All the gifts, stockings, and the tree
Carter was really excited
Such a happy boy on Christmas! He got some "Baby's 1st Christmas" pajamas from his Great-Grandma Suzie. As you can see he sits pretty well on his own now.
Carter with his stocking
Everything he pulled out went straight into his mouth...or, rather, the package went straight into his mouth!
Opening his big present from Mom and Dad
Yay! It's a high chair!
He couldn't wait for the wrapping paper to come off...he HAD to taste it IMMEDIATELY!
Carter was our big present this year
Playing with the cool wooden train that Great-Grandma and Great-Grandpa Andrus sent
...and in the mouth it goes
Playing on the floor with some of his Christmas presents
Carter and Tyler worked together to try and beat me at Ticket to Ride but failed miserably
Playing with the gift from Great-Grandma Suzie and Great-Grandpa (we re-gave it to him for Christmas!)
The day after Christmas we took a trip out to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho to see Tyler's sister Jamie, her husband Patrick, and their little boy Connor. Carter LOVED playing with his cousin! Connor is 11 months and Carter is 6 1/2 months, so they are only about 5 months apart! They became best of friends pretty quickly. Connor gave Carter kisses and wet willies, and Carter loved it! It was fun to get together with them, but it was too short! We had to head home the next morning.
Carter and Connor meeting for the 2nd time. They look so much alike and are about the same size!
We tried really hard to get them to cooperate and take a nice picture together, and these are some of the attempts...
You can see in this picture how really similar they are in size
Tyler, Me, Carter, Jamie, Connor, and Patrick
Carter was fussing so Connor came over, took his binky out of his own mouth, and attempted to put it into Carter's mouth! It was so cute... Eventually he got it in and Carter sucked on it for a minute!! He won't take a binky for us AT ALL! Unfortunately I missed that part for a picture.
Back at home things are back to normal for a few days before we leave for Atlanta. Tyler even put together Carter's high chair and we LOVE feeding him from it so much better than the Bumbo! What a great Christmas present! The only problem we have is that we have NO room for it in our apartment, and it's kind of a pain to have to fold up and put away, then pull out again at every feeding. One day we'll have a bigger place!
That purple food looks sick, I know, but it's banana with mixed berries.
I also was able to again download a video, although let's be honest, none of the videos I take are very interesting. What usually happens is Carter does something so cute, I pull out the camera, and then he becomes more interested in the camera than anything else. So sorry about the non-interesting videos...in this one Carter was emphatically saying "no" and then just did it a little bit when I pulled out the camera.
