotics on Friday. Hopefully, we will return to normal diapers! He is continuing to practice his crawling, so we have started putting locks on cabinets. Kevin really doesn't want to, but it is better than having problems. I think that's about it. 5 more days until the break!!!!!!!!!!

I have some new videos, so I will try to get them uploaded to flickr.

Attention Wal-Mart shoppers, we are not taking free pictures with Santa Clause in the Lawn and Garden Center.

I can't believe Carter is 8 months old today!
We feel like we have been going 100 mph around here, but exciting things have been happening.

Last Saturday, Carter had his first babysitter. One of my former students came over, so Kevin and I could go to dinner and see Four Christmases. We really enjoyed it.

Our week was busy. It seems like my calendar was packed every afternoon this week. On top of it all, Tuesday afternoon, Carter came down with a high fever, so Kevin had to pick him up at daycare. It broke by Wednesday morning, but he couldn't go back to school for 24 hours. I took him to the doctor, and he had a double ear infection. He had been grumpy last weekend, so that explains it. He is on some very strong antibiotics, and we have started giving him Zyrtec. He does enjoy the yogurt he is getting due to the effects of his medicine.

On Wednesday, we noticed Carter crawling on his stomach for the first time. Friday night, he actually tried to really crawl to go after his dad's i-pod. He went for a little while and fell over.

We started our Christmas shopping yesterday. I sure hope I can get it all done. I usually don't really stress out over it. There are a few things I know I want to get some people, and I can't find exactly what I have in mind.

This morning, we went to take Christmas portraits. I was rather disappointed. The place was packed, and they were running behind schedule. To make it worse, a woman in front of us kept bending over with her butt hanging out of her tight pants. I had to look at her while waiting on our session to start and while waiting on the "next scene." They have a Christmas room set up and a regular room set up. I only wanted Christmas pictures. I couldn't make the girl understand I only wanted the Christmas background. We were rushed through those and were told we had to wait for the other room. I tried to convince them I was ready to pick out our pictures and go. After waiting a very long time, I convinced them I was the one paying for the pictures, was ready to go, and I didn't care if I didn't take all of the pictures for the session package. I think I embarassed Kevin. He woouldn't let me go back to pick up the prints. We were rushed in the Christmas scene, so we didn't get too many shots. I did speak to the manager on the way out and got a slight refund.

This afternoon, I went with a friend to the Holiday tour of homes here. I loved it! It's in a nicer part of town, and you get to go look around in the homes. There were 7 on the tour. I just love looking at other people's houses (especially ones I could never afford).

That's about it around here. I'm hoping to have the Christmas cards ready to go out by Wednesday and am looking forward to a less hectic week.